Information technology integration checklist of over 200 items that covers discovery and analysis of infrastructure and applications, infrastructure and applications plans, and harmonization of systems.

Complete pre-close assessment of systems
Discovery - Infrastructure in these Areas
  Infrastructure - Alpha
  Desktop (e.g. Laptops, physical devices)
  Collaboration (e.g. Email, MS Teams)
  Digital Workplace (e.g. Citrix)
  Unified Communications (e.g. Telephony)
  Infrastructure Security
  Threat & Vulnerability
  Network
  Infrastructure - Bravo
  Access Management
  Data & Application Security
  Compute
  Storage
  Web/Middleware
  Database
  Service Desk
  Infrastructure - Charlie
  Risk & Compliance
  Asset Management
  Data Center Management
  CICD Pipeline
  DR/BCP
  ITOM (e.g. Monitoring, CMDB)
  ITSM (e.g. Incident, Problem, Change)
  Service Management Platforms (e.g. ServiceNow)
  Architecture and Engineering
  Portfolio/Project Management
  Finance (e.g. cost of Technology)
Discovery - Applications
  Entity Management
  KYC
  Order Fulfillment/Order Entry
  Client Portal
  CRM
  Onboarding
  Applications - Bravo
  Identity and Access Management
  Order Fulfillment/Order Entry
  Risk Assessment/Screening
  Loan Administration
  Document Management
Analysis - Infrastructure
  Desktop (e.g. Laptops, physical devices)
  Collaboration (e.g. Email, MS Teams)
  Digital Workplace 
  Unified Communications (e.g. Telephony)
  Infrastructure Security
  Threat & Vulnerability
  Network
  Access Management
  Data & Application Security
  Compute
  Storage
  Web/Middleware
  Database
  Service Desk
  Risk & Compliance
  Asset Management
  Data Center Management
  CICD Pipeline
  DR/BCP
  ITOM (e.g. Monitoring, CMDB)
  ITSM (e.g. Incident, Problem, Change)
  Service Management Platforms (e.g. ServiceNow)
  Architecture and Engineering
  Portfolio/Project Management
  Finance (e.g. cost of Technology)


The above is a sample. The rest of the file in Excel can be downloaded by Merger Integration Certification Workshop attendees and MergerIntegration site subscribers.

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