System, method, and article of manufacture for a merger and acquisition knowledgebase

摘要

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing a merger or an acquisition. A plurality of statistics are tracked relating to a merger or an acquisition for reporting purposes. Further, a plurality of decisions are stored relating to the merger or acquisition. Such decisions may be accessed by a plurality of users involved in the merger or acquisition. In addition, a plurality of items associated with the merger or acquisition are inputted into a database. Each item is associated with at least one of the users. The users may be search for the items in the database.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
tracking a plurality of statistics relating to merger and acquisition process activities for reporting purposes, including creating a plurality of status reports and workplans by a plurality of users for each merger and acquisition activity to track implementation of the merger and acquisition process, wherein each report and workplan includes a plurality of fields that includes accomplishments, goals, and issues of the merger and acquisition process; storing a plurality of decisions relating to the merger and acquisition process to be accessed by the users involved in the process, wherein the users input and update decisions as they are made for merger and acquisition process activities, including merger-wide decisions; inputting into a hypertext database a plurality of information items associated with the implementation of the merger and acquisition process, wherein each information item includes status-related data, and wherein the information items are linked bidirectionally to facilitate non-linear use of the information items in the hypertext database; searching for the information items in the database in response o n request issued by one of the users; and displaying a search result of the information items wherein the search result is ordered based on status-related data provided by one of the users.