Merrill DataSite Document Warehousing - Simplify Your Due Diligence in Mergers, Acquisitions, Exit Planning
Security you can count on.
Merrill Corporation has been a trusted provider of secure information to Fortune 500 companies in the financial and legal industries for more than 40 years. Since 2002, Merrill DataSite has empowered 1.6 million visitors to perform electronic due diligence on tens of thousands of transactions totaling trillions of dollars in asset value. Merrill DataSite has helped streamline acquisitions, mergers, exit planning and other needs in the financial cycle of companies for years.
The smart online document storage solution for today's business
Companies of all sizes have found Merrill DataSite virtual data room to be an invaluable document warehousing solution for many reasons. Clients are able to:
- Respond more quickly to information requests from business partners.
- Provide a secure environment for sharing confidential or critical information during mergers, acquisitions, exit planning, etc.
- Leverage the power of the Internet to share information with multiple parties and locations.
- Implement an easy-to-administer and trackable organizational discipline around the storage and access to corporate documents.
- Eliminate the time and costs associated with manual, paper-driven document management and storage procedures, during or after mergers, acquisitions, exit planning, etc.
- Reduce or eliminate costs associated with off-site storage and retrieval.
- Easily share large files without the file size limitations imposed by e-mail systems for sending and receiving of documents.
Simple. Smart. Secure.
The pace of business moves faster every day, placing tough demands on companies to find better ways to store, manage and share critical business information within their own enterprise and among partners.
All too often, this means wading through large volumes of due diligence paper and electronic documents, and the use of costly delivery services or less-than-secure e-mail to provide copies of Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence documents to the requesting party. Answers can take days to be delivered – or even be delivered into the wrong hands.
Merrill has found a better way. We've applied our decades of experience in document management to create a simple, smart and secure solution: online document warehousing with Merrill DataSite. Now you can turn your due diligence paper and electronic files into a fully searchable and fully edit-enabled online library – no additional hardware, software, personnel or programming needed.
Simple
- Simple set-up - You will be able to start loading due diligence information and adding users to your warehouse in less than two hours from the initial "kick-off" call with your Merrill DataSite project managers.
- Simple document scanning - We can either send our own scanning team and equipment to your facility or have your due diligence documents scanned at one of our local Merrill offices. Either way, we can scan, upload and organize thousands of pages within two hours or less.
- Simple access -You can invite authorized employees and external parties to log into a secure Web browser and access due diligence and any other information at their convenience – anywhere, at any time.
- Simple user permissions - You control who is added or removed from the invitation list and determine the access level of each user. User permissions can be quickly modified.
- Simple search tools - Type in the word or phrase in the search field and locate your information in a matter of seconds within all document text and titles.
- Simple activity tracking - Track user activity with a few mouse clicks to see who viewed what documents, at what time and for how long.
Smart
- Smart setup - As you load files into your warehouse, Merrill DataSite virtual data room uses the document titles to automatically build your index. You will be prompted to select a security level for the information you are about to load. As a final step, Merrill DataSite provides you with a summary screen to approve or reverse any changes made.
- Smart organization - Merrill DataSite makes it much easier to create an organizational discipline around the way in which your due diligence documents are stored, accessed and handled. For example, you can select which users are able to upload information or move certain information within the warehouse, or you can determine who is granted privileges to view, print or download documents.
- Smart protection - Your document warehouse is maintained on Merrill DataSite's secure primary and separate backup servers. Our redundant systems add another level of document protection to our clients' disaster recovery programs.
- Smart support - Merrill DataSite has a first-class reputation for providing our clients with responsive support throughout the life of their projects. For every warehouse, we provide a dedicated 24/7/365 project management team. Our team will help you design and manage your warehouse to fit your specific needs.
Secure
The industry's highest security standards. Merrill DataSite is the first VDR provider to understand the customers' and industry's need to provide the highest level of security by obtaining an ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certificate of registration and sets the standard as the world's only VDR certified for their operations in the United States and Europe. This level of compliance speaks to how we handle your Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence and any other kind of information every step of the way throughout the process, be it mergers, acquisitions, exit planning, or simply storage of the important financial due diligence documents to get a company ready for an acquisition process.
- Secure access, every time. Merrill DataSite's secure, encrypted viewer application, and not the user's browser or a helper application, controls document viewing so that nothing is ever left unprotected on the user's PC.
A trusted partner
Merrill DataSite Virtual Data Room (VDR) is an online deal room that optimizes the due diligence process by transforming the traditional paper data room into a secure online data room, accessible via the Internet. Merrill DataSite offers a secure and highly efficient method of sharing critical business information for electronic due diligence in M&A advisory, banking M&A, mid market M&A review, transfer of small business ownership when selling a company, document warehousing, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, succession in family business or when buying a business, IPO and secondary offerings, asset purchases, venture capital due diligence, bio tech licensing, commercial and corporate real estate ventures, liquidations, bankruptcies, financial restructure, liquidation analysis for bankruptcy, corporate debt restructuring, preparing for exit strategies, and many other transactions that require.
Merrill Corporation has been a trusted provider of secure information services to Fortune 500 companies in the financial and legal industries for nearly 40 years. Since 2002, Merrill DataSite has empowered 1.6 million visitors to perform electronic due diligence on thousands of transactions totaling trillions of dollars in asset value.
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