# Shibumi Reviews **Vendor:** Shibumi.com **Category:** [Strategic Planning and Execution Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/strategic-planning-and-execution) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About Shibumi Shibumi's Strategic Portfolio Management software platform helps organizations deliver significantly higher value from their strategic program and transformation investments. Built for the transformation needs of CTOs, CFOs, EPMOs and operations executives, our solutions apply to the full lifecycle of program and initiative portfolios across any industry. Whether the focus is on cost transformation, continuous improvement, operational excellence, or digital transformation, Shibumi's cutting-edge Strategic Portfolio Management software platform leads the way. Established in 2012, Shibumi has earned the trust of over 100 Fortune 1000 clients and 8 of the top 10 advisory firms globally. Together, we manage more than 80,000 initiatives, delivering over $100 billion in business value. Trusted by the largest companies in the world, Shibumi allows you to: -Manage strategic initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes - Make better, more informed decisions with real-time information - Significantly reduce manual effort in portfolio and project management - Foster alignment, collaboration, and transparency across teams working on complex initiatives - Get started quickly with turnkey modules for managing strategic programs -Continue to work with the tools you prefer. We support 1000+ integrations ## Shibumi Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users admire the **outstanding design** of Shibumi, praising its streamlined workflows and attractive, user-friendly interface. (2 reviews) - Users admire the **outstanding design aesthetics** of Shibumi, appreciating its streamlined workflows and user-friendly interface. (2 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Shibumi, thanks to its intuitive UI and minimal training requirements. (2 reviews) - Users love the **outstanding UI** of Shibumi, finding it attractive, easy to learn, and highly configurable. (2 reviews) - Users value the **high level of customization** offered by Shibumi, tailoring it to their unique needs effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Customization Options (1 reviews) - Ease of Learning (1 reviews) - Efficiency (1 reviews) - Software Updates (1 reviews) - Workflow Management (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **slow loading** workflows, which can hinder the overall efficiency of the Shibumi product. (1 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with Shibumi, as workflows take time to load, impacting their efficiency. (1 reviews) ## Shibumi Reviews ### 1. Great software products for the modern agile business **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jack B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** Streamlined workflows and top notch design **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** The workflows can be a little slow to load at times **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shibumi helps in identifying, analyazing and redirecting issues affecting the business ### 2. Fantastic platform for portfolio governance and strategy execution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** - Highly configurable - can shape it in ways that are uniquely relevant to customer needs - Outsanding UI - attractive, easy to learn, minimal training required - Constant innovation - they add new and meaningful capabilities on a regular basis **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** Like any portfolio system, it requires some up-front thinking about the business process to ensure you configure what is most valuable to your company. But the ease of configuration makes it easy to constantly iterate and improve, as you gain feedback from users and learn more about what the optimal business processes will look like for your company. **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing the innovation pipeline, enabling optinal gate reviews, prioritizing the portfolio, modeling resource demand vs. capacity. **Official Response from Kristen Diamond:** > Thank you for sharing your experience with Shibumi. We understand the importance of upfront thinking in configuring the system, and we're glad to hear that our platform's ease of configuration allows for constant iteration and improvement. ### 3. Shibumi has been quite helpful in tracking all the project details and timelines **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hasnain P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** creating dashboards to export to powerpoint **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** I dont see any negatives. The UI could be a little better **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is helping to calculate value delivered from projects and the tracking of each stage **Official Response from Kristen Diamond:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Shibumi! We're glad to hear that you find the feature of creating dashboards to export to PowerPoint helpful. We appreciate your feedback about the UI and will take it into consideration for future improvements. It's great to hear that Shibumi is helping you calculate the value delivered from projects and track each stage. We're grateful for your support! ### 4. Consulting Perspective **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gregor M. | CEO, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** It provides a solution to managing your automation roadmap, this digital solution is better than using excel or other custom methods **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** the user interface, the pricing, the complexity and onboarding **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping save time to understand what process makes sense for automation ### 5. Effective for mass projects management **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** Controlling everything from one place. Making dashboards that are up to date with the latest information. Having online presentations that save time in meetings. **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** There's still a lot of bugs that have to be dealt with. Graphics are not very customizable. It cant keep a trend of things that are not metrics. Theres a big language barrier. The design team does not know the main language of the customer company. **Recommendations to others considering Shibumi:** Know what you expect from it, explore all features before commiting to certain ones. Make sure your team is making the best of it, that they use it a their primarly tool to keep track of things. The point is to eventually drop using local archives. **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing a big amount of projects and keeping track of their progress. The biggest benefit is that the plaform can addapt to your needs. ### 6. Flexible platform with great