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HP transforms complex M&A with data, analytics, and AI

Dynamic new suite of tools helps empower client to accelerate complex transactions and optimize value

Client

HP

Industry

Technology

Primary goal

Accelerate M&A integration activities and results

Technology

Custom business intelligence enablement platform incorporating data, analytics, and AI

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are notoriously complex transactions, with deal value often dragged down by unexpected details and delays. Our client, technology leader HP, wanted to streamline M&A complexity鈥攁nd eliminate surprises鈥攂y harnessing the power of advanced technologies and robust data. To make it happen, 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 worked with HP to develop a suite of new tools, including predictive models, automations, artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) applications, and real-time data. This new platform has enabled HP to accelerate the complex integration processes on recent acquisitions, more rapidly achieve deal value, and transform its go-forward approach to M&A.

KEY OUTCOMES

Making a measurable difference

  • Millions of dollars in efficiency gains to date
  • More than 50 AI-powered process automations to streamline integration tasks
  • Real-time tracking and testing capabilities for enhanced decision-making
  • New budget modeling tool based on more than 650 historical transactions

Client transformation journey

Click on each part of the journey to learn more about our client鈥檚 transformation.

This dynamic new tech platform has elevated our approach to M&A. We have powerful new budgeting and scenario-modeling tools, and we鈥檙e able to track ongoing integrations with very detailed KPIs in real time. We鈥檙e identifying risks and opportunities sooner, accelerating results, and delivering deal value more rapidly.

Julie Lathrop

Head of IT Risk Management, HP

Stacy Lewis Solheim Cup US Team Captain

You can unlock more value with AI.

See how 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 worked with HP to develop a new suite of tools leveraging data, analytics, and AI to accelerate complex transactions and optimize value.

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Voiceover: M&A integration can be complex. Together, 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 and HP are making it easier by harnessing automation technologies.

Diletta D鈥橭nofrio: We optimized problem solving and sped up integration, aligning with HP鈥檚 focus on innovation.

Kristen Walthall: Our collaboration has elevated the M&A experience by using smart technology and data solutions, we鈥檝e significantly improved visibility, traceability, and accountability every step of the way.

Julie Lathrop: The growth value behind this partnership is clear, and the progress that we鈥檝e seen emphasizes our strong potential.

Voiceover: HP engaged 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网, who assembled a global team of specialists to identify strategic opportunities, using AI to tackle the complexities of M&A integration.

Diletta D鈥橭nofrio: Together we have integrated customized data insights and leveraged AI to transform and accelerate real-time tracking, testing, and budgeting.

Kristen Walthall: We deployed advanced tech solutions to evaluate and meet operational, business and employee needs. This reshaped processes, enhanced decision-making, and set new standards in M&A efficiency.

Julie Lathrop: Teaming with 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 was an opportunity to further HP鈥檚 digital transformation. It drove productivity, innovation, and accelerated discovery throughout the integration process.

Voiceover: 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 and HP tapped into data, tech, and innovation, unlocking the power of AI to significantly improve the M&A process, advancing the way we handle integrations now and in the future.

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How 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 helped HP build a platform to optimize M&A

HP engaged 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 to support some of its pre- and post-close finance needs related to its acquisition of an American multinational corporation. Our cross-functional teams鈥攊ncluding leading specialists from finance, deal advisory and strategy, and technology services and innovation鈥攚ere quickly able to deliver value. But we also identified opportunities to streamline essential activities across the entire transaction portfolio, leveraging our experience with advanced technologies. This approach was delivered through three interconnected, agile initiatives, which continue to steadily add capabilities and help optimize performance in each of the platform鈥檚 three core pillars:

  1. Smart integration management office (IMO) reporting
  2. Integration KPIs and synergy tracking
  3. AI enablement and automations.

The integrated platform is anchored by technologies that include 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网-developed AI algorithms, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, SAP GRC, and more.

Here鈥檚 a closer look at each of the three pillars:

Pillar 1: Smart IMO

The platform helps optimize integration activities and elevates IMO reporting through enhancements like:

  • Real-time status reports that connect project management tools into a single source
  • Drill-down reporting on causes of delays or missed milestones
  • Overall program risk management profile via severity, probability, and other estimates
  • Bottoms-up risk monitoring that surfaces risks and issues from workstream-level logs
  • Single source for all reporting鈥攔egardless of the output or format鈥攙ia a data lake that aggregates all required data
  • Embedded collaboration and communications tools for increased transparency and accountability
  • Consistent real-time reporting templates that range from single-page executive summaries all the way through to detailed project status reports and program RAID logs聽

Pillar 2: Integration KPIs and synergy tracking

The platform helps integration teams identify and track KPIs with features like:

  • Goal and target setting, with top-down targets based on historical performance and benchmarks
  • Integration costs and budget management, with actual versus plan measurements to monitor trends and set revised goals when needed
  • Real-time operational KPIs via connected enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems across all entities to monitor bookings, shipments, aging, and more
  • Revenue synergies driven by real-time monitoring from ERPs, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, and other tools to track revenue pipeline against new products or solutions, bundled solutions, or specific customers and geographies
  • Cost synergies by monitoring headcount and related costs; efficiency KPIs, such as productivity per employee and asset utilization; selling, general, and administrative expenses; and more

Pillar 3: AI and automations

The platform is anchored by more than 50 (and growing) reusable automations that absorb a wide range of time-draining tasks and enable this dynamic new platform to help improve the quality and efficiency of integration activities across the entire M&A lifecycle. A sampling of these automations includes tools that capture and track data around workstreams, trading structures, compliance requirements, inventory transfers, quotes to cash, records to report, and many more.

This growing automation suite empowers three dynamic new GenAI applications:

  • Test case generator: This tool delivers AI-generated test cases based on a wide range of potential requirements, with full traceability and readiness, which enable rapid scenario testing and modeling.
  • IMO risk and dependency management: This AI model can recommend risk, dependency, and plan management optimizations via a predictive model that analyzes data from meeting transcripts, project plans, reports, and dashboards.
  • Integration budgeting tool: This GenAI application can create highly informed integration budget models that enable a wide range of scenario comparisons. The model is trained by data from more than 650 transactions, prior HP integrations, and external benchmarks. This powerful new capability can provide insights on active transactions or transformation initiatives鈥攁nd it also allows HP to build robust budget models for any potential new acquisitions or large-scale initiatives.

Insight to opportunity: The new rules of M&A

Achieving success from M&A and similar large-scale initiatives can be notoriously difficult.聽But for an innovation leader like HP, settling for 鈥渃lose鈥� just won鈥檛 cut it. The company is always looking for new and better ways to maximize enterprise performance and growth opportunities. And the 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网-developed platform has delivered that for HP, and then some. What began as an agile project to accelerate results from a single acquisition has now developed into a robust new advanced technology platform that can manage and optimize a wide range of complex, large-scale enterprise initiatives鈥攄elivering an ongoing return on investment that would make any M&A veteran proud.

Meet the team that is helping HP navigate complex M&A transactions

Our extensive technology experience鈥攊ncluding AI, GenAI, advanced algorithms, predictive models, and process automations鈥攊s embedded across all of our teams and can support the entire M&A lifecycle. That allows us to deliver the right people and technologies you need to improve results from every step of your M&A journey. Reach out to learn how we can help you elevate your approach to M&A.

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Diletta D'Onofrio
Partner, Advisory, 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 US
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S. Singh Mecker
Principal, US Enterprise Solutions Leader & Global Lead Partner, 乐鱼(Leyu)体育官网 US

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