FAIR-M&A combines best in class software with standards to create an integrated tool, the Professional Operating Platform (POP). Standards form a common language to facilitate communication between the tools. Using existing experienced software brings safety and reliability. FAIR-M&A will enhance the platform over time with bridges between the tools and easy navigation in key information extracted from the tool.
SaaS
FAIR-M&A strongly believes in the development of Software as a Service (SaaS). IT should only be a solution to users and never a problem. Less and less organizations want to put capital expenditures in IT. They don’t want to be in charge of hosting servers, maintaining software and ensuring users support. Let’s leave this to the solutions providers now that Internet offers wide availability and increasing speed.
Safety
M&A information are always very sensitive. As strange as it may appear, putting M&A information on a secured hosted server and asking people to log in through Internet increases data safety. Main reason is that information no longer travel in e-mails, the greatest danger to precious data. Key information should be put in a super safe place and people should go to the data, and not the other way round.
Costs
IT has more hidden costs than visible ones. This old rule is still valid today for in-house IT. But web based applications are finally making IT costs clear and transparent. At the same time, internet based software are becoming easier to use as they reproduce widespread navigation modalities. So web based solutions are at the same time cost competitive and more efficiently used.