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New release unifies EVM, AI analytics, and enterprise PPM on one platform.
Cora Systems, a leading provider of project portfolio management (PPM) solutions, today announced a major platform release, delivering a fully integrated cost management, scheduling, and earned value management (EVM) platform for regulated industries; significant artificial intelligence (AI) functionality that will deliver even more speed to value for its customer base; as well as several additional PPM enhancements.
The Cora component specifically designed for regulated industries replaces five-to-six disconnected tools with one integrated platform, automatically synchronising cost, schedule, and EVM data in real time — cutting monthly processing from weeks to hours and reducing errors. The platform supports compliance requirements across government contracting (FAR, DFARS, ANSI/EIA-748), aerospace & defense, life sciences, and energy — industries where cost control, schedule visibility, and audit-ready reporting are critical.
Cora has revolutionised its data analytics and AI effectiveness. A new Data Hub extracts all PPM database records into a dedicated data warehouse, enabling real-time, up-to-date reporting at significantly faster speeds. Clients can access instant insights, make faster and better-informed decisions, and spend less time waiting on slow reports. This optional add-on also lays the foundation for future AI functionality within the platform.
Some additional product enhancements made to Cora include:
Project execution: Enhanced workflows automate approvals and emails, improved scheduling imports save time, and critical/driving path analysis gives clients clear visibility of project risks and bottlenecks.
Advanced financials: upgraded cost control integrates with project schedules, enabling clients to compare budgets against actuals and gain corporate-wide visibility over capital expenditure projects, improving cash flow management.
Multi-currency support: clients can instantly switch between project and base currency across screens, giving clearer financial visibility for global operations.
Workforce Planning: new resource allocation module lets clients instantly switch between FTE, days, or hours views, giving staff effortless role-appropriate workforce visibility.
User Experience (UX): Modernised user interface with refreshed icons, improved navigation layout, and consistent styling gives clients a cleaner, more intuitive experience across the platform.
Integrations: Broadened ERP integration lets clients seamlessly sync projects, costs, timesheets, and users between Cora and SAP, with improved API functionality throughout.
These capabilities serve organizations operating in complex, regulated environments — including aerospace & defense, government, life sciences, oil & gas, energy, and manufacturing — where compliance, financial predictability, and program execution are essential to success.
Conor O’Sullivan, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Cora Systems, said:
"Since our last release, we've made real, meaningful improvements that our customers requested. This includes tighter project controls, smarter financial management, and better resource planning all add up to less time firefighting and more time delivering. We're also continuing to build out our AI and data analytics capability, giving businesses the governance and insight they need to make better decisions, faster.”
Philip Martin, CEO, Cora Systems, added:
"Organizations in regulated industries — from government contracting and aerospace & defense to life sciences and energy — have put up with juggling five or six disconnected tools for too long, spending weeks on data reconciliation instead of managing programs, Our integrated platform brings cost, schedule, and EVM together in one place, cutting monthly processing from weeks to hours while maintaining the compliance rigor these industries demand. Program managers can finally focus on delivering, not data wrangling."