The document outlines plans to identify high-value technology opportunities when acquiring another company. It involves understanding the acquisition's business strategy and how its technology aligns. A roadmap would then be developed over three years to integrate the acquisition's technology into existing standards or adapt its unique technologies into a supportable model, tracking progress along the way.

2. To identify high-value technology opportunities and create plans to realize them.
To ensure the fit of the acquisition into company standard technology solutions and incorporate
unique technologies into company’s support and infrastructure models.
This is accomplished by understanding the acquisition’s business strategy and how that is linked
to enabling technology.
Map the acquisitions technology to company standards.
Business develops a roadmap for the next three years to either map into our standard technology
implementations or adapt their unique technologies into a sustainable and supportable model.
Track the roadmap during the next few years to ensure the business requirements are being met.

3. Understand the strategies of the acquisition:
 Overall company/business group strategies
 Business sectors
 Geography
 Customers
 Marketing
 Operations
 Delivery

4.  Marketing  Baseline
 Financial  Productivity
 Operations  Collaboration
 Production
 Other Services
 Document
Management
 Online
 Industry Specific
Functional Areas Application Areas

5. Outside
the Business
IT Strategy
Company Strategy
Organizational
Inside IT Infrastructure
Infrastructure
the and processes
and processes
Company
Information
Business Technology

6.  Identify critical or key systems
 Determine existing standards
 Establish benchmarks and Key Performance
Indicators (KPI)
 Measure benchmarks
 Provide these measurements to the target firm
◦ to set expectations
◦ understand how things work
◦ aid in determining measurable comparisons for before
and after
◦ establish the need for additional investments

7. Product A in
production
3/23/12
Product B in
production
Integration Weekend
done 4/23/12
2/12/12
Product C in
production
5/23/12
2012 Feb Mar Apr May Jun 2012
Install Product A 2/13/12 3/23/12
Install Product B 3/23/12 4/23/12
Install Product C 4/23/12 5/23/12
Install Product D 5/23/12 6/23/12

8. 30-day Check
1/4/13
60-day Check
2/4/13
90-day Check First Year Review Second Year Review Final Review
3/4/13 11/26/13 11/26/14 11/26/15
Mar Mar Mar
2012 Nov
2013
Jul Nov
2014
Jul Nov
2015
Jul Nov 2016
11/26/12 Year 1 Integration 11/26/13
11/26/13 Year 2 Institution 11/26/14
11/26/14 Year 3 Innovation 11/26/15