Tech DD

A global PE firm intends to expand its investment portfolio in a GRC SaaS company that aims to manage policies & SOPs, simplify digital identity verification process and manage risks.

Challenges

• Identify future cost associated with usage of underlying legacy libraries & frameworks, Technical Debt due to poor Code Quality, Security Vulnerabilities and Performance
• Analyze skill sets necessary for identified technologies and evaluating their availability within the SaaS company
• Validate stability of the SaaS product to deliver the promised solution

Solution : 4 weeks

Tech Due Diligence was carried out based on following KPIs

• • Understood the current technology stack and architecture and identified following:
    • Framework and Library upgrades required
    • Code Quality Tech Debt
    • Security Vulnerabilities
  • Assessed the  infrastructure workloads via FinOps practices & recommended remediations to further optimize the Infrastructure workloads
  • Analyzed the performance report for the Applications to ensure that they are able to sustain high volumes on Production
  • Assessed the Data Management & Privacy safeguards & suggested recommendations based on the findings of the assessment
  • Assessed the Technology Team skills & compared with the needs of the Application to calibrate if they meet the requirements
  • Recommended to integrate the product’s Functional Roadmap with Technology Roadmap to layout a sustainable Technology Product upliftment along with its Feature evolution

Benefits

• Identified potential post acquisition costs of 1mn USD & preemptively factor it into the deal cost.