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The First 100 Days: IT Moves That Turn PE Deals into Winners

Jul 9, 2025

How DYOPATH turns tech chaos into your competitive edge.

The champagne hasn’t even gone flat when the real work begins. Study after study shows 70-90% of acquisitions fail to deliver their promised value, largely because integration stumbles out of the gate (HBR).

Technology is often the silent saboteur. Systems don’t talk, data is messy, users rebel. The first 100 days are make-or-break for your investment thesis, and DYOPATH exists to turn those days into measurable upside.

Tip: Stabilize Day-One Operations

Our Post-Acquisition SWAT team lands before the ink dries by: 

  • Securing access. We inventory every user, credential and privileged account across legacy domains to remove orphaned logins and “ghost” admin rights. 
  • Keeping the lights on. Network uptime, cloud interconnects, ERP, CRM—DYOPATH validates every critical path so customer-facing apps stay online while the back office changes hands. 
  • Providing early-warning telemetry. Lightweight sensors feed our 24×7 SOC, giving new owners real-time visibility into performance and threats from day zero. 

Investor takeaway: A smooth Day-One handoff protects revenue continuity and frontline morale, two KPIs analysts watch like hawks.

Tip: Hunt for Quick-Win Value Leaks

Once operations are steady, we chase low-hanging savings that bolster EBITDA fast with:

  • License rationalization. Redundant SaaS and on-prem entitlements waste 10-20% of IT OPEX at many targets. We right-size contracts and recycle savings into growth drivers. 
  • Infrastructure consolidation. Duplicate data centers, file servers and backup estates inflate run-rate costs. Our architects map migrations, often shaving six figures off annual spend. 

A recent consumer-goods roll-up realized $1.4M in year-one savings simply by eliminating overlapping backup software and renegotiating a cloud commitment. Those dollars flowed straight to IRR! 

Tip: Build a Future-Ready Architecture

Day-one triage is just step one. DYOPATH then aligns IT with your three-to-five-year value-creation plan with: 

  • Scalability by design. Whether you prefer cloud-native or hybrid, we design architectures that can bolt on the next acquisition with minimal rework. 
  • Cyber resiliency. Zero-trust principles, continuous patching and immutable backups slash breach probability (no bolt-on Band-Aids needed later!). 
  • Data readiness. We cleanse and standardize ERP, CRM and operational data so dashboards report apples-to-apples KPIs across the portfolio. 

Governance That Won’t Slow You Down

Integration PMOs tend to drown in Gantt charts. Ours uses agile scorecards: red-yellow-green snapshots of every workstream (finance, HR, ops, security) updated weekly. Talent retention is baked in: change-management pros run town-halls, FAQ sites and floor-walker clinics so employees feel informed, not blindsided.

Your PE Firm’s First-30/60/90-Day Milestones

Day 0-30 Day 31-60 Day 61-90
Access lockdown, network stability, SOC onboarding License & cloud audits, quick-win consolidations, pilot data-cleanse Target-state architecture finalized, migration waves scheduled, KPI dashboards live

Having a visible timeline reassures the board and lets deal partners report progress to LPs without diving into technical weeds.

There’s Proof in Our Performance

Whether it’s trimming 20% off annual IT OPEX, cutting integration timelines by half or shrinking help-desk tickets 40%, every metric maps back to IRR.

DYOPATH produces board-ready snapshots (bar charts, burn-rates, risk heat-maps) in plain English.

Ready to convert day-one tech chaos into measurable value? Schedule a 30-minute integration strategy session with our knowledgeable, friendly experts and hit the ground running on your next acquisition!