# Technology diligence

The check on whether the software a business runs on transfers with it.

Specialist firms sell this as its own report beside a [quality of earnings](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/qoe), scoped anywhere from a two-page red-flag review to a full assessment of architecture, security and the people who maintain it. On a Main Street deal the useful version is narrower and nobody sells it: list every system the business could not run a week without, then ask who the license belongs to, what it costs, and whether it moves on a [change of ownership](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/change-of-ownership). A booking or dispatch account in the seller's own name is the ordinary finding, and it is cheap to fix before closing and expensive to discover after.

In numbers: A dispatch system at $340 a month is $4,080 a year of cost that comes with the business, and the $1,200 the vendor charges to move the account is the cheap half of finding out after closing.

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/technology-diligence
Not dated: A definition is editorial: what a term means, why it matters, and an example. None of it reads a source that can go stale, so there is no date to take and a stamped one would be the build time wearing a costume.

Site index for machines: https://searchspheresource.com/llms.txt