Case Study: Grupo Chacomer achieves 99.99% network availability and 35% connectivity cost savings with Fortinet Security Fabric

Paraguayan Business Group Securely Connects Its More than 90 Remote Sites, Saving 35% on Connectivity Costs

Grupo Chacomer is a 70‑year Paraguayan retail and manufacturing group with seven companies, more than 90 locations and 2,400 employees. Facing geographic dispersion, rising cloud adoption and costly, slow MPLS links, the IT team needed centralized security, faster deployments and better visibility to manage large volumes of infrastructure and security data.

They implemented the Fortinet Security Fabric—FortiGate NGFWs with Secure SD‑WAN at each site plus FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer—deployed with local partners. The result: 99.99% network availability, about 35% savings on connectivity by replacing MPLS with broadband, faster rollouts (full implementation in 3 months; new sites in under a day), improved wireless performance and roughly 65% less management time, with an estimated 36‑month payback.

Grupo Chacomer

Marcelo Mangiacavalli

Chief Information Officer