Integrator Overview

Welcome to Integrator, the web-based tool for planning and executing merger integration, restructuring, and cost-reduction initiatives. Integrator’s revolutionary speed, simplicity and ease of use allows even small program teams to easily manage hundreds — or thousands — of contributors. Integrator automation and efficiencies immediately reduce management effort, time, and cost, reduces overall cycle times, and ultimately allow you to capture more financial benefits from your initiatives.

The Problem

In all such large initiatives, the enemies are the same: time and complexity. You have scores of teams. Teams are dispersed, even multi-national. There are thousands of items to follow, approvals to secure, financial targets and deadlines to meet, operational data to collect. There are hundreds, even thousands, of potential contributors. Spreadsheet updates must be chased down from every team, aggregated, and analyzed. The teams change. The models change. The executive team needs real-time data but can ’t get it. They don’t have enough data, and they have too much data. Meanwhile, delays and errors are costing millions in lost opportunities.

E-mail, spreadsheets, collaboration, and project software do not address these problems. That’s because they are the problem. They are too slow. Too error-prone. They don’t scale. They create work. They were simply never designed for this mission.

The Solution

The solution is Integrator, a tool with just one mission: hitting more business targets, more quickly and easily, in post-merger integration, restructuring, and other complex corporate initiatives. Continuously refined for this task since 1999, Integrator is far more effective and easier to use than any combination of manual effort, e-mail, spreadsheets, project management, Sharepoint™, and other software.

No IT resources are required to support Integrator. No programming is required to customize it. Most users need no training use it. Set-up can take as little as one day. The next day, begin using Integrator’s automated communications and dashboards to accelerate progress.

Dashboards

Integrator’s flexible dashboards allow you to view and manage, in real time, all of the data your iMemos are collecting, and more. Of course, users can also enter or update data in the dashboard directly, or import it from existing spreadsheets. All new data is instantly aggregated, summarized, and reflected in your dashboard pages.

The Integrator dashboard presents data broken down and summarized at the overall, team, sub-team, and individual contributor levels. The dashboard presents a unique set of dashboard pages automatically tailored for every team and team member, and for any number of special constituencies.

Every change in team lead, member, or responsible “owner” is instantly reflected in the dashboard. At any time, know exactly who has done what, and when. Maintain complete, top-to-bottom chains of accountability. Even search detailed audit logs of nearly every user action in Integrator.

Clearly, the Integrator dashboard is powerful. But your dashboard is also intuitive to navigate and use by design. eknow further simplifies the dashboard for your users by exposing only the Integrator functionality that your organization will actually use. And each user and role (program office, team lead, executive sponsor, etc.) can see and edit only the appropriate dashboard pages and data. This partitioning happens automatically within Integrator.

The Integrator dashboard provides all of these capabilities in one place. Not just for you in the program office or executive team, but for every other team, team member, and other key constituencies in and out of your organization. Nationally or globally. 24x7. In real-time. Without chasing down and merging a single spreadsheet.

Automated Communications

Integrator’s automated communications (“iMemos”) are a simpler and more powerful way to deliver and collect any type of information. Your users need only e-mail and web access.

Each ultra-secure iMemo represents a single information task. The iMemo contains a form or editable table that is automatically tailored to each recipient. Recipients respond right in the iMemo. The responses go straight into Integrator.

iMemos eliminate training and adoption hurdles by stripping each task to its essentials, and delivering it on a silver platter via e-mail. The result is much higher response rates, lower error rates, and faster overall turn-around.

Use iMemos to quickly collect or update team rosters, missions, targets, plans, activity owners, status updates, baselines, head count changes, financial measures, file attachments, and other team data.

But iMemos are not just for data calls to your functional teams. iMemos can also perform any large scale data collection required by your merger, restructuring, or cost-reduction processes. Collect client or sales data from the entire field. Collect decisions or approvals from managers. Collect compliance agreement, asset data, site data, documents, and more.

With iMemos, get your results back in record time with record compliance rates and higher data quality. The power and simplicity of Integrator iMemos is not available from any other solution.