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Zencoder just launched an AI that can replace days of QA work in two hours

[ad_1] Join the event that trusts business leaders for almost two decades. VB Transform brings together people who build a real business AI strategy. Learn more ZencoderThe artificial intelligence coding startup founded by serial entrepreneur Andrew Filev, announced today the public beta launch of AmountAn agent powered by AI designed to automate end -to -end software tests. This critical but…

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"Zen Agents: AI로 혁신하는 소프트웨어 개발의 새로운 시대"

들어가며

안녕하세요, 여러분! 오늘은 Zencoder라는 혁신적인 기술 기업이 새롭게 출시한 Zen Agents에 대해 소개해 드리려고 합니다. 이 플랫폼은 소프트웨어 개발팀이 AI 도구를 조직 전반에 걸쳐 공유하고 창출할 수 있도록 지원하며, 특히 협업 중심의 AI 활용 시대를 열었습니다. 그럼 Zen Agents가 어떻게 소프트웨어 개발의 게임체인저로 자리 잡는지 함께 알아볼까요?

Zen Agents, 소프트웨어 개발의 새로운 패러다임

기존 AI 코딩 보조도구들이 주로 개별 개발자의 생산성 향상에 집중했다면, Zencoder의 Zen Agents는 개발팀 전체의 협력성과 효율성을 높이는 데 중점을 두고 있습니다. Andrew Filev Zencoder CEO는 인터뷰에서 "개발은 팀 단위로 이루어지며, 개발자들은 혼자 일하는 것이 아니다"고 강조했습니다. 이는 Zen Agents가 단순한 코딩 속도 향상이 아니라 전체적인 개발 주기 단축과 효율성 향상에 초점을 맞추고 있음을 보여줍니다.

Zen Agents는 기업이 맞춤형 에이전트를 생성하고 배포할 수 있게 하며, 이러한 에이전트들은 반복적인 작업을 자동화하�� 시간을 절감해 줍니다. 특히, OpenAI와 Anthropic의 모델 컨텍스트 프로토콜(MCP)을 도입함으로써 AI 모델과 외부 도구 간 상호작용을 가능하게 하였습니다. Zen Agents는 이를 통해 코드 검토부터 테스트에 이르기까지 개발 주기의 다양한 부분을 자동화할 수 있게 합니다.

오픈소스 마켓플레이스로 확장되는 지능

Zen Agents의 가장 두드러진 특징 중 하나는 오픈소스 마켓플레이스입니다. 개발자 커뮤니티는 여기서 자신의 에이전트를 기여함으로써, Zencoder가 제공할 수 있는 범위를 넘어선 무궁무진한 가능성을 현실로 만들 수 있습니다. 이는 Visual Studio Code의 확장 프로그램이나 npm 패키지의 성공적인 오픈소스 생태계를 연상케 합니다.

특히, Adrian은 Figma에서 와이어프레임을 가져와 자동으로 코드를 생성하고 이를 활용해 풀 리퀘스트를 제출할 수 있는 에이전트 등 실제 사용 사례들을 언급하며 Zen Agents의 가치를 강조했습니다. 이와 같은 접근 방식은 실제로 개발자들이 그동안 해결하지 못했던 문제들을 개선하는 데 기여하고 있습니다.

Zen의 길을 향해

Zencoder의 목표는 단순히 AI로 개발자를 대체하는 것이 아니라, 그들의 생산성을 비약적으로 향상시키는 것입니다. 이는 코드 작성뿐만 아니라 개발자들이 높은 집중력을 유지할 수 있도록 돕는 데에도 그 목적이 있습니다. Filev는 "우리는 개발자들이 작업에 몰입할 수 있는 '플로우 상태'를 유지할 수 있도록 지원하고자 한다"고 밝혔습니다.

Zencoder는 소프트웨어 엔지니어링을 위한 이 기술을 시작으로 더 넓은 역할을 모색하고 있습니다. 벌써부터 여러 기술회사들이 Zen Agents를 비엔지니어링 용도로 활용하기 시작했으며, 향후 마케팅 자동화나 개인 비서 기능으로의 확장 가능성도 엿보고 있습니다.

