Merger & Acquisition projects mostly start with the assessment and analysis of company data. Secondly, the processes become still more complex because departments, company cultures and IT systems must be integrated.

Synergetic effects often cause disappointments because overlaps of activities, products and purchase turn out different than expected.

Points of focus

It often proves to be a complex task to integrate IT systems or to make then minimally transparent because:

• Structuring cost registration, assortment build-up, customer profiles, reduction structures etc. are different.
• Content, such as descriptions, terminologies, etc. is not uniform
• Information is saved in various formats.

The list of complicating factors can be expanded indefinitely, and often, the failure of a merger or acquisition can be attributed to the failure of the IT integration.

What solutions?

With Calago solutions you quickly and accurately determine overlap between companies in the area of assortment, customers, suppliers, members, etc. As an independent party we can also offer an analysis like that, supplemented with Benchmarking, if so desired, with full confidentiality.
In addition, we are able to determine the costs for your system integration accurately from the IT perspective.  This makes it clear what can be integrated or made transparent and what cannot.
After the Merger or Acquisition, our intelligent solutions offer the following possibilities:

• Data consolidation and unification.
• Creation of transparency by Data Matching.
• Consolidation and phasing out of systems in an advanced, efficient and accurate way.

Calago offers a clear added value in the area of M&A which quickly pays off by offering transparency at an early stage.

Available Calago solutions

• Data Matching
• Data Classification
• Data Consolidation

Result

• Better M&A value determination.
• Transparency in advance.
• Benchmark overviews.
• Quicker integration after M&A.
• Reduction of risks.