Lamosa is a Mexican company with over 130 years of history. Specializing in ceramic coatings and construction materials, it is now the second-largest ceramic manufacturer in the world and is actively expanding its global footprint.
Facing the need to modernize its technology landscape to support business growth and respond agilely to evolving requirements, Lamosa migrated its critical systems including SAP and others to AWS, selecting Novis as its strategic partner for both the migration and ongoing managed services.
Main Challenge
Lamosa’s legacy IT infrastructure relied on an on-premise model for critical applications. This setup began showing clear limitations: lack of scalability, high maintenance and upgrade costs, and a reduced ability to implement new features quickly.
Pre-Migration Context
Since adopting SAP in 2013, Lamosa had been operating its systems on self-managed infrastructure with periodic hardware renewals every five years. By late 2022, as their hardware reached end-of-life, the company undertook a thorough evaluation and decided to move to a cloud-based model.
Key drivers included:
- Overcoming technological obsolescence
- Increasing scalability
- Enabling continuous innovation
Novis Solution
Lamosa chose to migrate all of its systems—SAP and non-SAP to AWS public cloud under a fully managed services model with Novis.
In 2023, over the course of just five months, and through close collaboration between both teams, the migration was successfully completed covering 128 critical application instances and 28 other systems.
The solution included:
- A tailored architectural design
- Migration of operating systems
- Technical reconnections
- Reconfiguration of legacy systems
Novis also took over post go live operations, providing continuous monitoring and expert support, which remains in place today.
Results Achieved
The transformation delivered significant benefits:
- Scalability and Flexibility: Lamosa can now quickly adjust its technology capacity based on demand—without unnecessary capital investment.
- Agility to Innovate: New functionalities can be deployed with ease, significantly accelerating business response times.
- High Availability and Business Continuity: All systems run in high-availability mode, with multi-zone replication and a disaster recovery plan aligned to world-class RTO and RPO standards.
Conclusion
“We chose Novis because of their vast experience in SAP platform migrations, upgrades, and operations. They fully understand the critical nature of these projects and the impact they have on business operations. Novis has always acted as a committed technology partner to Lamosa, and we’re extremely satisfied with the outcome.
Our strategic partnership with Novis gives us peace of mind—thanks to expert and continuous technical support—allowing us to focus on long-term growth and success.”
Rubén Figueroa, CIO of Lamosa.
If you’re looking for a trusted partner to migrate your critical workloads to AWS, Novis has the experience and proven methodologies to support your success. Contact us today.
Written by Gilda Valderrama, Novis Bulletin Editor – LinkedIn profile
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