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The Virtual Forge helps businesses understand the full spectrum of technical risks and benefits associated with a merger or acquisition.
With significant expertise in integrations, development, DevSecOps, analytics, and AI, our team can quickly and efficiently assess a business to ensure there is a proper technical fit for acquisition.
We uncover risks, develop solutions, and act as your partner to ensure your M&A IT Diligence runs flawlessly.
Evaluating a target company during a merger or acquisition is complex and time-sensitive. Acquirers often face limitations in understanding key aspects of the business, especially in IT and data.
The Virtual Forge helps mitigate these risks by providing insights and strategies to avoid post-acquisition surprises.
The deployed IT in a business should be an investigation target for any M&A activity. This category can be an asset or a liability to the acquirer depending on the level of investment, fitness for purpose, and compatibility with the acquiring company's environment. The Virtual Forge helps businesses to explore and document IT systems, roadmap investment requirements, and determine implementation complexity to ensure a proper match.
The data held and used by an organization is an incredible resource to understand how it operates. The KPIs that they manage their business to, their awareness of internal performance, and external competitiveness all can show an acquiring company areas of risk and opportunity. The Virtual Forge profiles and analyzes the data of M&A targets and their acquirers to identify synergies, risks, and investment requirements.
At times software operating within an M&A target requires a deeper look. If the company develops software critical to its revenue stream or has software operating to perform business-critical functions that is of unknown quality this is of particular interest. We have a global team of software architects, engineers, testers, and experts who review high-interest applications at the architecture and code level to ensure any technical debt, non-standard practices, or integration concerns are fully understood before the deal is completed.
As a critical risk management item, acquirers must evaluate the maturity of their target acquisition companies with regard to their integrated security. This ensures that the company’s critical data sets and the people who rely on them are protected from theft, regulatory exposure, and quality issues. To better understand the current state of DevSecOps within the company, The Virtual Forge will assess the IT security posture, measure the efficiency of the cloud architecture, and design and implement changes to ensure the applications and environments are safe and cost-effective.
Technology doesn’t change business performance unless you have the right people and process to leverage it. We help businesses find gaps and capture opportunities within Data and IT OPs organizations to ensure the right skills and processes are in place to support technical innovation and operational excellence. For M&A Diligence, The Virtual Forge will evaluate the compatibility of the technical personnel to ensure that they can combine in a way that creates synergies and enhances competitive advantage.
The Virtual Forge helps companies rapidly deploy technical diligence to inform M&A risk and reward profiles, and dramatically improve post-merger integration outcomes.
M&A diligence is a highly pressurized process where critical assumptions must be validated in a limited period of time. Technology diligence requires expert input and advanced tools to ensure you have an accurate understanding of what you are getting.
During M&A Due Diligence having the right information is critical, and understanding the data, technology, and supporting skills can enable informed and decisive decisionmaking.
Technical synergy can create lasting value or pain for years after an M&A event. Knowing what to expect and what actions to take to capitalize on possible synergies makes a huge impact on M&A business value creation.
Hidden data and IT risks can destroy shareholder value and erode post-merger synergies. A detailed assessment will ensure that these risks are well understood, are accounted for within the valuation process, and are addressed appropriately in the post-merger roadmap.
The Virtual Forge is a trusted, global software development company with a solid history of delivering comprehensive solutions for global brands, equipping diverse organisations with the finest technology available.
Quality is our core focus. Our team ensures high standards through rigorous quality assurance processes, thorough testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement.
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Our track record is a testament to our reliability. Always by our client’s side, ensuring that nothing is left to chance. With our commitment to excellence, we pride ourselves on delivering dependable solutions that businesses can trust.
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A team of creative and analytical minds leverages cutting-edge technologies and out-of-the-box thinking to deliver innovative software solutions. We’re always on the lookout for new technologies that can leverage our offer, helping our clients materialize their needs into new systems that streamline their business processes.
Considering a merger or acquisition is a major undertaking, and the stakes are extremely high. Evaluating the maturity, capability, and compatibility of the target companies IT landscape may not be your first priority, but the impact of miscalculating can be a high cost. Your IT team is busy already and has its own priorities to work on.
The Virtual Forge offers a dedicated team of individuals who will assist, support, or independently execute the inspection, assessment, and strategy work activities needed to ensure you have clear information from which to move forward.
Foundational to understanding the technical and data intricacies of a business is an understanding of the business itself. Tools and technology are put into place in service of strategic and operational business needs, so step one is to learn about the business, what drives it, and what is important to the subject matter experts within the business who are charged with moving it forward.
Understanding data is a large task and highly at risk of misinterpretation due to the compressed nature of due diligence timelines. The Virtual Forge team brings process and experience to this problem, quickly profiling and making sense of data sets, and filling in gaps left by poor data quality or documentation. With a detailed understanding of the data as well as of the business synergies that are meant to be achieved, we can help you analyze the gaps and the risks that are hidden in the ways that data is captured, stored, analyzed, and protected.
With a detailed understanding of the current state of the data and technology, as well as the desired future state, we can begin to outline a roadmap for the future. This allows the acquiring company to complete the diligence phase with a full understanding of the practical steps, timelines, and costs required to achieve their strategic IT goals and capture their synergy targets.
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Our extensive knowledge in the manufacturing sector makes us a trustworthy partner for data-driven digital solutions.
The Virtual Forge team has more than 20 years experience developing custom solutions for Life Sciences clients.
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Working with The Virtual Forge made everyone enjoy being part of the project. It never felt like two separate teams, but just one big team. Everything felt natural, easy, even when there were challenges.
The Virtual Forge collaborates with several strategic partners to guarantee the delivery of cutting-edge services that meet and exceed clients' expectations. We are trusted by some of the most recognised technological brands in the world.
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