As the U.S. economy slowly climbs out of the depths of a recession, businesses will begin to have clearer long-term visibility into their own growth prospects causing companies to open up their cash coffers. The result, analysts predict, could be a renewed interest in mergers and acquisitions.

While there are the obvious strategic considerations in any M&A situation, when you get down to it, in order to successfully merge two organizations, there comes the questions of the logistics involved. Determining how best to integrate assets, people and functions into a single organization chart, and define a consolidated set of effective business processes, are all important considerations. How do organizations handle all of this integration in the most cost-efficient manner?

The process of consolidating human capital and system resources such as networks, data, services and applications requires a close analysis of the associated business processes. An Enterprise Architecture tool, which allows organizations to model both human and system-centric process throughout the organization, can provide an initial big-picture view, which can in turn be used to execute specific efficiencies at the process level.

Organizations using Enterprise Architecture software to support their M&A activities can:

• evaluate and make critical infrastructure decisions that can dramatically reduce fixed cost expenditures;
• get a realistic grasp on the big picture using graphical modeling and analysis;
• ensure that any reductions – whether they are related to physical capital or human capital – are the right reductions to make;
• make smarter, more effective business decisions before and during merger and acquisition activities.

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