Capabilities Mapping Speeds Up M&A Due Diligence from Months to Hours

Swifter, More Effective M&A Due Diligence

• Massive IT landscape with thousands of applications and interfaces, no clarity on why these applications were procured, and who made the decisions on targets
• No common Enterprise Architecture methodology across business units, leading to siloed decision-making and the lack of a clear capabilities map
• Typical M&A analysis of IT landscape could take months, slowing decision-making and IT integration planning

How Ardoq Helped

• Shifted data from Excel to dynamically map applications with business and technical capabilities in Ardoq
• Collaborated with Ardoq over weekly progress meetings to stay on track and coordinate across many user groups
• Surveys and Broadcasts aided swift crowdsourcing of data to build the As-Is architecture
• Referenced Best Practice Guides to create an EA playbook for business units to work off a standard methodology (e.g., standard metamodel and framework agnostic approach for capabilities mapping)
  and common taxonomy to ensure alignment 
• Co-developed a process with the M&A team to enable discovery enriched with architectural data in Ardoq (capability models, usage information, mapping  capabilities and apps)

Key Outcomes With Ardoq

• Common taxonomy and expectations of the Enterprise Architecture discipline
• Clarity for everyone in the organization on who and where to look for a target architecture for a given domain thanks to capabilities mapping
• Impact analysis on the fly (e.g., when changing an application or introducing a new application)
• Multifold reduction of time taken for initial discovery process of M&A

Looking Forward

The successful capabilities mapping has the company forward to using Ardoq for more effective roadmapping and expanding the Enterprise Architecture practice across more business units.