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
- ★★★★★6
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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, March 12, 2021
“The tool offers state of the art financial and resource…”
The tool offers state of the art financial and resource analytics to keep track of every single penny in real-time. The tool is also equipped with time monitoring and strategic objective management. The tool also provides a powerful insight that empowers organizations in decision-making process. The tool is very easy to use with a simple but powerful interface. The financial analytics along with performance management are the key features used by our firm to keep track of every resource. The tool just fails when it comes to portability as the app is only available in web version. There are some major bugs rolling inside the system, one of the majors is connection failure for servers that causes a lot of problem if servers fail during data entry. The tool is only available on web no app or downloadable program available for any platform which is not user friendly for people on the go.
★★★★★
Thursday, October 29, 2020
“Our organization have had a good experience with this vendor.…”
Our organization have had a good experience with this vendor. Especially around tailoring their solution to our PMO. I would recommend this vender. **What do you like most about the product or service?** The product is a great way of tracking our portfolio of projects. **What do you dislike most about the product or service?** The resource capacity management part currently does not meet our needs and can be hard to follow, **Please explain the business problems or needs that prompted the purchase of this product or service.** We had started a PMO office and required software to track and maintain our portfolio
★★★★★
Friday, October 9, 2020
“The support from Cora Systems is excellent. You are always…”
The support from Cora Systems is excellent. You are always supported by real people, who respond in a timely manner and are usually knowledgeable about their product. They are also knowledgeable about my company, my needs, and my individual settings and requirements. They are always ready to listen and to help. They charge, but fairly and not excessively. **What do you like most about the product or service?** The products are customisable, and they are always working on upgrades and improvements to their products, so they often take on board customer ideas and suggestions.
★★★★★
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
“Requirements and initial support have been excellent. The sales manager…”
Requirements and initial support have been excellent. The sales manager and project manager have been approachable and helpful throughout the implementation process. **What do you like most about the product or service?** System is visually very attractive and there is an impressive roadmap in place. **What do you dislike most about the product or service?** Number of bugs and development requirements to automate reporting to a greater extent, however rapid resolution of these and addition to the list of enhancements for roadmap consideration is impressive. **Please explain the business problems or needs that prompted the purchase of this product or service.** Expiration of contract for legacy system, change in organizational requirements **If you could start over, what would your organization do differently?** More detailed review of existing processes and documentation and clearer requirements definition prior to implementing - time constraints did not allow for this for us.
★★★★★
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
“Great overall experience with Cora over the years. They continue…”
Great overall experience with Cora over the years. They continue to improve their products and have great customer engagement. **What do you like most about the product or service?** It is a modern-looking product with lots of capability. It is easy to configure to the needs of the business and support is readily available should we need assistance doing so from the company. The dashboard reporting is interactive and easy to use and we are able to extract information easily that we need for executive reports. **What do you dislike most about the product or service?** It can be slow at times to save. The Gantt and timesheets can take longer to use than other products for project managers whom are used to having options to drag and change between auto and manual scheduling on each project more easily.
★★★★★
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
“We are new to Cora and getting familiar with the…”
We are new to Cora and getting familiar with the Cora application (using it for 3 months now). Support from Cora has been good and their ability to respond to our requests also good. The concept of Cora is good, with P3M artifacts , risk, schedule, change control, and project logs all in one place, available over the internet. What isn't so good currently is the dashboards/reporting are not referencing the baseline but comparing time now with the forecast. Also not so good is that you have to baseline the whole schedule and cannot change control parts of a project schedule- We have raised this issue and Cora are developing the baseline functionality. The scheduling functionality is much more like MS Project than Oracle P6 (Experienced planners will know what I mean). Resource analysis, the loading on a project, the identification and resolving overloads is not currently available. This will be a good product for our business once a few simple areas of functionality are fixed
★★★★★
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
“A dedicated team who work to understand business issues and…”
A dedicated team who work to understand business issues and develop solutions to suit. Always willing to listen to customer requirements and use the best of these in the product road-map **Please explain the business problems or needs that prompted the purchase of this product or service.** Single source of information for managing projects and porfolios and reduction of duplicate data entry **What do you like most about the product or service?** The clear user experience of the application. **What do you dislike most about the product or service?** Nothing to dislike. **If you could start over, what would your organization do differently?** Launch features in a different order. What one piece of advice would you give other prospective customers? Listen to other users who already use the tool. User feedback is a strong indicator.
★★★★★
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
“We wanted to really standardise our approach to executing our…”
We wanted to really standardise our approach to executing our projects but really struggled to push standards on people when everyone had their preferred approach and tools. What Cora PPM allowed us to do was to take our project methodology and build that into their platform so that we had a customised solution and made the push to adopt this much easier. Now everyone has access to the same information, real time. Dealing with Cora throughout the development and implementation process has been a great experience through both their extensive knowledge of the PM industry but more the way they were able to address all of our needs in a simple manner giving us what feels like a custom solution to our needs. **What do you like most about the product or service?** The configurability to meet our needs The reporting capability The ability to quickly create smart forms
★★★★★
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
“A Great Off The Shelf Product Which Is Also Configurable…”
A Great Off The Shelf Product Which Is Also Configurable When Needed to Meet The User Needs. The product generally meets the business requirements and where there has been a shortfall Cora PPM were quick to come back with a potential workaround. Communication is generally good and when there have been issues escalated these have been dealt with quickly. There is input from a variety of levels of management and technical representatives to ensure input is given from the correct person for the correct item. **Please explain the business problems or needs that prompted the purchase of this product or service.** Manual processes and no central repository for project data. This is required to plan and enable informed decision-making. **What do you like most about the product or service?** Visual widgets to enable a view of the project at a glance.
★★★★★
Monday, March 9, 2020
“The UI is instantly usable and has an intuitive feel…”
The UI is instantly usable and has an intuitive feel to it, and is extremely customization - which is actually a blessing and a curse as it is possible to change so many settings. Some forethought is required with a project team to determine what level of customization should be implemented. The technical and technical support provided is extremely good, with excellent communication provided on whatever level one might be working on. **What do you like most about the product or service?** Instant and easy access to project data **What do you dislike most about the product or service?** Inability to get to the back-end data. **If you could start over, what would your organization do differently?** Be sure to organize and rationalize any data that will be imported into Cora in a coherent and consistent manner,
