The Due Diligence Gap: What Your Deal Model Doesn’t Say About the Target’s Data
Your financial due diligence is flawless. Your legal due diligence is complete. But what does your deal model say about the target’s data? In most modern M&A transactions, technology systems are reviewed only at a high level: what platforms are in use, what the licenses…
Data Migration News Watch: Charter Acquires Cox Communications and Liberty Broadband on the Same Day
On August 20, 2026, Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) announced the closing of two simultaneous M&A transactions. One of these transactions will likely not involve an immediate major data migration. The other certainly will. The first transaction saw Charter absorb and dissolve Liberty Broadband, a…
Data Migration News Watch: Breathtaking Scope Change
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley.” Robert Burns wrote that in 1785, and it holds up remarkably well as a description of post-acquisition data migration. Last year, healthcare provider Northwell Health acquired Nuvance Health, its 21st acquisition since Northwell was…
The Inheritance Gap: What You Actually Take On When You Close an Acquisition
When you are evaluating an acquisition, initial discovery reveals systems and licenses: which ERP, which CRM, how many seats. What it doesn’t show you is what’s actually inside the data underlying those systems: years of workarounds, customizations, and decisions baked in by people who left…
What CommonSpirit Gets Right About EHR Migration Timelines
Epic is not just winning the electronic health record (EHR) market anymore. It is becoming the default. When two health systems merge today, the odds are good that both sides were already on Epic, or one of them was about to be. It would be…