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Life Sciences Project Management Software

Cora’s project management software for life sciences project management and medical device companies streamlines planning, accelerates time-to-market, ensures compliance, optimizes resources, and enhances collaboration—enabling successful product development from ideation to commercialization.

Project Portfolio Management Software for Life Sciences

Cora PPM software helps life sciences companies get drugs and treatments to market and on the shelves quicker.

CapEx & Cashflow Management

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. Ensure real-time visibility into planned versus actual costs, improving decision-making and financial predictability with EAC forecasting.

Portfolio Management and Planning

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, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and improving investment decision-making across programs.

Project Intake and Ideation

Systematically evaluate new ideas using configurable templates and stage gates. Align project selection with business strategy through scenario comparison tools. Standardized the project intake processes in life sciences project management ensure only high-value initiatives move forward, improving innovation pipelines and accelerating time-to-market.

Governance and Compliance

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.

Supplier Management

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. 

Early Warning System

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 enable swift project recovery, allowing teams to course correct, protect margins, and maintain delivery timelines.

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Additional Capabilities

Risks and Issues

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 comprehensive risk oversight, supporting better-informed decision-making.

Timesheets and Expenses

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.

Integrated Schedule

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.

Workforce Planning

Ensure the right talent is available and optimally deployed in life sciences and medical devices project management and. Strategic workforce planning aligns staffing with project demands, reducing resource bottlenecks and improving productivity. Gain visibility into skills gaps and long-term resourcing needs to support continuous project success through interactive dashboards and scenario planning.

Data Consolidation

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.

AI-ready Project Data

Ensure data is structured, high-quality, and optimized for AI-driven insights. Enable predictive analytics to enhance decision-making, improve forecasting, and drive efficiencies. AI-ready datasets provide real-time intelligence for life sciences project management and medical device innovation, supporting strategic initiatives and long-term planning.

The Value Cora Generates

$450

Million

“Reduction in cost overruns in 8 months”


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$2.5

Million

“Increase in planned savings annually”


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2%

Increase

"In net profit on projects” (representing $Ms in savings)


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What Our Clients Say

‘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.’

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Patti Viri-Cruz

Director, PT Portfolio, Genentech

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