Data Migration News Watch: What Risant Health’s Acquisition of Cone Health Teaches Us About Hybrid Integrations
Risant Health, a non-profit subsidiary of Kaiser Permanente, recently completed its acquisition of Greensboro-based Cone Health, a five-hospital mid-cap health system generating $3.1 billion in revenue with 13,000 employees. Under the terms of the deal, Cone Health keeps its local brand, local board, and local…
What “On Track” Actually Looks Like: Realistic Timelines for Post-Acquisition Data Migration
Plenty of enterprise data migrations get declared a success at go-live, only to be quietly admitted as failures six months later. The cutover banner goes up, the integration team disbands, and everyone celebrates. Then reality sets in. Financial reports fail to reconcile, business units lose…
Data Migration News Watch: AT&T Says It’s “Pretty Much” Done Converting Lumen’s Fiber Customers
On AT&T’s Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO John Stankey said, “We’re converting market-by-market, and we’re pretty much getting to the back end of that now,” referring to the integration of systems from AT&T’s acquisition of the Mass Markets fiber portion of Lumen Technologies’ business. All…
Data Migration News Watch: Devon Acquires Coterra, Plans Ahead
In one of the largest oil and gas M&A actions this year, on May 7, 2026, Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) closed its acquisition of Coterra Energy. Post-close, Devon’s market capitalization is roughly 55 billion dollars as of this writing. Statements from the organization’s leadership strongly…
The Five Questions That Actually Reveal a Data Migration Partner’s Capabilities
When picking a data migration partner for an M&A or joint-venture integration, most deal teams ask the wrong question. They ask which firm has the best credentials or the lowest rate card. The question that actually matters is whether that firm possesses the specific operational,…
Most Post-Acquisition Data Migrations Don’t Fail on Day 1. They Fail on Day 101.
Most post-acquisition data migrations don’t fail on day one. They fail on day 101. By then, the deal has closed, the press release is old news, and the hard part starts: making two companies’ systems actually work as one. Gartner has found that 83 percent…
The Semantic Trap: Why Clean Data Still Breaks Daily Operations
Your data migrated cleanly. It passed every programmatic check and validation test. And yet, the moment your business teams log in, everything is wrong. Why does clean data break daily operations? Because post-acquisition migration failures rarely stem from raw data corruption. They stem from unresolved…