Who Uses EKNOW M&A Tools?
Corporate M&A Clients
These EKNOW M&A Tools clients include (1) the corporate development team, to manage a series of projects; and (2) the integration project team, to tackle a single large project.
M&A Consultants
These are management consultant firms who use M&A Tools to underpin a high-performance M&A practice toolkit. Each client engagement has a fully dedicated M&A Tools system. For these clients the EKNOW team collaborates with the consultant team, rather than the end client, to fulfill the client’s requirements (see Support).
For Corporate Development
EKNOW’s corporate development clients leverage the platform to manage a portfolio of projects. The most common transaction types for these clients are acquisitions, mergers, licensing, and divestitures. Joint ventures, investments, and custom-defined deal types are also managed.
Corporate Development clients may use M&A Tools for any stages from target identification through diligence, closing, and e.g. integration. However all EKNOW clients are unique. No two use the same combination of modules, deal phases, or workflows.
For Integration/Transformation
EKNOW’s Integration & transformation clients leverage the M&A Tools platform for a single large project, rather than a portfolio of transactions.
The most common project types for these clients are post-merger integration (PMI), reorganization, synergy capture, and splits or divestitures.
These client projects range from just under one year, to three or more years in duration.
Client Deal Sizes
Industries
Tool Use
Sample EKNOW clients by industry
Consumer Goods
- Anheuser Busch InBev
- Coca Cola Japan
- Coca Cola European Partners
- Fortune Brands
- General Mills
- Hanesbrands
- McGraw Hill
- Newell Rubbermaid
- Suzano
- Toro
- Verso Paper
Financial
- Aetna
- AIA
- AMP
- Assurant
- AXA
- BDO Canada
- BM&F / BOVESPA
- DST Systems
- First Gulf Bank
- Monument Re
- Saudi British Bank
Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals
- Abbott Labs
- Advocate Aurora Health
- Banfield Pet Hospitals
- Blue Pearl Vets
- Kentucky One
- Penn State Health
- HealthExtras
- INC Research
- Integra
- Lifescan
- Medical Solutions
- Medtronic
- Novartis
- Oberthur
- Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network
- Specialty Dental Brands
- Summit Health – CityMD
- US Radiology
Industrial Goods, Raw Materials
- ArcelorMittal
- Agrium – Potash
- Beacon Roofing Supply
- Boeing
- LyondellBasell
- Momentive
- NCI – Ply Gem
- Pertamina
- PVS Chemicals
- SIKA
- W.W. Grainger
Services, Media, Entertainment
- Aramark
- Accor
- Assurant
- CBS – Viacom
- Convergint Technologies
- Elbit Systems of America
- Fidelity Engineering
- Genesys
- ManTech
- Red River
- SAIC
- Terrapure
- The Stepping Stones Group
- TWDC
- Worley-Parsons
Technology
- Agilent Technologies
- Altra Motion
- Avaya
- Dialog
- Dolby Labs
- JDSU
- Keysight Technologies
- Littelfuse
- Mirion Technologies
- Mitel Networks Corp.
- MKS Technologies
- SanDisk
- SMS
- TE Connectivity
- Ulteig
- Vodafone
Utilities, Energy
- UIL
- Enel
- Oman Oil
- Qmerit
- Summit Ridge Energy
What EKNOW clients are saying
This is a phenomenal tool!
I wholeheartedly recommend EKNOW!
CD/IMO
VP, Business Operations, Government Contractor
Very powerful solution and platform.
Consulting Team
President
EKNOW is by far the best.
Has the most robust functionality.
Very impressed with the platform.
This is great, and definitely something that we definitely need, on both the diligence and integration side. Very impressed with the platform.
Beautiful! Great work!
Amazing what you guys have done since the last time we saw it. Beautiful! Great work!
This is way better than other M&A management tool.
I think it’s impressive and something we really need.
You guys have thought through this all and obviously put a lot of work in. It shows.
Easy to navigate.
You don’t have to hunt around to find what you put in there.
You guys are awesome!
Appreciate the quick turnaround! You guys are awesome!
This is a phenomenal tool!
I wholeheartedly recommend EKNOW!
Pretty impressed with what you’ve developed here,
and the robustness and comprehensiveness of everything you’ve set up.
This solution is the best I have seen
to manage workflow, monitor metrics, and create a collaborative environment that manages actions, issues, and related documents.
Love the simplicity of the use,
so that people don’t go, “Ugh, I don’t want to use that.”
Amazing!
EKNOW team coached us on what would work and what wouldn’t work.
They were straightforward about its uses.
Thanks for the ultra-fast turnaround!
Thanks for the ultra-fast turnaround!
Looks good!
Thank you for getting the updates done early.
Thanks for the update and effort given to meet the client’s needs.
Truly appreciated, and the enhancements noted below will be nice additions to the system.
The whole team here really appreciates your responsiveness
and willingness to answer our questions! Thank you again!
Appreciate the quick feedback!
I’m happy to use your way of calculating progress (especially given that it already exists)!
