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Whitepaper

Resolving Key Post-Merger IT Integration Challenges with a Digital Twin

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Mergers and acquisitions put immense pressure on IT teams to quickly integrate complex infrastructures without disrupting critical services. Unfortunately, these projects often expose hidden risks, redundant systems, and policy conflicts that increase costs, delay timelines, and weaken security posture.

Forward Networks’ Digital Twin technology provides the visibility and assurance needed to simplify post-merger integration. By mathematically modeling the entire combined network — across data centers, campuses, and clouds — the platform gives IT leaders an unprecedented view of reachability, device configurations, and security policies.

With this insight, teams can validate design intent, identify and resolve conflicts, and ensure compliance requirements are met. The result is a smoother, faster integration that reduces risk and helps the merged organization achieve business value sooner.

Download the white paper to learn how enterprises are using a Digital Twin to accelerate post-merger IT integration and build a reliable foundation for future growth.

Key Benefits

  • Gain end-to-end visibility across legacy and merged infrastructures
  • Validate security and compliance policies throughout integration
  • Identify and resolve configuration conflicts quickly
  • Reduce operational risk and accelerate time to business value

Awards

Forward Networks digital twin solution has been recognized across the industry for its groundbreaking approach to network management
2025 Globee Golden Cybersecurity Award - Forward Networks
Mobile Breakthrough Award 2023
Global Infosec Awards Winner Cyber Defense Magazine 2024
Saas Award
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Related FAQs

A network digital twin is a digital model of the network that makes network data accessible and actionable to ensure the network behaves as expected and is secure.
Network, security, and cloud operations teams use the data and insights from a digital twin to troubleshoot issues faster and act proactively to prevent costly outages.
A digital twin model is built by gathering configuration and state data from network devices and then analyzing all the possible paths that packets can take in your network
Key benefits include speeding up mean time to resolution, ensuring security posture and compliance, addressing issues proactively before they cause an outage, increasing collaboration between IT teams, and reducing operational expenses.
Customers using Forward Networks’ digital twin realize an average of $14.2 million in benefits annually due to decreasing productivity loss and downtime
A digital twin provides hop-by-hop path analysis from on-premises networks through the cloud to the internet. This unified view enhances security policy enforcement and reduces costs, delivering a single pane of glass for managing the entire hybrid, multi-cloud network.
Digital twins are currently deployed in commercial organizations with mission-critical networks, such as financial services, healthcare, and entertainment, as well as federal ones in the military, intelligence, and civilian spaces, where network security is a matter of national security.
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