Every acquisition is, quietly, a migration project

When two companies merge, almost nothing about their systems lines up.

Different tenants, different identity structures, different infrastructure built by different teams for different reasons over different timelines. The deal closes and someone has to make all of it function as a single organization.

That work is migration. Whether the deal team uses that word or not.

This is why M&A activity drives sustained migration demand. Integration isn’t optional scope that gets cut when the timeline gets tight. It’s the work that determines whether the acquisition delivers what it was supposed to deliver. Skip it or compress it and the value the deal was structured around doesn’t materialize.

Every acquisition becomes a migration project. The only question is whether anyone planned it that way from the start.

What has your experience been when an acquisition landed on your team and the migration scope wasn’t scoped into the deal from the beginning?

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