About the Customer

Tarmal Steel is one of Kenya’s leading manufacturers of high-quality steel products, known for innovation, operational excellence, and a strong commitment to continuous improvement. With an expanding regional footprint, Tarmal required a modern, scalable infrastructure to support its ERP needs and business-critical applications like SAP.

Customer Challenge

Tarmal Steel’s existing on-premises IT infrastructure struggled to meet the demands of its rapidly growing operations. The company needed a reliable, secure, and cost-effective environment for its SAP Business One on HANA workloads. Key business challenges included:

– Inadequate scalability to support growing data and user needs
– Limited visibility into system performance and security events
– High costs associated with infrastructure upgrades and maintenance
– Increased risk of downtime without a robust disaster recovery setup
– Without modernization, these challenges risked interrupting operations and hindering strategic growth.

Partner Solution

Kitsilano Technologies Ltd, an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, delivered a fully managed SAP on AWS migration project under a 4-week implementation plan.

✅ Scope of Solution

The project involved the end-to-end deployment of SAP Business One powered by HANA on Amazon Web Services (AWS), tailored to support Tarmal’s production workloads, including:

– SAP Application Server
– HANA Database Server
– Active Directory Server
– HRMS Server

✅ Key AWS Services Implemented

– Amazon EC2 – Hosting application, database, AD, and HRMS servers
– Amazon S3 – Storage for daily encrypted database backups
– AWS CloudWatch & SNS – Real-time monitoring and alerting
– AWS Key Management Service (KMS) – Encryption of EBS volumes and S3 data
– AWS CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector, and Security Hub – Logging, threat detection, vulnerability scanning, and compliance monitoring
– AWS Config – Policy and configuration tracking for infrastructure governance

✅ Migration Process Highlights

– SAP HANA and application environments deployed across public and private subnets within a secure VPC
– Full backup strategy implemented with RPO of 24 hours and RTO of 4 hours
– SAP workloads performance-tuned for scalability and availability
– Final User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and post-Go-Live support provided

Results and Benefits

The deployment of SAP on AWS delivered immediate and measurable benefits to Tarmal Steel:

– ✅ 99.9% System Uptime achieved through high-availability architecture
– ✅ Improved Security Posture with full encryption, audit logging, and active threat monitoring
– ✅ Daily Backup Strategy using Amazon S3 with 30-day retention
– ✅ Cost-Optimized Cloud Infrastructure, reducing projected hosting and maintenance expenses
– ✅ Real-time Monitoring of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and system alerts using CloudWatch

The new SAP landscape allows Tarmal to scale easily as operations grow, while ensuring compliance, performance, and reliability.

About the Partner

Kitsilano Technologies Ltd is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner based in Nairobi, Kenya, with specialization in cloud migration, SAP on AWS, and infrastructure modernization. Kitsilano is the only AWS Partner in Kenya with both the SAP Competency and real-world SAP on HANA deployment experience, making it the ideal partner for enterprise digital transformation across East Africa.