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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Jira and Wrike based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Jira vs. Wrike Report (Updated: October 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Jira

Ranking in Project Management Software

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

267

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)

Wrike

Ranking in Project Management Software

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Jira is 8.3%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wrike is 5.5%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Management Software

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Saroj Ekka

Technical Delivery Lead at Applied Materials

Apr 10, 2024

Offers good repository integration, sprint board and easy to set up

There are some features and reports we need that are not there. For example, if I have to find out the capacity of the current sprint by user and compare it with the previous sprint, that visibility isn't there. We can know the capacity and what happened with the whole sprint, but not for an individual person to see where it's falling and how it's tracking. Report and analytics capabilities are important for a product manager. That visibility is important, so we use Jira. Some of the features are there, and I use my own Excels or other data things to compensate for that.

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Awadhesh Singh

Project Manager at NebuFlow

Jul 2, 2024

Easy to tag people and has a form system to collect information but cannot work in multiple channels simultaneously

I use the tool as a project management tool to track project timelines and communicate with the team. I find Wrike's form system very valuable. I can share forms with my collaborators, and they can fill them out, providing me with the necessary information. Another useful feature is the…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I think one of the most powerful features in Jira is the customization of fields and workflow."

"A most valuable feature involves the ability to customize the entries and to update them quickly."

"The solution provides users with clarity in terms of the scope of work in a given timeframe."

"We use Jira mostly for task coordination and assignment. Additionally, scrum methodologies defined work items and bug issues. If we create any bugs all of them are fixed."

"Its visual display and ease of use are most valuable."

"When we run the Jenkins pipeline, the build is already automatically connected to Jira. We've been able to integrate the ecosystem we created using this automation tool."

"All departments can work with the same platform."

"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards and user interface. The processes within Jira to monitor, maintain and release are beneficial. It is a continuous development solution."

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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."

"I find Wrike's form system very valuable. I can share forms with my collaborators, and they can fill them out, providing me with the necessary information. Another useful feature is the communication platform, which makes it easy to tag someone and communicate efficiently. Additionally, the integration with Microsoft Office is great. I can create a card on Wrike directly from my MS Teams chat, which is convenient."

"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."

"It's a very easy-to-use and flexible tool. We can easily write and create queues for different themes. It's very user-friendly."

"We utilize time tracking and reports most often."

"The most valuable feature of Wrike is the tag functionality."

"This is a good tool for project progress tracking and sharing tasks with internal and external parties."

"Visibility and organization are the most valuable features of Wrike."

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Cons

"Sometimes, it is slow and hangs. We faced some stability issues where JIRA was down for a day. Also, we have lost some of our comments made in the JIRA because of downtime."

"The automation feature needs to be more user-friendly."

"I would like to see test execution modules."

"The integration of Jira could improve. The solution should be able to integrate easily with other solutions, such as ERPs. There are times the solution can be slow and we have to reset it over and over again."

"Jira could be more, for example, like Micro Focus, which is what I mostly work with currently."

"If I'm comparing it to ALM Octane, the documentation is not as robust as ALM Octane's documentation. So, they can improve on the documentation side."

"Users can be confused about how to use this tool as it's very complex."

"The solution could improve by having its own tool for quality lifecycle management."

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"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."

"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."

"We faced an issue with the Wrike outlook add-on; it is only available for Microsoft Office 365, and not the on-premise version."

"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."

"It would be great if they could develop more reporting."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is quite competitive."

"I am not sure if the client is using a commercial version. I think it is on a per-user basis, and it is around 15 Canadian dollars for a user, but I'm not sure. It also has a free version."

"There are no additional costs to the standard licensing."

"For very small companies, if you have less than 10 individuals, it is $10 a year for each of the products. When we were a part of the enterprise and had more than 10 people using it, or before they came up with this solution for small companies, it was $2,500 a year for the license for Jira and Confluence, and I believe something like $600 a year to perpetuate the license. I can't remember if it was $600 or $2,500 annually. It was for up to 25 people at the time, and this was in the early 2000s and mid 2000s."

"It depends on the type of license. In terms of subscription, it is cheap, and it works pretty well."

"We used to be on a perpetual license provided by our clients."

"The licensing model is annoying. They nickel and dime you."

"Worth the extra cost."

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"From a pricing perspective, I would rate Wrike a four out of five."

"Wrike is expensive."

"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."

"Wrike is very expensive, and its price is almost $1,400."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

50%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Educational Organization

85%

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Questions from the Community

Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?

Hi Netanya, Basically , it all depends on the use cases for your environment and the business needs. Hope the below data may be relevant to you for identifying your needs and deciding on the approp...

Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?

Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?

The product is quite expensive. It costs approximately 1.2 million rand per year. It's a fixed price, depending on the modules that you get. You have specific tools, that's what you pay for. I rate...

What do you like most about Wrike?

The most valuable feature of Wrike is the tag functionality.

What needs improvement with Wrike?

There are several areas where Wrike could improve. First, it doesn't allow accessing multiple channels simultaneously, which would be useful. Transferring data from one project to another is also d...

What is your primary use case for Wrike?

I use the tool as a project management tool to track project timelines and communicate with the team.

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Overview

Jira is a powerful cloud- and subscription-based application lifecycle and issue management solution. It is designed to aid users both in project management and in resolving any issues that arise at any point in the software development process. It is especially concerned with easing the ability of developers to collaborate.

Jira Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Jira include:

DevOps lifecycle visibility and planning. Jira provides application developers with tools that enable them to track and visualize where they are in the development process. This means that a DevOps team can measure their progress at all times. Jira’s roadmapping feature also enables a DevOps team to work more efficiently by setting goals for their projects, keeping them on track. Additionally, they are able to track whether they are meeting the goals that they set for their projects.

Regular product updates. Atlassian is constantly updating Jira so that it is continuously evolving into an ever more powerful and user-friendly solution. Users can be sure that the product that they are using is always being tweaked so as to provide them with the best possible project management solution.

Flexibility. Jira enables users to customize their workflows and dashboard so that the solution is operating in a way that best matches their needs. Jira can also integrate with more than 3,000 other applications and integrations. Organizations can use it to expand their project management and DevOps capabilities in many different ways.

Jira Features

Security capabilities. Jira is equipped with a number of useful security features. It gives administrators the ability to restrict access to certain tools so that only users who are authorized to complete certain tasks have access to the tools related to the completion of that task. Users can also set default permissions so that only particular users can work on new projects or particular projects.

Real-time notification feature. Users can set Jira so that it offers them notifications that contain critical information in real time. It can send users email notifications when pressing issues have been updated. They can also set it to notify them about tasks that may be due, or other similar events.
Activity log. Jira has the ability to track any and all changes that are taking place within the software framework. Users can keep a close eye on everything that is going on. This promotes a high level of visibility and can be leveraged to aid developers in their collaboration efforts.

Reviews from Real Users

Jira is a powerful solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its workflow engine and its highly customizable dashboard.

Bharath R., the tool implementation and project management lead at a financial services firm, writes, “I feel the strongest feature of Jira is its workflow engine. It empowers us to automate our workflows within our organization. It's the one characteristic of Jira which I think can help any organization, be it in any domain.”

Uday J., a staff engineer at a computer company, says, “Another thing that I like a lot about Jira is that in the dashboard, you can plug the modules that you want. You can enable certain sections. For example, you can show trend history, open Jira tickets, etc. Some of the managers have created a dashboard for each engineer.”

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

Square, Nasa, eBay, Cisco, SalesForce, Adobe, BNP Paribas, BMW and LinkedIn, Pfizer, Citi.

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