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Mergers & Acquisitions Integrations

IT is crucial to successful merger integration and supports many important integration activities. However, it is often identified as a root cause of failed M&A and divestiture efforts due to poor IT platform and organization integration, inefficient due diligence and failure of IT to enable business synergies. These same areas, however, are also key targets for significant profit opportunities.

Go To Technologies' IT merger integration experts work with our experienced mergers and acquisitions consultants to help companies focus on the value that technology brings to a deal.

Go To Technologies focuses its support on key areas of IT merger integration, including application, portfolio, infrastructure, IT organization, projects and suppliers. We partner with clients to address key technology-related M&A challenges:

• Post-merger integration planning: Integration plans need to be uniquely tailored to the nature of each deal, beginning early in the process.  Our due diligence process actively engages clients and their partners to assess existing IT environments and capabilities, and then identify the opportunities and threats of changes in business structure.
• Developing IT integration approaches: We work together to develop a tailored strategic IT roadmap, including a migration plan, and guide the IT decisions and actions required to realize the deal’s maximum value and benefit.
• Accelerate integration: We help clients develop an IT integration approach that is closely linked with the business integration plan. With our trademark rigor and objectivity, we estimate category-specific synergies and required investments in advance of action, so that leaders can make necessary trade-offs based on data rather than intuition.

In the short-term, we focus on preparing the combined organization to start strong on day one and hit initial revenue goals. These components build confidence in the deal rationale and minimize business disruption. At the same time, we help to build the right IT infrastructure for the long-term, enabling sustainable cost and revenue synergies.

Divestitures and Separations

When successful companies think about how to manage their portfolios, they think not only about which businesses to grow, but also which to shed. Divestitures require careful orchestration to reorganize and maximize the value of a business's IT platforms and people. Sometimes, divesting non-core assets allows management to focus its attention on the core business—including its IT strategy.

Governance

• IT Governance is the discipline focused on IT Systems, their performance and risk management.
• Our IT Governance approach enables an organization to easily implement a Governance Program to identify IT Risks and a plan to mitigate them improving functions such as:
  • SLA Management
  • System Availability
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Data Retention
  • Backup and Restore Procedures

Data Governance

A successful Data Governance Program allows companies to:

• Management of your Data Assets
• Providing the business the ability to make smart, fast decisions based on accurate and reliable data
• Create one source of the truth
• Reduced the cost of doing business through streamlined, automated transactions
• Improved profitability by better identifying high-value customers
• Increased supply chain efficiencies by managing spend across departments and divisions
• Exceeded compliance mandates and delivered an effective risk mitigation strategy

Risk Management

• We implement a unique Risk Management program to enable our customers to identify, classify, and mediate business risks in a cost effective and timely manner.
  • Business Risk Management
    • Business Continuity Planning
    • Regulatory Compliance such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI, FDA, GxP, FFA, and SEC
  • IT Risk Management
    • High Availability
    • Disaster Recovery

Project Management

• We help companies establish and improve PMO’s, Project Management methodologies, and Resource Management practices
• Our highly trained and experienced Project Managers can manage and deliver projects utilizing a variety of methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Iterative, and Scrum.
• Our experts can manage large Programs, Portfolios, or Key/High Priority Projects and ensure the solutions are delivered.

Enterprise Architecture

We provide the architecture, design and implementation expertise to establish an effective enterprise architecture to achieve:

• Faster respond time to changing conditions
• Promotes the reuse of development efforts
• Simplifies interconnection of existing IT (Legacy) Assets
• Simplified testing cycles

Security

We provide expertise in IT Security and Physical Security following industry best practices

• Encryption
• Segregation of roles and responsibilities
• System Access control
• Surveillance/Security Camera Systems
• Physical Access Controls

SAP

• We have Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) that lead SAP implementations in the areas of FICO, WMS, Maquila
• Proven standard frameworks to successfully implement full ERP solution as well as add-on modules and custom configurations
• Over 20 years of SME expertise in house
• SAP Technical teams providing implementation, configuration, and support