In today’s competitive environment, we often see companies expand their market share via mergers & acquisitions. A clear vision for planning identity and access management during an M&A transaction is critical to ensure success. However, the technical challenges that come with a standard M&A project – things like domain consolidation, identifying group policies and permissions, and assigning applications, all increase the complexity of the project. In this post, we’ll discuss how Okta can ease the technical challenges that come with an M&A project by offering a simple, easy to administer cloud IAM solution that extends across your enterprise. Say goodbye to forest trusts In a standard M&A project, one of the first deployment steps you’ll consider is domain consolidation – are you going to create a brand new Active Directory forest, create trusts between existing forests, or migrate users from the acquired organization into an existing Active Directory forest? The.