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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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: 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…