Multi Acquisition IT Integration |
Problem |
- Merger of two very large telecommunications companies required full integration of all existing staff, systems, and operations in order to function as single unit going forward
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Project Objectives |
- Perform due diligence on acquisitions from IT perspective
- Quickly integrate each acquisition into parent infrastructure without diminishing value of acquired company or having any major disruption to on-going operations
- Evaluate, size, train, and integrate acquire IT support staff as needed
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Approach |
- Performed complete inventory of all acquired IT resources (systems, network, staff, polices and procedures)
- Mapped all systems interdependencies
- Integrated few legacy systems to remain standalone to be compatible with parent architecture and migrated all other systems to parent systems while minimizing business downtime
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Results |
- Effectively integrated each of the acquired companies systems maximizing return on investment, decreasing support costs, and allowing enterprise-wide computing
- Created a single "corporate IT culture" to provide seamless support to end users, help create unity, and to speed up meshing of corporate cultures across the company
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