앞으로도 Zen Agents와 Zencoder가 만들어낼 혁신적인 변화가 기대됩니다. 지속적인 기술 발전과 협력이 이끌어갈 AI의 미래, 바로 그 중심에 우리가 있습니다.

끝맺으며

오늘 소개해드린 Zen Agents는 협력적 AI 환경의 선두주자로 자리잡으며 소프트웨어 개발의 패러다임을 변화시키고 있습니다. 이런 혁신적인 도구들이 일상의 생산성을 재정의하고 있다는 점, 기대되지 않나요?

앞으로도 N 업데이트와 인사이트를 놓치지 않고 받아보시길 바랍니다. Zen Agents 및 Zencoder의 여정에 많은 관심 부탁드립니다!

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2019-01-27 Daybook

I bumped into John Battelle in a Chelsea Japanese restaurant (Ju Bon very great) last night. I have to track him down, and catch up. He moved to NYC recently.

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Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? | Erin Smith

“The current state of entrepreneurship is bigger than career,” reads the One37pm “About Us” page. “It’s ambition, grit and hustle. It’s a live performance that lights up your creativity … a sweat session that sends your endorphins coursing ... a visionary who expands your way of thinking.” From this point of view, not only does one never stop hustling — one never exits a kind of work rapture, in which the chief purpose of exercising or attending a concert is to get inspiration that leads back to the desk.

Ryan Harwood, the chief executive of One37pm’s parent company, told me that the site’s content is aimed at a younger generation of people who are seeking permission to follow their dreams. “They want to know how to own their moment, at any given moment,” he said.

“Owning one’s moment” is a clever way to rebrand “surviving the rat race.” In the new work culture, enduring or even merely liking one’s job is not enough. Workers should love what they do, and then promote that love on social media, thus fusing their identities to that of their employers. Why else would LinkedIn build its own version of Snapchat Stories?

This is toil glamour, and it is going mainstream.

[...]

It’s not difficult to view hustle culture as a swindle. After all, convincing a generation of workers to beaver away is convenient for those at the top.

“The vast majority of people beating the drums of hustle-mania are not the people doing the actual work. They’re the managers, financiers and owners,” said David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder of Basecamp, a software company. We spoke in October, as he was promoting his new book, “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work,” about creating healthy company cultures.

Mr. Heinemeier Hansson said that despite data showing long hours improve neither productivity nor creativity, myths about overwork persist because they justify the extreme wealth created for a small group of elite techies. “It’s grim and exploitative,” he said.

[...]

In San Francisco, where I live, I’ve noticed that the concept of productivity has taken on an almost spiritual dimension. Techies here have internalized the idea — rooted in the Protestant work ethic — that work is not something you do to get what you want; the work itself is all. Therefore any life hack or company perk that optimizes their day, allowing them to fit in even more work, is not just desirable but inherently good.

Aidan Harper, who created a European workweek-shrinkage campaign called 4 Day Week, argues that this is dehumanizing and toxic. “It creates the assumption that the only value we have as human beings is our productivity capability — our ability to work, rather than our humanity,” he told me.

It’s cultist, Mr. Harper added, to convince workers to buy into their own exploitation with a change-the-world message. “It’s creating the idea that Elon Musk is your high priest,” he said. “You’re going into your church every day and worshiping at the altar of work.”

[...]

The logical endpoint of excessively avid work, of course, is burnout. That is the subject of a recent viral essay by the BuzzFeed cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen, which thoughtfully addresses one of the incongruities of hustle-mania in the young. Namely: If Millennials are supposedly lazy and entitled, how can they also be obsessed with killing it at their jobs?

[see [How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation](

Millennials, Ms. Petersen argues, are just desperately striving to meet their own high expectations. An entire generation was raised to expect that good grades and extracurricular overachievement would reward them with fulfilling jobs that feed their passions. Instead, they wound up with precarious, meaningless work and a mountain of student loan debt. And so posing as a rise-and-grinder, lusty for Monday mornings, starts to make sense as a defense mechanism.

