As hybrid work emerges as a global movement, IT leaders are at the vanguard of a new way of working. But like all pioneers, they face huge challenges.

In his last blog, Marc Monday shared how Wrike radically simplifies a universal remote work pain point: requests and approvals. Meanwhile, CIOs grapple with an even bigger pain point: tool proliferation.

Over the last year, companies made significant investments in a wide range of traditional tools to fill the short-term needs of their distributed teams. But to this day, these tools remain unstructured and lack the capabilities to help people effectively plan, execute, collaborate and manage their remote workloads. Time saved from the daily commute gets lost as people try to navigate a complicated digital environment where different departments are using different tools to meet different needs.

A Wrike and Pulse survey of hundreds of IT leaders found that 55 percent are looking for collaborative work management (CWM) tools like Wrike for help. Of those, 66 percent say tool integration is the central feature they lack — and need most. But with complexity continuing to rise, the last thing they want is abandon a tool they have already invested 18 months in, or force one on multiple departments.

Wrike and Citrix agree — they shouldn’t have to. We believe the future of work is contingent upon technology’s ability to let people to work the way they want to work. And no other CWM on the market does that like Wrike.

Wrike’s integrations allow for unparalleled “play well with others” capabilities, giving everyone the freedom to use the tools they love — while driving better alignment and visibility between teams.

That’s a huge value-add and a political win for the C-suite. It’s also great news for partners looking to transition to Citrix Workspace.

The most critical requirement of any new solution is adoption. With Wrike, Citrix Workspace makes it easier for any user to continue working with the tools they prefer — only with better collaboration, less complexity, and more time saved.

As the central digital hub, Citrix Workspace delivers one secure, consumer-like experience across every device with SSO to all apps and data. Wrike contains all the documents, project plans, inbound requests, reports, dashboards and request forms that casual users need — in any department — along with a list of what needs to be done.

Within Workspace, partners can build microapps to help employees drive actions and easily create new tasks or projects, notify someone that a task or project has been assigned to them, and act on pending approvals — all without ever having to leave the Citrix Workspace. At the same time, it’s easy for the advanced user to jump into Wrike to do more complex work.

Wrike + Microsoft Organizes Work

Over the last 18 months, the demand for remote work exponentially increased reliance on tools like Microsoft Teams. But while IT departments have leaned heavily on Teams to help remote teams stay connected, there is a limit to its efficiency. Adding the Wrike tab within Teams allows workers to elegantly execute specific tasks and deliverables — with internal and external stakeholders — with complete visibility and centralization. No employee collaborative space come close to offering the built-in collaboration power of Wrike.

Which Tools Do Your Teams and Customers Love?

Whatever the app, Wrike makes work more efficient, while letting everyone keep the tools that are critical to their workflows.

Wrike integrates with the entire suite of Microsoft 365 in multiple ways, allowing users to:

  • Simplify provisioning through Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 single sign-on.
  • Convert emails to tasks and make Wrike updates right from their inbox with Outlook integrations.
  • Search, browse and attach files from Microsoft 365 applications like SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel or PowerPoint to keep files in sync.

Wrike works well with popular document storage repositories like Dropbox, SharePoint, OneDrive, G-Drive and ShareFile (coming soon!) so employees can keep files in sync and pointing to the latest version of documents.

Wrike also seamlessly integrates with a wide range of communication and collaboration tools like Slack and G Suite, as well as business and department-specific apps like Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics, and Jira.

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