With a mission to provide customers around the world with innovative and sustainable solutions to improve the comfort, security and energy performance of their facilities, infrastructure and buildings, Lexel is a leading company in France and around the world. It has been a major player in the industrial power supply market for nearly 50 years.
In an ever-changing energy world, Lexel develops custom solutions to meet all of our customers' needs. The company is a global expert in professional multi-channel distribution of products and services for the energy industry, with revenues in 2023 reaching €19.2 billion (US$20.7 billion).
One of the main challenges Lexel currently faces is staying ahead of rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. “With new threats and techniques emerging every day, we must continually conduct research and raise awareness on this subject,” said Pierre-Emmanuel Leriche, Group Chief Information Security Officer. Masu. Additionally, he emphasizes, instilling a consistent cybersecurity culture across Lexel's multilocal business model is an ongoing priority.
Jay Sutton, the company's chief technology officer, said the key challenges are managing and developing talent on a global scale, as well as ensuring consistency and standardization across regions with different levels of technology maturity. He emphasizes that.
“Our top priority is to maintain stable and secure technology that supports our business operations. Two key challenges arise from this clear mission: managing our talent on a global scale; The second is to ensure consistency and standardization across many regions with different levels of maturity.”
As a global company, Lexel operates in more than 19 countries, requiring us to constantly embrace change. Centralizing IT allows for better security management and economies of scale.
Kaya Demircigil, Head of Cloud at Rexel, has seen Rexel transform from a classic legacy IT company to an IT company that drives change and leverages data.
“You need a robust IT backbone to support your business, because any issue there can have a huge impact on your bottom line. We protect these platforms and make them scalable on demand. You need to be agile enough to reduce your time to market.
“When I joined Lexel, we started talking about our digital transformation needs. But our backbone wasn't ready, so we moved from being a more classic legacy IT company to driving transformation and We have transitioned to an IT company that leverages data to improve.”
According to Bruno de La Bretèche, head of digital technology at Rexel, one of the biggest challenges is meeting Rexel's goal of digital sales reaching 40% of total revenue by 2025 while remaining agile. It's about extending both your IT and your organization to support it. “The whole point of cloudification is that it allows us to stay at scale and be agile,” he says.
“We not only have to scale our organization, but we also have to scale the way we work while staying very agile. That's the main challenge facing my team today, and the main challenge across Lexel. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a challenge.”
Looking to the future, Leriche envisions continued cloud trends, with a focus on advances in identity, data protection, and cloud security posture as threats evolve.
“I think the trend of migration to the cloud, which we call “cloudification'', will continue for some time. Again, we don't have a strict “move to the cloud” strategy. We build exclusively in the cloud. As we put security barriers and countermeasures in place, attackers will always find new ways to attack and achieve their goals. So I envision a very stable trend of cloudization based on what we've seen over the past few years. ”
Sutton expects to manage disruptors such as AI, which can help with containerization and orchestration, but must be implemented securely. The growing adoption of serverless computing and emphasis on sustainable IT practices are also expected to shape future cloud strategies.
“We may also see more adoption of serverless computing. But we need to understand that serverless doesn't mean servers go away. We need to consider how to secure our operations. I think this is where the role of developers and coders is changing as they become more knowledgeable about security and infrastructure and have a full-stack skillset that includes infrastructure and security layers to operate the cloud model of the future. We need to have more.”
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