Improve Your Acquisition Integration Success
The average success rate of acquisition integration is reported to be 30%*. Ours is 90%
We turn your employees into successful integration teams
Delivering the value of your acquisitions can be challenging. We help acquirers deliver the M&A value they plan for during their transaction

We are the only provider of integration certification for lower-mid size acquisitions
90%
of our integrations deliver the desired results
85%
of our integrations are less than $100M deal value
63%
of our acquired businesses have less than 100 employees*
* Acquiring businesses vary greatly in size
51%
of our integrations include some cross-border work
Read about some of our projects
An Acquisition is Not Just Buying a Business
An acquisition requires you to get the value from purchasing a business. Learn more about what acquisition integration is, and its challenges.
You Now Have Two Businesses
Usually smaller businesses are bought for their future potential, not the current status. You need to create an efficient larger business that can grow into its new future.
Smaller Acquisitions Require a Unique Approach to Integration
When a large business is acquired, it is often for its current offerings: customers, revenues, market shares. However, smaller businesses are usually acquired for future benefits. Hence, integrating them requires a different approach to large-business integration.
We are specialists in integrating acquired small, lower-mid and mid-size businesses. We understand and accommodate that every business is unique, as are the challenges they will face during an integration. Selecting the correct partner will improve the success rate of acquisition integration in your business.

Build, Don't Buy, your Integration Team
Empower an in-house team to integrate your current and future integrations so that your employees have:
- A common understanding of integration approaches
- A common terminology, which improves communication within your business
- Organizational understanding of the hierarchy and duties of everyone involved
- Ways to learn how to integrate, hands-on and in real-time
- After completing the course, students have access to our Integration Mastermind meetings, to exchange best practices and discuss integration related topics
We help you deliver the value of your acquisitions, by building the competencies of your in-house integration team. This skill will increase your Return On Investment and EBITDA multiple if you exit later.
A successful integration team delivers the value defined by the Deal Team
- Incomplete integrations are missed opportunities to realize the value envisioned by the deal-makers
- Integration of the two businesses, not the purchase, is what delivers value
Retain-house expertise, which is transferred between successive acquisition integrations
- Create an in-house acquisition integration team, using the knowledge of established experts
- Invest in your team, and transfer experiences between successive acquisition integrations
Control the cost of getting external integration expertise
- Know the cost of the training and certification, up front
Improve the way that you approach and deliver integrations in the future. If you already acquire and integrate, avoid the cost of inefficient methods in:
- Staff retention
- Faster onboarding
- Improved productivity
- Staff engagement
Trained employees are happier employees
- Capable, well-trained employees perform faster, are more engaged, and have better work outcomes*
- Organizations that invest in employee training demonstrate that they have faith in that employee and morale improves
- Improved morale creates more engaged employees, which makes them more productive
Five Steps to a Successful Integration Team
Learn how to integrate acquired businesses
CAIM™ graduates have been educated, assessed, and validated in how to successfully deliver the acquisition integration of lower-mid and mid-size businesses, via our Certified Acquisition Integration Manager® (CAIM™) training program.
- Self-paced, on demand training combined with weekly cohort review sessions
- Short, focused learning topics
- Understand how an integration should work
- Quickly climb the learning curve and fill in knowledge gaps
- Downloadable templates and checklists
Free Integration Training
Are you about to go through an acquisition?
- We can answer some of your questions

