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What is Bubble PPM?

Bubble PPM is a cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software solution from Bubble®. Founded in 1999, the company serves clients globally via offices in London, Cambridge, and Melbourne.Its cloud-based solutions help customers improve the planning, governance, and delivery…

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Bubble PPM is a robust system with personalized assistance that will get your teams organized for Product Development work.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 19, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Bubble PPM is being used by a proprietary product department, to manage the portfolio of New Product Development projects, as well as product line changes as well as supportin...
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Matt Quist
Director - Product Management
National Director Agronomic Solutions
Wilbur-Ellis
Bubble PPM3 years of experience

Great project management tool - One point of truth!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 7, 2017
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We currently use Bubble in NPD (New Product Development) to manage all new projects in development. It is used as a project management tool for the Innovation project managers...
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Laura Sew Hoy
Project Manager - Product Management
Innovation Project Manager
Tate & Lyle Sugars
Bubble PPM1 year of experience

Just what you need, without a bunch of stuff that you don't

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 10, 2015
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Bubble Innovator is being used across the organization to track and manage our portfolio of R&D projects. It is the source of truth for projects in our stage gate review p...
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Todd Render
Director - Research & Development
Director, Research
Johnson & Johnson
Bubble PPM4 years of experience

Amazing Portfolio Management Tool - will make your job a lot easier!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 10, 2015
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We implemented Bubble Innovator within our R&D/Marketing Department for 2 main reasons, Portfolio Management and Gate approvals. We implemented the system in the past year...
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Katherine Umberger
Project Manager - Research & Development
Group Manager - Trauma Project Management
Depuy Synthes
Bubble PPM2 years of experience

More than just software: a collaboration that streamlines productivity and alignment

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 20, 2015
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Bubble Innovator is our "single source of truth" for stage gate and portfolio management reporting. It is central to our PMO function and is used for regular monthly reporting...
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Matt Parsons
Director - Research & Development
Director of Portfolio and Stage Gate
J&J Medical Devices
Bubble PPM2 years of experience
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What is Bubble PPM?

Bubble PPM is a cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software solution from Bubble®. Founded in 1999, the company serves clients globally via offices in London, Cambridge, and Melbourne. Its cloud-based solutions help customers improve the planning, governance, and delivery of…

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What is Bubble PPM?

Bubble PPM is a cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software solution from Bubble®. Founded in 1999, the company serves clients globally via offices in London, Cambridge, and Melbourne.

Its cloud-based solutions help customers improve the planning, governance, and delivery of Innovation, New Product Development, Engineering, IT, and other initiatives.

Their software supports Portfolio Planning, ongoing Project and Portfolio Management, and Resource management.

According to the vendor, the solution enables cross-functional teams to collaborate effectively on projects and provides a flexible platform for business leaders to consider investments, define priorities, and monitor overall progression. For project teams, it provides real-time views on project status and risk, streamlines reporting, facilitates the preparation for stage gate and other project reviews, and enables fact-based decision making.

Bubble PPM Screenshots

Screenshot of an example of the Portfolio Management Dashboards (Fully Configurable)Screenshot of an example of the Project Management Dashboards (Fully Configurable)Screenshot of the real-time metrics and automated project reporting, presented in editable dashboard tiles that display project status indicators, tabulated data, and summary overviews, as well as metric ratios, KPIs, and calculated metrics. The reporting module makes it possible to quickly share summaries for any number of selected projects and automation tools can facilitate the generation of reports that need to be shared at fixed intervals. And because the very latest information is always available, senior management can obtain a presentation-ready report at any time (without adding to the workload of your team)Screenshot of the program and project management tools that allow portfolio managers to manage many processes or projects in tandem. Users can track delivery according to priorities, dependencies, or other drivers. This provides the ability to create and link parent and child projects provides an oversight of all project activity while, at the same time, focusing on higher-level program goals. Line extensions, annual updates, or other Projects can be duplicated in whole or in part and required elements are copied across, saving valuable time and effort. Process measurement tools allow users to spot, analyze, and continuously refine process blockers and bottlenecks.Screenshot of where any number of project management processes can be added to the system and automated, meaning it's easy to accommodate all projects and project types (e.g. New Product Development (NPD), Innovation, Reserach, IT, Project Management Office (PMO) projects).Screenshot of where users can get a view of organization wide, department, team, or person views, of resource allocation and total capacity. They can also assign time to projects by hours, days, percentage, etc. Assigned and required resources can be viewed together or separately. Assignment summaries can be used to see precisely who’s working on what, where the pressure points are, when there’s a risk of becoming overloaded. Where resource gaps could be filled is discovered by assigning underutilized capacity from elsewhere. Automatic charts that graphically flag where total available resources are overtaken by the number of projects required help to support long-term planning.

