99.9% uptime. 30% cost reduction. SAP migrated to the cloud.
How Kitsilano Technologies migrated Tarmal Steel's SAP Business One on HANA to a cloud environment with zero downtime, full data encryption, and a platform built to scale.
The Company
Three decades of steel.
Built on precision.
For over thirty years, Tarmal Steel has been a trusted name in Africa's construction and manufacturing sectors, producing structural steel, roofing sheets, and fabricated components that hold up buildings and infrastructure across the region.
SAP Business One on HANA is the backbone of Tarmal's operations, from procurement and production to sales and finance. When performance problems and escalating maintenance costs began affecting daily operations, Tarmal looked for a partner who could solve the problem without disrupting the business.
In Their Words
“Migrating our SAP infrastructure with Kitsilano has been a game-changer. The new environment is faster, more secure, and fully scalable to our needs.”
Bhanu Partap
SAP Project Lead, Tarmal Steel
The Challenge
On-premise SAP holding operations back
As transaction volumes grew, Tarmal's aging on-premise SAP HANA infrastructure began showing its limits. Peak periods brought slowdowns, the IT team had no real visibility into system health, and there was no disaster recovery strategy in place.
Performance bottlenecks during peak transaction periods
No disaster recovery plan, significant data loss risk
The Approach
Structured migration, no disruption
Kitsilano deployed a four-phase migration framework: assessing all workloads and dependencies, establishing governance and security foundations, executing the migration with minimal-downtime data transfer, then modernising with real-time monitoring and continuous cost optimisation.
Zero-downtime migration with tested rollback at every stage
Real-time monitoring and enterprise security from go-live
The Results
Faster, cheaper, and fully secure
The new cloud environment delivered immediate improvements across performance, cost, and security. Tarmal's SAP runs faster, costs 30% less to operate annually, and is backed by enterprise-grade disaster recovery and continuous monitoring.
99.9% system uptime from day one of go-live
30% reduction in annual infrastructure costs
Results & Benefits
Substantial operational and financial gains.
System Uptime
99.9% uptime SLA on cloud-managed SAP HANA infrastructure.
Cost Reduction
30% annual reduction in infrastructure operating costs from day one.
Zero Downtime
Migration completed with no interruption to SAP operations or business processes.
Data Security
100% of data encrypted at rest and in transit across all environments.
Disaster Recovery
Enterprise-grade DR in place, with tested recovery procedures and defined RTO/RPO.
Full Visibility
Real-time monitoring, automated alerts, and continuous cost optimisation post go-live.
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