Integrating acquisitions faster with a unified data platform
Specialty Manufacturing & Distribution
Acquisition/bolt-on integration
As portfolio companies grow through acquisition, new entities often introduce additional systems, data structures and reporting complexity.
With strong data foundations in place, new businesses can be integrated into the existing data platform quickly, enabling group-wide visibility without requiring disruptive ERP consolidation.
Our client had grown through acquisition, operating multiple entities across different systems and ERP environments. This fragmented landscape limited group-level visibility and created dependency on legacy ERP reporting.
DataDiligence partnered with company to establish a centralised data platform and Business Data Twin, deliberately decoupling analytics and reporting from the underlying ERP landscape. This created a single source of truth across finance, sales and operations while avoiding the need for disruptive ERP consolidation.
With this foundation in place, the company continued to pursue bolt-on acquisitions.
Accordingly, DataDiligence conducted a data integration due diligence and project blueprint to assess how the bolt-on target's systems, data structures and reporting could be integrated into our client's existing platform. The analysis confirmed that the target's NetSuite environment provided a strong transactional backbone and could be integrated into the Business Data Twin with moderate effort once master data was standardised.
Following the acquisition, DataDiligence supported the integration of the target's data into our client's platform and BI environment, mapping NetSuite data into the Business Data Twin and extending existing dashboards to incorporate the bolt-on's sales and operational data.
Because the architecture and reporting layer were already in place, integration focused on data mapping and model extension rather than rebuilding dashboards or reporting infrastructure.
This demonstrates how strong data foundations allow acquisitions to be integrated faster and with significantly lower operational disruption.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE BUSINESS
Faster onboarding of newly acquired entities into group reporting and analytics.
Improved visibility across customers, products and sales performance following acquisitions.
Ability to assess integration feasibility and plan data integration before completing acquisitions.
FUTURE READINESS
A scalable architecture allowing future bolt-on acquisitions to be integrated rapidly without ERP consolidation.