Cora's life science project management software helps pharma, biotech, and medical device companies streamline planning, accelerate time-to-market, and maintain full compliance across every stage of product development. Built for the unique demands of regulated industries, it connects financial oversight, governance, and portfolio visibility in one platform, from ideation to commercialization.
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Life science project management requires more than scheduling. It demands regulatory traceability, clinical development oversight, and the ability to run what-if scenarios across a complex pipeline. Cora was designed for exactly these requirements.
Track costs in large OpEx and CapEx projects with precision. Minimize waste and reduce budget deviations and EAC variations by integrating financial oversight into every stage. Real-time visibility into planned versus actual costs improves decision-making and financial predictability with EAC forecasting.
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Optimize portfolio selection in life sciences project management with data-driven insights. Run multiple what-if scenarios to evaluate risks, opportunities, and resource allocation. Prioritize projects based on strategic objectives, so capital investment aligns with corporate goals across programs.
Systematically evaluate new ideas using configurable templates and stage gates. Align project selection with business strategy through scenario comparison tools. Standardized intake processes in life sciences project management keep only high-value initiatives moving forward, accelerating innovation pipelines and time-to-market.
Maintain strict regulatory compliance with a centralized governance framework. Stage gates provide structured checkpoints, ensuring projects progress through approved methodologies. Audit trails, reporting, and risk identification enable full visibility for both internal oversight and external regulatory reviews.
Evaluate, onboard, and manage life sciences suppliers with a subcontractor portal. Track contracts, payments, and material deliveries in real time. Supply Chain Sync aligns procurement with project timelines, reducing delays, mitigating risks, and ensuring uninterrupted development and production.
For organizations managing CROs and third-party manufacturers, this visibility directly protects clinical development schedules and regulatory submission timelines.
Prevent budget overruns with automated checks and real-time alerts. Change orders and risk adjustments are integrated with schedules, providing early insights into potential financial risks. An Early Warning System allows swift project recovery, so teams can course correct, protect margins, and maintain delivery timelines.
Hear from Patti Viri-Cruz, Director of PT Portfolio at Genentech, as she shares how Cora has helped reduce project cycle times, boost project manager engagement across the organization, and cut time-to-market by 10% - enabling Genentech to gain a competitive edge in the market.
"We have tremendous improved visibility to our portfolio. Three years ago, when Head of Manufacturing asked me: ‘What are our top priorities? What are the to projects we’re working on? What are our resources focused on?’ It would take a few weeks to pull information together – through emails, phone calls, getting data from Excel, Word, PowerPoint sitting in different places. Now I can see that immediately in one place."
Mario Clarizia , Senior Advisor, Project & Portfolio Management, Elanco
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"We’ve got the same technology across sister organizations. This allows us share information among all our groups faster. This adds huge value. It removes layers of bureaucracy."
Patti Viri-Cruz , Director PT Portfolio, Genentech
"“We have a lot of different projects that deal with quality systems, new technologies, new efficiencies and Cora is helping us to be successful”"
Spokesperson , Boston Scientific
Capture, track, and mitigate risks through a structured framework. Assign ownership, define action plans, and link risks to schedules and costs. Heat-mapped visualizations and portfolio-level roll-ups provide risk oversight, supporting better-informed decision-making across programs.
Risk management in the pharma and biotech industry demands early identification. Cora connects risk data directly to schedule and cost impacts so project managers act before problems compound.
Track actual hours worked against planned and unplanned tasks. Consolidate R&D working time to align with grant claims, with full audit tracking. Integrated expense tracking allows project managers to monitor related costs accurately. Approval workflows ensure transparency, enabling compliance with financial reporting and contractual obligations.
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Establish a structured sequence of work phases, leading to key milestones, events, and objectives. Link all authorized work to organizational elements, including subcontractors, ensuring alignment with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and financial forecasting.
Put the right talent where it is needed and deploy it effectively across life sciences and medical devices programs. Strategic workforce planning aligns staffing with project demands, reduces resource bottlenecks, and improves productivity. Interactive dashboards and scenario planning give visibility into skills gaps and long-term resourcing needs.
Experienced individuals with specialized clinical, regulatory, or manufacturing knowledge are hard to find. Cora helps organizations deploy that talent with precision rather than guesswork.
Standardize data structures across divisions, strategies and therapeutic areas. Automatically consolidate and rollup data to provide divisional insights for senior stakeholders, ensuring enterprise-wide visibility. Configurable hierarchies allow seamless adaptation to organizational changes, maintaining alignment with evolving business needs.
Structured, high-quality data is the foundation of AI-driven insights. Cora makes project data AI-ready, enabling predictive analytics to improve forecasting and drive efficiencies. Real-time intelligence supports life science project management decisions and long-term planning across research project portfolios.
Gartner reports that by 2028, PPM organizations with AI-ready data foundations will achieve 70% higher AI accuracy than peers using low-quality data. Read the full Gartner Predicts 2026 report for more on AI-enabled portfolio management.
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Cora PPM platform helps life sciences organizations improve portfolio visibility, strengthen governance, and accelerate R&D delivery. See how it handles the specific challenges your team faces.
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