M&A strategy automation: how 17 M&A tools use analytics

There is a challenge for M&A professionals: they often do not know all technologies that are available and could make their lives easier. This is why I defined a large set of technologies that are applicable to different tasks in the M&A process. By doing that, we can show which tools use which technologies and the distribution of technologies along the tasks of the M&A process.

Simple Analytics 

Simple analytics refers to the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to gain insights and make better decisions. Analytics can be applied to a wide range of data, including structured data from databases, as well as unstructured data from sources such as social media, text documents, and sensor data. One example is a pie chart showing the distribution of revenue among products and services.

Distribution of analytics across M&A strategy tasks

The following illustrates the proliferation of analytics technologies, which are utilized by approximately fifty percent of the tools with an emphasis on target search. This distribution also means that analytics are not used by about half of the products.

Summary

As an M&A professional, you should insist on getting analytics functionality with tools for target search.

This relates to my new book “Automation of Mergers and Acquisitions“.

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