VIDEO: Wrike Top Features, Pros, And Cons

Search online for the best project management systems and you're likely to see Wrike featured in so many articles, but does it live up to the hype? Let's find out. Hey there project managers, I'm Meredith and in this video we are looking at Wrike, a fully featured project management system for medium to enterprise size organizations. Keep watching for our review of Wrike, but be sure to also check out our list of the top 10 project management systems at project-management.com.

Click the link in the description below. Wrike is a powerful and versatile project management system that works for a number of different solutions, whether you're an Agile software development team at a tech company or a marketing team at an agency. The system comes in four different plans including a free forever plan and you can try out each plan through a free trial. Now this is a SaaS tool, but you can also download Wrike as a desktop and mobile application if you prefer that to a web browser.

Now let's take a look at some of the features that you can use in Wrike, but before we get into that, a quick word on the basics. We aren't going to focus too much on some of the more basic features since none of these are really unique to Wrike, but just know that Wrike does include features for task and project management. You get different views like Kanban, Gantt charts, tables and calendars, shareable dashboards, integrations and file management.

But now, let's take a look at some of the more advanced features. Wrike comes with quite a few features to make collaboration easier. One of the simpler collaboration features is called collaborators. Never saw that one coming, did you? Collaborators lets you invite people like freelancers from outside of your organization to work on projects without having access to your organization's full space in Wrike. The next collaboration feature is request forms, which lets you standardize and automate the process for other colleagues or departments requesting something of a person or a team.

For example, if someone needs a graphic made for a new blog post, they can fill out a form to send a request to your graphic designer. Even if the person making the request doesn't use Wrike. Now, if the graphic designer accepts the request, it automatically gets added as a task to their to-do list. The last collaboration tool I'm going to mention come from the file management and approvals features. Now, you can upload files directly to Wrike and share them with a colleague.

And then from there, they can comment and draw on files to make edits and even request revisions. Wrike also lets you submit files to colleagues for approval. And you can customize the approval process to follow a certain procedure if multiple people need to sign off on something before it can be crossed off your to-do list. Now, if you go with the business plan and up, you get access to some advanced reporting and security features. For reporting, Wrike offers report templates, which you can even schedule.

There's customizable charts and graphs, built-in time tracking, and audit reports. For more advanced analytics, you can integrate Wrike with your third-party business intelligence solution. But, this is only available to enterprise plan customers. As for security features, you'll find almost all of these in the enterprise plan. Some of these, like two-factor authentication and single sign-on, you might expect to find in lower-priced plans, but the enterprise plan also comes with features like password policies, network access, compliance policies, and IT-controlled admin permissions.

Wrike is one of the best project management tools on the market, but it still has its pros and cons. For the pros, Wrike gets a lot right. The system offers a variety of smart features and integrations, and a good amount of learning content to help users get up to speed, and the software is easy to use. But, that being said, the learning curve here is steep, and the pricing's a bit high compared to other options. Some users will probably also be disappointed to find out that the two-factor authentication is only available in the enterprise plan.

Hopefully, you now have a better idea about whether or not Wrike lives up to the hype. But, if you're still not sure, click the link in the description below for more tips on project management software tools. Be sure to subscribe and turn on notifications, and we'll see you next time. Bye.

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