M&A: How technology can help integrate increasingly complex business models 0 Comments Get daily business news from the region delivered straight to your inbox I agree to the terms and conditions SIGN UP M&A: How technology can help integrate increasingly complex business models Driving real value from a merger or an acquisition lies within the integration and orchestration of the IT estate by Mohammed Retmi May 24, 2021 The global pandemic has driven the rapid adoption of digital business models in enterprises across many industry sectors as a means to ensure business continuity, cost efficiency, and customer engagement. It’s an essential transformation but increasing dependence on the network and digital services means that M&A activity is becoming even more of a challenge for the CIOs and ICT teams involved. The complexity of integrating ICT infrastructure, teams, services, and service providers, can be huge – and all this while dealing with all the other business issues associated with the transaction. This may be a rising challenge in the Middle East and Africa region, where M&A activity has increased by 52 per cent in Q1 2021, compared to 2020, according to