You really make us feel like a preferred customer.
Thank you. You really make us feel like a preferred customer. It is a pleasure to work with your team.
Your adaptability as a group is wonderful!
You all are great teammates to work with as you are quick to provide me with any information or education necessary… Your adaptability as a group is wonderful!
… perfect!
Quick reaction to the revisions you made to the team highlights and executive report… perfect!
You have done a fantastic job.
Thank you both very much for the effort these past two weeks. My colleague and I think you have done a fantastic job.
I am truly happy working with you guys again.
The system looks really good and it appears that you and your team have done a phenomenal job developing it further ever since my team last used it. I am truly happy working with you guys again.
We really appreciate all the time and effort you’ve put into helping
We really appreciate all the time and effort you’ve put into helping us customize the client system.
A huge upgrade over what we are currently doing.
You’ve got everything we need. The product looks great.
Progress has been fantastic
and we are excited to see that the major components are falling into place.
That is huge.
Very nice taxonomy of information for each deal. That is huge.
Amazing! And it is pre-populated with data from the prior week, which is awesome.
Appreciate the timely response!!
What stands out is how you can reach out to people who aren’t part of the core team…
you guys have really thought through that aspect!
Very powerful solution and platform.
I haven’t seen anything in the market that is anywhere near EKNOW.
Consulting Team
Engagement Manager, M&A Consulting firm
The user interface looks just fantastic.
It’s very clean. I like it. … The user interface looks just fantastic.
CD/IMO
Managing Director, Strategy & Business Development
Tool is really valuable…
especially the start to finish capability.
This is a great management tool
… really save time and enable the core team to close more deals!
This solution saved our department time,
which translated into money saved, by building a reusable, yet scalable, business process solution.
This is what we are looking for!
This brings everything into one system: Pipeline, document room, worksheets.
Looks great. Thanks!
Overall project workplan split by country – looks great. Thanks!
Looks great! It’s spot on what we wanted!
We have a meeting with our client IMOs later today and will let you know their feedback! Thanks a lot in advance for all the help.
I haven’t seen anything in the market that is anywhere near EKNOW.
It’s visually very appealing and very easy to use.
That’s a huge plus. A big benefit compared to another M&A management tool.
It’s so great working with you all,
I need something – and you make it!
Pure magic! Yes it looks great.
Thank you for everything. Have a great weekend!
Thanks again for your constant support,
we know we’ve been quite demanding and you guys have been very helpful and responsive, so thank you for that!
Fantastic!
Thanks for the quick turnaround! It’s working.
Thank you for making this happen!
The feature is great.
It’s impressive; a real step forward.
The user interface is highly intuitive and easy to use.
Clearly there’s things on here that are definitely ahead
of some of the internal things we’re doing today.
I’m sold!
This is exactly what my Director of New Business Integration asked me to find.
The user interface looks just fantastic.
It’s very clean. I like it. … The user interface looks just fantastic.
We really like the dashboard reports, ability to drill down, etc.
Makes it easy on the seller part
so they don’t have to learn a software to do what we need them to do.
None of the other options have everything that we’re looking for. Yours does.
It’s basically up to us how sophisticated we want to be with it.
I can already feel the improvements… and the reporting tiles are great!
It’s really exciting to see and interact with the new Integrator. I can already feel the improvements… and the reporting tiles are great!
One of our issues back then was the UX. You have really addressed that in spades!
One of our issues back then was the user experience. You have really addressed that in spades!
I like it; great…
the easiest to use…
We really enjoy that it shows both the pipeline and the NDA functionality.
We really enjoy that it shows both the pipeline and the NDA functionality.
The competition is more of a database. Doesn’t have the same functionality as EKNOW.
The competition just has these cards without as much ability to drill down or to interact with other people.
Huge end-to-end process speed increases, cost reductions,…
Our company has worked with EKNOW, Inc. for over 8 years, obtaining huge end-to-end process speed increases, cost reductions, quality of decision-making, and clarity of accountability.
M&A Tools helped us maximize the value of this deal
From day one we were amazed by how easy the system was to use and how quickly we were achieving synergies. M&A Tools helped us maximize the value of this deal and we would never have been able to accomplish so much in so little time without it.
EKNOW M&A Tools vastly exceeded our high expectations.
We had an exceptionally high rate of adoption and you and your staff contributed immensely to our success. Your advice was right on target and solid at every turn. Our experience with you, your company, and the EKNOW M&A Tools vastly exceeded our high expectations.
The EKNOW team is like a consulting extension of our department.
The shared software and communications knowledge of the team at EKNOW is remarkable… the EKNOW team is like a consulting extension of our department.
They actually made changes to the software to make it do what we needed
The EKNOW team did not tell us that what we wanted was impossible – they actually made changes to the software to make it do what we needed as our business needs changed.
There are things you’ve built into the system that I don’t think other M&A management tool has,
especially around risks & issues and communications.
An extremely robust tool.
Great use cases where a robust tool like this would make a lot of sense.
The project is going well on our side!