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How automation can change the average workplace | Andrew Filev

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Weekend Edition: Short Stories, Part 1

It’s the homestretch, Obies! We’ll keep this short, because we know you’re busy with exams. Below are some new collections of short stories. See here to learn how to check them out!

Contemporary Macedonian Fiction translated and edited by Paul Filev

The stories that Paul Filev has collected in this anthology of Macedonian fiction introduce English-language readers to a literature that has long been overlooked. Ranging from melancholy realism, such as Rumena Bužarovska's "Lily," to surreal fantasias, such as Tomislav Osmanli's "Strained," in which a stressed-out businessman eats his own computer, these texts provide a portrait of a country in constant transformation, still haunted by the Yugoslav past but quickly hurtling into the technocratic future. Comic and tragic, po-faced and hysterical, Contemporary Macedonian Fiction allows us to discover some of the most exciting young writers at work today. 

Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions by Robert Coover; introduction by T.C. Boyle. 

A collection of the best short fictions from the grandmaster of postmodernism. Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America." Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles. His 1969 story "The Babysitter" has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of his best stories, spanning more than half a century, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, long dead, disrupting them from within, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works. He uses metafiction as a means of "interrogating the fiction making process," at least insofar as that process, when unexamined, has a way of entrapping us in false and destructive stories, myths, and belief systems. These stories are riven with paradox, ambivalence, strangeness, unrealized ambitions and desires, uncertainty, complexity, always seeking the potential for insight, for comedy. Through their celebration of the improbable and unexpected, and their distinctive but complementary grammars of text and film, Coover's selected short fictions entertain by engaging with the tribal myths that surround us--religious, patriotic, literary, erotic, popular--often satirizing the mindsets that, out of some obscure primitive need, perpetuate them. The thirty stories in Going for a Beer confirm Coover's reputation as "one of America's greatest literary geniuses" (Alan Moore).

The Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Lisa Yaszek

"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark anthology that upends the common notion that SF was conceived by and for men. Here are 25 mind-blowing SF classics that still shock and inspire: Judith Merril and Wilmar H. Shiras's startling near-future stories of the children of the new atomic age; Carol Emshwiller and Sonya Dorman's haunting explorations of alien otherness; dystopian fables of consumerism and overpopulation by Elizabeth Mann Borgese and Alice Glaser; evocations of cosmic horror from Margaret St. Clair and Andrew North (Andre Norton); and much more. Other writers here take on some of SF's sexist clichés and boldly rethink sex and gender from the ground up. C. L. Moore and Leslie Perri introduce courageous, unforgettable "sheroes"; Alice Eleanor Jones sounds a housewife's note of protest against the conformities of life in a postapocalyptic suburb; Leslie F. Stone envisions an interplanetary battle of the sexes, in which the matriarchs of Venus ward off unprovoked attacks by barbaric spacemen from Earth; John Jay Wells and Marion Zimmer Bradley wonder how future military men will feel about their pregnancies. The Future Is Female! is a star-spanning, soul-stirring, multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery that will permanently alter your perceptions of American SF."--Publisher's website

The Handsome Monk and Other Stories by Tsering Dondrup

Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup's career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.With a love for the sparse yet vivid language of traditional Tibetan life, Tsering Döndrup tells tales of hypocritical lamas, crooked officials, violent conflicts, and loyal yaks. His nomad characters find themselves in scenarios that are at once strange and familiar, satirical yet poignant. The stories are set in the fictional county of Tsezhung, where Tsering Döndrup's characters live their lives against the striking backdrop of Tibet's natural landscape and go about their daily business to the ever-present rhythms of Tibetan religious life. Tsering Döndrup confronts pressing issues: the corruption of religious institutions; the indignities and injustices of Chinese rule; poverty and social ills such as gambling and alcoholism; and the hardships of a minority group struggling to maintain its identity in the face of overwhelming odds. Ranging in style from playful updates of traditional storytelling techniques to narrative experimentation, Tsering Döndrup's tales pay tribute to the resilience of Tibetan culture

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Wrike Reveals New UI And Time-Broadcasting Feature To Keep Employees On Task

Wrike Reveals New UI And Time-Broadcasting Feature To Keep Employees On Task

Wrike has updated its workplace productivity application Graphite, rolling out a brand-new minimalist user interface and also the ability to broadcast the current work in real-moment. The emphasis on a well-structured task view is designed to encourage workers to come back to the app and staying there longer.

