New Project Management in Google Wave from Wrike.com

Google Wave is an extremely useful online tool for providing real time communication and collaboration. It allows groups of users to interact on a variety of projects instantly. It can be used to share photos, organise events, and compose group projects among a variety of other features. The usefulness of this tool is unlimited and with the developers API available you can expand its uses the way you want to.

Wave image courtesy of Google

One way that many might have wanted to expand it is to add a project management element to Google Wave, and Wrike.com has done just that. It seems that for some time the CEO of Wrike.com (the developers of project management suite SAAS), Andrew Filev, believed that the major element lacking in Google Wave was the facility for workers to organise and track projects. By providing Wave with integration with Wrike’s software using the Google Wave API they can allow users to quickly and effectively combine the two. Simply add Wrike.com as a contact to a new wave to make the wave a task in Wrike.com. As long as the user has a Wrike.com account they can add wrike-wave@appspot.com to allow the creation of tasks and due dates within Wave.

With Wrike.com integration, Wave can inherit new features allowing users to compose in-depth projects where tasks can be added to Gantt charts and updates can be provided to members via email. Although this project management feature from Wrike.com has costs, it shows how developers can make the Google Wave platform a vital mainstream application by utilising the API. With Google Wave gathering momentum it remains to be seen where the next expansion of the platform comes from.

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