Divest IT Systems with an Experienced Partner
Ensure a smooth transition with AdaptivEdge’s IT carve-out consulting services. With dozens of successful divestiture migrations over the last decade, we have the experience to help you navigate the process, whether you’re dealing with a straightforward scenario or need to manage complex data governance and restrictive access controls.
Cover Every Aspect of Your IT Divestiture
Divestitures and carve-outs are very similar to acquisitions and mergers from a planning and migration standpoint, but divestitures often involve additional challenges due to access restrictions. The parent company often maintains strict rules about the content and environments open for access to ensure that nothing is viewed, copied, or migrated that is not explicitly part of the divestiture or carve-out agreement. While this lack of access dramatically complicates the process and may require collaborative screen-sharing sessions to overcome, your AdaptivEdge consultant can help facilitate the process from end to end and ensure your transition is as smooth as possible.
Greenfield Environments
In many divestiture scenarios, the divesting organization will operate as a new company. In these greenfield scenarios, the divesting entity needs to create IT systems and infrastructure quickly and efficiently. AdaptivEdge has helped newly formed divested organizations create and configure on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft 365 cloud environments rapidly and efficiently while meeting stringent security and compliance controls.
Data & Application Separation
Separating data and applications between the parent and divested business entity can be tricky and convoluted. Using our application and database experience, we can help query and extract the data belonging to the divested entity. We’ll then review the data with the parent organization and port it to the divested company’s new application and database structure.
Operational Continuity
Divestiture or carve-out restructurings typically involve cutover events — usually, the effective date of the event — where access to the parent entity’s environment is removed entirely. This makes it particularly important to conduct a thorough examination to ensure the inventory, migration, and data separate process is complete. If we find missed or omitted data, we’ll work with the parent organization post-cutover to fill in the gaps.
Day 2 Support
Divesting and starting over as a new company? After the cutover, you’ll probably need supplemental staffing, expertise, and support to manage and maintain your IT systems. We can provide a phased or tiered staff augmentation and operational support model to help you find time to hire, onboard, and train new employees.
Meet Your IT Carve-Out Consultant
Eddie Alvarez is a Microsoft Systems Engineer with extensive experience in storage and server technologies. He has helped many companies navigate the complexities of IT divestiture and is ready to dive into your project and work alongside your team!
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6 Steps to Successful Technology Divestiture
- We begin by working with the parent organization to conduct a thorough inventory and review of the divested entities’ identities, applications, data, and Microsoft 365 content.
- Next, we collaborate with leaders of the new entity to define a unified vision for how the organization will operate independently.
- We deploy and configure new on-premises and cloud systems to serve the new entity, leveraging cloud computing and SaaS platforms to speed up deployment time and reduce the need to buy and configure complex on-premises IT infrastructure.
- We develop a comprehensive data migration strategy to ensure the seamless transfer of critical information, working with the parent organization to schedule and execute the migration according to the permissions allowed.
- We maintain security and compliance using Microsoft 365’s security features, such as Entra ID Conditional Access and Purview Information Protection, and implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to prevent unauthorized data sharing and collaborate with legal and compliance teams to meet regulatory requirements.
- After the migration takes place, we assist in day-to-day operational support, including monitoring and optimizing the environment and hiring and training new employees to maintain the environment on an ongoing basis.
