M&A IT Playbook & Integration Checklist

IT Diligence Assessments

Before you buy, we roll up our sleeves and look under the hood for you

Despite the competitive landscape and increasingly shorter deal cycles, Ensunet’s tiger teams can mobilize quickly to evaluate and benchmark your target—in time to perform key assessments that can help you avoid costly oversights and identify opportunities for value creation.

From technology diligence to operations assessments, to market and digital considerations, we bring both speed and expertise to infuse confidence into your deals.

Product diligence

Focus areas include:

  • Product development strategy
  • Product portfolio
  • Architecture review

Corporate back- office IT diligence

Focus areas include:

  • IT strategy
  • IT systems
  • IT organization
  • IT infrastructure

Confirmatory diligence

Focus areas include:

  • ERP suitability assessment
  • Organization right-sizing

Digital diligence

Focus areas include:

  • Digital strategy and platforms
  • Digital technology architecture

Analytics diligence

Focus areas include:

  • Data management
  • Digital analytics platform
  • Solution delivery

Cybersecurity diligence

Focus areas include:

  • Cybersecurity risk
  • PCI compliance
  • Cyber resilience
  • Third party risk

IT Integration Expertise

We solve and piece together the complex integration puzzle

A seamless integration is key to retaining the best assets (customers, people, process, and technology), and capturing value. Ensunet helps companies accelerate their transition timeline, maximize synergy capture, and minimize risks associated with complex business technology integration.

Merger integration

  • Integration readiness
  • Integration diligence
  • Synergy assessment
  • Day One readiness
  • Integration planning
  • Synergy realization

Business process system integration;examples include:

  • ERP
  • CRM
  • BI
  • Data warehousing
  • HRIS
  • Infrastructure
  • Cloud
  • Compliance
  • Security

IT Divestiture & Carve-Outs

Ensunet guides your team to stand up to new companies with precision

With focused experience in supporting numerous successful divestitures, our dedicated carveout experts can guide you through separation planning, target operating model design, core-system separation and standup, and program management through completion.

Our proven carveout readiness-and-execution approach provides interim leadership for key disciplines such as cybersecurity and technology beyond closing when—many other service providers exit. This is designed to consolidate functional areas that typically comprise up to 75 percent of the one-time separation budget.

Carve-out/integration TSA services

  • Carve-out diligence
  • TSA planning
  • Operationalizing the TSA
  • Day One readiness
  • Separation (TSA exit) planning
  • Stabilization

Separation execution; examples include:

  • ERP
  • CRM
  • BI
  • Data warehousing
  • HRIS
  • Infrastructure
  • Cloud
  • Compliance
  • Security

IT value creation

For private equity portfolio companies

As a private equity operating partner, you are tasked with creating as much value as possible for exit, at the lowest possible cost. Our deal teams seamlessly transform into post-close teams—and work with you to create new revenue streams, build and manage tech platforms, optimize operations, and more.

IT value creation

  • Data analytics and reporting
  • Application portfolio rationalization
  • Infrastructure modernization
  • Cybersecurity enhancements
  • Cloud transformation
  • Social, mobile, and digital transformation

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