The Graphite update has applied a crisp coat of Web 2.0 colourant to the tired Windows…

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The hidden psychology of failure

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Words of wisdom heralded throughout our upbringing, to be sure. But is there any scientific proof that successive failure is positive and propels innovation forwards?

“A lot of people still think of failure as a sign of personal incompetence and try to avoid it at all cost,” said Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of Wrike, a software firm in Mountain View, California. “But when you view building a business as a series of experiments, you start to see failure as an inevitable step in the process.”

(via BBC - Capital - The hidden psychology of failure)

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“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript) https://www.saastr.com/5-dos-and-donts-lessons/

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7 must-have project management skills

Just because someone has the title of project manager doesn't mean he or she knows how to effectively manage projects, as many CIOs and other IT executives have learned the hard way.

To be an effective project manager, one who can keep projects and the team on track, takes more than technical know-how. It also requires a number of non-technical skills, and it is these softer skills that often determine whether a project manager — and the project — will be a success.

So how can you tell a good project manager from a bad one? CIO.com surveyed project management experts and executives to learn what skills are required to successfully manage projects — that is, to ensure that projects are kept on track and stay on budget.

Following are seven of the most important non-technical skills for project managers.

Seven key project management skills

Leadership

Motivation

Communication

Organization

Prioritization

Problem solving

Adaptability

Leadership

"Being a good leader means that you do not only oversee and coordinate tasks and processes as a manager, but also outline the vision and define the road map, motivate and encourage," says Tatiana Danielyan, deputy director of R&D at ABBYY, which provides document recognition, data capture and language processing software.

It is also critical that the project manager has the ability to quickly analyze data – or a given situation –  and make good decisions because, she adds, "at the end of the day, you are the one who has the final call – and the final responsibility for whether the project is successful or not."

Motivation

“A great project manager is able to keep their team happy during the tough times,” says Kofi Senaya, director of Product at Clearbridge Mobile, a mobile app developer. “Projects can get very difficult and stressful, typically when deadlines sneak up. As a project manager, your job is to ensure everyone stays motivated. Ultimately, this will improve efficiency and quality of work,” he says.

“Some tactics project managers can use is to praise good work, take team members out for a team building activity and cultivating a fun and collaborative environment.”

Communication

“Project managers must speak the same language as their clients,” as well as their team members, says Mike Mills, project manager at Sagefrog Marketing Group, a B2B marketing agency. “It’s somewhat of a cliché, but this phrase really does describe one of the most important skills that can make or break client relationships. Project managers are the sole translators, sharing information, updates and next steps from client to internal team and back again.”

“Communication skills are the core part of a project manager’s skill set,” says Danielyan. A project manager who is “a good communicator can resolve or prevent almost any issue by being clear [and] encouraging an unhindered flow of information, which means [getting] the right information to the right person through the right channel exactly when it is needed.”

Organization

A stereotypical image of a project manager is someone who is the consummate multitasker, but the ability to “multitask alone won’t help project managers meet all of the demands they face in their role; organization is key,” says Mills. “This means prioritizing tasks, compartmentalizing projects to avoid confusion, and neatly documenting anything and everything for future reference and easy access. Part of the organization process also involves envisioning all steps throughout the life of the project and predicting problems that might arise.

“As a PM, your task is to make sure processes run smoothly and are in line with the common goals,” says Danielyan. Therefore, “the ability to organize multiple complicated processes in uncertain conditions is essential – [and] prioritizing, planning and scheduling skills are critical. You need to always be ten steps ahead to quickly and efficiently achieve the desired outcome – or deal with a challenge if needed."

Prioritization

“Information overload is a very real phenomenon, especially in the modern workplace,” notes Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike, the developer of project management software. “There is a limit to the amount of stuff our minds can process, a.k.a. our cognitive load.” So “to succeed in the next decade, [project managers] must be able to manage this deluge of data and extract the useful bits from the noise.

