If you are not familiar with Wrike.com let me start by introducing to them:

They built Wrike with the understanding of how project management is executed in small and midsize businesses.

Their Mission is to deliver the best online Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that will let you manage your business easily via email and the Web anytime, anywhere.

To allows clients to collaborate and manage all their projects effectively.

It was great news to hear last Wednesday that they are bringing Google Wave integration to their customers, see the press release:

Starting on February 3, you’ll be able to boost your project management productivity in Wrike by adding Google Wave collaboration feature set to your project management tool. Wrike is the first project management software that allows you to manage your projects directly from Google’s communication platform.

Wrike’s Google Wave integration will allow you to seamlessly turn your waves into tasks, set due dates, update your project schedule and add your Wave discussions as comments to tasks in Wrike! This instant collaboration combination is a breakthrough in the project management space and an outstanding achievement in team productivity.

This will be a great addition to the very limited Project Management tools that was available to Google Wave users.

They offer a number of tutorials for their users: (I’ll show a couple here, but click on the links to see the others)

A.   Connect your accounts:

To connect your Google Wave account to your Wrike account, please follow these three simple steps

1. Add a new contact, wrike-wave@appspot.com, to your Wave.
2. Then create a new wave and add Wrike to it.
3. This new wave will be your Wrike task. Immediately, Wrike will respond with a request to connect your Google Wave account to your Wrike account. (That will appear in a separate wave). Once you follow this link, Wrike will recognize you and create your task in your workspace. The next time you want create a task in Wrike from your Wave account simply add Wrike to a new wave.

B.   Turn a wave into a task

If you have a wave that you want to become a task in your project, you can easily add it to your Wrike workspace. To create a task in Wrike from your Google Wave account, add Wrike to your wave. The title of your wave 1 will be your Wrike task title. The message that you added when you created your wave 2 will be added to the task description in Wrike.

If you want to update your task title or description, just use the “Edit this message” feature in Google Wave. All the updates will be automatically transferred to the task in Wrike.

Note: Due to the Google Wave API limitation, our system can only sync changes made to your tasks in the Wave, and it will not translate the updates you made to the task in your Wrike workspace to Google’s platform. So if you create a task from the Wave, make changes to the task description in Wrike, and then try to update the main wave content from Google’s platform, the changes that you made in Wrike will be lost. As soon as the limitation is eliminated by Google, this restriction will be removed.

C.   Set the due date

D.   Share a wave in Wrike

E.   Put a task into a folder

F.   Add comments to a task

The Wrike.com team also draws attention to the following for it’s users.

Note: At the moment, Google Wave API has a number of limitations that restrict Wrike’s integration functionalities. Hardworking Google developers promise to get rid of these limitations soon.

This is a great development. I hope, and fully expect to hear of more of these types of announcements. Still waiting to hear from NetDocuments who should be getting ready to announce something sometime soon. I suspect that for many developers these limitations, alluded too above, may be the reason we haven’t heard more of these types of announcements regarding integration.

How excited are you to hear about this integration? Are you a Wrike.com user? Will you become one because of this announcement?

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