What is Cora Systems?
Cora is a worldwide leader in providing enterprise project and portfolio management solutions to global organizations and government agencies, such as Honeywell, PwC, City of London and the UK’s National Health Service. Cora is a proven foundation for the delivery of projects and programs, digital transformation and strategic objectives. Fully digitizing program and project lifecycles, providing powerful insights, empowering decision-making, and streamlining governance and reporting. Every day, across more than 50 countries, over $75 billion worth of projects are managed on the Cora platform. **Powering best-practice enterprise PPM** Cora PPM is a platform to deliver global consistency, powerful insights, total control and enterprise-wide visibility.
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Cora Systems Reviews (32)
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Review Summary
Generated using AI from real user reviews
Cora PPM earns consistently strong praise across all 32 reviews, with 28 five-star ratings and only one criticism that qualifies as significant. Users value the platform primarily for its flexible configurability, intuitive interface, and comprehensive reporting, particularly around dashboards, financial tracking, and portfolio visibility. The vendor's responsive support team and willingness to incorporate customer feedback into development appear frequently and seem to differentiate the product from competitors.
The most common pain points are narrow and technical. A handful of users note performance slowness during saves and when working with large project note histories, though some attribute this to internet connectivity rather than the platform itself. The Gantt chart, while generally praised, lacks some advanced scheduling features that MS Project users expect—notably drag-and-drop manual scheduling and partial schedule baseline control. Reporting gaps appear in a few reviews: one user wanted more export options to PowerPoint; another flagged missing resource capacity analytics. Administrative setup requires technical depth (SQL knowledge helps), and one user found back-end data access restrictive.
Minor configuration quirks—like working weeks defaulting to Sunday and time entry using decimals instead of hours:minutes—are mentioned but treated as easily manageable. One user flagged the lack of a mobile app. Overall, reviewers treat limitations as solvable or acceptable trade-offs, with many noting Cora's active roadmap addresses gaps systematically.
★★★★★
Monday, November 22, 2021
““Excellent company to work with” Pros: Easy to use, good…”
“Excellent company to work with” Pros: Easy to use, good tutorials, you will never run out of things to do with Cora. Cons: Nothing negative - loaded with features need to remember to keep in touch with Cora to make sure you take advantage of all current and future features,
★★★★★
Friday, October 29, 2021
““Great top to bottom PPM system” Overall: Excellent at all…”
“Great top to bottom PPM system” Overall: Excellent at all times Pros: Functions for every part of Programe portfolio project and Strategic management Cons: Nothing I don't like - each time something is wanted, they build it
★★★★★
Monday, October 4, 2021
“Overall: The use of Cora PPM has added a huge…”
Overall: The use of Cora PPM has added a huge level of transparency to a number of hitherto 'invisible' processes that has afforded the realisation of benefits in terms of cost savings, greater productivity and more focused and reliable reporting. Pros: The Cora PPM platform is extremely flexible and scalabe, and configuration and customisation is possible by a proficient user, allowing maximum use of the platform. The layout is simple to understand with minimal bloatware. Cons: At times speed can be an issue, but this most likely more due to local internet speed rather than the platform itself. It is the problem that any cloud based software encounters from time to time.
★★★★★
Monday, September 20, 2021
““Cora PPM is indispensable when organizing projects and daily tasks”…”
“Cora PPM is indispensable when organizing projects and daily tasks” Overall: No matter if we are in or out of the office, Cora PPM works perfectly with an integrated messaging to consult project progress. We add and design our virtual whiteboard in the way that makes it easier for us to work. Pros: We organize tasks in groups and individuals to have each project present in a single page with drop-down columns, Cora PPM is an intuitive tool for workgroups to organize easily and quickly. With Cora PPM the progress is fast in your company's projects, it has a free trial so you can confirm if its features are what your company needs and adapt it to your colleagues to make their work and communication easier. Cons: One of the disadvantages of using Cora PPM is when a project has many notes, because it is difficult for the whole team to visualize all the progress that it has completely and makes us lose the thread of the project we are working on.
