Full Program Delivery
End-to-end post-acquisition data integration programs. Entity mapping through Gold certification and handover. Fixed scope with clear success criteria and delivery milestones.
M&A Data Engineering
Every acquisition closed.
The data never integrated.
We build the canonical data foundation your post-acquisition estate needs for reporting, for analytics, and for AI.
Sound Familiar?
Three patterns that appear after every deal closes.
AI initiatives stall after acquisitions not from lack of ambition. From data that was never made ready.
The same entity has three names. None of them match.
KUNNR in SAP. PARTY_ID in Oracle. An unnamed field in the acquired ERP. Bronze lands three versions of the same customer. Silver was never built to resolve it.
Multi-Entity FragmentationThe board asks one question. Finance produces three answers.
Revenue in SAP. Gross in Oracle. Pending reconciliation in the third entity. Nobody is wrong. The conformance layer that makes them agree was never funded.
Transactional Data TrapThe AI initiative was funded. The model has not been trained once.
Six months after the AI budget was signed, the team is still preparing data. The canonical model was never built. A model cannot train on data that disagrees with itself.
Unresolved Foundation GapTwo weeks. Source schemas inventoried. Key collisions identified. Canonical model drafted. Ingestion contracts written. You see the full scope before any pipeline work begins.
The Engineering Spine
Entity resolution through governance. One continuous thread.
Treating these as separate projects is how lineage breaks and AI programs stall after acquisitions.
01 / RESOLVE
Entity mapping first.
What does each ERP call a customer, a transaction, a product? Key collisions identified before any pipeline is built.
02 / INGEST
Immutable Bronze per source.
Each ERP gets its own ingestion path and schema contract. SAP lands as SAP. Oracle lands as Oracle. No forced merge at landing.
03 / CONFORM
Silver. Where the debt is paid.
One customer key, one product definition, one revenue standard across all acquired entities. The layer that was never funded.
This is where four weeks of the program live.
04 / CERTIFY
Gold when tests say safe.
Portfolio performance, consolidated revenue, acquisition reporting. One certified number. Published only when ownership and tests confirm it.
05 / GOVERN
Lineage, contracts, handover.
Governance runs in the pipeline. Artifacts your platform owners can operate after handover. Not governance-in-a-deck.
Bronze ingestion through Gold certification with lineage and tests. You see delivery mechanics before committing wider funding.
Layer the Lakehouse
Medallion architecture for multi-ERP estates.
Bronze, Silver, and Gold are separation of concerns. Skipping Silver to move faster means debugging conformance failures in production.
01
Bronze
Land as it arrived. One ingestion path per ERP source.
Immutable landing with full audit trail. Schema-on-read where needed. Replay when upstream schemas change after the acquisition closes. SAP stays SAP. Oracle stays Oracle.
02
Silver
Conform and cleanse. One definition across all acquired entities.
KUNNR, PARTY_ID, and the unnamed field resolve to one customer key. Every dimension conformed against the canonical model. This is where post-acquisition data debt gets paid, not passed downstream.
The layer that was never funded. This is what we build.
03
Gold
Curated. Certified. Published when safe.
Certified portfolio metrics, BI marts, API interfaces, model feature pipelines. Published only when ownership and conformance tests confirm they are safe. The board asks. Finance answers. Same number. Same day.
Bronze to Silver or Silver to Gold for a single entity family with lineage and automated conformance checks. Stakeholders see how layers behave before you scale spend.
AI in Data Engineering
Five agents built for M&A integration programs.
Each agent has a narrow job. Together they compress definition, ingestion, and conformance work always inside your review gates.
Extraction Agent
Maps schemas across all acquired ERP environments. Flags key collisions and missing fields before ingestion contracts are written.
Maps sources, prepares ingestion patterns, flags scope and security boundaries.Modelling Agent
Proposes canonical model keys across conflicting entity definitions. KUNNR, PARTY_ID, unnamed fields reviewed against schema rules before any merge to production.
Proposes keys, types, and conformed shapes. Output reviewed, not auto-merged.Migration Agent
Parity checks across multi-ERP cutover environments. Cutover risk visible before each entity goes live.
Path design, script drafts, parity checks. Cutover risk visible before go-live.Quality Agent
Surfaces conformance drift and entity resolution failures against the canonical model. Routes to data owners, not silent fixes.
Surfaces anomalies and drift against declared rules. Routes to data owners.Analysis Agent
Profiles join health across multi-entity Bronze layers. Identifies which Silver conformance work to prioritise first.
Profiling of freshness, cardinality, and join health across datasets.AI
Orchestrator
Coordinated intelligence within your review gates
Compress profiling and contract drafting for one acquisition entity inside your review gates. See velocity and governance together before scaling to the full estate.
What to Expect
A typical post-acquisition program.
Timelines vary by number of source entities, platform, and access to source system owners. Discovery pilots available to validate before wider funding.
Phase 1
2 weeks
Discovery and Entity Mapping
- Source schemas inventoried across all acquired entities
- Key collisions and field gaps identified
- Canonical data model drafted
- Ingestion contracts written per ERP source
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Phase 2
6–10 weeks
Bronze Ingestion and Silver Conformance
- All ERP sources landing in Bronze with separate ingestion paths
- Silver conformance built entity by entity against canonical model
- Quality tests and conformance rules running in the pipeline
- Data owners reviewing and signing off each Silver layer
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Phase 3
4 weeks
Gold Certification and Handover
- Certified metrics published: revenue, performance, portfolio reporting
- Runbooks, lineage views, and contracts transferred to platform owners
- Repeatable framework documented for future acquisitions
Platform Execution
Built on the platform your estate runs on.
Platform selection is driven by workload fit, cost, and compliance constraints.
We assess workload fit, cost, and residency constraints across all major platforms then recommend based on your estate. Share your environment and we will respond within one business day.