Know the Risk. Plan the Integration.
An acquisition can transfer systems, liabilities, security exposure, and operational dependencies along with the target company. We help you understand that technology risk before close and turn it into an executable integration plan.
The Risk Starts Before Close
When you acquire a company, you also acquire its technology risks and liabilities. If those issues are not understood and reflected in the purchase and integration assumptions, they can become expensive surprises after close.
Our M&A IT Integration Services builds on our risk management practice. We examine the target company's infrastructure, systems, security posture, operations, and personnel so acquiring leadership can make informed decisions and protect the viability of the combined organization.
- Unresolved technical debt and unsupported systems
- Inherited identity, access, and data-protection weaknesses
- Critical vendors, contracts, licenses, and service dependencies
- Key-person and operational continuity risks
- Compliance obligations that transfer with the business
A Practical View of the Target Environment
Our diligence is designed to give decision-makers a usable view of the target's IT and cyber risk — not a disconnected list of technical findings. We connect systems, people, contracts, controls, and business dependencies to the integration decisions that follow.
The scope can be tailored to the transaction, from a focused pre-acquisition review to a broader assessment that becomes the foundation for integration planning, budgeting, and governance.
- IT infrastructure, operations, and management
- Cybersecurity, data protection, and incident history
- Applications, systems, integrations, and licensing
- Financial, contractual, human-resource, and vendor dependencies
- IT risk, compliance, regulatory, and governance requirements
IT infrastructure
Networks, endpoints, cloud services, identity, and technical debt.
Operations & management
IT ownership, support models, vendors, service levels, and dependencies.
Cybersecurity & data protection
Security controls, sensitive data, incidents, and exposure across the environment.
Applications & systems
Business-critical applications, integrations, licensing, and migration constraints.
People & responsibilities
Personnel, key-person dependencies, access, skills, and operational continuity.
Compliance & governance
Regulatory obligations, contracts, policies, evidence, and risk accountability.
Make the integration safer and more valuable
A disciplined technology integration helps leadership move faster with a clearer view of cost, risk, continuity, and the work required to combine two environments.
Accelerate time-to-value
Turn integration assumptions into a sequenced plan for realizing operational and strategic synergies.
Reduce avoidable cost
Identify redundant systems, contracts, licenses, and services before they become embedded in the integration budget.
Protect continuity
Plan around critical people, systems, vendors, and dependencies to reduce business disruption after close.
Strengthen security
Surface insecure access, exposed data, inherited vulnerabilities, and control gaps before they move into the combined environment.
Support better decisions
Give leadership a clear view of technology risk and the work required to integrate responsibly.
Improve the employee experience
Prepare users and support teams for changes in identity, tooling, processes, and ownership.
Turn Findings Into an Executable Roadmap
The output of diligence should be more than a report. We translate findings into a sequenced integration roadmap that accounts for day-one controls, business-critical systems, user experience, remediation priorities, and the operating model you want after close.
That roadmap gives stakeholders a shared plan for decisions, owners, dependencies, timing, and investment — while preserving the flexibility to phase work around the transaction and the business.
- Day-one access, identity, communication, and continuity priorities
- Application, infrastructure, and data integration sequencing
- Security remediation and compliance workstream planning
- People, process, vendor, and support-model transition planning
- Post-close stabilization, measurement, and governance
Deliverables
Tangible artifacts and documentation you receive throughout the engagement.
IT Risk Assessment
A decision-ready view of target technology, security, operational, and compliance exposure.
Executive Due Diligence Report
Prioritized findings connected to business impact, deal assumptions, and integration decisions.
Integration Roadmap
Sequenced workstreams, dependencies, owners, timing, and investment priorities.
Day-One Readiness Plan
Critical access, communications, systems, support, and continuity actions for close.
Systems & Application Inventory
A practical inventory of infrastructure, applications, data, vendors, and integrations.
Security & Compliance Gap Register
Actionable remediation and governance items for the combined environment.
Engagement Workflow
A proven, repeatable process from initial scoping through ongoing support.
Scope
Align transaction context, priorities, access, and decision questions
Assess
Review infrastructure, systems, people, vendors, and controls
Prioritize
Connect findings to business impact, cost, and continuity
Plan
Build day-one, integration, remediation, and governance workstreams
Stabilize
Support post-close execution, measurement, and continuous improvement
Planning an acquisition or integration?
Start with a focused conversation about the target environment, transaction timeline, and technology risks that need to be understood before close.
Discuss M&A Integration