M & A IT Risk Exposure/Due Diligence
Pre-merger IT and business process due diligence – look before you leap –
Technology and business process due diligence is every bit as important as the legal and financial reviews necessary when considering an acquisition. Identifying these critical issues up front enables the acquiring organization to assess potential value, costs and risks. These “real” costs are factored into the valuation and acquisition decision process thus enabling the IT integration to be driven from a vision of future capabilities.
Dvergence can assist clients evaluate a target company’s IT asset strategies and perform compliance, control and utilization assessments. Our highly expert team will help collect and analyze the tremendous amounts of data needed to determine and improve ITAM processes and controls.
Results…
- A review of the organization’s ITAM strategy will help leadership define the role technology will play in shaping the company’s future and supporting its operations.
- Assessing the organization’s IT asset management structure will provide insight into the scope of effort required to integrate back-end systems, technologies and processes necessary to the newly-merged entity.
- Creating an inventory of the company’s technology assets will provide a basis for defining post-merger technology standards and estimated costs/efforts involved in combining the two organizations.
Navigating the tumultuous waters associated with mergers and acquisitions is no easy feat. A rigorous, transparent and objective IT due diligence process gives you a great head start.
Dvergence’s services – ROI4IT (Return on Investment for IT) is the answer. For more information, download our fact sheet for this ROI4IT service.
