Methodology & Tools

Using digital tools in M&A projects in the Health Industries enhances deal sourcing, facilitates efficient communication and collaboration, enables data analysis and insights, improves valuation and modeling, supports risk assessment and mitigation, aids integration planning, and ensures data security and compliance.

These benefits ultimately contribute to increased efficiency, reduced costs, better decision-making, and higher success rates in M&A transactions.

Using digital tools in M&A projects in Health Industries provides market intelligence, enhances deal sourcing, facilitates efficient collaboration and enables data analysis and insights

We prepared a number of brief overviews of selected tools, with different focal points across all deal phases, and varying areas of impact

PwC Interactive Pharma Data & Analytics Marketplace

The PwC Interactive Pharma Data & Analytics Marketplace is an interactive tool that allows clients to input investment criteria into automated target identification. The tool supports detailed industry and company analysis to facilitate investment decisions.

Automated Contract / Document Handling & Processing

Scan, analyze, categorize and process high volumes of legal documents by autonomous redaction/blacklining, electronic signatures and automated approval/consent processes.

RAPTOR

Ensure business continuity by managing key complexity drivers in the Health Industries, e.g., marketing authorization changes, manufacturer name changes or artwork changes.

Junction

PwC’s home-developed Junction tool is a virtual one-stop platform that supports all your active projects to get key project updates, and view insights aligned to your key focus areas all in one place.

Power Search & Extract

How our in-house developed tool enables PwC users to efficiently cut through document masses, identify relevant sections, and extract information for further processing.

Working capital solution

How our digital solution generates insights and understanding into all aspects of working capital processes based on transactional ERP - leveraging advanced analytics.

Drone solutions Geospatial app

How a smart platform leveraging drones, satellite images and video coverage can help to replace site visits or perform automated finished vehicle management.

Predictive Analytics Services

How applying machine learning and artificial intelligence helps shortening lead times and generating more accurate forecasts.

Virtual site visits

How a smart platform leveraging 3D laser scans can make physical site visits obsolete while also allowing for optimization of production lines, etc.

Exit Readiness Accelerator

How PwC’S ERA helps to quickly identify and resolve entanglements in a carve-out, accelerating the deal timeline and reducing separation efforts.

Information inventory

How generating a holistic overview of your data and corresponding user rights can protect you and your intellectual property in carve-out transactions.

Intelligent Deal Data Assessment

How to use outlier detection and latest NLP algorithms to deepen, automate and speed up QnA processes and financial due diligence analysis.

Connected Digital Services

How PwC’s CDS suite can help read and analyze both structured and unstructured data to drive your due diligence process.

Similarweb

Similarweb allows to capture and monitor web traffic for any specific website or app. (*This is a third party solution leveraged by PwC)

Brainspace

Centralize all work: project plans, documents, communications, and issues — and create one source of truth. Work collaboratively and securely with in-house and external teams. (*This is a third party solution leveraged by PwC)

KYBP

Know Your Business Partner is a fully automated and integrated management and compliance tool. (*This is a third party solution leveraged by PwC)

PMI2go

A digital upskilling tool for top leaders and personnel to be effective in their integration work next to daily operations.

Web scraping

How web traffic and other data scraped from the internet can deliver valuable insights on competitors or targets.

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