Asana Winter 2025 Release: Turn Strategies into Results and Requests into Action

Every team wants to move from planning to execution seamlessly. But without the right tools, high-level strategies can feel disconnected from day-to-day work, and incoming requests can get lost in the shuffle. Asana’s winter 2025 release introduces powerful new features designed to bring strategies to life, simplify request tracking, and connect work seamlessly across tools.

Bring Strategies to Life

Turn high-level strategy into measurable progress with new capabilities that give leaders a clearer view of execution while keeping teams aligned.

• Visualize how company-wide goals connect to work with a strategy map. Gain clarity on how every project supports key objectives, ensuring goal management remains transparent and aligned with broader strategic planning. For example, a marketing team can map their campaign initiatives to broader company goals to ensure every effort contributes to overall business success.

• Inform strategic decisions with executive reports in PowerPoint and PDF exports. Quickly generate polished decks and reports for executive reporting, making it simple to share updates in leadership meetings and quarterly business reviews. A PMO team, for instance, can export a PowerPoint summary of portfolio progress for leadership alignment, while goal owners can generate PDF exports of goal statuses to keep stakeholders informed.

• Add context to dashboards with customizable text widgets. Improve business reviews with annotations and explanations alongside critical data, making dashboards more actionable and insightful. This is especially useful for operations teams who need to highlight key performance trends and action items within their dashboards.

Simplify Request Tracking

Managing requests efficiently is crucial for fast-moving teams, and Asana now makes it easier to streamline the entire process.

• Track and manage requests seamlessly. Keep all incoming requests centralized and structured for better work intake and approvals. For example, creative teams can manage design requests from different departments, ensuring each request is properly documented and assigned.

• Keep requesters informed with automated status updates. Ensure transparency and reduce follow-ups by providing real-time updates on progress. Marketing teams handling sales enablement asset creation can automate status updates, ensuring sales teams always have the latest materials without needing to follow up.

• Customize workflows with task types and statuses. Standardize processes across request tracking and team-specific workflows to ensure smooth execution. Engineering teams handling bug reports can create dedicated task types and statuses, ensuring bugs are triaged, assigned, and resolved efficiently, with clear visibility into progress.

Sync Work Across Tools

Eliminate silos and connect your teams across platforms to keep everyone aligned and informed.

• Sync Salesforce and Asana in real-time. Streamline campaign planning and sales workflows by automatically updating Salesforce data in Asana. A sales team can ensure deal statuses update in real-time, giving marketing and operations teams visibility into upcoming wins and necessary next steps.

• Keep teams aligned with Asana project views in Microsoft Teams. Enhance cross-functional collaboration by embedding Asana projects directly into Teams channels for improved visibility. This is particularly useful for project managers who need stakeholders to stay updated without toggling between tools.

• Surface insights with Smart Chat in Microsoft Teams. Get instant AI-powered recommendations to enhance strategic planning and execution. A program manager can ask Smart Chat about overdue tasks in a portfolio to proactively resolve roadblocks before deadlines are missed.

• Automate updates with custom reminders in Microsoft Teams. Keep stakeholders engaged by sending automated updates for critical tasks in campaign management and product launches. For example, marketing teams can set automated reminders for content approval deadlines, ensuring campaigns stay on schedule.

Ready to Elevate Your Work?

See how Asana’s winter 2025 release can help your organization turn strategies into results and requests into action.