eknow inc Announces Expansion with Additional Data Center

ARLINGTON, Virginia—March 2, 2010. eknow inc, the leading M&A tool provider, today announced the addition of a second, parallel, SAS 70 Type II data center.

“The new data center not only supports eknow’s increased client demand, but it also improves redundancy, disaster recovery, security, and system performance,” said Manuel Sanches, eknow President, Founder, and CTO.

eknow is the developer of eknow Integrator, the first and most mature, easy-to-use web-based tool for post-M&A integration, corporate development, due diligence, restructuring, and reorganizations. eknow Integrator, now at version 11.0.3, has been developed with customer and industry input since 1999.

According to CNBC, Wall Street analysts and industry experts, 2010 is set to see a significant increase in M&A activity. Yet these same experts point out that historically 50% – 75% of all M&A transactions fail to return shareholder value, due to poor integration and/or planning.

eknow Integrator tilts the odds in favor of the eknow client. Integrator’s unique design and automation make it the easiest-to-use, lowest-risk, and most cost-effective means to execute M&A and restructuring. Integrator’s ease of use enables clients to begin using the system immediately, with little or no training for most users, and no IT resources. With Integrator, even the smallest program teams can now easily manage and track far more teams, plans, contributors, data, documents, and results — even across multiple simultaneous acquisitions — with vastly less effort.

Alan Croll, eknow Chief Executive Officer added, “The demand for secure, reliable, and affordable M&A automation tools continues to rise, and this additional data center adds growth capacity and business continuity protection for all of our clients."