This autumn has been busy for analysts covering the collaboration, project, and work management markets. Analyst firms recognized Wrike in their research and, just in the last few weeks, we have seen the publication of multiple informative pieces that include Wrike, such as:
- Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting (Wrike named a Visionary for the second time)
- Gartner Critical Capabilities for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting (Wrike ranked amongst the four highest-scoring vendors in all four Use Cases)
- ISG Provider Lens™ Future of Work Solutions — Connected and Collaborative Work Solutions (Wrike named a Leader)
- 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, “Wrike Leans on Data, Context, and AI to Drive Growth in Work Management”
These new pieces of research join several other reports on collaborative work management (CWM) and adjacent spaces that highlight Wrike’s market recognition, vision, and market understanding. Use research like this to support your decision making and move your work management platform selection forward faster!
Wrike’s strategy well captured by 451 Research
Wrike has long been a fan of 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, as well as analyst Chris Marsh and his coverage and understanding of the CWM market. His latest research (not commissioned by Wrike, but offered in full with our compliments) covers recent Wrike product enhancements in the areas of automation, AI, and data, and ties together how these advancements help provide the needed context for work, enabling work to flow more efficiently. The piece also includes an informative SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) grid for Wrike.
Wrike has consistently maintained a thoughtful approach to work management, keeping a strong focus on its customers and product market fit and avoiding the pitfalls that some vendors have faced — chasing feature parity without strategic impact, AI whitewashing, and unclear category vision. In contrast, Wrike takes an integrated view of adding value for its customers by layering context over the projects and processes managed in its platform.
Chris Marsh, 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence
Industry analysts can help validate your decisions
For buyers of technology, choosing the right vendor is a critical decision. Which will best fit the needs of your organization, today and in the future? You can read reviews, check references, ask friends/colleagues, take advantage of a free trial, and research the potential vendors yourself. Reading reports like the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Forrester Wave, or IDC MarketScape can also be extremely insightful, and getting an unbiased, well-researched, third-party view on the market is important.
However, the criteria and use cases measured by the analysts don’t always match your specific needs. You may need a more personalized view. Magic Quadrant reports, in particular, have interactive features now, so that you can apply your own weights to the criteria and get a customized view of the market. A Gartner seat holder can drag and drop the sliders on each criterion to make them more or less important than the default Gartner weights, and the vendor dots will change accordingly.
Case in point: let’s look deeper into the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting (APMR). Rather than looking more broadly at collaborative work, this particular report (and its companion Critical Capabilities report) focuses specifically on work management and reporting from the lens of adaptive and Agile methodologies. The audience consists of IT, PMO, and product management leaders who may manage a portfolio of products/initiatives and need to manage this work using the methodologies in place in their organizations. Vendors who are profiled in this report may focus just on this type of APMR use case, or may be more commonly competing in the adjacent spaces of strategic portfolio management or CWM.
We are very proud of this placement as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting (based on our Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision), and our product Use Case scoring (as measured in the Critical Capabilities report). If you are a product or IT PMO leader, we hope you’ll give both reports a read.
Providers in this Magic Quadrant are actively engaged in building capabilities to support the enterprise-wide coordination of strategy delivery via project management best practices, Agile methodologies, varied governance practices, and the need for intelligent collaboration.
Kevin Rose, Sean Bankston, and Peter Clegg, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting 2024
Coming soon
APMR may not be the set of use cases you find most important. If so, you’ll likely find your specific use cases covered in the broader category of CWM. Luckily, it’s one of the most widely covered markets, with vendor evaluation reports offered by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC. Stay tuned for more research on our market in the coming months.
Resources
Available with our compliments on the Wrike website:
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Collaborative Work Management (CWM); Wrike recognized as a Leader
Published reports discussed above are available on the Gartner website to Gartner clients:
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting
Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting
ISG report available for purchase/to ISG clients:
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Gartner Reports:
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting, By Analyst(s): Kevin Rose, Sean Bankston, Peter Clegg, 4 September 2024
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work Management, Nikos Drakos, Joe Mariano, Lacy Lei, 11 December 2023
Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting, Kevin Rose, Sean Bankston, Peter Clegg, 9 September 2024
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