Mergers and Acquisitions Playbook

ivision leverages an approach and methodology designed to help clients successfully plan and design for a M/A&D migrations to achieve successful mergers, consolidation or a separation outcome. Whether it’s the technology consolidation of two entities or a divestiture meant to separate part of the business into another, ivision’s M/A&D playbooks leverage years of experience, careful approach to avoid pitfalls through the influence of relevant business and technical expertise to help our clients achieve predicable results with the least disruption as possible to your employee-base.

What's Included: Discovery and design of current environments aligned to success criteria Services include Migration Strategy and Design for Active Directory and Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Azure T2T (Tenant-to-Tenant) Workloads Dependency Mapping, Gap Analysis and Logical Migration Plan Baseline Security Design Strategies NewCo / SplitCo AD & Microsoft 365 Build-Out and Configurations Change Management Guidance for User Impact Communications White-Glove Content Velocity Migrations Post-Migration Hyper-Care Transition Support Migration Liaison Support, Project and Program Management

Service Options: Playbook Approach for Horizontal Expand Acquisition (Merger / Consolidation) Keep / maintain brand identity Inherit or build new brand identity Playbook Approach for Vertical Acquisition One to One or Many to One Playbook Approach for Divesting / Separation SplitCo from existing (intellectual property is maintained) NewCo Greenfield (emphasis on security baselines & intel. property )

Client Challenges: Benefit from a proven and scalable Microsoft platform Mergers / Acquisition and Divestiture Playbook Approach Define clear migration roadmap & understanding of the migration and/or modernization options Assessment will determine gaps, pitfalls and a comprehensive approach for execution Benefit from a team of experts with industry experience with M&A migrations providing assurance and confidence in migration execution at the highest levels Improve time to value by accelerating migrations and achieving end state in a predicable timeframe Reduce IT costs and improve ROI:
Visualize potential cost savings and ROI before migration commences Optimization with cloud for quick, low-investment application assessment Drive business change with improved tools Reduce risk and security posture: Negate many of the project risks when incorporating change management and user impact strategies
Opportunities to reduce or remove existing operational challenges with ivision Managed Services options