Do we need to replace any of our Microsoft tools?

No. Your teams keep working in Teams, Planner, Power Platform, and the other Microsoft tools they already use. Orchera connects them through a shared operating model and common metadata instead of adding another platform for people to learn.

How long does Foundation Activation take?

Foundation Activation can be complete in as fast as two weeks, depending on scope. It's fixed in scope: we configure and govern your Orchera foundation, align Planner and Teams, set up core portfolio reporting, enable your administrators, and leave you with a roadmap for what comes next.

What happens after Foundation Activation?

You leave with a live, governed Orchera environment, trained owners and administrators, and a prioritized expansion roadmap. From there, you can add advanced PPM processes, more work sources, automation, resource and financial capabilities, and deeper Copilot and AI as your needs grow. Ongoing support and customer success options are scoped separately.

How is Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration priced?

Activation is a fixed fee, plus an Orchera subscription. Ongoing support and customer success options are scoped separately, so you know what getting started costs before you commit to anything beyond it.

Who has access to our Microsoft 365 tenant?

Innovative-e leads the tenant-facing deployment and enablement work with your team. DigiOps, which develops Orchera, offers product support options and does not access your tenant. Orchera is SOC 2 Type 2 attested, and security documentation is available in the DigiOps Trust Center.

How does this make Copilot more useful?

Copilot is only as good as the work data it can reach. When projects, tasks, decisions, and status live in consistent, governed places across Microsoft 365, Copilot has reliable business context for summaries, answers, and decisions instead of guessing across scattered files and chats.

How is this different from the Frontier PMO Blueprint?

Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration builds the connected, governed foundation for managing work. The Frontier PMO Blueprint helps a PMO move from individual AI use to shared, measurable AI capabilities, and that work goes further on consistent, well-governed work data. The right starting point depends on your current foundation and the outcome you want to achieve.

Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration

Your project and work management, orchestrated inside Microsoft 365.

Orchera unites the work in Planner, Teams, and the tools you already use, with project, portfolio, and resource management built in. Innovative-e gets it live in as fast as two weeks.

See Orchera in action

“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

VP of Planning, Southern New Hampshire University

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THE CHALLENGE

The problem isn't the tools. It's what connects them.

Project managers become human integration engines, stitching status together by hand while the real work waits.

Microsoft 365 gives teams excellent places to plan, collaborate, and get work done. But as work spreads across apps and teams, leaders lose the single, governed view they need to run a portfolio.

Collaboration tools aren't a portfolio layer

Planner and Teams are built for getting work done. Intake, prioritization, portfolio visibility, and enterprise reporting need a governed layer on top.

Work lives in more than one place

Projects run in Planner, Teams, Excel, email, and often tools outside Microsoft 365. Forcing everything into one app usually adds friction instead of removing it.

Non-Microsoft PPM creates new problems

Moving portfolio management to a separate platform means more integration, duplicated data, another experience to learn, and processes bent to fit someone else's software.

WHAT CHANGES WITH ORCHERA

From chasing status to running the portfolio

Before

Status assembled by hand from Planner, Teams, spreadsheets, and email

With Orchera

Status rolls up from Planner and Teams into one live portfolio view

Before

Work scattered across apps, so leaders get different answers to the same question

With Orchera

One governed information model, so leaders see the same picture

Before

A separate PPM tool that asks people to leave Teams, and slowly stops getting used

With Orchera

Teams keep working in Teams and Planner, with the portfolio layer inside Microsoft 365

THE ORCHERA LAYER

One orchestration layer across the way you actually work.

Orchera orchestrates project, portfolio, and resource management inside Microsoft 365, and surfaces work from tools like Monday.com.

If you run the PMO

Stop assembling status. The portfolio view builds itself from the work your teams are already doing.

If you manage projects

Stay in Teams and Planner. No second tool, no double entry, no Friday report scramble.

If you lead the business

Walk into every meeting with the same picture, the same numbers, and no “which version is this?”

HOW IT FITS TOGETHER

Microsoft 365 and Orchera, working as one system

Orchera work and project orchestration model. Platform inputs from Microsoft 365, including Planner, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra, and secure platform services, flow into Orchera, which unifies work in the flow of work, orchestrates people, apps, and data, enables AI-driven intelligence, harmonizes PPM language across work, and surfaces execution signals. Outcomes: a unified, Teams-based work experience with human and AI collaboration, curated structured project data for AI, and decision acceleration through automated workflows and predictive insights.

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Work from tools like Monday.com is surfaced through Orchera today. Smartsheet, Jira, and Azure DevOps are coming. Your Foundation Activation scope sets which work sources and capabilities we configure first.

Your business shouldn't have to conform to someone else's PPM system.

Every organization has its own governance, workflows, and information needs. Because Orchera is integrated into Microsoft 365 and designed around how you actually operate, it fits your organization instead of forcing people into a rigid external application.

FOUNDATION ACTIVATION

Your Orchera foundation, live in as fast as two weeks.

Foundation Activation is Innovative-e's fixed-scope engagement to get a governed Orchera environment running, without a big transformation project. We configure it around your priority requirements, set up core visibility and governance, and enable your administrators.

✓ As fast as two weeks✓ Fixed scope✓ Fixed fee + Orchera subscription✓ A working foundation

Activation is where it starts. Adopt and Expand are where you take it.

01 Activate

Get Orchera configured, governed, and working in your Microsoft 365 environment. This is Foundation Activation.

02 Adopt

Put Orchera to work. As your teams use it, you learn how you want to operate and shape it to fit.

03 Expand

As you build proficiency on a common context, extend into advanced PPM, more work sources, automation, resource and financial capabilities, and deeper AI.

Included in Foundation Activation

✓Orchera activation and foundational configuration
✓A governed project and workspace structure
✓Planner and Teams alignment
✓A project and portfolio information model
✓Governance standards, visibility, and reporting
✓Configuration for the priority requirements agreed in your activation scope
✓Administrator enablement and an expansion roadmap

Live and governed

Orchera running in your Microsoft 365 environment, with governance built in from day one.

One version of the truth

Consistent project and portfolio information, so leaders see the same picture.

Owned by your team

Trained owners and administrators, plus a repeatable structure for every new project.

A clear path forward

A prioritized roadmap to deeper PPM, automation, and AI.

COMMON CONTEXT

Better context drives better outcomes, and better AI.

Copilot is only as good as the work data it can reach. Fragmented work creates fragmented context, for people and for Copilot. Orchera establishes a governed common context across your work, so every layer built on top of it gets smarter.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration FAQ

Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration is Innovative-e's fixed-scope offering that gets Orchera, the project, portfolio, governance, and work orchestration layer for Microsoft 365, configured and working in your organization in as fast as two weeks. Microsoft 365 and Orchera are the platform; Foundation Activation is how we get it configured, governed, and running for your teams.

Getting started

Ready to build your work orchestration foundation?

See your portfolio in one view in as fast as two weeks. Your team makes the governance calls. We do the heavy lifting.

Book a 30-minute review

Start your Foundation Activation

Working with Innovative-e

Implementation: Innovative-e, inside your tenant

Product and support: DigiOps, maker of Orchera. No tenant access.

After activation: Ongoing support options, scoped separately

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✓ Orchera is a validated Microsoft Teams app on Microsoft Marketplace

✓ Orchera is SOC 2 Type 2 attested. Visit the Trust Center

Microsoft 365 Work Orchestration