Orchera is a Microsoft Teams app that extends Microsoft 365 into a platform for project and work management. It gives every project the same governed Teams workspace, pulls in work from the tools your teams already use, and rolls it all up to the portfolio. It runs on Microsoft 365 and Dataverse. Orchera was formerly called Teams4PM.

Is Orchera a project management tool?

No. You build and schedule projects in tools like Planner. Orchera orchestrates the work around them: it provisions the same governed Teams workspace for every project, pulls work in, and rolls it up to the portfolio. It also includes resource management and timesheets.

Why did Teams4PM become Orchera?

The product grew well past project management. It orchestrates work across Microsoft 365 and the tools around it, so the name changed to match. Same product, same team, bigger job.

Does Orchera replace Planner or Project?

No. Planner, Project and other work tools stay where your teams build and schedule. Orchera adds the layer above them: one governed intake, the same Teams workspace for every project, capacity planning and a portfolio roll-up. Support for more third-party work tools, including monday.com and Smartsheet, is coming soon.

Where does my data live, and how is it secured?

Orchera runs inside your Microsoft 365 tenant so your data stays in your Microsoft environment. Orchera is SOC 2 Type 2 attested. See the DigiOps Trust Center for details.

How does Orchera help with Copilot and AI?

AI is only as useful as the work data it can read. Orchera gives it consistent, governed project and capacity data to work from. For the bigger picture, see the Frontier PMO Blueprint.

How is Orchera different from Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration?

Orchera is the product. M365 Work Orchestration is the Innovative-e service that helps you plan, activate and adopt it across your organization. The right starting point depends on your current foundation and the outcome you want to achieve.

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“With Innovative-e's experience, guidance, and the [Orchera] product, we have successfully implemented a tool that will allow for increased transparency, capacity awareness and overall ability to optimize our project performance.”

Kurt Mithoefer

Assistant Vice President of Planning and Value Creation, Southern New Hampshire University

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One connected system for how your organization gets work done.

Orchera extends Microsoft 365 so your people and the tools they already use work as one governed system, from the first request to the executive view, and ready for AI.

The challenge

You have the pieces. You still don't have a system.

AI does not solve disconnected work. It reflects it.

Teams, Planner, Power Platform, Dataverse, Power BI. You already own a powerful Microsoft 365 platform. But work still gets planned in one place, discussed in another, and tracked in a third, and every team does it differently.

Data in too many places

Plans, requests and status live in different tools, so nobody agrees which numbers are current.

Conversations in too many places

Decisions happen in chats, meetings and email threads that never connect back to the project.

AI with nothing reliable to read

Copilot and agents can only reason over work that is structured, governed and connected.

What changes

What changes when every project runs the same way.

Before

With Orchera

✕Every team starts projects its own way.

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✓One governed intake. Every approved project gets the same Teams workspace in about a minute.

✕Capacity is a guess until work starts.

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✓Demand is planned by skill and phase before you commit.

✕Plans, meetings and chats live in different places.

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✓Plans, meetings, chats and files live together in one Teams workspace per project.

✕Every team shows leaders a different picture.

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✓Dashboards show health, cost, risk, schedule and resource demand across programs and departments.

✕A process change means fixing every site by hand.

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✓Change it once and every workspace follows.

✕AI has nothing reliable to read.

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✓Work is structured, governed and connected, so Copilot has something solid to reason over.

How it works

One governed workspace. Every project. Every time.

Orchera provisions the same Teams workspace for every project, pulls in work from the tools your teams already use, and rolls it all up to the portfolio. People work in Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app. Dataverse holds the data, Power BI shows it, and Microsoft 365 security governs it.

Orchera operating layer: Microsoft 365 and Orchera working as one system to orchestrate project and work management

Click the diagram to view it full size. Connections to additional work tools, including monday.com and Smartsheet, are coming soon.

Plans

Start where you are. Grow into the rest.

Orchera comes in three plans. Each one builds on the last, so you can begin with Microsoft 365 and add reach as your work grows.

Portfolio

Your Microsoft 365, set up for portfolio-level work.

The same governed Teams workspace for every project
Work from Planner and Project rolled up to the portfolio
Resource management and timesheets

Enterprise

Your work tools, brought into one portfolio context.

Everything in Portfolio
Work from monday.com, Smartsheet, Trello and Asana (coming soon)
Jira and Azure DevOps are planned

Frontier

Your people, AI and enterprise platforms, orchestrated for value.

Everything in Enterprise
AI-native work orchestration
Enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow and Workday are on the roadmap

Plan contents and connector availability are rolling out. Ask us what fits your organization today.

Why Orchera

Why we built Orchera.

In 2019, Microsoft stopped building another PPM application and started building a work platform: Teams, Power Platform, Dataverse and, eventually, AI. We had spent two decades watching organizations buy tool after tool and still lack a clear view across their work. The problem was never the tools. It was everything between them. Teams4PM was our first step toward orchestrating work where it already happens, and Orchera is what it grew into.

Mike Taylor, CEO, Innovative-e

Next step

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