ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION

Securing Enterprise Architecture Integration during Merger and Acquisition (focus to Network infrastructure integration "NII")



Table of Content

Introduction3

Mergers and acquisitions5

IT synergy8

Realizing Synergy11

IT intensity11

Objective11

Research questions12

Research approach14

Thesis structure15

Literature Review16

Definition Of Enterprise Architecture16

Enterprise architecture frameworks18

Methodology20

Research variables21

Information requirements model21

Selected case studies21

Interview design22

References24

Introduction

A merger refers to a process in which two companies become one by coming together. In such a case, no one company rules over the other. Usually the management of both companies shares the control of the resultant company and names of both companies are retained for the resulting companies. There are many high profile examples of mergers - AOL Time Warner, GlaxoSmithKline (the second largest pharmaceutical company in the world after Pfizer), Hero Honda (the leading motorcycle brand in India), Sony Ericsson (the third largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world) and many others. In each of these cases, names of both companies were retained in order to leverage the equity of both brand names. Therefore simply put, mergers create a new organization out of two or more organizations of more or less equal stature, pooling all resources.

Acquisition: Acquisitions on the other hand refer to processes in which one company buys the other company. In such a situation the buying company absorbs the bought company into the existing company. Acquisitions can be carried out either to eliminate competition by absorbing the competing company or to expand the corporate portfolio by retaining the acquired company as an independent entity under the overall corporate management. This latter case is at the heart of many conglomerates. News Corp Inc acquired MySpace, the leading online networking site with an estimated 100 million registered users not in order to merge it with the other news businesses, but to expand the corporate portfolio. On the other hand Vodafone Group plc, the world's largest mobile communications network company with a market capitalization of GBP 86 billion (US$169 billion or 1.16 trillion yuan) recently acquired a 67% stake in Essar Hutchison (one of India's leading mobile phone network) for US$19 billion (130 billion yuan). The purpose of this acquisition was to enter the highly lucrative Indian mobile phone market. By this acquisition, India became Vodafone's second largest market after the US. As is evident from the many examples mentioned before, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) serve three main purposes: M&A can serve as a market entry strategy, as a corporate portfolio expansion tool and as a competitive defense mechanism

Joint Venture: Joint Venture is an approach in which two or more companies agree to pool their resources together to form a combined force in the marketplace. Unlike a merger, a joint venture does not involve the emergence of a new combined entity. Each participant in the joint venture retains their individual entity but choose to compete against competitors as a unified business force. Joint venture is a very popular form of an joint venture. Recently, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart entered into a joint venture with India's Bharti Enterprises to get a toe hold in the booming Indian retail ...