Closing date is coming very fast and clients are intensely using the tool. And the more they use it, the easier it gets on our side!
Thank you so much for assisting our consulting lead so late at night;
we appreciate your willingness to help during this critical time for the client team.
This really hits all the things we are looking for.
Consulting CD/IMO
VP, Financial Planning & Analysis
I’m very impressed with the EKNOW platform.
CD/IMO
Managing Director, Strategy & Business Development
I can see the value of the EKNOW tool.
It really meets our needs. I like it a lot.
Amazing! Thanks EKNOW team!!
The filter is super useful.
You have a nice, high-level dashboard.
This looks perfect!!
You really are customer-centric!
This really hits all the things we are looking for.
Very powerful tool.
A huge time saver.
I view this, very selfishly, as a huge time saver.
I’m very impressed with the EKNOW platform.
Thanks for prompt reply,
Your answer was quite helpful.
… inject steroids into our process.
No doubt this would … inject steroids into our process.
… it was really easy to filter and modify batches of contracts!
Thanks again for all of your help with the database. I was using it after our call, and it was really easy to filter and modify batches of contracts!
Service support of the technology and tool gets an A+.
Consistency, reliability, and incredible economic delivery to customers can be counted on each time.
Attractive and flexible.
You’re definitely hitting all the right elements.
What I really liked about what you guys have is the ability to send a template out
and say, “Hey, you guys fill this in” so I don’t have to.
Slick.
I wanted to let you know that I really appreciated your quick responses
… and working behind the scenes isolating the cause of the client IT problem and looking at alternate solutions. … – It really helped them figure out the issue quickly. Thank you!!!
Their tool provides an unique, user-friendly mechanism…
The EKNOW solution has enabled our company to automate data collection and reporting on legal compliance issues. Their tool provides an unique, user-friendly mechanism for us to increase knowledge and capture accountability across the globe.
It allowed us to keep the same staff, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
Our partnership with EKNOW has given the Compliance team added credibility by allowing us to report back to our stakeholders the status of implementations around the globe.
This is great!
Thanks to the team. This is great!
This is awesome!
EKNOW brings M&A related workflow into the 21st Century.
This solution can help both the Corporate Development and Integration teams improve performance and give leadership the true oversight needed to monitor the status of a transaction’s key issues, actions, metrics and documents.
I like the ability for the owner to filter and create ad hoc reports.
A big positive.
Thanks so much, this looks great,
love the custom logo.
ROI material was very helpful in building the business case.
Working with EKNOW has made my life much easier!
Consulting Team
Principal, Marketing and brand management consulting company
Thanks for always taking good care of us.
We appreciate that.
CD/IMO
Director, Corp Dev, Telecom Instrument company
EKNOW has impressed me with their creativity in finding solutions to complex issues
and responsiveness to some very last minute needs and incredible attention to detail.
Overall, comprehensive. Meets all of our needs.
Overall pretty good and comprehensive. Really liked it; touched on almost every need.
Easy to navigate!
People with all kinds of technical abilities can use this tool.
Useful in bringing departments outside the team into our business process.
In addition to communicating information, document storage and multiple sites / dashboards to share reposed data.
Thanks for always taking good care of us.
We appreciate that.
Working with EKNOW has made my life much easier!
We like the interaction with sellers….
This will be a big help!
Thanks, This will be a big help!
Thanks for the ultra fast turnaround.
you really saved the day!
Thank you so much for all of the help last night – you really saved the day!
I like the flexibility!
I like the flexibility. It addresses our needs!
It is super helpful
that you can attach documents directly to the tasks.
We’re up to 95.81% complete.
We will track down the remaining 4.19% ASAP.
All the tools are here.
Really like your taxonomy for each deal
… and that is huge.
…very excited about the diligence section
and the ability to have discussions with other people.
Don’t have to learn the software – a big plus.
I like having sharp images to use
in executive reports!
Legend, thanks!
You are so great.
Thank you!
We have always been able to reach our dedicated support person
Any time we have required a change or had a question, we have always been able to reach either our dedicated support person or another member of the EKNOW team to assist.
I really appreciate the help to make sure we fully understood the impact.
Thank you. I’ll get you that info. I really appreciate the help to make sure we fully understood the impact.
…we’re excited to show how powerful and useful the iMemo’s can be for our business.
Thank you very much for sending out this information it was very informative and we’re excited to show how powerful and useful the iMemo’s can be for our business.
Not only help realize my own vision, but also to provide guidance and consultation…
The EKNOW team’s product and business knowledge enables them to not only help realize my own vision, but also to provide guidance and consultation regarding communication strategy.
If this tool was available at that time, it would have been a game-changer.
As a top consulting firm Business Transformation executive directing a large merger a few years ago, this tool would have dramatically improved the ease, speed and economics of the largest merger in the US at that time. The EKNOW tool has lasting impact on both M&A and Program Management capabilities and results delivery.
I would recommend EKNOW to anyone…
having a need to manage integration projects whether they are highly complex, multi-national acquisitions or simple, single-site integrations.