As with most professional services, as new technologies emerge, the industry must adapt to keep up with competitors in terms of efficiency and protection of confidentiality for clients. In the M&A market, this is seen through new methods to share confidential information with fewer opportunities for security breaches, but it also seen in the technologies that allow transactions to occur with shorter timelines. Deal fatigue is when the buyer, seller, or both begins to feel frustrated, irritated, or upset by the pace of the transaction and is a leading cause for deals to fall apart. Technological development has been extremely effective in minimizing deal fatigue among firms who adopt the right software.