Wrike
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Developer(s) | Wrike Inc. |
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Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Project management, Collaboration |
Website | www![]() |
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.
History
2004 - The idea for Wrike came to Andrew Filev, Wrike's founder[1], 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[2][3], Wrike was developed in an integration with email[4].
December, 2006 - The beta version of Wrike was released.
December, 2006 - Wrike won a B2B start-up competition at leWeb3.
June, 2007 - Wrike's profession version was released[5].
June, 2008 - Wrike won the eWEEK's 8th annual Excellence Awards program[6].
September, 2008 - Wrike helps Canadian student Formula team build a racing car[7].
August, 2008 – Wrike's Enterprise version with task dependencies on Gantt charts was released[8].
January, 2009 – Wrike was named the Red Herring Top 100 Global Company[9].
February, 2009 - Wrike chose APS as its integration standard. Wrike APS package enables hosting providers to add the product to the range of their business-oriented offerings. [10].
July, 2009 - Wrike released "Wrike Simple Projects", a real-time project collaboration application on the My Yahoo! platform. [11].
October, 2009 - Wrike launched its Spanish Version. [12].
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 Excel 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[13] to plans that is equal for all selected participants.
Philosophy
Wrike is based on a theory of emergent structures. It involves collective intelligence into project management and allows project team to contribute to management process.
See also
- Collaborative software
- Groupware
- List of collaborative software
- List of project management software
- List of applications with iCalendar support
- Project management
References
- ^ Michael Zhang (March 1, 2007). "Interview with Wrike". Folksonomy. Archived from the original on 2007-11-17. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ Jim Rapoza (July 3, 2007). "Taking the Simple Route for Projects". eWEEK. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ Amanda C. Kooser (April, 2007). "Helpful Hub". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
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(help) - ^ Richard Morochove (July 23, 2007). "Project Management Lite: Basecamp and Wrike". PCWorld. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ Vivek (June 19, 2007). "Wrike goes Pro". StartupSquad. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ Debra Donston (June 6, 2008). "eWEEK Excellence Awards Honorees Reflect New IT Computing Trends, Challenges". eWeek. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ "Canadian Student Formula Team Is on Its Way to Win the Race With Wrike's Help". September 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ Allen Stern (August 4, 2008). "Wrike Launches Enterprise Hosted Project Management Tool". CenterNetworks. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ "RED HERRING 100". January 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-28. [dead link]
- ^ "Wrike offers project management software as a service with the application packaging standard APS". February 4, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
- ^ "Real-time Project Collaboration Application to Be Released on My Yahoo!". July 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ "Project Management Software-as-a-Service Wrike.com Launches Spanish Version". July 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
- ^ Bill Ives (October 8, 2007). "Wrike: Online Project Management for the Rest of Us". FastForwardBlog. Retrieved 2007-12-04.