ARLINGTON, Virginia. For professionals in M&A and corporate strategy, eknow inc today announced significant risk management functionality in the latest release of eknow's Integrator software for M&A. eknow Integrator version 11.9.0, available now, adds new, easy-to-use risk data entry forms, improved risk mitigation tracking, and new reports, automation, and risk analysis charts and summaries.
Continuously developed since 1999, eknow Integrator is a web-based tool to simplify execution and improve results from corporate development, due diligence, post-M&A integration, synergy capture, and reorganizations. eknow Integrator "integrates" the efforts of far-flung contributors, across distributed M&A teams, across multiple organizations, across multiple M&A phases, and across multiple acquisitions. Integrator is now the most mature and easy-to-use tool of its kind.
With version 11.9.0, eknow now democratizes M&A risk management. Acquisition risks include the unplanned costs of transition delays, litigation, regulatory non-compliance, customer defection, key employee attrition, market entry delays, transition service agreements, security, and many others. Thus managing acquisition risks can represent a costly information and process management challenge. Many M&A teams do not have the time, resources, or experience to formally manage as many critical transition risks as they would like. Integrator version 11.9.0 addresses this challenge.
In Integrator, distributed M&A teams use simple built-in web forms to identify, categorize, and value potential risks, and assign owners to mitigation steps. Since risks can be identified in any phase of M&A, Integrator ensures that risks identified during target evaluation or due diligence do not fall through the cracks in later M&A phases. Responsible managers can see the status of previously identified risks at all times. For senior management, Integrator automatically charts the acquisition's total weighted risk exposure by risk type, area, and mitigation status, in real-time, with no additional human intervention. The top-priority risks are also automatically segregated and reported for high-level review. For authorized users, Integrator will simultaneously summarize risk data for any number of past or current acquisitions for which the user has visibility privileges.
By streamlining and automating M&A risk management, Integrator allows even small M&A teams to more easily track and mitigate more acquisition risks, more fully, and more consistently across teams or risk areas. Relatively inexperienced teams can now track risks more effectively than even experienced M&A teams who are stuck with spreadsheets, shared drives, and traditional project management tools. And because each acquisition's risk history and lessons learned are automatically institutionalized in Integrator, risk management in current transactions can improve results in future transactions.
Thanks to Integrator's defining ease-of-use and consistent user interface, these risk management features in Integrator 11.9.0 present virtually no new learning curve for users. For customers who do not yet need to track risks, Integrator's risk features can remain completely hidden until needed. For the rest, Integrator was expressly designed so that users managing other M&A processes in Integrator today already know virtually everything necessary to capture, track, and update risks as well.
"In many transactions, the entire annual cost of eknow Integrator can be offset by mitigating just one small, additional risk," said Manuel Sanches, eknow President and CTO. "But with Integrator's transition risk tools, as with Integrator's other tools, the key is making the functionality truly accessible to any member of a busy M&A team. If a tool requires specialized expertise and training, it won't get used, and the job won't get done. Integrator is designed so that any M&A team can get the job done right now."
Version 11.9.0 is a free upgrade for customers of version 11.5 or later.
About Integrator
Integrator's unique design and automation make it the easiest-to-use, lowest-risk, and most cost-effective platform to execute M&A, divestitures and reorganizations. Integrator's ease of use enables clients to begin using the system immediately, with no IT resources, little or no training for most users, and little or no consultant support. With Integrator, even the smallest program teams can now easily manage and track far more teams, plans, contributors, data, documents, and results – even across multiple simultaneous acquisitions – with vastly less effort. eknow Integrator is provided as securely hosted software-as-a-service.
About eknow inc
eknow inc is an Arlington, Virginia-based leader in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) automation software solutions. eknow solutions have been helping companies identify, execute, and increase returns from M&A, restructuring, and major corporate initiatives since 1999.
For more information on eknow or our eknow Integrator service, or to schedule a demo, contact eknow's EVP of Sales & Marketing at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (703) 875-9191.
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