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Powerful and Complete
eknow Integrator streamlines and accelerates every phase of M&A. Leverage Integrator's built-in automation, best practices, and communication tools. Manage teams, activities, documents, synergies, head count, and much more. Fully integrate the contributions of all roles and stakeholders, not just project managers.
- Unified Web dashboard for all activity
- Manage all M&A phases and activities
- Corp dev pipeline and workflow
- Multiple, simultaneous acquisitions
- Manage team hierarchies and members
- Built-in communication tools
- Powerful "interactive memos" (iMemos)
- Automated data collection and aggregation
- Automated reporting and analysis
- Complete top-down visibility / accountability
- Full audit trail and activity logging
- Captures all history and lessons learned
- Data visibility is automatically partitioned
End-to-End M&A Life Cycle
eknow Integrator supports any and every M&A phase, from targeting through post-merger integration and restructuring. But Integrator will show only the tools and phases you need, while the rest remains hidden until you need it:
- Manage acquisition pipeline
- Corp dev workflow and approvals
- Due diligence check-lists
- Synergy development, validation
- Pre-Close activities
- Integration planning
- Post-merger integration
- Synergy implementation milestones
- Synergy results and financial measures
- Risks, issues, and resolution
- Restructuring
- Head count initiatives
Easy to Adopt
Integrator is securely hosted "software as service," so there is no new infrastructure or software to install. Integrator requires no consultants to implement or maintain. So Integrator sets up in just hours, and users can be productive in a couple of days.
- No IT resources required
- Users need only a Web browser
- Simple templates to import your initial data
- Import and export via Microsoft Excel®
- Ease of use eliminates adoption resistance
- Won’t change your integration processes
- eknow team does the heavy lifting for you
- 10 years of adoption best-practices built-in
- Customizable without programming
Easy to Use
Ease of use is not a "nice-to-have" — it determines tool adoption rate, process compliance, data quality, process volume, and time available to get other work done. In other words, ease of use directly affects outcomes. eknow Integrator is the only M&A tool designed from the ground up for ease of use by everyone, not just project managers and consultants.
- Users see only functionality they can use
- "iMemos" present only the user's own data or tasks, and the actions required
- Users enjoy the simplicity
- Most users need no training
- Easier than your existing tools & methods
- Far easier than project management software
- Easily administered by non-technical managers
Slash Time and Effort
eknow Integrator’s automation and simplicity allow a small management team to do the work of an army. Eliminate most administrative overhead. Manage more acquisitions, teams, employees, activities, synergies etc. with less effort. Easily manage dozens, hundreds, even thousands of contributors.
- Fully automated, personalized update requests
- Fully automated data collection and reporting
- Built-in executive status reviews
- Eliminates creating, maintaining, distributing, collecting, validating, and consolidating spreadsheets
- Eliminates much process related e-mail
- Eliminates lag – all updates visible in real-time
- Instantly locate problems, gaps, issues
- Slash data & reporting workloads by 5X - 10X
No-Brainer ROI
eknow Integrator pays for itself almost immediately by slashing the management and/or consulting resources required to plan and execute your M&A strategy. Integrator then pays for itself again many times over by accelerating cost reductions and other integration synergies, and allowing more such synergies to be identified, implemented, and tracked.
- Slash management time and effort required
- Use fewer consultants and contractors
- Manage more people, processes, documents, and results with less effort
- Capture more synergies, more quickly
- Avoid more risks and costs
- Reduce losses of employees or customers due to the transition
- Reduce distraction from daily operations
Easy to Buy
eknow charges no per-user fees, so clients can connect every contributor role directly into their M&A processes. Since set-up and monthly support costs are bundled, Integrator costs are low, controllable and predictable.
- Extremely affordable and cost-effective
- One-time, flat set-up fee, plus flat monthly charge
- No per seat charges
- No per acquisition costs
- No consulting engagement required
- No nickel-and-diming, guaranteed
Secure and Compartmentalized
eknow Integrator is vastly more secure than traditional tools and methods. Integrator contains a highly automated access control system completely tailored to the unique requirements of M&A and restructuring. For example, data visibility is automatically controlled by acquisition, M&A phase, team, user, activity, document, and data field.
- All user sessions authenticated, encrypted
- Users only see acquisitions they work on
- Sensitive data never emailed in attachments
- Assign access levels to files, activities, more
- Detailed user action logs and reports