Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions

    A Unified Approach to Migration & Archiving

    By combining migration automation with compliant archiving, Cloudficient ensures that: 

    + User-based data moves efficiently into the new environment. 
    + Non-migratable data remains accessible and compliant without bloating storage or incurring licensing fees in legacy systems. 
    + Legal & compliance teams retain complete control over journaled, indexed, and hyperlinked data. 

    Cloudficient eliminates the pain points of traditional migrations and legacy archiving, delivering a cost-effective, legally defensible, and efficient data management strategy. 

    Data Integration and Compatibility

    Merging systems from different organizations often leads to integration challenges due to incompatible data formats, structures, or platforms. Ensuring seamless data consolidation while maintaining consistency is crucial.
     

    eDiscovery and Legal Hold Complexities

    M&A events trigger extensive eDiscovery processes, requiring companies to preserve, collect, and review data for legal or compliance reasons. Handling journaled email data, hyperlinked files, and collaboration platform records presents additional complications​​. 
     
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    Retention Policies and Data Archiving

    Organizations must balance retaining historical data for compliance purposes while optimizing storage costs. Managing legacy email archives, legacy data sources, partially indexed data, and collaboration links can add complexity​​.
     

    Data Ownership and Classification

    Identifying who owns what data is often unclear, particularly in divestitures where shared systems need to be split. Mismanagement can lead to loss of critical business information or disputes over data rights​. 

    Licensing and Data Source Retirement

    Communication and collaboration systems may be retired during a merger, acquisition, or divestiture. Some data on these systems may not need to be migrated to new systems, but it must be retained for retention and discovery purposes.
     
    Legal Holds

    The Solution - Cloudficient Expireon

    During a merger, acquisition, or divestiture, data falls into two primary categories: migratable user-based data and archivable data that must be retained but unsuitable for user-based migration. Cloudficient provides solutions for both, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and seamless access for legal and IT teams. 

    Migrating Data 
    For data actively used by employees and the business, and suitable for migration, Cloudficient provides an automation-driven migration solution that ensures data integrity, compliance, and minimal business disruption. 

    Archiving Data 
    For data that cannot or should not be migrated directly to user mailboxes but must still be retained for compliance, retention policies, or legal discovery, Cloudficient offers Expireon, a next-generation, compliance-driven archiving platform

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