# Which M&A software tools work best for small teams lacking dedicated IT support staff?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For a three- to five-person M&amp;A team, the platform needs to work without technical administration or lengthy configuration. I’m exploring which tools fit that reality best.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/midaxo/reviews"><strong>Midaxo</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Small teams describe it as easy to implement, configurable without IT, and useful for reducing administrative work.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/devensoft/reviews"><strong>Devensoft</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Its cloud model removes infrastructure maintenance, though its enterprise depth may be more than smaller teams need.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/dealroom/reviews"><strong>DealRoom</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Reviewers praise its user-friendly document access and straightforward permissions for dispersed advisers and buyers.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/datasite-diligence/reviews"><strong>Datasite Diligence</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Reliable once configured, but permissions and non-technical user access can require support.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/sourcescrub/reviews"><strong>Sourcescrub</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Best suited to small teams focused mainly on sourcing and target research.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What task should good M&amp;A software eliminate entirely for a lean team?</p>

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- Posted at: about 2 months ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

A second candidate for elimination on a lean team: the status update. A three-person team can lose a meaningful slice of each week assembling where every live deal stands for whoever asks, and that is a query the system should answer directly rather than something a person prepares. The test is whether a principal can open the tool themselves on a Sunday and get a current picture without anyone having tidied it first. DealRoom&#39;s straightforward permissions are relevant there, since self-service reporting only works if people outside the deal can be given a safe view.

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- Posted at: 3 days ago
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### Comment 2

&lt;p&gt;For a lean team, the task that should disappear entirely is manual target research, meaning scraping data from disparate sources and qualifying it by hand, since that&#39;s exactly the kind of work a three-to-five-person team has no spare capacity for. I&#39;ve noticed that theme directly in reviews: one small-business M&amp;amp;A analyst using Sourcescrub said it saved them a ton of time versus manually pulling data or scraping various sources, and that the built-in data points on each company kept them from wasting time on unqualified opportunities. That&#39;s the kind of task good software should remove completely, not just make faster.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: about 2 months ago
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