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It was absolutely awesome. Before starting, I knew some of this, but honestly it opened my eyes to a lot of stuff. After completing it, I found it was something that I really can use.
Karl Heckendorn
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I enjoyed and learned a lot from the course, even with extensive experience working with M&A transactions and the specific needs they present. The CAIM course was well thought out and organized, with enough detail to illustrate the nuances between different deals, yet clear by focusing on what really matters and ultimately most important.
Thor Legvold
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Intista's M&A Integration Certification provided me with clear, hands-on knowledge of how actual acquisitions work as an aspiring Accounting student leaning towards the financial world. Its structure facilitated comprehension of subjects and increased my self-assurance in discussing M&A and post-deal integration.
Maximiliano Cavazza
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Intista has developed training to prepare lower middle market professionals in the crucial process of acquisition integration management. The content, spreadsheets, and documents included in the program provide a foundation of best practices to achieve a successful integration
Alex Ristevski
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Two of the LCAB team took the CAIM training and are doing awesome things integrating our companies. They both cite the program as a huge catalyst
Box Dixon
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What a thorough and brilliant course design. The weekly modules are excellent - great content, the right intensity and length, and tons of training aids to use in the real world. Beyond the online component, the virtual cohort meetings are a great place to discuss content and expand your network.
Julia Brown
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A very useful and well-structured training program. It gives an overview of the integration process in just the right amount of detail for those involved in or about to embark on an integration. If you are involved in acquisitions for the first time or specialize in one element of the process, this course provides you with a clear roadmap.
Thora Thorsdottir, PhD
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I’ve been involved in several acquisition integrations in previous roles. Some integrations accomplished the corporate goal while others were abject failures. This course gave me insight into the intricacies of the integration process and offered a deeper understanding of the steps involved for a successful integration. Success involves so much more than two companies coming together under the same banner.
Calvin Marshall
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I highly recommend Intista's integration training. The training is comprehensive, based on years of integration experience and data-backed insight and very relevant to my integration work.
The best thing I learned was an overall framework and process for integrations. From this baseline, I can then adjust based on unique circumstances. But I now have a very good starting point.
Ernie Lopez
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The amount of knowledge and wisdom in this course cannot be met by anyone else.
... very responsive and helpful at every point of the course. I felt very supported.
Sarah Thornhill
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Intista's Sales Integration Checklist is a great tool to use when bringing two separate teams together, with all its supporting elements in place. There are other tools for merging sales teams, but this is the best there is for mid-size M&A integration. I recommend that you download and use this tool when planning next steps.
Chris Perfect
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As soon as M&A is done, everyone thinks that the job is over. Actually, the job starts there.
The CAIM is really helpful to understand the entire integration perspective, best practices, what works, what doesn't work, and the different types of integration.
Rohit Kumra
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I thought the course was well-presented and informative, with real-world experiences and stories of actual integration assignments. Acquisition integration is important to value retention and creation. As such, the acquirer should use a skilled and well-trained interaction professional.
David E Coit Jr
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I was really realizing the need to distinguish myself.
[The CAIM] was just so much value. It just hit so many value points for me, and what I was looking for. It was very well structured, very well thought out. It's very clearly communicated, and [gives] access to Steve and his knowledge, in the Masterminds.
Chris Wise
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Exceeded expectations. Substantial spreadsheets and checklists to support integration activity.
Tony Mulvahil
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The CAIM allows us to do [the integration] in house... and still have complete control of the process
Joe McMorris
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I've done a lot of strategy and execution work with companies looking to grow and was looking for a good framework to use to help get a tricky M&A business integration back on track after a year of challenges faced by the leadership team. Going through the CAIM program and getting access to the great tools and resources has helped me to get this integration on track and build the framework for the next acquisition in the coming year.
Jeff Provost
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[Intista] made the platform very easy to follow. The way [it] organizes the content to align with the actual integration process, I think it was very easy to follow. It is a great product that is highly customizable and has the structure that is needed for anyone who [wants to] jump in on it at any time.
Winnie Lee
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The [course] exceeded my expectations. I think we were all 'experienced' coming into the class, but we all walked away with a much better understanding of the process which should help us collaborate better with corporate development on future integration work.
Rich Cone
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I would really recommend [it for] people who are already in the field of M&A Integration, or for those who are interested in pivoting to this field to consider the course. There are a lot of fundamental learnings one can get from this course, [including] the structure, processes, and results of integration...”
Jarvis Luu
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I loved it: the information, the way that everything is explained. The way that it flows all the way to the end. It is so well explained. It helps you concentrate and guide your process.
Luis Acevedo
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The class was comprehensive, and very practical. There's a lot of these that are theoretical and academic, and this is anything but that.
Ed Jurica
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It was very valuable. Saving me or an organization involved many times the cost of the class. There was lot of the practical advice that I wish I had had about 12 months ago with an integration that we did.
David Cusimano
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I used to worry about integration after signing the papers I'd think "What do I do now?". It was a really good program that helped me understand the things that I need to consider to get the most value out of my acquisitions, based upon my acquisition goals. There were a lot of things that I wasn't thinking about.
Andrew Swanscott
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The [CAIM] course recognizes the reality of how to do an integration. There are some really good things that I didn't want to miss, so I listened to the slides 2 to 4 times.
Mike Pijar
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A groundbreaking certification. This is a really unique course. There are other courses that have a chapter or two on integration, but nothing to this degree.
It's another way to get that competitive edge.
Joel McGuire
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We got lots of value from the CAIM, and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to know how to integrate acquisitions.
Ola Soderquist
Get the full value of the business you acquire
70% failure rate - in the integration
It is the integration of acquired businesses that often fails. Delivering what was envisioned when the deal was put together is difficult and prone to failure.
What value are your acquisitions, without integration?
A successful acquisition integration will increase the value of your business, delivering more return on investment and higher multiples in your valuation. The value of integration is that it raises the value of your business. This will deliver acquisition integration success.
Businesses that do not successfully integrate acquisitions waste the opportunity of value creation. With every subsequent acquisition, the pain of not integrating becomes greater, as the burden of multiple processes, tools and operational methods prevents growth.
Building trust with all parties
Intista provided invaluable knowledge and assistance during the creation of our original integration plan in anticipation of our initial acquisition. The combination of general training and individualized assistance provided the confidence to successfully create and execute on our plan. Of special note is the importance Intista gives to the human side of integrations. Building trust with all parties involved by being direct, honest and compassionate in all aspects of communication and actions is critical.
I would recommend Intista to those looking at their first acquisition and merger project or those looking to improve their integration experience for all involved.
Strongly Recommended
We [were] dealing with a big integration project between a China and a Europe based company.
A great experience... [the] contribution to our email migration project is highly appreciated, excellent communication and coordination skills are highly praised.
Definitely Steve and his company will be strongly recommended to our partners. I would say that if we have any chance doing the project based in USA and Europe, they will be on the preferred vendor list for sure.
The Results are There
Intista were really helpful in strategic planning and finding solutions. We had positive results that helped the company and employees move forward. They were definitely worth the time. The results are there, and motivation is part of the process.
Made for a Better Culture
Able to assume solutions many times before problems occur and can remain collected. …also quickly made personal relationships with members of both companies and helped to integrate them by learning process and introducing counterparts. It not only made for a better culture, but a smoother run in streamlining both lines of business.
Holistic Thinking
Really appreciate your dedication, professionalism, hard work and holistic thinking.
A Huge Positive Difference
Extremely organized, detail-oriented, thorough, timely, and importantly... made a huge positive difference on many occasions, helping to gain loyalty, bridge differences, and get newly acquired companies up and running
Value Beyond the Scope
They were very responsive to my needs and gave added value beyond the scope I requested, finding gaps that we didn't realize were there. The attitude, support and professionalism were outstanding. We would have no hesitation in asking them back for future projects.
*The Challenge of Integration: A Review of the M&A Integration Literature, Norbert Steigenberger, 2016

