IT Due Diligence Services for Investors

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures create several challenges to organizations and all its stake holders. It is imperative that an organization has an accurate understanding of the potential risks and opportunities that exist BEFORE a strategic investment is made.

In today’s business environment Information Technology systems play a critical role in the overall success or failure of a business:

Business Knowledge Systems’ deep talent of IT professionals, IT Executives, Financial Executives, and former business owners leverage over 25 years of M&A experience to offer solutions to these challenges.

IT Due Diligence – Stand Alone Acquisition

Quick Assessment of a Target Company’s IT Systems to uncover potential Risks and Opportunities hidden in the IT Department.

BKS will determine the assets that are being purchased as well as the value of those assets.

Focus on a number of key areas surrounding IT including:

• Organizational structure and personnel
• Systems environment (hardware, software, key applications)
• Security & Disaster Recovery
• Planned or active initiatives, and business processes.

BKS has a unique mix of IT experts and financial executives at our disposal, this allows us to provide a rigorous assessment of a target company’s IT systems and present our findings in the most meaningful way to our clients.

IT Due Diligence- Integration Services

Designed to establish a clear integration plan in Carve-out or Add-on acquisition transactions.

-BKS will design a strategy that best supports a client’s business objectives then leverage current IT assets (including people, processes, and technology) to provide a comprehensive plan to ensure a best practices approach to merging the technology infrastructure of two separate entities. BKS performs IT Due Diligence on each IT environment and develops a three phase plan to integrate systems.

• Phase 1 - Defines what must happen prior to close
• Phase 2 – Defines business critical IT systems that must be in place on the day of close.
• Phase 3 – Defines remaining projects needed to complete the integration

IT Strategy – The next Step

Develops a long term plan to align Technology with Business objectives

- After defining the current state using IT Due Diligence the future state and direction can now be defined.

BKS will focus on developing the future organization and strategic technology plan that links the business objectives and goals of the organization with the development and implementation of information technology. This will improve the organizations ability to respond to the changing business demands.  Furthermore, this service will align the IT objectives to the business strategy to assist in creating a value based IT Department focused on bringing competitive advantages to the organization.