Industry Insight
When companies merge, the technology challenges can be one of the biggest headaches. Businesses often have complex and proprietary systems and processes, making integration with another company’s technology infrastructure time-consuming and prone to failure from incompatibilities.
Many efforts to merge IT systems fail to reach their desired outcomes within five years, causing great disruption to both employees and the customer experiences.
Excite Cyber is your ideal partner to manage the technology integration. When you need to focus on the logistics of bringing two companies together, you can be sure that your technology environment won’t be left vulnerable, and then help manage the integration in such a way that it is seamless and causes a minimum of disruption to the teams in both organisations.
Scope and Service Deliverables
Excite Cyber’s tailored solutions support companies going through mergers and acquisitions is truly end-to-end. This process involves:
- Known your technology – What you have, how you measure up & what you’re missing
- Mitigate the perceived risk – Predictability & simplicity
- Scope your entire environment – Including value & supply chains
- Determine whether technology approach, application & spend is aligned with business objectives
- Obtain an understanding of the real risks and opportunities presented by the current technology approach
- Benchmark against contemporary environments and approaches
- Building intelligent hypotheses which qualify the risks and opportunities in the market as well as identify strategies and approaches (scenarios) for carving out or offboarding your entire business platform to an external entity
- Setting up well structured data room to ensure compliance & security needs are well considered
- Representing offboarding companies to organise and participate in investor presentations. We match organisational content, so a meaningful, secure dialogue can be had by both parties
- Structure an effective due-diligence approach and respond in a timely and in-depth manner to all requests for deeper insights
- Assistance in qualifying costs & risks through a report validating each
- Providing IT schedules to be included in the Purchase Agreement as well as Services to be included as Transition IT Services
- Building an intelligent hypothesis which qualifies the risks and opportunities of the target organisation as well as identify strategies and approaches (scenarios) for receiving the entity into your organisation
- Setting up well-structured data rooms (technology and processes), to assist the target organisation on your behalf
- Representing prospective investors to organise and participate in investor presentations. We match organisational content, so a meaningful, secure dialogue can be had by both parties
- Present you with a report, which has adequate detail for you to be able to establish costs, risks and approach to absorbing the target entity into your organisation
- Assist you in validating the costs and risks, so you can decide how to approach the BAFO and any negotiations
- Providing IT schedules to be included in the Purchase Agreement as well as Services to be included as Transition IT Services
The team at Excite Cyber will be there every step of the way to help you plan the strategy and then execute with precision, minimising disruption and helping you to complete the merger quickly.
Benefits
Getting the technology integration between merging companies right is one of the most effective ways to get the merger off on the right foot.
Reduce Time To Success
- Our experience shows that technology consolidation must occur within 12-18 months from the deal.
- Accelerate the systematic process of discovery and migration using a proven methodology and affordable, secure, premier tools.
Decrease Transformation Risk
- We reduce your risk through a combination of our expert team and proven tools.
- Discover and move all your digital assets in a planned manner, including relevant permissions – to your new digital destination
Collaborate For Success
- The familiar Microsoft Teams (integrated with the rest of the Microsoft Office365 experience) allows effective collaboration.
- Consolidate and re-organise various workspaces, with appropriate openness and controls on MS Teams, to accelerate your collaboration and enhance business success.
A merger or acquisition is an exciting time for all. Excite Cyber can work with you to make sure that technology is at the heart of the success of the merger.
Engage with Excite
Contact the Excite Cyber team early on so we can work with you to build a strategy for your technology integration early on. Simply fill out the form to schedule a complimentary consultation, and we will be back in touch within 24 hours to get the ball rolling.
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