Case Study: Steeledale achieves hardware-cost savings, streamlined IT, and mobile productivity with Microsoft Teams

Steel company eliminates hardware costs, streamlines IT, and gains mobile productivity in the cloud

Steeledale, a leading South African reinforcing-steel supplier, faced unreliable phone lines, frequent power outages, long travel times between branches, and a fragmented IT landscape that made collaboration and contact discovery difficult. To solve these challenges the company adopted a cloud-first productivity stack—including Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Power BI, Skype for Business, and collaboration via Microsoft Teams—to provide reliable video meetings, unified identity and calendaring, and mobile access across its 15-branch network.

Seidor Networks led a migration to Microsoft 365 so Steeledale could use Microsoft Teams and related services for real-time meetings, file access, workflows, and analytics. The move eliminated more than USD 22,000 in hardware costs in the first half of 2018, cut employee onboarding time by 99% (from days to 5–10 minutes), improved security and remote productivity, reduced travel and phone volume, and enabled automated supply-chain workflows and Power BI reporting—delivering measurable cost, time, and collaboration gains.

Steeledale

Chris Harito

Chief Financial Officer