support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** The Shibumi team worked well with us in requirement gathering and realisation. Their platform is incredibly flexible and as we went through developing our solution we understood this more, resulting in a few iterations that elevated our outcome. The team were highly engaging and professional and we maintain a very productive relationship. **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** If you don't know your process well you may struggle, so make sure you know what you want - run tabletop simulations if you need to - to make sure that you get the most from your implementation. **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shibumi has helped us manage our product lifecycle from request to retirement and track benefits that have been realised using a direct integration with the platforms used for development. This makes it easier to talk to the business about the ROI from our initiatives. ### 7. Great tool to meet your organisations automation or operational requirements **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Huzaan B. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** The tool provides users with a great experience in managing their work or opportunities through custom built workflows. It provides organisations with the capability to create applications with a varied use cases. My experience with the tool has been top rated with the capability I have as an application owner and administrator. Users are able to track and manage critical tasks and collaborate through the platform making it a one-stop-shop for your organisations specific requirements. In addition, the platforms advanced integration capabilities h various third-party apps is very impressive. **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** There could be more online based forums for the users to share their thoughts and ideas **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation related tasks and monitoring ### 8. Develop a tracking tool (OXYTUBE) for a group wide transformation project based on SHIBUMI platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Xiaowei H. | Group transformation project PMO manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** - Collaborative tool - Customizable features - Customer service proactive reactivity **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** - Platform rigid to adapt for higher efficiency, eg. SSO login, value bulk loading via 3rd party tool (Excel) - Limitation for dashboard capability, eg. graph color, legend - Rigid for presentation, eg. slide duplication bwn 2 files **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problem: Tracking of ~600 initiatives implementation progress with ~150 initiative owners spread worldwide Benefits: - monitor initiative progress with light PMO setup - online presentation features facilitate drasmatically the slide presentation work for PMO team - value delivery on track ### 9. Shibumi is an agile easy to use platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** It is an agile platform that is easy to develop and transform/evolve to meet complex changing business needs. **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** The platform's aggregated reporting visualization tools(Graphs) only provide intermediate functionality. **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Shibumi platform provided the framework and functionality to build custom solutions that facilitate cross functional collaboration and provide business programs with the tools(qualitative and quantitative value tracking, project management, workflow functionality) to work towards meeting their business objectives. ### 10. Powerful and easy to use tool for automation transformation programs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Shibumi?** Can easily configure methodologies and workflows, then run powerful analytics over the top to give program visibility at every level. **What do you dislike about Shibumi?** Certain elements of administration and role-based access are very manual. **Recommendations to others considering Shibumi:** Leverage Shibumi experts as much as possible. They are eager to help and extremely knowledgable. **What problems is Shibumi solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralization of artefacts, program management and reporting for large automation programs. ## Shibumi Discussions - [What is Shibumi used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-shibumi-used-for) - [View Shibumi pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/shibumi/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-17+05%3A01%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=059952e9-95c7-4735-a9a7-f85fbaf37334&secure%5Btoken%5D=c5786ef13ac2c696fe79a7d2dd727f79158c20e8b2580aa1ed04ce14dd08d07d&format=llm_user) ## Shibumi Features **Portfolio Management** - Portfolio Types - Planning - Alignment - Portfolio Mix **Prepare** - Strategy Map - Strategy Model - Rules - Frameworks **Strategic Planning - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Objectives - Roadmaps - Demand management - Resource Planning - Planning - Simulation - Prioritization - Alignment **User Interface Design** - WYSIWYG Editor - Customized Branding - App Templates - Workflow Management **Project Management** - Dependencies - Priorities - Lean Management **Plan ** - Vision Statement - Goals - Collaboration - Cascade Planning **Strategic Management - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Visiblity - Tracking - Risk Management - Implementation - Change Management - Optimization - Strategy Model - Frameworks **Data Control** - Data Migration - Data Synchronization - Data Security **Resource Management** - Definition - Allocation - Optimization **Optimize** - Progress Tracking - KPIs - OKR **Data Analysis - Strategic Portfolio Management** - ESG Impact - Financial Performance - Forecasting **Publishing** - Application Deployment - Platform Compatibility - Lifecycle Management **Data & Analytics** - Data Consolidation - Visualizations - Performance - Risk Analysis **Execute** - Performance - Communication - Alignment - Performance **Artificial Intelligence - Strategic Portfolio Management** - Process Intelligence - Predictive Insights - Virtual Agents **Agentic AI - No-Code Development Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Strategy - Project and Portfolio Management** - Simulation - Tracking - Planning - Objectives - Visiblity - Alignment - Risk Management - Implementation - Optimization - Prioritization ## Top Shibumi Alternatives - [Smartsheet](https://www.g2.com/products/smartsheet/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (21,552 reviews) - [Wrike](https://www.g2.com/products/wrike/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (4,448 reviews) - [Agentforce 360 Platform (formerly Salesforce Platform)](https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-360-platform-formerly-salesforce-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,775 reviews)