Great for coordinating content creation with a remote team
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
As a content writer working with graphic designers to produce digital and print marketing pieces for a university, Wrike allows us to share, review, comment, and edit our work easily and effectively. We precious used Jira, which was not at all optimized for those tasks. Wrike, however, has been a phenomenal tool, and we have become much more efficient as a team because of it. Wrike solves the problems associated with sharing large file sizes.
Pros
- Keeps projects on track
- Provides tools that make editing and reviewing tasks much easier
- Helps our team work effectively and efficiently despite many of us being remote workers
- Visually accessible on multiple platforms which makes it easy to do work from anywhere
Cons
- Automation bot: Wrike alerts us when a deadline is approaching, but the alert is often at midnight. I think it would be more effective for the alert to go off at 8 a.m. This may already be a changeable feature, so I apologize if this is redundant.
- The Wrike document editor has a preference for using the desktop app instead of a browser, and in order for it to work in a browser, I have to uninstall and reinstall the editing software. This is a bit of a pain. I know it can be solved by me using the desktop app of Wrike, but I don't always want to do that. If there is any way to make this more effective it would greatly benefit my life.
Return on Investment
- Wrike has made us work much more efficiently as a team. I can't say what kind of budget impact that has had because I don't deal with those numbers, but I know the efficiency on time has made it easier for me personally because I have a better work-life balance around stressful projects because Wrike makes it easier to get done faster and effectively.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Atlassian Jira
Other Software Used
Microsoft 365, Slack, Adobe Acrobat
