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Our client is a Large Cap PE-owned software business who provide software solutions in finance,accounts and human capital management (“HCM”). Multiple acquisitions have fuelled growth to avaluation of over £1bn.
Due to the multiple acquisitions – both the team and technology have experienced significantchange. The business grew at such a rapid pace that the IT infrastructure, IT security and stabilitywere becoming more challenging. The acquisitions were significantly smaller than the parentcompany technology, and the processes used were often underdeveloped. Joining theseacquisitions to the central organisation became a significant concern. Beyond were asked to helpintegrate eight acquisitions into the main business.
Technical due-diligence and discovery across all businesses to help understand the challenge,enabling a technology baseline and identify critical risks and issues before the consolidationcommenced.Health Checks on the parent company and acquisition systems were performed before runningworkshops then allowed all parties to prepare and plan for the project.Beyond deployed its Post-Merger Integration team that have specialist knowledge with regards tocomplex company-wide consolidation projects, spanning multiple technologies.
Now the eight acquisitions have been integrated the client is able to fully secure the estate andremain compliant with there various regulatory principles – including ISO 27001. The reduction in amultitude of ad-hoc administrative work enables the wider IT team to focus on business enablementprojects and working together as a more cohesive team. The client now has a platform that theycan use to integrate future acquisitions with the confidence that they can scale at pace.