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Pros
"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues.""The ease of use is valuable."

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"In our company, we heavily rely on Wrike. Wrike has helped in communication, managing all sorts of projects and tasks, and having a history of all our correspondence items.""This is a good tool for project progress tracking and sharing tasks with internal and external parties.""The product is intuitive. It is easy to learn and update. You can follow the project from the beginning till the end with the help of the solution. The tool helps to update the project in seconds.""The most valuable feature of Wrike is the tag functionality.""We utilize time tracking and reports most often.""Visibility and organization are the most valuable features of Wrike.""The solution is stable and reliable.""We can easily write down the tasks and reorganize them as well as have a progression index. Wrike offers several views including a kanban view and Gantt chart view."

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Cons
"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive.""The solution could be more user-friendly."

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"We faced an issue with the Wrike outlook add-on; it is only available for Microsoft Office 365, and not the on-premise version.""Wrike needs to be more responsive to community requests for new features.""The product needs to send direct emails to customers updating the latest aspects since it is better to hear directly.""We feel that the actual project reports and roll-ups could be a lot different. We are seeking something more for the dashboard. We would like a high-level dashboard that can be broken down into individual product roll-ups and tasks that are assigned. If you assign someone to a task, it assigns them all of the tasks under that. We want to be able to break those down so that a person doesn't have an 800 task list, for example. We want more separation with that and a higher-level dashboard experience.""What annoys me with Wrike and things that I would like to improve is that you need to have a very organized workflow that everyone in the company follows, and only then will Wrike work.""This solution could be improved if we were able to better analyze how the application consumes cloud resources as this can cause a delay in performance.""On one side, it's very easy to create a task with text, but on the other side, it's not very well-formatted. Therefore, it's difficult to track specific data written in a task. We are making templates, but it's not enough to use a template to know the exact status of different tasks. One thing that we are looking for in Wrike is a better workflow. Because we can only move the status of tasks, we can't really manage workflow and send a task to a specific person. This is what is really missing in Wrike as compared to other tools. We are looking to replace Wrike because we need support for workflow. Another issue with Wrike is that they bring a lot of versions of the tool, which it's not so easy. They bring new versions very frequently, and these versions look similar. For example, we are using robots to read the tasks in the tools, which is problematic with Wrike because it is changing very frequently.""The response from the website is a little bit slow, and the tool is too expensive for a small team."

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  • "Wrike is not so expensive, but I don't know exactly how it compares with other tools. Wrike might not be so cheap when we are using it for a lot of users."
  • "From a pricing perspective, I would rate Wrike a four out of five."
  • "Wrike is expensive."
  • "Wrike is very expensive, and its price is almost $1,400."
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    Top Answer:The licensing costs are approximately $900 annually. I rate the price a four out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive.
    Top Answer:The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Wrike is the tag functionality.
    Top Answer:The response from the website is a little bit slow, and the tool is too expensive for a small team. We are a startup, and we have a small team. Wrike's price is almost $1,400, and even if I want to… more »
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    Overview
    Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by Basecamp and launched in 2004, with a new version being launched in 2012. Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. Basecamp Classic also offers integration with Basecamp's own Campfire product, and features APIs that are used by a host of web and mobile apps. Basecamp Classic's interface is available in different languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish and Japanese). The newer version of Basecamp currently only supports English as the interface language.

    Wrike is an online collaboration and project management software bringing together centralized task management and social collaboration features into one real-time workspace. It connects tasks, discussions, and emails to your actual project plan. You get an up-to-date picture of the project and can keep your team aligned with your strategy without boring status meetings. Challenges Wrike helps solve:

    • Data silos: Tasks, discussions and documents scattered across email, Skype, personal computers and spreadsheets
    • Poor visibility into work status
    • Missed deadlines and project failures

    Main benefits:

    • Accelerating project delivery by using a platform your team will actually use and love
    • Keeping all team members on the same page even across borders without lengthy status meetings, long email threads and spreadsheet updates
    • Big picture of project progress with real-time updates and cross-project reports and newsfeed
    • Real-time team collaboration with discussions, files attached to tasks, and a built-in document editor


    Why Wrike?

    • Wrike is a system your team will use. It helps them do their work, not just track it.
    • Wrike can be easily customized to your needs as each team can set up their own workflow.
    • Wrike scales as you grow, providing visibility and ease of use for teams of any size.
    Sample Customers
    Ashland Addison Florist Co., Victory Auto Wreckers, Ideal Box Co., Hollymatic Corp.
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Educational Organization10%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    REVIEWERS
    Religious Institution15%
    Marketing Services Firm13%
    Construction Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization80%
    Computer Software Company3%
    Manufacturing Company2%
    Financial Services Firm2%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business70%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise17%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business6%
    Midsize Enterprise83%
    Large Enterprise11%
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    Basecamp is ranked 21st in Project Management Software with 3 reviews while Wrike is ranked 7th in Project Management Software with 58 reviews. Basecamp is rated 7.6, while Wrike is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Basecamp writes "Easy to navigate and good for communications but needs better documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wrike writes "Convenient Tool for Project and Task Management, comes with extra features including Analytics and Reporting ". Basecamp is most compared with Jira, Smartsheet, Planview Portfolios and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas Wrike is most compared with Asana, monday.com, Adobe Workfront, Trello and Jira.

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