IT Mergers & Acquisitions

From IT carve-out to post-merger integration

The IT landscape plays a decisive role in M&A projects. If it is not separated cleanly and efficiently in the course of a sale or is not integrated into a new parent company in a targeted manner, high costs are incurred in the post-merger integration and employee productivity and satisfaction suffer.

We support you in IT as part of mergers and acquisitions projects, both in the separation of sold parts of the company (IT carve-out) and in the rebuilding of standalone IT or the integration of IT into an existing landscape on the buyer's side.

Our services begin with the analysis of existing services and the identification of optimization potential. In addition, we create the IT modernization strategy and take over the planning of the future IT landscape through to the reliable transfer to operations. As an active member of the German Association for Mergers & Acquisitions, we regularly review and optimize our proven process models.

Our services

What we do

We accompany IT mergers & acquisitions from the analysis to the anchoring in operations and ensure that no unknown risks arise.

Analysis

We carry out extensive due diligence, identify risks and synergies in relation to the IT landscape and examine options for renegotiating contracts or reducing costs in general. Our detailed assessment of IT resources, processes and support structures serves as the basis for the next phases.

Day 1 operations

In addition to setting up a solid project organization with concrete milestones, we make urgent preparations for Day 1. We ensure that key players have access to the buyer's business applications, provide a collaboration platform for the integration project and enable access to important intranet pages (integration portal).

Planning & conception

We plan and develop functional specifications and create technical migration concepts. <span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak">We coordinate the implementation process in close coordination with the affected departments and suppliers, and</span> attach great importance to structured risk management.

Implementation

We ensure that all necessary measures are implemented on time and on budget and adapt support structures while maintaining business continuity at all times. If required, we take on change management measures, user training and the handover to operations.

Analysis
Day 1 operations
Planning & conception
Implementation

Our expertise

Specialists for IT transformations

We ensure that change projects in IT are successful. We understand the critical interplay between organization, technologies and processes. Our aim is to quickly achieve tangible success for IT together.

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Certified in IT standards

We understand technologies and advise our customers on all common IT standards such as ISO 20000, COBIT and ITIL. Our IT experts draw on specialist knowledge and best practices from over 1,000 IT projects.

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Excellent change management for IT

We ensure sustainable anchoring in business and IT. We put people and the IT organization at the center of the change and derive targeted measures to support your M&A project.

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In good company: our references

Integration of extremely different IT landscapes

The integration of Invensys Rail into the Siemens Group presented complex challenges. The Campana & Schott team supported this process efficiently and purposefully.

IT carve-out in record time - at 57 locations worldwide

The tender, provider selection, migration and separation of the IT systems at Bosch Rexroth Pneumatics and Aventics worldwide were carried out in just six months.

To the Case Study

The task was to ensure Bosch Rexroth's independence in the shortest possible time. A complete company network, including the service provider structure, had to be rebuilt and the clean separation of data and servers had to be ensured.

Markus Heine
Head of IT
AVENTICS

Overall, the integration was extremely challenging due to the high time pressure for change and stakeholder management, not least because of the cultural differences in the companies and countries in three time zones. In this combination of technical, organizational, cultural and time-related challenges, Campana & Schott's experience helped us enormously. Without their support, we would never have managed the project so well within this extremely tight time frame.