Why companies can lose corporate knowledge in acquisitions

David Stevenson at 06:13 GMT on 25 May 2010

The issue of integrating technology systems when two companies merge through acquisition is not new but organisations risk losing valuable corporate knowledge if employees can’t easily access any document they need from either business.

Even prior to an acquisition, the due diligence process requires solicitors and accountants to access hundreds of documents for analysis and forensic accounting. These documents may be held in legacy technology systems that are not easy to convert to a readable format, taking precious time and resources to resolve.

As a result of the acquisition there may be staff changes, office moves and restructuring, all contributing to the possible loss of corporate knowledge held in varying document formats.
A key benefit of gDoc Fusion is the ability to quickly and easily translate and merge over 200 types of incompatible document files into a single document through a simple drag and drop action, even though the original application is not available. Users can create a summary, report or other document that can combine disparate documents such as spreadsheets, slides, images or text in one simple operation, then save the result in a format everybody can handle: PDF.

So solicitors and accountants can rest assured that all nighters at the office during an acquisition will no longer be down to simply trying to convert one key document into a readable format!

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