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)
- ★★★★★26
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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.
★★★★★
Friday, July 16, 2021
“Overall: Customer service is excellent. Always quick to respond and…”
Overall: Customer service is excellent. Always quick to respond and issues are rectified fast. Feedback is also taken on board and with the vast array of new features #, it really is a powerful tool if used correctly! Pros: The Executive Dashboards are an excellent way of pulling in data from across the portfolio to report on Risks, Issues, actions, and decisions. Also, the ability to edit within these is an excellent timesaver! Cons: More bespoke reporting functionality and the creation of exportable dashboards to PowerPoint. Alternatives Considered: VertoCloud Reasons for Choosing Cora PPM: It had a better planning functionality.
★★★★★
Thursday, July 15, 2021
““Implementation of CORA PPM” Overall: Being a non CORA user…”
“Implementation of CORA PPM” Overall: Being a non CORA user up until I joined the Project I am now quite adept at monitoring and executing tasks and their associated Milestones. Pros: Easy to use, Collaboration, Timelines, Gantt chart, Finance reporting, Smart Forms Cons: Integration of different parts of Finance although the Cora team has overcome this. Reasons for Choosing Cora PPM: Different Proof of Concepts were used over a variety of software. This proved to be the most successful and reliable product.
★★★★★
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
“Overall: Cora PPM allows my organisation to track our projects…”
Overall: Cora PPM allows my organisation to track our projects "under one roof" - in terms of time, cost and scope. Cora PPM also interfaces nicely with our Financial Accounting/ERP system. Pros: The smartforms, registers and Gantt Chart are comparatively easy to use. With a small amount of training, a new user will have sufficient knowledge to operate the Cora PPM portal. Cons: For an Administrator, the back-end can be daunting....... especially if the employee does not have a background in ICT or logical arguments. A knowledge of SQL is beneficial.
★★★★★
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
“Easy to use. Does exactly what it says. Overall: UI…”
Easy to use. Does exactly what it says. Overall: UI is user-friendly. Visual tools are intuitive. Customer service is excellent. Bug tracking feature will complete the product.
★★★★★
Monday, July 12, 2021
“Pros: The ability to set the software up and use…”
Pros: The ability to set the software up and use it in anger makes its such a good tool for clients. Cons: One area was the Gnatt chart capability. However, we have worked with CORA and the new releases of the software have improved the Gnatt chart capability a great deal.
★★★★★
Friday, July 9, 2021
““Great software that meets my needs” Pros: Cora PPM is…”
“Great software that meets my needs” Pros: Cora PPM is highly configurable and has been tailored to meet the organisations requirements and allows changes to be easily and rapidly applied as required. I choose the hosted solution to forget about infrastructure and upgrades which are all managed for me, and the implementation of multi-factor authentication delivers a secure solution. I allow users to submit their own project ideas directly into Cora PPM and use Cora PPM to report to the management team on the status of their projects. The Gantt chart delivers perfectly on a project level and is powerful when combined with a Programme. Cora PPM software underpinned with the support of a dedicated team help my organisation deliver on programmes and projects. New features and improvements are rolled out on a frequent basis. Cons: User management isn't integrated with our Directory Services, however, the overhead is minimal.
★★★★★
Friday, July 9, 2021
““Great software that meets my needs” Cora PPM is highly…”
“Great software that meets my needs” Cora PPM is highly configurable and has been tailored to meet the organisations requirements and allows changes to be easily and rapidly applied as required. I choose the hosted solution to forget about infrastructure and upgrades which are all managed for me, and the implementation of multi-factor authentication delivers a secure solution. I allow users to submit their own project ideas directly into Cora PPM and use Cora PPM to report to the management team on the status of their projects. The Gantt chart delivers perfectly on a project level and is powerful when combined with a Programme. Cora PPM software underpinned with the support of a dedicated team help my organisation deliver on programmes and projects. New features and improvements are rolled out on a frequent basis.
★★★★★
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
“Overall: So far very positive. Pros: Highly configurable to our…”
Overall: So far very positive. Pros: Highly configurable to our particular needs - provides a single platform for different work streams - all with bespoke workflows. User-friendly interfaces. Cons: Nothing significant - minor points - working week starts on Sunday not Monday. Time recording is based on decimal not hours and minutes. Reasons for Choosing Cora PPM: Cost.
★★★★★
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
“Overall: So far very positive. Pros: Highly configurable to our…”
Overall: So far very positive. Pros: Highly configurable to our particular needs - provides a single platform for different work streams - all with bespoke workflows. User friendly interfaces. Cons: Nothing significant - minor points - working week starts on Sunday not Monday. Time recording is based on decimal not hours and minutes. Reasons for Choosing Cora PPM: Cost.
★★★★★
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
“The experience with Cora has been superb. My role as…”
The experience with Cora has been superb. My role as Administrator and the main contact for the Trust for all things Cora has meant that it's been essential for me to have a good relationship with the team that are assigned to us from Cora. Cora have been fantastic to work with, always there to help and advise, and essential for me to learn more about the system and to be able to take a lot of the builds myself. From a project management point of view - We now have better reporting, better views of all Risks/Issues - just the general management of all of the Work Plan has been made so much easier and slicker. We started our journey into Cora by replacing our existing Excel and SharePoint setup. The move went really well, planning what functions we wanted to explore and use in our Directorate, creating forms that replaced Word, Excel, etc. The Project Leads and users of the system took to the change pretty well with very few teething problems. It is an easy to navigate, intuitive system
