Service 09
M&A technology integration
Mergers and acquisitions create technology complexity fast. We help organisations understand what they have acquired, reduce risk, consolidate platforms, align identity, plan migration waves, and standardise operations without disrupting the business.
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When this helps
Common signals that this service is needed
Useful for post-acquisition assessments, tenant and identity consolidation roadmaps, mail routing and coexistence plans, integration risk reviews, and platform standardisation.
Ideal for
- Businesses acquiring companies with separate tenants, directories, infrastructure, or SaaS platforms
- Groups needing post-acquisition integration planning
- Technology leaders needing a neutral view of consolidation risk and sequencing
- Organisations managing mail, DNS, identity, file, and application coexistence during transition
What this covers
Detailed capability areas
We can shape the engagement as advisory, assessment, roadmap, implementation guidance, or retained support depending on business need.
Typical engagements
- Post-acquisition technology assessment
- Tenant and identity consolidation roadmap
- Mail routing and coexistence plan
- Integration risk and dependency review
- Platform standardisation strategy
Deliverables
- Integration architecture and migration roadmap
- Tenant, identity, mail, DNS, and data dependency map
- Risk register and cutover plan
- Standardisation backlog
- Governance and communication plan for integration workstreams
Technologies and domains
Assessment focus
What we inspect before the recommendation
Our goal is to make the current state visible enough to support confident decisions, practical sequencing, and implementation-ready work.
01 Focus area
Tenant, domain, mail, DNS, identity, directory, and collaboration topology
02 Focus area
Infrastructure, SaaS, applications, data, network, VPN, and support ownership
03 Focus area
Security baselines, access control, privileged access, monitoring, and compliance obligations
04 Focus area
Coexistence, migration waves, cutover planning, rollback, and stakeholder communication
05 Focus area
Operating model, governance, standardisation, and post-integration support readiness
Engagement path
A practical route from uncertainty to execution
We keep assessments, roadmaps, and delivery models connected so recommendations can actually be implemented.
01
Discover
Inventory the acquired and existing environments with dependencies, owners, risks, and constraints.
02
Coexist
Define secure collaboration, identity, mail, DNS, and access paths during transition.
03
Consolidate
Sequence migration and standardisation waves across tenants, data, infrastructure, and SaaS.
04
Stabilise
Align governance, support, security baselines, documentation, and operating ownership.
Decision support
Questions this engagement should answer
We design the service to create answers leadership can use and technical teams can turn into implementation work.