Keeping disruption to a minimum in the early days of the new company is a big consideration for most companies involved in mergers and acquisition activity.

Typically managers want to improve the efficiency of the company, but on the other, you don’t want to destabilise, for example, the way people work.

Additionally cost savings should be a key goal in any IT Integration project following a successful M& A transaction. We estimate that IT can account for as much as 30% to 50% of post-merger savings at some companies, with software accounting for between 25% and 40% of those savings.

Those savings come in areas ranging from the consolidation of servers and streamlining of IT procurement processes to the introduction of open source, virtualisation and thin client computing technologies.

Digital Technology Management offers consulting services that help customers:

• Map out the security and IT requirements after an acquistion.
• Make IT functions operational in a timely fashion with the least disruption to core business activities.
• Assist in the integration of IT Systems.