Mergers and Acquisitions

The secure transition of IT-related contracts in mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions

Regardless of size or industry, after a carve-out, acquisition or merger, companies must align with new business goals and overall business strategies. An integral part of successful post-merger integrations (PMI) is IT integration. This requires very diligent preparation, planning and monitoring to ensure that the implementation is exactly in line with the M&A business strategy. Failure to do so may not only have a negative commercial impact – but on the technical side, it may also lead to systems that are complex to manage and maintain.

SoftwareOne has the expertise to support you in all steps of an M&A process.

Mergers and acquisitions are complex entities. Every detail that is ignored can have incalculable effects. It has happened before that the sales department of a company could no longer reach its customers on Day-1 because no one had paid attention to the agreements for mobile telephony during the sale, which also belong to the IT-related contracts.

Martin Fienhold

Team Lead M&A Advisory Services at SoftwareOne

Challenges in mergers and acquisitions

Business Continuity
Can business continuity be ensured on both Day-1 (the legal transition) and Day-2 (the end date of the Transitional Service Agreement, TSA)?
Risks
Are all migration risks under control with regard to contractual, licensing and financial issues? What about IT security and data protection, especially with regard to regulations such as GDPR?
Costs
Have cost avoidance and cost reduction been ensured by leveraging synergies or avoiding dis-synergies, as well as by optimizing migration strategies with regard to the affected contracts.

Benefit from all the advantages of our M&A services

Improved amortization time for acquisitions
Modernized and optimized technologies
Minimized security risks
Ensured business continuity
Optimized operational processes
Avoidance of financial risks

The solution if mergers and acquisitions are to succeed on the IT side as well

Shorten the time-to-value of a carve-out, acquisition or merger with SoftwareOne and ensure business continuity during the transition as well as the consolidation phase.

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