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M&A Due Diligence & Workload Migration Engine

M&A Playbook Enterprise Migration


1. Mergers & Acquisitions Strategic Framework

Healthcare systems scale rapidly through regional hospital acquisitions and joint venture partnerships. Integrating disparate legacy infrastructure into the Mosaic Azure Landing Zone within aggressive 90-day timeframes requires a standardized, repeatable engineering engine.

The Mosaic M&A Workload Migration Engine bridges the gap between pre-close technical due diligence, cyber risk quarantine, 5-R workload rationalization, and zero-downtime clinical EHR cutovers.

graph LR subgraph "Phase 1: Pre-Acquisition Discovery" Discovery["Technical Discovery
• Active Directory Topology
• SAN/Storage Latency
• Network CIDRs
• Legacy Tech Debt Score"] end subgraph "Phase 2: Quarantine & Staging" Quarantine["Network Quarantine
• Transit VPC Isolated Subnet
• Defender for Cloud Agent Scan
• Overlapping NAT Mapping"] end subgraph "Phase 3: 5-R Rationalization" Rationalize{"5-R Decision Engine"} Rehost["Rehost (IaaS Migrate)"] Replatform["Replatform (PaaS Container)"] Refactor["Refactor (Cloud-Native API)"] Retain["Retain (Isolated Edge)"] Retire["Retire (Decommission)"] end subgraph "Phase 4: Wave Cutover" Cutover["Automated Wave Sequencer
Phase 0: Foundation & DNS
Phase 1: Non-Prod & ERP
Phase 2: Core Clinical EHR"] end Discovery --> Quarantine Quarantine --> Rationalize Rationalize --> Rehost --> Cutover Rationalize --> Replatform --> Cutover Rationalize --> Refactor --> Cutover Rationalize --> Retain Rationalize --> Retire

2. Core Playbook Components

  • Due Diligence Technical Checklist
    Comprehensive 8-pillar technical audit framework assessing Active Directory domain functional levels, virtualization hypervisors (VMware ESXi / Hyper-V), SAN storage throughput, public cloud assets, and regulatory compliance liabilities.
  • Wave Migration Sequencer & Rollback Triggers
    Step-by-step cutover orchestration model outlining dependency grouping, wave scheduling, real-time database replication synchronization, pre-flight gate criteria, and automated rollback triggers.