Availant, Inc./Lakeview Technology
North Shore Network Provides Due Diligence Support and Post-Merger Integration

About Availant and Lakeview Technology
The acquisition of Availant, Inc. by Lakeview Technology marked a huge step forward in the advancement of high availability, disaster recovery, data replication and clustering solutions across the OS/400, Windows, UNIX and Linux operating environments. Each company brings over a decade of high availability expertise into a partnership that now offers customers a single vendor who can simplify the complexity of the IT infrastructure and deliver a high return on investment in a short period of time.

Business Challenge
Availant called in North Shore Network to support their IT due diligence effort. North Shore Network conducted a methodical inventory of Availant's infrastructure, preparing them for the rigorous investigation that accompanies all due diligence efforts.

The Solution
The information gathered by North Shore Network facilitated discussions between the companies, providing detailed reports that:

• Identified Availant's core assets
• Identified and assessed operational systems
• Reported the status of IT projects
• Evaluated Availant's infrastructure
• Reviewed Availant's business continuity plan
• Identified the total cost of operation
  

The investigation produced a report that billed Availant as a top-notch IT shop. Not surprisingly, Lakeview Technology was impressed with North Shore Network's role in the project and solicited further help to design and implement the plan for a company systems merger.

North Shore Network facilitated a smooth transition, working with Lakeview and Availant employees to:

• Migrate Availant's messaging system from Exchange to Lotus Notes
• Unify corporate HR systems
• Integrate asset tracking systems
• Combine finance database records
• Incorporate a unified telephone system
• Standardize the disaster recovery process