Cut Costs and Boost Efficiency in Mergers and Acquisitions with Information Lifecycle Management

Informatica information lifecycle management solutions for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) enable your company to reap maximum return on investment from merging with or acquiring new companies. These solutions increase the efficiency of data migration and consolidation, protect sensitive data during development, manage and control future data growth, and eliminate the costs of maintaining redundant legacy data stores.

  • Eliminate the maintenance costs of redundant applications
  • Cost-effectively comply with data retention policies
  • Proactively control data volume growth
  • Efficiently migrate, consolidate, and rationalize legacy applications
  • Reduce the risk of a data breach

Application Retirement for Compliance

This solution enables your company to safely and cost-effectively retire legacy applications while still retaining access to the data within them for compliance purposes after M&A activity. Your IT organization can inventory, classify, and archive data in legacy applications to a highly optimized, compressed, immutable, secure, and easily accessible file-based archive. Archived data is retained for compliance and disposed of automatically when the retention expires.

Data Growth Management

This solution enables your company to proactively manage data growth and ensure application service level agreements (SLAs) in the consolidated applications and systems. Your IT organization can archive inactive data from the consolidated applications and still provide business users with complete access to archived data from the original application interface or from a reporting tool.

Application Migration and Consolidation

This solution enables your company to migrate and consolidate applications efficiently after a merger or acquisition. Your IT organization can selectively create relevant subsets from production database data to merge information from acquired companies into a consolidated database. Data can be easily migrated from the acquired company’s applications to your chosen standard application. For example, rather than managing multiple Oracle or SAP instances from various acquired companies, your IT organization can migrate only the information needed to run the combined company data and decommission those applications that are no longer required, thus simplifying the application environment.

Data Privacy Management

The process of migrating data from the acquired to the acquiring company must be repeatedly tested to ensure success. This solution reduces the risk of data breaches during the migration testing process. It masks sensitive or confidential data in nonproduction databases. “Real” production data from both merged and acquired entities can be used without exposing sensitive and confidential information to developers and testers who are often contractors or located offshore.

Once information from the acquired company has been migrated to and consolidated with the standard application, the solution helps reduce the risk of exposing sensitive data in production environments by masking data on the fly based on user access privileges.