★★★★★
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
“A very good experience that makes a recommendation to others…”
A very good experience that makes a recommendation to others very simple and easy. The transparency and versatility of the platform make it a very strong choice. Coupled with an easy-going yet very experienced Customer Success Team makes Cora stand out among its competitors. Transparency of process Configuration options particularly by the user themselves Versatility and adaptability of the platform Clear and friendly communications across the board. The waterfall structure adds in additional projects that can confuse.
★★★★★
Friday, September 3, 2021
“I'm working with ProjectVision and now with CORA PPM for…”
I'm working with ProjectVision and now with CORA PPM for a couple of years and I'm very satisfied with the Product, the Support and cooperation with the Vendor. The only week area that I see is in the area of reporting. *What do you like most about the product or service?* Easy to use and does what we need in the Business. *Why did you purchase this product or service?* Improve compliance & risk management Improve business process agility Improve business process outcomes Enhance decision making Create internal/operational efficiencies Cost management *What were the key factors that drove your decision?* Product functionality and performance Strong services expertise Pre-existing relationships Overall cost *Which other vendors did you consider in your evaluation?* Sciforma Changepoint Planview Planisware Others
★★★★★
Friday, August 6, 2021
“Overall: Accessible and easy flexible solution to easily manage various…”
Overall: Accessible and easy flexible solution to easily manage various project, generate reports and collaborate with other team members. Pros: The reporting functionalities are active and the capacity optimization capability offered its fantastic. Benefit and financial tracking functions are also amazing and useful and the integration support is good. Coordination for the various members its great and the scenario analytics option is reliable. Cons: No any detected issue on the software functionality. Platform is easy to get familiar and start easy project management.
★★★★★
Monday, August 2, 2021
“Overall: Excellent, the functionality is exceptional, and the customer support…”
Overall: Excellent, the functionality is exceptional, and the customer support from the sales to technical staff is fast and comprehensive. Pros: The functionality is very configurable and the range of approaches extensive. Cons: Need to identify the minimum functionality necessary before building the solution out. Functionality can be added as the customer becomes more experience. Reasons for Choosing Cora PPM: The functionality and integration with Smart Forms allows for a detailed project overview alongside the comprehensive functional elements e.g. Gantt, Risk Actions and Finance.
★★★★★
Thursday, July 22, 2021
“Cora PPM provides a truly exception list of programme and…”
Cora PPM provides a truly exception list of programme and project management features alongside an unparalleled approach to strategic portfolio management which other products skim over or omit entirely. Where there are any elements of the product which require further work and development the team at Cora PPM respond quickly and have a lightning-fast development cycle ensuring features and fixes come thick and fast. Cora PPM has an exceptional balance between configurability without sacrificing ease of use and user friendly interfaces. Other products veer either towards complete configurability, sacrificing the user experience or prioritising a perceived or actual user experience which does not work for all users. Cora is perfectly balanced in the middle, hugely configurable by in house super users, which means we can make Cora do what we want when we want.
★★★★★
Saturday, July 17, 2021
“Overall: Less duplication of project documentation due to registers being…”
Overall: Less duplication of project documentation due to registers being highly effective for data entry, tracking, and reporting. Cora PPM portfolio reporting is excellent. Cora are very proactive in their roadmap for future development and enhancements which I mind very important. My feedback has been listened to and acted on which I value Pros: Cora made the implementation process very easy. Working through a number of workshops with my team and I. They took into account our specific requirements, processes, and terminology and help customize the system exactly to what we required. The dashboard and registers are the best of any competing product in terms of ease of adding and reporting on them. IT has the best cross-portfolio reporting that I have used. All these features are very intuitive. Cons: It's project planner could do with more functionality as it isn't as rich as MS project. It could do with more exporting options of Project plans.
