Originally launched in December 2006, Wrike has seen numerous upgrades and improvements since then. Many of the new features added throughout the years were implemented directly by the development team with Wrike, but the popular work and project management software is also compatible with numerous apps through various Wrike integrations.
Most Popular and Useful Integrations for Wrike
Wrike currently lists more than 400 apps under their website’s integrations tab, which range from simple word processors to full-scale video conferencing and file-sharing solutions. If you can’t find a prebuilt integration that works with the software you currently use, you can even create your own through the Wrike API (application programming interface).
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Not only does this make Wrike one of the most powerful and comprehensive project management platforms available today, but its dedication to third-party compatibility means that Wrike will remain relevant for years to come.
Here’s our shortlist of the best and most useful integrations for Wrike:
- Salesforce
- Zoom
- Slack
- GitHub
- Tableau
- Dropbox
- Microsoft Teams
- Gmail
- Confluence
- Windows & Mac
Salesforce
One of the most popular CRM solutions today, Salesforce revolves around customer engagement, team collaboration, workflow automation, and task management. Salesforce and Wrike integrate to provide access to all of Wrike’s services without the need to leave Salesforce.
Once the two applications have been integrated, you’ll be able to link any Salesforce object with any of your Wrike projects or folders. Additional features and advantages include:
- Bolster transparency and accountability with the ability to check the status of individual tasks from Wrike or Salesforce.
- Achieve automation goals by automatically creating individual tasks and projects according to premade templates.
- Receive instant access to data by instantly synchronizing Wrike task and project data within Salesforce.
The integration is also customizable. By selecting specific Salesforce objects, you can mix and match which features you want to use.
Zoom
More than a simple video conferencing solution, Zoom is touted as a full-scale collaboration platform. Its free service is widely used in modern business to host interviews and meetings, but Zoom also offers paid, premium services that offer even more functionality.
As effective as Zoom is as a stand-alone product, it can integrate with Wrike to expand its usefulness even further. Some top features include:
- Link your Zoom meetings with tasks created in Wrike.
- Share necessary documents and files with meeting attendees.
- Jot down notes, establish deadlines, and delegate assignments without leaving Zoom.
- Automatically attach meeting recordings to new tasks.
Connect Wrike with Zoom to promote real-time collaboration before, during, and after Zoom meetings. It’s a great way to stay in sync with your team while improving accountability and strengthening the decision-making process.
Slack
Originally developed as a messaging app for modern businesses, Slack has since grown into a full-scale digital workspace. With a comprehensive and informative dashboard, it’s designed around team collaboration and productivity, so it’s a natural fit for integration with Wrike. Some of the key features include:
- Create new Wrike tasks without leaving Slack.
- Receive new Wrike notifications within Slack.
- Preview your Wrike projects, folders, and tasks within Slack.
To make the most of the Slack-Wrike integration, Wrike also offers numerous premade templates to get you started right away. Its Business Continuity Template, for example, serves as an easy-to-follow roadmap when continuing operations during mergers, acquisitions, and times of change.
GitHub
If you’re having difficulty synchronizing the activities of your technical, marketing, and sales teams, the GitHub-Wrike integration is right for you. Two-way synchronization between the services lets your IT team take advantage of the GitHub platform and community while your business team stays on Wrike. With the integration, project managers can easily oversee and track productivity across both platforms. Primary uses include:
- Enabling direct collaboration between technical, business, sales, and marketing teams.
- Automatically creating GitHub issues when a project is created or updated in Wrike and vice versa.
- Planning projects that involve both GitHub issues and Wrike tasks while minimizing the number of repetitive tasks and activities.
GitHub is becoming increasingly popular as a collaborative code repository for large-scale IT teams, but it’s ideal for small and midsize businesses, too.
Tableau
While Wrike does provide some built-in business intelligence (BI) analytics, it doesn’t really compare to a full-scale BI tool like Tableau. The BI software provides an easy-to-use interface that is already familiar to many professionals, and it provides interoperability with nearly any type of database, including the datasets found within Wrike.
Tableau is capable of importing data from a variety of sources that originate in Wrike, including:
- Individual tasks
- User profiles
- User groups
- Projects
- Folders
- Workflows
- Status changes
- Audit logs
- Timelog entries
- Custom fields
By importing this data into Tableau, you’ll make it easier for your entire team to gather data, merge datasets, and create reports as needed.
Dropbox
In today’s mobile-centric world, the need to share digital files with remote workers and teammates has never been greater. Although Wrike does offer some amount of storage space in its paid service plans, the available capacity is easily reached by project managers who oversee multiple projects on a continuous basis. Dropbox’s free service provides 2 GB of cloud storage space for each user, but the capacity can be increased for a fee.
