India, July 30 -- Anyone who has ever been through their own company's merger or an acquisition knows that the process can be tricky and painful. That's especially true if you work in IT. Every department and system of each company needs to be integrated with the other's, from core infrastructure to applications, human resources to finance and sales. Change management is a big issue across every department and function. If you don't apply enough resources to any functional area, you will run into major issues.

What could be more difficult?

Archana Rao, CIO at Atlassian, the company behind IT and software developer work management platforms such as Jira, Bitbucket, and Trello, knows the answer to that question. What's harder than bringin...