A few weeks ago I wrote about how much history to migrate after an acquisition. There’s a second reason to migrate less: every trial migration makes another copy of it. In January 2024, Microsoft disclosed that a Russian state-sponsored group had accessed corporate email, including…
HealthPartners and Essentia Health have a signed deal. They don’t have a combined organization yet. Both boards approved the merger in late September. It will create a 22-hospital system across Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The close date isn’t until January 1, 2027, and Minnesota’s…
“Just migrate everything” is one of the most expensive sentences you can say at a data migration kickoff. It sounds safe, since nobody gets blamed for keeping history. A published case from Geisinger shows why it often isn’t the right call. When Holy Spirit Hospital…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…