Capacity
You already sold the work but cannot staff it. We add senior delivery bandwidth so signed work moves forward instead of stalling. You keep ownership and we flex as needed.
Technical Mergers and Acquisitions Migrations
With companies always merging, acquiring, and divesting we have senior consultants available to plan and execute bringing two tenants together.
System Migrations are Hard, M&A Migrations are Even Harder
The average M&A migration can take around 6 to 12 months to complete, providing you have the highly skilled staff with plenty of experience in this area. Untangling two system environments under the non-negotiable legal and financial deadlines with employees and leadership expecting a seamless transition during a chaotic time.
The cherry on top is the technology piece is one of the most visible aspects across the entire restructured company. You need to bring your A-game to each and every technical system line item.
M&A Migrations Can Put a Spotlight on Even the Tiniest Oversight
Microsoft Partners are staffed with some of the most skilled workers in the technology industry. While very talented, many of these workers have never performed a tenant migration as the result of a mergers and acquisition transaction and often underestimate the massive technical complexity ahead.
The proper planning, testing, and user training, communications can mean even the sharpest teams find themselves underwater. IT resources assigned to billable client work get stretched too thin and the sheer importance of an M&A project is not the time, or place, for junior staff to learn on the job.
With no soft launches and the unforgiving nature of hard financial deadlines, you need the right depth of experience for a project of this scale and size.
Capability or Capacity, Depending on What You Need
Capability
You want to offer M&A migration services but do not have the practice today. We can add those capabilities through designing the sales approach, statements of work, and estimates, then scope and deliver the first engagements with you while training your team to sell, scope, and deliver the next one.
Acquiring Another Microsoft Partner? Our Same Team of Microsoft Experts Can Work Internally
The Microsoft Partner channel is very active with acquisitions with companies combining and merging all the time. Just like your customers, bringing two separate organizations together as one is a tightrope walk with the additional complexity of Microsoft’s administrative layer for customer handling.
Our senior consultants bring decades of experience across the Microsoft stack, built at companies including Microsoft, HP, CDW, IBM, and more that can help your company through the road ahead of compliance, risk mitigation, communication, and deployment.
Full Project Lifecycle Delivery
We handle on-premises, hybrid, and tenant-to-tenant migrations, including GCC. Our work spans Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure. This includes core areas such as user accounts, data migration, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, and so much more.
That range matters in M&A since these projects rarely stay confined to one workload. A merger that starts as an email consolidation typically expands into identity, security, device management, line-of-business applications, and cloud infrastructure.
The migration of these services must be seamless on day one so the user environment will continue to work. Our approach follows Microsoft Best Practices for every project and has been certified by a third-party auditor hired by Microsoft. That enables us to be one of the few partners on Earth with a Microsoft Specialization in this area.
Discovery
Inventory both environments, map identities, document dependencies, surface the conflicts that will cause problems later, and understand the business constraints driving the timeline.
Planning
Design the target-state environment, sequence the migration waves, define coexistence during the transition, address security and compliance differences, and build the cutover and rollback plan.
Testing
Even the best research and planning must be tested multiple times to verify the expected result is the same result every time. Our comprehensive testing spans all user personas, applications, services, and so much more.
Pilot
With testing completed, we target multiple groups of users from various departments to pilot the migration activities. We focus on the user experience, new functionality, and business impact. These lessons learned are then used to refine the migration process.
Execution
Run the migration in controlled phases with communication throughout, then validate and support the environment after cutover.
Your Merger Project is Not the Place to Improvise
The Partner Masters gives you the experience, seasoned migration experience, project management, and Microsoft depth to say yes for both internal and external M&A projects. Our team of senior consultants have completed hundreds of technical projects, know the right migration tools to use, know how to keep the engagement on track, and utilize Microsoft Best Practices for these high stakes projects.
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FAQs
The Deal is Not Public Yet, I Can’t Explain Much in the Form
That’s ok and typical in these situations. Keep it super high level and once we have NDAs in place, we’ll be able to have deeper discussions.
Will you Interact with Our Customer Directly?
That depends on how you want the engagement structured. Partners will have us working behind the scenes or as a client-facing subcontractors that work for your brand.
Additionally, we work exclusively with Microsoft Partners. We DO NOT sell direct to end customers and DO NOT market to them. Your customer relationship stays yours.
What Types of Scenarios do you Handle?
We support mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures across on-premises, hybrid, and tenant-to-tenant environments, including GCC. Our work spans Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Azure.
Do We Get a Migration Project Manager?
Yes. A dedicated migration project manager is included on every M&A engagement. Coordinating waves, communicating with business stakeholders, and managing the schedule against the deal timeline is a significant part of the work.