Cora for Engineering

Cora Capabilities:

Benefits:

• Our client has reduced their systems from 22 to less than 7, all of which directly integrate with Cora PPM
• Visibility has increased across all projects with specific dashboards and reports displaying key project and financial data, giving the client’s team instant, accurate project status updates
• Early warning signs are available through a number of compliance indicators which is helping to reduce project/budget deviation
• By using our centralised system, our client was able to reduce project deviation from €40 million to €2.5million within 18 months.

Before installing Cora PPM, our client had multiple data sets from multiple systems, e.g. P6 for scheduling, risk management systems, Oracle Aconex for information distribution, MS Excel spreadsheets. What the client didn’t have was the one location that project executives could go to see all the information instantly.

Capabilities Cora Brings

Cora PPM has given our client the view into project data it was looking for. It has also provided consistency – so it has a coherent approach to managing each project.

Benefits:

• Reduced Training: In addition to helping with governance, the Cora solution provides a standard mechanism for our client to manage its data, which means it’s easier for new staff to come on board the Northern Estates programme with minimal training.
• Single View Of The Truth: “With Cora PPM, we can now hold time, cost, risks, issues, commercial data in a platform that is accessible and easily digestible. We chose Cora for those reasons. It takes project information from disparate sources and providing it in an easy-to-read reporting format.” (PPM Technical Lead)
• Reduced Time Reporting: Measurable results in cutting time to report, e.g.
  a. Time spent reporting each month cut from 10 hours to seconds
  b. Time spent compiling project lists cut from 2-3 weeks to minutes
  c. 1000s of projects in a single view
• Smarter Decisions: “It allows us to drill down into information and gives our senior management the key decision-making information so they can make informed decisions on all our schemes.” (PMO Services Director)
• Better Governance: “It facilities a consistent approach across a portfolio of projects and allows us to have good governance across a series of projects in a consistent manner.” (PMO Services Director)

Capabilities Cora brings:

• Cora PPM establishes a consistent Project Management process for our client integrated into 4 enterprise systems providing consistent reporting/dashboards with project data resident in a secure cloud server accessible to field teams via mobile apps.
• The implementation minimized disruptions associated with change and provided an easy-to-use, intuitive system.

Benefits:

• Since Cora PPM has been implemented, our client has been able to import the detailed scope of any awarded project and create a dynamic Gantt-style scheduling chart, which will set all projects across the United States off on a level footing.
• It has provided a convenient way to access documentation and standard templates for every project.
• Our client’s business executives can now delve instantly into the detail of each portfolio of work on major projects, delivering significant time savings and making them more competitive.