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Bubble PPM Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesSupports Multi-Language

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Bubble PPM Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)75%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Everyone Seems to Like Bubble INNOVATOR for Stage Gate and Portfolio Decision Making

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 24, 2015
RF
Richard Farrar
Engineering Director
DePuy Orthopaedics (Medical Devices, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bubble PPM
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Bubble Innovator is being used across my whole organization as a tool for both stage gate and portfolio decision making. It has greatly improved the efficiency of data gathering and presentation in moving from spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks to the single Bubble Innovator tool.
Pros
  • Bubble Innovator seems to be one of those software packages that is liked by anyone who uses it. It kind of sells itself just by showing it to someone. It seems to be very intuitive and simple to use even for an occasional user.
  • Bubble Innovator shows the project progress through the stage gGate process very clearly which is great for upper management but it also guides project managers through that same process which means that things don't easily get omitted by accident/forgetfulness.
  • Bubble Innovator seems to be well received by upper management due to the simple way it presents the whole portfolio of products along with key metrics/data that is really helping to simplify portfolio decision making.
Cons
  • Bubble INNOVATOR is relatively new and so there is an ongoing list of development activity. Resource planning is an example where new functionality would be welcomed.
  • I am honestly not aware of any other weaknesses. Bubble INNOVATOR seems to be one of those systems that generally meets with great reviews from users and especially new users at all levels. I guess just the desire for it to do more and more.
Likelihood to Recommend
It would be difficult to comment specifically as it would depend precisely what the prospective new company would like it to do. In the area of stage gate and portfolio decision making, it has been a revolution for my company based on the prior methods we used which relied upon spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks, and were very labor intensive. So clearly I believe that it is well suited to this area of use. I think Bubble Innovator seems to be a relatively low cost option too.

Amazing Portfolio Management Tool - will make your job a lot easier!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 10, 2015
KU
Katherine Umberger
Group Manager - Trauma Project Management
Depuy Synthes (Medical Devices, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bubble PPM
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We implemented Bubble Innovator within our R&D/Marketing Department for 2 main reasons, Portfolio Management and Gate approvals. We implemented the system in the past year and everyone in R&D and Marketing is working in this system. The system has addressed the issue of many different Excel spreadsheets of our portfolio, not organized correctly, not enough information on the spreadsheets; one central location is the biggest benefit. We also incorporated the Gate Process for approval of all our projects and this allows us to report to upper management in a consistent manner.
Pros
  • The team that implemented Bubble Innovator into our business was tremendous. They worked with us closely and listened to our needs in incorporating changes quickly. The support we received was professional, timely and throughout the years of implementation we built a great working relationship with the team. They spent the time to work with us and also trained our entire department/business on this new system.
  • Change Management/Support - Bubble Innovator support team is responsive when asking for updates/upgrades to any report or additions/deletions that are required.
Cons
  • One improvement is all the reports need to be able to be placed into a PowerPoint easily, currently you have to take a picture and add [it]. This system is amazing and has helped me with my position of reporting and managing over 50 new projects.
Likelihood to Recommend
Bubble Innovator is suited for any business that does not have a centrally located portfolio management tool. It serves as one point of truth for the company, anyone can go in and run reports, look at the updates on any project, timelines, finance, etc.