“They need to be masters at prioritizing [and] time management if they intend to be successful,” he continues. And they have to stay focused and “be strategic despite all the pings and notifications that will have them running to put out fires.”

Problem solving

Much of problem solving in a project management context revolves around being able to identify and manage risk. “Many projects miss their scope, budget or delivery timeline due to unexpected surprises,” notes Tim Platt, vice president, IT Business Services, Virtual Operations, an IT support and managed services company. “The great PM is always on the lookout for risk – and how to mitigate that risk.  He or she knows how to ask the hard questions of the team and continuously confirms decisions, timelines and dependencies. In a well-run project, there shouldn’t be a surprise. There should be a risk log and mitigation plans for all items, and the PM is in the best position to ensure that’s covered.”

“Dealing with obstacles is without a doubt an essential skill for a PM,” agrees Danielyan. “A good project manager [can] identify risk early, find the cause(s) of the problem, weigh different options [and] define and implement the best solution possible.”

Adaptability

“In a fast-paced environment, particularly in the tech industry, changes — whether that's new processes, standards or technologies — happen fast,” explains Senaya. “Planning is vital, but the ability to adapt to changes and work with your team to overcome challenges is just as important.” That ability to quickly come up with a workaround or change course is absolutely “necessary to be successful in a fast-paced environment.”

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Most Employees Claim to be Engaged, Only a Quarter Feel Productive

Despite a majority of US workers saying they are engaged in their workplace, only a quarter claim to be productive 90% of the time. The Wrike Employee Engagement Survey report points to the need for business to work on employee engagement. In it Wrike advises employers must be careful because low engagement could lead to a loss in productivity in the long term.

Employee Engagement Statistics

The report surveyed more than 5,000 employees in the U.S., UK, France, Germany and Australia. In it, the employee engagement statistics revealed that only 44% of U.S. employees feel ‘very engaged’ standing third following Germany (46%) and Australia (45%) respectively. British employees are rank as the least enthusiastic, with just 33% of respondents feeling ‘very engaged’. Only 2% of US employees admit to being ‘very disengaged’.

Over 60% of disengaged employees say they are productive less than 50% of the time. Nearly a quarter (22%) of disengaged employees say they are productive less than 10% of the time. By contrast, 56% of engaged employees are productive over 75% of the time.

This highlights the need for companies to draw parallels between engagement and productivity within their workforce. “A lot of organizations talk about the customer experience, but the employee experience is equally important,” says Andrew Filev, founder and CEO of Wrike.

Only 58% of businesses conduct regular surveys to measure employee engagement. Of these, a little more than half (51%) of employees believe companies are making changes because of the results of the surveys.

Engaging Your Employees

The report findings point to two types of long-term employee engagement tactics by employers. The first one offers promotions and new opportunities. And the second one stagnation, boredom, and the feeling of being undervalued.

The report shows that employee engagement statistics reveals that disengaged staff are clearly less productive. With 54% of disengaged employees reporting feeling disengaged at work for over a year, it is a big concern. Thirty-seven percent of those surveyed have been with their current employer for 10 or more years. If we look at only disengaged employees, it would amount to almost half of them (49%). This means that disengaged employees are 32% more likely to have been employed for 10 years on average.

The primary cause of disengagement is feeling the job workers do is undervalued or unrecognized at 43%. Not making enough money (35%) and not having a way to grow/improve their career skills (29%) are second and third respectively.

On the flip side, among those who feel engaged, 46 % say enjoying their role within the company is the biggest reason. Being able to collaborate well with colleagues (38%) understanding how their work fits into the wider business (29%) are also factors. Surprisingly, less than a quarter (23%) see fair compensation as a primary motivation for their engagement.

Managers also highlight effective team collaboration as being the most important factor for direct engagement (40%). Other influential factors for managers include work/life balance (39%); positive work culture (30%); recognizing accomplishment (28%) and having the right tools (25%).

