Case Study: UPG Enterprises achieves unified communications, visibility, and stability with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

How One Manufacturer Improved Communications, Visibility, and Stability—With One Network

UPG Enterprises, a steel manufacturer near Chicago that has grown through multiple acquisitions, inherited a patchwork of aging network and security systems that hampered communication, visibility, and stability across its businesses. CIO Joe Madda identified the need to standardize infrastructure so the company could improve connectivity and manageability without disrupting operations.

UPG partnered with ACP CreativIT to roll out Fortinet solutions—FortiGate Secure SD-WAN, FortiGate next‑generation firewalls, and FortiClient—across its North American sites. The single‑platform approach replaced tangled VPNs with a unified SD‑WAN and a single pane of glass for visibility, enabling proactive IT support, greater stability, easier scaling for future M&A, and an estimated $350,000–$400,000 annual savings in networking costs.

UPG Enterprises

Joe Madda

Chief Information Officer