Don’t let your billion-dollar acquisition get blown because it becomes widely known before it is completed. M&A due diligence is a fairly expensive activity, but nothing compared to the cost of having imminent activities fail. This can result in massively increased acquisition costs, stock-price fluctuations and other negative impacts on both businesses.

One critical aspect of successful M&A efforts is maintaining secrecy and preventing competitive ventures from understanding and predicting the activity. Many M&A teams leak data without even realizing it. Our organization offers an extensive analysis and assessment program to plug those leaks. We combine this with extensive security policy recommendations and procedures and hands-on staff training.

Historically, M&A tech integration has focused on legacy enterprise systems. That was already challenging, but today’s hybrid environment, where legacy systems may be connected to third-party cloud services, makes the tech architecture significantly more complex.

We have worked on dozens of large-scale enterprise and software system architecture efforts. We are comfortable leading such efforts, or working with existing senior staff and the C-suite to provide robust, cost-effective solutions to your integration challenges.

Consolidate, collapse, integrate, shut down, expand? Capacity, bandwidth, latency, security? VAN, WAN, VPN? Cloud, hybrid cloud, virtual data center, revision, migration, normalization? Data ownership, data transport rights, data escrow, privacy laws?

Our experts have worked directly with these technology issues and lived with the results of post-merger integration. In our experience, very few M&A teams, even those with seasoned CIOs, fully comprehend what they propose. We have dealt with all these issues dozens of times. If nothing else, bring us in to do a sanity check prior to signing that final contract.