Due to the many consolidations and acquisitions in the market, conversions at ANVA are business as usual. However, the opportunities offered by such an acquisition to scrutinize the entire ICT landscape are not always adequately utilized by many companies.
According to Naomi, ANVA has now become a specialist in the field of conversions. "Conversions are business as usual with us. Yet he often sees that clients think light-heartedly in advance about the impact and time a conversion will take. A shame, he thinks. 'It's a careful process. After all, data is everything that matters. That is the heart of an organization'. He emphasizes how important it is, for example, to ensure that no contamination occurs by properly cleaning up data before conversion. The amount of work involved here is often underestimated, according to Naomi. 'You want to prevent the ANVA software from getting bigger and bigger due to contamination and employees from not being able to access the right data easily.'
What few companies realize is how much opportunity such an acquisition offers. 'There is so much more to get out of it than just a conversion.' That they do not realize this is, according to him, easily explained. An acquisition process is often very intensive, as a result of which ICT is overlooked and is mainly something that needs to be thought about after the takeover'. A missed opportunity, he thinks. "We see that parties hardly ever think about the ICT landscape of the company they are taking over. While an acquisition is precisely the moment to
in cooperation with ANVA, take a good look at the software of both companies. A takeover forces you to think about the correct set-up of ANVA and the ICT landscape, allowing you to immediately analyze how you can do this better'.
' There is so much more to get out of it than just a conversion'
Together, this is the perfect opportunity to work with ANVA to set up the entire ICT landscape as efficiently as possible. 'Because of the many partners ANVA has, we can look at different aspects of the set-up. Think, for example, of hosting and workplace management of the organization or digitizing the flow of forms and automatically archiving documents in ANVA.' According to Bob, if this only comes up during a conversion, it is often too late or it can have a major impact on the schedule. His advice is therefore to hook ANVA as early in the process as possible.
