Wrike
Encyclopedia
Wrike is an online tool and application service provider
for project management
and collaboration
developed by Wrike Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and launched its first release to a public beta in 2007.
December, 2006 - The beta version of Wrike was released.
June, 2007 - Wrike's profession version was released.
September, 2008 - Wrike helped Canadian student Formula team build a racing car.
August, 2008 – Enterprise version with task dependencies on Gantt charts was released.
October, 2009 - Spanish Version was launched.
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April, 2010 – Integrated with Google Docs..
June, 2010 – Activity Stream was released – a built-in microblogging tool that allows everyone on the team to instantly share information and links..
October, 2010 – New Social Version was released. It brought social networking features, such as comments and newsfeed, to project management software..
December, 2010 – API was released. It allows customers to synchronize data between Wrike and other business applications, desktop, Web and mobile tools..
February, 2011 – Free native apps for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry were released..
import and export, task version control, Microsoft Project
import.
Wrike's interface is built on AJAX
, so user can see updates in his/her projects made by other people without the need to reload the Web page.
Wrike allows managers to decentralize updating and control of overall plans and permit online access to plans that is equal for all selected participants.
into project management and allows project team to contribute to management process.
Application service provider
An application service provider is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called On-demand software or software as a service ....
for project management
Project management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...
and collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...
developed by Wrike Inc. The company was founded in 2006 and launched its first release to a public beta in 2007.
History
2004 - The idea for Wrike came to Andrew Filev, Wrike's founder, from a need for an agile tool to manage offices, projects, departments. Since the main medium for collaboration on tasks with associates in small and medium business is email, Wrike was developed in an integration with email.December, 2006 - The beta version of Wrike was released.
June, 2007 - Wrike's profession version was released.
September, 2008 - Wrike helped Canadian student Formula team build a racing car.
August, 2008 – Enterprise version with task dependencies on Gantt charts was released.
October, 2009 - Spanish Version was launched.
.
April, 2010 – Integrated with Google Docs..
June, 2010 – Activity Stream was released – a built-in microblogging tool that allows everyone on the team to instantly share information and links..
October, 2010 – New Social Version was released. It brought social networking features, such as comments and newsfeed, to project management software..
December, 2010 – API was released. It allows customers to synchronize data between Wrike and other business applications, desktop, Web and mobile tools..
February, 2011 – Free native apps for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry were released..
Awards and industry recognition
- Finalist in the American Business AwardsStevie AwardsThe Stevie Awards were created in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and business people worldwide...
2011 in the category “Computer Software – New Version.”.
- The Tool of the Month Award from Clever Tester Network was won in October 2010.
- The Red HerringRed Herring (magazine)Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...
Top 100 Global Company Award was won in 2009..
- The 2008 eWeekEWeekeWeek is a weekly computing business magazine published by Ziff Davis Enterprise.The magazine consists of a print publication and web site covering enterprise topics and is targeted at IT professionals rather than hobbyists.-Audience:The eWeek audience is actively involved in buying enterprise...
Excellence Award in the productivity application category was won..
- The b2b category at Le Web 3 (“Les Blogs conference” for entrepreneurs, bloggers and web 2.0 players around the world) was won in Paris in 2006..
Software
Wrike features creation of tasks from emails, organizing projects and subprojects in flexible hierarchy, editing schedules on Gantt chart, file sharing, time tracking, RSS & iCal feeds, Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
import and export, task version control, Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.The application creates critical path...
import.
Wrike's interface is built on AJAX
Ajax
- Mythology :* Ajax , son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as "Ajax the Great"* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.- People :...
, so user can see updates in his/her projects made by other people without the need to reload the Web page.
Wrike allows managers to decentralize updating and control of overall plans and permit online access to plans that is equal for all selected participants.
Philosophy
Wrike is based on a theory of emergent structures. It involves collective intelligenceCollective intelligence
Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks....
into project management and allows project team to contribute to management process.
See also
- Collaborative softwareCollaborative softwareCollaborative software is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals...
- Groupware
- List of collaborative software
- List of project management software
- List of applications with iCalendar support
- Project managementProject managementProject management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...