Digital Business: Wrike as Collaboration Software (vs Trello)

This presentation provides a comparative analysis of Wrike and Trello, two popular collaboration software platforms, within the context of digital business needs. The presentation begins with an introduction that highlights the importance of selecting appropriate software for project management and team collaboration, emphasizing the need to consider various factors, including user needs and software features. The presentation details the features of both Wrike and Trello, including their capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses. It also discusses the pricing models of both platforms. The evaluation process involves a comparison of features, user interface, document sharing capabilities, and overall suitability for collaborative projects. The presentation emphasizes the factors that influenced the team's decision, such as ease of use, user interface consistency, and document sharing limits. The presentation concludes by highlighting the importance of collaboration, social media integration, and project visibility in today's business environment, which further supports the choice of Wrike as the preferred platform. Finally, it also discusses the group's collaboration process, highlighting clear directions, open communication, and team trust.

DIGITAL BUSINESS: REFLECTION ON THE SUITABILITY OF WRIKE AS A
COLLABORATION SOFTWARE (OVER TRELLO)

In undertaking this exercise, I came to the realization that several factors have to be taken into
consideration when choosing a software application, especially where it is to be used for
collaboration and / or project management. The first step requires a detailed consideration of the
needs for the software as the foundation to selecting the most suitable software. Various software
applications will e available and an understanding of the needs helps in making a choice between
the various available options. Once the most suitable options are selected, they have to be evaluated
on their features based on the buyer decision making process and premised on the utility theory to
determine which option is to be selected. The team evaluated Wrike and Trello softwares and settled
on Wrike based on an evaluation of the user needs and the software features. Wrike has intuitive and
easy to use features with an attractive and consistent user interface and is very suited for
collaboration. One key feature that made the team settle on Wrike over Trello is that Wrike has
unlimited document sharing sizes unlike Trello which is limited to 250 MB for the Gold members.
The choice of Wrike over Trello came down to small margins in terms of features and suitability for
the task. Making detailed comparisons and benchmarking against the requirements helped in
deciding on Wrike over Trello. Todays business environment is characterized by increased
collaboration, social media, dispersed teams, and the need to have greater ‘visibility’ over projects
and tasks and these factors made it easy to select Wrike over Trello.