What all successful mergers share: Modern data integration

The article discusses the challenges of integrating data stacks and business systems during mergers and acquisitions (M&As). It highlights how modern cloud-based technologies can help organizations overcome these challenges, citing examples like Salesforce's acquisition of Slack. The article also delves into the data challenges faced by merging organizations, such as centralizing terabytes of data from various sources and streamlining operations to eliminate redundancies. It mentions how full-service managed data integration solutions can help in connecting disparate data sources quickly and efficiently without diverting engineering resources or adding operational complexity. The article concludes with an example of Autodesk Construction Services, which unified its data architecture after multiple acquisitions using a modern data stack consisting of Fivetran, Snowflake, and dbt.