Bubble Innovator - Simple straightforward portfolio management

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 23, 2015
Verified User
Vice-President in Research & Development
Medical Devices Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bubble PPM
10 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Bubble Innovator is being used across our organizations as a single "source of truth" for new product development, program/project descriptions, financial impact, status and stage gate milestone progress. It is further being adapted to be used for the same purpose for research programs and clinical studies.
The Bubble Innovator product solves the problem of multiple sources of truth floating through your organization regarding the status of any program/project at any point in time. It also reduces the multiple demands from different quarters of an "update" since you can point everyone to Bubble Innovator as that "single source of truth" for the new product development (NPD) pipeline.
Pros
  • The Bubble Innovator team is particularly good at listening and seeking to understand your specific requirements and needs to make sure the outcome of the product meets those needs.
  • The Bubble Innovator product is fast, efficient and available and accessible from anywhere.
  • The Bubble Innovator product gives you layered levels of logic associated with your programs so you can decide what rolls up with what or not as desired to suit the business needs.
Cons
  • Bubble Innovator is still working out the best logic to be used for collections of projects that are part of a program. It is not a project management software platform but must still manage/show dependencies appropriately.
  • Sometimes it is difficult to capture the right information for the right report. Note that a company's constantly changing needs for reports becomes Bubble Innovator's nightmare to keep abreast of. Bubble Innovator has introduced a custom report generator for their customers so you have more personal control over creating the reports you want.
Likelihood to Recommend
Do you need a portfolio management solution that provides a single source of truth for all your project related information? Choose Bubble Innovator.
Do you have difficultly organizing cross functional alignment on the funded versus unfunded programs? Choose Bubble Innovator.
Do you have trouble communicating consistently with your markets the future availability of your NPD pipeline of products? Choose Bubble Innovator.
Does senior management constantly want updates on the status and progress of your programs for which you end up in a constant PowerPoint loop creating? Choose Bubble Innovator.
Do you need a project management solution to manage your projects? This is not Bubble Innovator.

R&D Portfolio Management with Bubble Innovator

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 10, 2015
RP
Rushi Potdar MD MBA
Senior Manager , Global R&D Portfolio, Strategy and Business Operations
Johnson & Johnson (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bubble PPM
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My company uses Bubble Innovator as the main tool for portfolio tracking, reporting and analysis for entire Orthopedics R&D. It brings tremendous viability to the innovation pipeline and provides up to date information on where we are with each of the program. The further cuts it provides into state of projects, risks, financials and overall platform level projections are fantastic.
Pros
  • The User Interface is sleek,very user friendly and imaginative. There is a lot that can be customized by user level and interest. The data insights and visuals it provides are unparalleled. I have seen another similar system and the first thing that strikes me Innovator is so modern - 2015.
  • The support the team provides is excellent. The team has great talent with deep insights and experience into NPD. The team understands the challenges of working with a big company. They are great to work with and a very resourceful partner. During our partnership they went well beyond just system installation but improved native processes such as stage gates and leadership reports.
  • The system is highly flexible- one can create a variety of reports, views, analysis. It allows various restrictions if needed. It can create special views providing insights for management consumption which are very different to day-to-day tracking of portfolio. Very importantly the data can be uploaded into the system using one's own Excel files such as business cases.
Cons
  • There are stand alone analytical tools. Innovator will be even better if it fortifies its analytic capabilities
Likelihood to Recommend
It is particularly well suited for complex R&D organizations with multiple platforms and levels of R&D

Bubble Innovator - Intuitive portfolio project management

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 30, 2017
Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Utilities Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Bubble PPM
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Bubble Innovator was implemented to provide a single source of truth that would support fact-based decision-making, consistency of project delivery and would be accessible to all who needed it. Now used across 4 departments within our business we use Bubble Innovator to provide a better understanding of potential projects and help strike a clearer balance between long and short-term innovation opportunities, enabling team members to work on more projects with greater efficiency, and at the same time, provide better visibility of the measurable benefits being delivered.
Pros
  • Simplistic, smart view of entire portfolio, with easy filtering for quick searches
  • Readily accessible one-page summaries for projects, detailing specific data relevant to our needs
  • Ability to rapidly run a variety of specific reports
Cons
  • Ability to export graphs / cut & paste graphs to presentations
  • Agile-stage-gate
  • Ability to run graphical reports
  • Quicker ability to assess financial metrics for improved management and forecasting
Likelihood to Recommend

Great view of entire portfolio - allowing teams to operate a balanced portfolio. Ease of use. Quick access to one-page reports.

Resource model more restrictive - if looking to use >3 role levels.

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