OneNet will help select the best strategy to fully on-board you as quickly as possible. Here is how we would assess the situation to determine said strategy:
| Strategies: | Maintaining Separate IT Environments | Adopting the IT Environment of One Party | Using Best Practices from Both Parties to Form a New IT Environment |
| Choose this strategy if: | - The buyer operates like a holding company
- The buyer plans to sell the acquired company in a short period of time
| - Buyer is large and centrally managed
- The buyer plans to fully incorporate the acquired company for the long term
- Customer reporting requirements or contractual obligations make one party’s environment more attractive and cos-effective than the other’s.
| - The deal is a “merger of two equals”
- The acquired business adds new products or services that demand specific IT requirements
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| Considerations: | There are usually going to be some aspects that must be integrated such as: - Communication platforms (email, phone, inranet)
- Data sources for consolidated financial reporting
| - Critical day 1 functionality
- “Technology Debt” or organization to be integrated
- Application adoption requires implementation of common data standards to enable extensive data migration requirements
- Decommissioning of unused applications, systems and networks
| - Comparative best class assessment and selection of critical business application platforms
- Future stat infrastructure planning
- Significant consensus building and “people” integration
- Decommissioning unused applications, systems, and networks
- Outsourcing managed services arrangements of either party
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