Technology Due Diligence

TechZecs Principals are practiced in assessing high-tech companies for technological success. Our Due Diligence studies include:

For High-Tech Hardware and Systems:

•                    Technical Feasibility - Will the technology work?
•                   Manufacturability - Can it be made in sufficient volumes?
•                   Testing - What is their test process and how does it assure acceptable and reliable solutions?
•                   Cost effectiveness - Can it be made cheaply enough?
•                   Commercializability - Will the products fill a compelling need and sell?
•                   Documentation - Can it be reproduced if the key people leave?
•                   Outsourcability - Can it be outsourced for cost and logistics advantages?
•                   New Product Introduction Processes - Are they effective and efficient?
•                   IP - What is the state of IP? What are the barriers to competition?
•                   Prototyping capabilities - Are they rapid and effective?
•                   Inbound Marketing Processes - Can they define Market Requirements and Solution Requirements adequately?
•                   Outbound Marketing Processes - How effective is the MarCom?
•                   Sales Channel Strategy - How are they selling or planning to sell their solutions?
•                   Engineering support and tools - Does the support plan work and match the Acquirer?
•                   Supplier Management - How do they manage key suppliers and partners?
•                   Parts processes - How do they qualify and manage commodities and components?
•                   Delivery - What is their on-time delivery record? What goes wrong?
•                   etc.

For Software and Internet Companies:

•                   Value Proposition - Is it compelling?
•                   Software Architecture - Who designs the process and where?
•                   Coding - Where is it done? What is the Software Maturity?
•                   Control - What tools and processes are used to control the code?
•                   IP - What is the state of IP? What are the barriers to competition?
•                   Quality - What are the debugging and QA processes? How is Quality assured?
•                   User Interface - Is it SOTA and natural?
•                   Platforms - What is the platform strategy? Open Source? WinTel? Mac?
•                   Deployment - ASP or in-house server strategy? SaaS? B2B? etc.
•                   etc.

Other Merger and Acquisition Integration Services:

•                   Technology Due Diligence
•                   Pre-Acquisition Planning
•                   Integration Project Management