{"id":218633,"date":"2026-05-21T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:45:14","slug":"how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI Speeds Up Post-Merger IT Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cio\/2026\/05\/21\/how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration\/\">How AI Speeds Up Post-Merger IT Integration<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cio\/2026\/05\/21\/how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cio\/2026\/05\/21\/how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 12:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are 5 key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Use of AI in M&amp;As<\/strong>: Bonterra CEO Scott Brighton discusses how AI is helping to speed up the integration process after mergers and acquisitions, by enabling a full code-based review and more efficient due diligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bonterra&#8217;s Growth Through Acquisitions<\/strong>: Bonterra has grown by acquiring companies like OneCause and Deed, and AI helps manage the complexity involved in merging software and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Technology and Due Diligence<\/strong>: AI provides access to a bigger sample of an acquisition target&#8217;s code base and contracts, allowing a more complete review of integration work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Accelerates Integration<\/strong>: AI reduces the time typically needed for mergers and acquisitions from 12-18 months to around six months.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Impact on Acquisitions<\/strong>: Brighton advises to understand and sustain special unique elements of a company&#8217;s business that differ from one&#8217;s own, while integrating everything else as quickly as possible with the help of AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How AI Speeds Up Post-Merger IT Integration https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cio\/2026\/05\/21\/how-ai-speeds-up-post-merger-it-integration\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21 12:15:00 Source Domain: www.forbes.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a0f2e9e5496d7a125bd3e6e\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218635,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218633\/revisions\/218635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}