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Dave Wagner, CIO and Senior Vice President, ON Semiconductor
Q: Earlier this year, your company completed its merger of AMIS Holdings Inc. How does that affect the IT department? How do you bring together disparate technologies?
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We're merging two different ERP systems, AMIS's SAP system into ON Semiconductor's Oracle instance. There are differences in business process practices, but where the rubber really hits the road is where data is different. You run into terminology issues, and issues around different levels of data quality and validity checking.
One of the most important things to do is to quickly identify the key subject matter experts in business processes and systems from both companies -- and get them in the same room. They need to start talking through these issues to rapidly reach an agreement about how to move forward. Remember that the faster we can integrate systems, the faster our combined company can realize the full benefits of the merger. Working things out face-to-face is critical to that timing.
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