Improving employment engagement

Nearly half (49%) of respondents cited higher pay or an improved job title could increase morale. While 28% say better work/life balance and greater recognition for their accomplishments can help improve their engagement.

Among U.S. employees (50%), the ability to work effectively from anywhere can improve their engagement level.  Getting the right tools to do the job is next. In fact, more than two in five claim their organization has put in place technology to streamlines workflows, communication and efficiencies. On the other hand, 18% believe their company still lags using slower and older tools like to-do lists, spreadsheets, meetings and emails.

The Value of Keeping Your Employees Engaged

Positive employee engagement is responsible for staff retention, productivity, profitability and customer satisfaction.

Engaged employees go the extra mile to contribute to the success of your organization. They make the extra effort, learn more and faster, and are more creative. This, in turn, helps businesses to deliver better performance and gain a competitive advantage.

An engaged workforce will concentrate on the goals of the business and on the results the employer expects from them. Empowering your employees gives them the feeling they really can contribute to the success of the company and they are fulfilling potential.

Businesses need to make employee engagement a key pillar of their overall HR policies. This is especially important in today’s highly competitive job market.

In the press release for the survey, Andrew Filev, founder and CEO at Wrike, addresses this very point. Filev says, “A lot of organizations talk about the customer experience, but the employee experience is equally important.”

Adding, “Most employees are engaged at work but still feel that their productivity is suffering because technology is creating barriers within their team rather than tearing them down. This trend is certainly concerning but also presents a huge opportunity for businesses to increase both engagement and productivity by unifying systems and empowering execution.”

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How to prevent employee burnout - Techlooks

How to prevent employee burnout – Techlooks

About the author

Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a cloud-based work management platform.

The World Health Organisation now officially recognizes workplace ‘burnout’ as an occupational phenomenon, this is the first time it’s being directly linked in its classification of diseases as a work hazard. Why has it become such a prominent issue? 

If you look at the last ten years of…

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　2019年5月22日、クラウド型プロジェクト管理ツールを手がける米Wrike（ライク）は、日本市場進出とパートナー戦略に関する記者発表会を行なった。創業者兼CEOのアンドリュー・ファイレヴ（Andrew Filev）氏は、「働き方改革 via Pocket

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Wrike: A flexible project management tool for the digital workplace

Wrike is a digital work management tool that lets users track and coordinate projects, combining a simple user experience and interface with enough depth for power users.

The software, created in 2006, is the brainchild of Write CEO Andrew Filev; at the time, he was in charge of a fast-growing consultancy business with a remote workforce. Wrike officially launched the following year. 

[ Related: How collaboration apps foster digital transformation ]

“Wrike was borne out of my frustration with having to manage multiple teams in a distributed environment and multiple projects - I had to do it via emails and spreadsheets,” Filev said. “There was a need in the market to build a work management platform with world-class collaboration capabilities so that people can easily coordinate and prioritize and manage their work.”

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from Computerworld https://www.computerworld.com/article/3365226/wrike-a-flexible-project-management-tool-for-the-digital-workplace.html#tk.rss_all

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Wrike: A flexible project management tool for the digital workplace

Wrike is a digital work management tool that lets users track and coordinate projects, combining a simple user experience and interface with enough depth for power users.

The software, created in 2006, is the brainchild of Write CEO Andrew Filev; at the time, he was in charge of a fast-growing consultancy business with a remote workforce. Wrike officially launched the following year. 

[ Related: How collaboration apps foster digital transformation ]

“Wrike was borne out of my frustration with having to manage multiple teams in a distributed environment and multiple projects - I had to do it via emails and spreadsheets,” Filev said. “There was a need in the market to build a work management platform with world-class collaboration capabilities so that people can easily coordinate and prioritize and manage their work.”

To read this article in full, please click here

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Wrike: A flexible project management tool for the digital workplace

Wrike is a digital work management tool that lets users track and coordinate projects, combining a simple user experience and interface with enough depth for power users.

The software, created in 2006, is the brainchild of Write CEO Andrew Filev; at the time, he was in charge of a fast-growing consultancy business with a remote workforce. Wrike officially launched the following year. 