Wrike integrates with Dropbox to let you attach files directly from your Dropbox drive into tasks within Wrike. Not only does this free up the storage space in your Wrike account, but any changes made to the original document will be automatically reflected in the Wrike attachment — thus saving you the hassle of having to re-upload and re-distribute the file.
Files from your Dropbox drive can be attached by opening your Wrike task and choosing the Dropbox option. If you have yet to integrate your Dropbox drive with your Wrike account, you’ll be automatically prompted to do so.
Microsoft Teams
Having hit the milestone of 75 million daily users in 2020, it’s safe to say that Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular business platforms available today. Since it offers so many different services, including instant messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing, it provides a one-stop shop for many modern business needs.
With the Microsoft Teams-Wrike integration, you can manage all of your team plans and Wrike activities within Microsoft Teams. All of these elements need to be manually linked with your channels in Microsoft Teams, but once they’re set, they can be edited by anyone who is included in your Wrike account and has access to the channel.
Users who have access can manipulate tasks, folders, and projects in a variety of ways, including:
- Creating and viewing tasks.
- Editing details of individual tasks.
- Sharing tasks, folders, and projects with other users.
- Modifying the priority of tasks.
- Downloading and accessing file attachments.
- Deleting individual tasks.
All of this functionality makes it possible to collaborate and track project progress without ever leaving the familiar interface of Microsoft Teams.
Gmail
Developed and maintained by the development team at Google, Gmail started as a simple, no-frills email service that offered a more streamlined experience than many of the alternatives available at the time. It’s since grown to include Google Chat and Google Meet as direct integrations, effectively transforming it into a full-scale communications platform for both personal and business use.
Wrike integrates with Gmail to let your team manage Wrike tasks directly from their Gmail inbox. Primary features include:
- Turn an email into a new Wrike task.
- Attach an email as a comment within a Wrike task.
- Change the status of a task without leaving Gmail.
- Send and receive comments from Wrike tasks within Gmail.
Any changes made via Gmail are automatically synced with Wrike. Modifications made in Wrike are synced with Gmail as soon as the page is refreshed.
Confluence
Powered by Atlassian, Confluence is a digital workspace that is meant for remote and local workers alike. It allows your team members to share information and collaborate on projects, regardless of their physical location. Much of the platform revolves around the use of templates, which cover virtually every team structure and project type, but users are free to customize Confluence as they see fit.
The Confluence-Wrike integration allows you to synchronize the two platforms and complete various Wrike activities within Confluence. Once integrated, team members can insert live links in Confluence pages that point to tasks, folders, and projects within Wrike and embed the content from Wrike projects and folders into Confluence.
Windows & Mac
Also known as the Wrike Desktop App, the Wrike project management app for Windows and Mac facilitates quick access to the Wrike platform while strengthening the focus of your entire team. By moving Wrike away from the browser and pinning it to your operating system (OS) taskbar or dock, your team won’t have to worry about the common distractions that come from browser-based services.
Primary features of the Wrike Desktop App include:
- Receive Wrike notifications directly on the OS desktop.
- Leverage automation to launch Wrike when the computer is turned on.
- Utilize multiple tabs within the desktop app, thus mimicking the familiar look and feel of the browser-based solution.
- See the number of unread inbox notifications without opening your Wrike inbox.
The Wrike Desktop App is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 and later versions. It’s also compatible with Mac OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) or later.
The Wrike API
Wrike is already compatible with hundreds of professional services, apps, and utilities, so there’s a good chance that it’s already compatible with the software you’re currently using. However, for teams that work with proprietary IT systems, there may be no other choice than to use the Wrike API to ensure compatibility.
The Wrike API is usable by all of Wrike’s user types via the Developer Portal. Not only does it allow you to configure how your software interacts with Wrike, but it also helps you generate and manage access tokens to secure your assets. Currently, the Wrike API supports two types of tokens: one-hour tokens and permanent tokens.
Although the Wrike API is available to all user types, only app admins have the ability to create or revoke tokens. Once your app is complete, it can be entered into the approval process and registered for official credentials. There is no limit to the number of apps you can submit.
Making Wrike Work for You
Remember, Wrike is compatible with many other software packages, too, including apps like Microsoft Dynamics 365, Google Docs or Google Sheets, Adobe Creative Cloud, and more. With so much interoperability between third-party software, and with the ability to integrate your own apps via the Wrike API, it’s easy to make the most of your Wrike experience—whether you’re setting up an automation platform or trying to enhance collaboration.
Additional support is available through its online knowledge base and help center, all of which serve as invaluable resources when leading project teams, managing automated workflows, and driving productivity.
