eknow Integrator Product Tour

Complete Product & Service

eknow Integrator is a powerful yet easy to use, web-based M&A platform – a tool to streamline and accelerate M&A, improve results, and provide unprecedented top-down visibility and control. Integrator is provided as a complete, flat-fee service bundle:

Complete services bundle:

Process design, data transfer, training, launch
Ongoing assistance, modifications, and support
Integrator system hosting, administration, maintenance

Complete M&A platform:

Dashboard: Web front-end for data entry, reporting, admin
iMemos: Automate data requests, workflow, reporting
Support one corp dev team, or multiple businesses
Manage a single acquisition, or hundreds
Any M&A phase (diligence, integration etc.)
Automated data collection and validation
Automated reporting and analysis
Support dozens, hundreds, even thousands of users
Secure, compartmentalized access
Full audit trail and activity logging

Quick, Painless Transition

Adopting Integrator is painless, and takes just days – because eknow simply does the work for you. In fact, from the initial transition through ongoing assistance and support, eknow provides every service you need to succeed, for a flat, comprehensive service fee. This approach eliminates surprises, ensures that your transition is rapid and trouble-free, and ensures that Integrator remains aligned with your evolving needs in the future:

eknow service = painless transition:

Integrator 24-hr set-up
System hosting, maintenance, administration
Migrate existing data (no matter what form it's in)
Process and roll-out coaching, best practices
Key user training
"Babysitting" launch or roll-out to users
Ongoing guidance
Assistance with special initiatives
Unlimited tech support

Slash Time and Effort

eknow Integrator’s automation and simplicity allow a small management team to do the work of an army. Eliminate most administrative overhead. Manage more acquisitions, teams, employees, activities, synergies etc. with less effort. Easily manage dozens, hundreds, even thousands of contributors.

Fully automated, personalized update requests
Fully automated data collection and reporting
Built-in executive status reviews
Eliminates creating, maintaining, distributing, collecting, validating, and consolidating spreadsheets
Eliminates much process related e-mail
Eliminates lag – all updates visible in real-time
Instantly locate problems, gaps, issues
Eliminate delays required to make intervention decisions
Slash data & reporting workloads by 5X - 10X

Easy to Use

Ease of use is not a "nice-to-have." Ease of use determines user adoption success, process compliance, data quality, workload, and time available to get other work done. In other words, ease of use directly affects outcomes. eknow Integrator is the only M&A tool designed from the ground up for ease of use by everyone, not just project managers and consultants.

Dashboard users see only functionality they can use
iMemos respondents see only their own data or tasks
Most iMemo users need no training
Users enjoy the simplicity
Easier than spreadsheets and file sharing
Much easier than project management software
Easily administered by non-technical managers

Everything You Need. Only What You Need

eknow Integrator supports any and every M&A phase and activity. But sometimes less is more. In Integrator, you select just the M&A phases and activity types relevant to your organization. Unneeded functions are simply hidden from users. Incrementally adopt or phase in the functions you need, when you need them, at no additional cost.

M&A opportunity assessment
Due diligence check-lists
Document management
Pre-Close activities
Integration planning
Post-merger integration
Cost savings and revenue synergies
Issues and risks, mitigation
Head count initiatives
Transition service agreements
Special / strategic initiatives
More

Decisive, "No Brainer" ROI

eknow Integrator pays for itself almost immediately by slashing the management and/or consulting resources required to plan and execute your M&A strategy. Integrator then pays for itself again many times over by accelerating cost reductions and other integration synergies, and allowing more such synergies to be identified, implemented, and tracked.

Slash management time and effort required
Use fewer consultants and contractors
Eliminate IT resource costs
Manage more people, processes, and results with less effort
Capture more cost savings or revenue synergies
Capture cost savings/synergies more quickly
Avoid more risks and costs
Reduce employees losses due to transition
Reduce customer losses due to transition
Reduce distraction from daily operations

Secure and Compartmentalized

eknow Integrator is vastly more secure than traditional tools and methods. Integrator contains a highly automated access control system completely tailored to the unique requirements of M&A and restructuring. For example, data visibility is automatically controlled by acquisition, M&A phase, team, user, activity, document, and data field.

All user sessions authenticated
All communication with system is encrypted
All user interactions logged, reportable and auditable
Users only see acquisitions they work on
Sensitive data never emailed in attachments
Assign access levels to files, activities, more
Detailed user action logs and reports
User access easily controlled by non-technical program administrator

Easy to Buy

eknow's single, flat service fee structure covers the Integrator M&A platform and all essential services discussed above. Because eknow charges no per-user fees, clients can connect every contributor role directly into their M&A processes. Your eknow costs are low, controlled and predictable.

Single service agreement covers platform and services
Extremely cost-effective
One-time initial fee plus flat annual fee
Fee covers one entire business or corporate development organization
No per-seat charges
No per-acquisition charges
No consulting engagement required
Predictable, controlled cost
No nickel-and-diming