[ Related: How collaboration apps foster digital transformation ]

“Wrike was borne out of my frustration with having to manage multiple teams in a distributed environment and multiple projects - I had to do it via emails and spreadsheets,” Filev said. “There was a need in the market to build a work management platform with world-class collaboration capabilities so that people can easily coordinate and prioritize and manage their work.”

To read this article in full, please click here

from Computerworld News https://www.computerworld.com/article/3365226/wrike-a-flexible-project-management-tool-for-the-digital-workplace.html#tk.rss_news

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Wrike to Deliver Unified Digital Workplace with New Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool and New Integration Engine

Wrike Collaborate Conference, San Francisco: Wrike, the collaborative work management platform for high-performance teams, is unifying the enterprise with a single digital workplace that ensures work aligns with the most important business objectives. The company announced today at the Wrike Collaborate conference the following add-on options: Wrike Analyze, a Business Intelligence (BI) integration with Tableau, the leading analytics platform; Wrike Resource, a resource management tool; Wrike Lock, a customer-managed encryption keys feature; and Wrike Integrate, an integration, and automation engine.

Wrike Analyze powered by Tableau, was specifically designed to meet enterprise needs for sophisticated BI, robust reporting, and real-time analytics. Users will be able to create customized reports and leverage templates built for the most common reporting requirements. Wrike Analyze enables seamless reporting via Tableau that includes data generated within Wrike to deliver greater visibility and deeper understanding of how work is impacting results.

Wrike Integrate allows users to seamlessly automate complex workflows at scale across people and teams with more than 400 cloud or on-premise applications. The automation engine makes it possible for organizations to move beyond basic, one-off integrations to comprehensive workflow automation quickly and easily. Wrike Integrate comes prepackaged with automated workflows, but can also be customized to meet the unique needs of the team, department, or whole organization, saving time and allowing users to focus on more high value, strategic work. Customization of Wrike Integrate - from establishing integrations to automating workflows and creating new ones - is all done within Wrike and does not require technical or developer input, empowering users to build an engine that works for them.

“We see an enormous opportunity for collaborative work management platforms to become the digital workplace that helps organizations truly maximize their digital transformation efforts,” said Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev. “Organizations of all sizes and particularly enterprises are looking to invest in technologies that will help them run more efficiently and effectively, which is why we have put a tremendous amount of time and effort toward ensuring our platform is the right balance of power and simplicity to meet a wide variety of needs. It was important to me that we build an open, flexible platform that offers advanced collaboration, work management, and automation capabilities that everyone can benefit from, as well as features and tools, like security and BI reporting, with the enterprise specifically in mind.”

One of the most requested features from customers is resource management. With Wrike Resource, teams can efficiently plan work, share assets, and measure performance, closing the gap between the C-suite and where the work gets done. The Workload view delivers complete visibility into each team member’s workload and availability. With the Effort Allocation feature, managers are able to indicate the number of hours needed for a task, divide the work between team members, and adjust the number of hours for each team member based on an individual’s workload and the number of days available.

Wrike Lock delivers unparalleled cloud data security because customers retain control through customer-managed encryption keys for all Wrike data. This provides greater visibility into all access and use of data, including the ability to monitor, approve or reject requests for data and documents. External encryption key storage is managed independently from the data center and encryption keys to Wrike data are also encrypted, meeting stringent enterprise security requirements and giving even the most security-focused customers peace of mind. Wrike is also making access role customization available to all enterprise customers, enabling greater control over access at the individual user or group level, which is imperative in today’s highly collaborative workplaces.

“Digital work has exploded, especially for marketing teams. Our mission at Wrike is to deliver a unified digital workplace to high-performance teams in the enterprise - where marketing departments play no small part. Wrike’s new BI connector to Tableau will make it possible for CMOs to measure the impact of their activities on the business, giving them the information they need to make better-informed and more strategic decisions. In addition to our BI connector, Wrike Integrate will allow marketing teams to connect to over 400 systems and applications, which will greatly increase the speed at which they are able to complete their work. We’re really hyper-charging the platform.” said Frazier Miller, CMO of Wrike.

This article was first appeared on MarTech Advisor

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