How this list works
- Entries come from each vendor's own website, checked on the date shown. Figures marked “vendor figure” are the vendor's own claims.
- Within each category the order is alphabetical. There is no ranking.
- Pipeline-focused deal CRMs (DealCloud, Affinity and others) are in our deal origination tools directory.
- Vedekon has no commercial relationship with any vendor or organiser listed, and no link here is an affiliate link.
Do you need dedicated software?
Many integrations run on a shared workbook and a weekly meeting, and run well. Dedicated M&A software starts to pay when the same team integrates several acquisitions a year, when many workstreams depend on each other, or when synergies must be reported to a board in the same form every time. What the software cannot do is decide the integration approach, own the synergies or keep key people; those stay with management. Our guide to post-merger integration covers that part.
- Playbooks: a reusable plan for each type of deal, so the tenth add-on is integrated like the second.
- Synergy tracking: baselines, owners, one-off costs and actuals, reported the same way as the accounts.
- Diligence-to-integration handover: findings from diligence becoming integration tasks without being re-typed.
- Access for outsiders: advisers and the target's managers working in the same plan, with the right permissions.
Categories
Dedicated M&A platforms
Built for the deal lifecycle: pipeline, diligence, integration and synergy tracking in one system.
DealRoom
Deal pipeline, due diligence and integration management, a data room and reporting in one platform.
- Suits
- Corporate development teams and private equity buyers who run diligence and integration themselves.
- Pricing
- Not published.
Devensoft
Pipeline management, due diligence, post-merger integration and synergy tracking, covering mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures.
- Suits
- M&A teams that want one tool from pipeline to integration.
- Pricing
- Not published.
EKNOW
A web-based M&A platform covering strategy, sourcing, due diligence, execution and integration, configured and administered by the vendor.
- Suits
- Organisations from a single M&A function to global M&A operations, and consultants.
- Pricing
- Not published.
MergerWare
Deal-flow management, due diligence, post-merger integration and an M&A playbook.
- Suits
- Enterprises running structured, playbook-driven integrations.
- Pricing
- Not published.
Midaxo
Pipeline CRM for sourcing and screening, due diligence for documents, tasks and risks, and integration and synergy tracking. The site says it is trusted by 500+ M&A teams (vendor figure).
- Suits
- Corporate development, finance and integration teams at mid-market and enterprise companies.
- Pricing
- Not published.
General work-management tools
Not built for M&A, but widely used to run integration plans when a dedicated platform is more than the team needs.
monday.com
A visual work-management platform for boards, timelines and automations.
- Suits
- Lighter integrations and teams that already use it.
- Pricing
- Plans on the vendor's site.
Smartsheet
A work-management platform for projects, portfolios and automated processes.
- Suits
- Integration offices that run their plan in a spreadsheet-like tool with dependencies and reporting.
- Pricing
- Plans on the vendor's site.