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Faster M&A Due Diligence Through Capabilities Mapping
- Swiftly crowdsourcing data to create their As-Is
- Delivering rapid impact analysis
- Establishing a common language for architecture
105,000
Employees
$30B
Revenue
Challenge
Swifter, More Effective M&A Due Diligence
- Massive IT landscape with thousands of applications and interfaces, no clarity on why these applications were procured, and who made the decisions on targets
- No common Enterprise Architecture methodology across business units, leading to siloed decision-making
- Typical M&A analysis of IT landscape could take months, slowing decision-making and IT integration planning
Approach
How Ardoq Helped
- Shifted data from Excel to dynamically map applications with business and technical capabilities in Ardoq
- Collaborated with Ardoq over weekly progress meetings to stay on track and coordinate across many user groups
- Surveys and Broadcasts aided swift crowdsourcing of data to build the As-Is architecture
- Referenced Best Practice Guides to create an EA playbook for business units to work off a standard methodology (e.g., standard metamodel and framework agnostic approach for capabilities mapping)
and common taxonomy to ensure alignment - Co-developed a process with the M&A team to enable discovery enriched with architectural data in Ardoq (capability models, usage information, mapping between capabilities and apps)
Benefits
Key Outcomes With Ardoq
- Common taxonomy and expectations of the Enterprise Architecture discipline
- Clarity for everyone in the organization on where to look for a target architecture specific to domain or capability and who is responsible for it
- Impact analysis on the fly (e.g., when changing an application or introducing a new application)
- Multifold reduction of time taken for initial discovery process of M&A
Next Steps
Looking Forward
The company is looking at using Ardoq for more effective roadmapping and expanding the Enterprise Architecture practice across more business units.
