Acquisition and divestiture information management

Transitions slow down when teams must determine what records belong where, what can move, and what needs additional review before separation or migration.

1,500+ Organizations served, including 48 of the Fortune 1000

The short answer

Why do records become a bottleneck during a transition?

Acquisitions and divestitures create immediate pressure to identify, separate, migrate, and validate records across systems, teams, and business units. Contracts, employee records, customer files, financial documents, and regulatory information all need to be accounted for before transition work can move forward.

Why this happens

Where transitions lose control of records

Records are spread across too many locations

Records are stored in ECM platforms, shared drives, legacy systems, inboxes, and paper archives.

Ownership and metadata are inconsistent

Records may be duplicated, poorly labeled, or lack consistent metadata.

Migration depends on manual reconciliation

Teams rely on spreadsheets and one-off reviews, and legal, IT, compliance, and business teams maintain separate inventories.

What this leads to: teams cannot confirm which records belong to which business unit, migration timelines slow down, and ownership and retention requirements become unclear during separation.

How we help

How we help transitions stay on schedule

Step 1

Prepare Records

Make transition information usable early.

  • Capture paper records
  • Classify key documents
  • Reduce missing metadata
Step 2

Clarify Ownership

Reduce confusion about what belongs where.

  • Structure record inventories
  • Improve metadata consistency
  • Reduce duplicate records
Step 3

Migration Readiness

Reduce manual reconciliation.

  • Improve migration tracking
  • Reduce manual reconciliation
  • Clarify readiness status
Step 4

Risk Reduction

Support day-one readiness.

  • Improve governance visibility
  • Reduce compliance risk
  • Support day-one readiness

Ways we support

Structuring records for separation or migration

Intake

Prepare transition information before migration begins

Contracts, employee records, customer files, financial documents, and regulatory information all need to be accounted for before transition work can move forward. We help capture and classify records early so separation or migration doesn’t start from a blank inventory.

Capture & Extraction AI & Automation
Refine

Build one clean inventory out of two companies’ records

A transition brings together records from two separate organizations, often with overlapping or conflicting entries. We deduplicate and reconcile that combined record set so the new entity starts from one trustworthy inventory, not two.

Data Quality and Record Matching Document Classification & Metadata Enrichment
Manage

Create clearer ownership and structure across transition environments

Records spread across ECM platforms, shared drives, legacy systems, and archives make it hard to confirm what belongs to which business unit. We help structure ownership, metadata, and record inventories so transition teams work from one consistent view.

Legacy Modernization ECM Cloud Hosting
Activate

Improve transition visibility and coordination

Migration readiness should not depend on spreadsheets and one-off reviews. We help improve visibility across legal, IT, compliance, and business teams so separation or migration status is clear throughout the transition.

Content & ECM Capture & Extraction

Real-world example

A divestiture requiring records separation on a fixed timeline

A divestiture required separating and migrating records across business units on a fixed transaction timeline.

The challenge

Records are spread across shared drives, legacy ECM systems, inboxes, and paper archives, forcing teams to manually validate ownership, readiness, retention requirements, and migration status.

Delayed readiness

Required documents cannot be validated or moved on schedule.

Growing coordination effort

Teams rely on spreadsheets and manual reconciliation.

Increased risk

Sensitive records require additional review due to unclear ownership.

Slower transition execution

Migration timelines extend beyond expectations.

The impact

Structuring records and improving governance visibility helped transition work move forward with greater control and fewer delays.

Faster transition work

Migration activities moved more consistently.

Less manual reconciliation

Teams spent less time validating records manually.

Lower transition risk

Teams improved governance, compliance, and day-one readiness.

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