Cora's Accelerated PPM Migration transfers 30,000+ projects and 5,000+ users in a matter of weeks, without any disruption to business.
Accelerated PPM Migration
Cora Accelerated Migration
Migrate painlessly and swiftly with Cora’s Accelerated Migration. We offer comprehensive expertise, resources and tools to ensure a smooth transition, while maintaining complete security and compliance. Our outcome-driven methodology includes configuration assistance, verified frameworks for evaluating capabilities, and reducing migration costs and risks. Experience the benefits of migrating to Cora quickly, with minimal changes and downtime. 
Cora Accelerated Migration
Simplifies and accelerates the migration of tens of thousands of projects and resources from legacy data applications to your new project portfolio management (PPM) environment.
This includes:
- The complete transfer of project data (e.g. names, status, regions, customer info, etc.);
- Users and their attributes (e.g. skills, hours, currencies, supervisors, etc.);
- Schedules (i.e. tasks that make up projects from start to end);
- Associated assignments with schedules (i.e. planned resources);
- Access information (i.e. what level of access, where in the program structure etc.);
- Roles (i.e. rules relevant to user types);
- Integrations (i.e. away from ERP systems);
- Document management and financials.
How it works
Quickly get started with a vast library of application and technology integrators, along with pre-built starter processes.
Step 1: Evaluate your needs
Our migration evaluation process helps you chart the landscape for the quickest route with your migration project, automatically creating a dependency map of your entire portfolio, in just minutes.
Step 2: Mobilize your resources
Fix capability gaps identified in the evaluation phase. Accelerate your migration decisions by providing clear guidance on migration plans that improve the success of your migration.
Step 3: Migrate your projects
Our experienced consultants will guide you as you execute the migration plan developed during the mobilization phase.
Value
- Customized replication schedule designed for large-scale migrations which track the progress of each migration
- Maintain regulatory compliance during migration, complying with all required security policies and controls across your workloads
- Lean on our expertise: our certified business analysts can help you with your migration journey. These experts have a proven track record of delivering large-scale migration projects and can help shape your business case for sound planning and migration decisions
- Cora Accelerated Migration harnesses leading-edge tools that reduce costs and automate and accelerate various aspects of migrations
Benefits of Accelerated Migration
1. Maximize Efficiency and Cost Savings
Cut IT costs by retiring end-of-life applications and moving infrastructure and applications to a modern, single project management environment, freeing up resources to focus on what truly differentiates your business. By migrating legacy applications to Cora, achieve double-digit infrastructure savings.
2. Simplified Project Integration Post-Migration
Peace of mind after your migration is complete by automatically linking your projects before and after migration, simplifying and optimizing your operations
3. Enhanced IT Security and Service Availability
Strengthen your IT security and increase service availability and reliability, including ability to respond to rapidly changing levels of resource demand
4. Unlock Migration Success
Cora Accelerated Migration Service has successfully completed numerous, large-scale migrations and captured those learnings in a set of migration best practices available for your benefit
5. Empower Project Staff
Boost productivity by enabling project staff to shift from tactical to strategic work, dramatically scaling their efforts by reducing time spent on reporting and system admin tasks
6. Drive Business Agility
Increase business agility, accelerate innovation and cut deployment timelines to complete projects faster
Accelerated Migration - FAQ's
What is Accelerated Migration?
Accelerated Migration is a fast and efficient approach to transfer data, applications, or infrastructure from one environment to another. It involves streamlining the migration process, minimizing downtime, and reducing risks. This is achieved through pre-planning, automation, parallel processing, data optimization, testing, and risk mitigation.
Does Cora systems integrate with other systems?
Cora Systems integrates with other systems through API integration, Single Sign-On (SSO), data import/export, and specific integrations with Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint. For the most current information, it’s best to consult the official Cora Systems website or contact their support.
What are some pain points of Accelerated Migration
Some pain points in accelerated migration include complexity, data integrity, application compatibility, downtime, resource allocation, testing, security/compliance, and user adoption/training. Addressing these challenges requires careful planning, project management, and stakeholder engagement.
What are some obstacles with migrating from Planview?
Obstacles when migrating from Planview include data mapping and conversion, integration dependencies, process alignment, user training and adoption, customizations and configurations, reporting and analytics, and change management. Overcoming these challenges requires careful planning, stakeholder engagement, and effective project management.
Ready to see how Cora works?
We know how busy you all are, so we’ve produced 3 different types of demos for you to choose from.