IBM M&A Accelerator

Revolutionizes M&A execution for the entire deal lifecycle—pipeline, diligence, integration and divestiture

 

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Bring order to the M&A chaos

Manage your M&A data and activities with IBM M&A Accelerator instead of using multiple, disconnected tools and reduce chaos in your deals. This market-leading solution brings your M&A data and teams together to provide you with a real-time, 360-degree view of your transactions—allowing you to focus on value capture and reduce distractions.

End-to-end solution

Manages prospect targeting, execution strategy, planning, synergy capture and monitoring.

Shorter time to value

Yields a shorter time to value and improves your ability to meet or exceed the business case.

Faster transaction completion

Ties the sources of value to milestones and key deal information to improve execution.

Single source of truth

Delivers a single source of truth, in real time, for all stakeholders.

Features

Personalized role-based interface

Manage and track work plan milestones, issues, risks, key decisions and synergy initiatives in real time. Personalize role-based home pages.

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Dynamic reporting experience

It offers rich reporting, dashboards with underlying analytics and interactive charts, editable reports, snapshots and a report wizard.

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Enhanced surveillance intelligence

By combining video and analytics solutions, data is screened for potential threats and consolidated into uniform formats. These formats can be enriched by cognitive methods, such as facial recognition.

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Organized template framework

Manage deal templates and organize checklists by type, strategic imperative, geography or other factors. This approach generates a fast and easy deployment.

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Collaborative project management

Manage multiple projects, initiatives and transformations throughout the deal process, using the advanced project scheduling. Eliminates the need for repetitive work, lengthy status meetings and data chasing.

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Intelligent security flow

Robust permissions model, SSO and two-factor authentication securely capture and deliver information to the right team member on PC or mobile.

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Case studies

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Leading telecom company

Streamlining the PMO to one person eliminated the need for external PMO staff. This reduced risks and compass on the deal synergies, resulting in lower consulting fees and decreased time to synergies.

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Leading agricultural and food corporation

Consolidation of a global deal pipeline, along with measurable, like-minded deal criteria, gave the corporate team broad visibility and framed decision making. This process resulted in a substantial time savings for corporate development and executives.

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