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Executing M&A

Accelerate Your M&A Efforts

Merge, acquire, or divest with a full view of your current and target IT landscapes, and plan how to get there.

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Where To Start With Executing M&A

Map IT Landscape

  • Start with capabilities to provide a common language across organizations.
  • Then you can link these to the applications, people, and processes that enable them.

Visualize Future State

  • Plan how the organizations should look once merged. What should be unified and what should be replicated?
  • Create a timeline of objectives, prioritizing what needs to be done immediately.

Plan and Integrate to Reach Goals

  • Organize and coordinate activities to achieve these objectives.
  • Consult stakeholders where required.



How Ardoq Helps EAs Accelerate M&A

Here’s how we help your organization merge and integrate successfully.

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Future State Modeling

Model and test changes to your architecture to understand their impact on people, processes, technology, and capabilities.

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Rapid Visibility Over IT and Architecture

Leverage powerful integrations to rapidly form a single source of truth over the applications and IT your organization and the target organization use.

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Stakeholder Ready Reports & Dashboards

Get dynamic, data-driven visualizations and dashboards that are board-room ready to gain stakeholder buy-in. Customize them to the needs of different stakeholders and never worry about out-of-date documentation or diagrams.

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Business Capability Modeling

Model and test changes to your architecture to understand their impact on people, processes, technology, and capabilities.

Success Stories

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See how organizations are quickly gaining full visibility into technology, people, and processes.

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'Having a mature enterprise architecture practice , being able to see across the whole landscape and understand the interconnectedness of our applications was really vital to the success of this endeavor' Peter Grayley
'After an extensive M&A journey, we had a really complex IT environment. Ardoq helped us integrate our acquisitions better and prepare more' Heidi Mattison
'To accelerate our M&A strategy, we've moved from manual processes to an industrial, scalable approach to architecture using Ardoq' John Presland
'It's about making better decisions. And Ardoq makes that easy' Dave Keifer

Resources for M&A

On-demand webinars, solutions, downloadable guides, and more to simplify your IT landscape and integrate better.

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Learn About Cabinetworks' Post M&A Journey With EA

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Common Questions About M&A

M&A is a term used to describe companies coming together in two different ways: either a merger or an acquisition.

In a merger, two companies join together to create one single entity with a new management structure composed of individuals from both companies.

In an acquisition, one company (the acquirer) buys another company (the target). The target company is absorbed and ceases to exist. The acquirer has full control. They are also known as a takeover.

A company may also choose to divest, i.e., sell off one of its assets or businesses.

The three main structures mergers can take are Horizontal, Vertical, and Conglomerate.

Horizontal: Two companies in the same industry that are in competition with each other combine.

Vertical: A company merges with a supplier or customer.

Conglomerate: Two companies in completely unrelated industries join together.

Enterprise Architecture can help at these stages of M&A:

  • Due Diligence
  • Value Realization
  • Integration Planning
  • Risk and Governance

EA platforms like Ardoq provide a single source of truth for your organization’s architecture, allowing you to understand your IT estate and the capabilities, people, and processes it powers. This allows for a better understanding of the impact of change, allowing you to make informed decisions about what and how to integrate to ensure the merger or acquisition provides the benefits expected.

 

Yes, Ardoq can be used to map and examine IT infrastructure to determine feasibility and plan integration activities to ensure continuous operations.

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