An IT leader’s mission to retrofit the tech foundation at Eon
With this approach, IT faces a task together and tackles it. Weber wants his IT colleagues to start each day asking themselves what they’re doing to take a step forward. “After about a year and a half, everyone had settled in,” he said.
With this approach, IT faces a task together and tackles it. Weber wants his IT colleagues to start each day asking themselves what they’re doing to take a step forward. “After about a year and a half, everyone had settled in,” he said.
A multi-faceted approach
Modernizing IT at Eon also included upgrading the infrastructure, such as the offices, in terms of network stability. Another important step for Weber was the step into the cloud, even if it wasn’t easy at first. It took six months until the first workload could be migrated, but then, after just another six months, the entire SAP landscape was able to be migrated to the cloud.
But that’s not the end of the story. Weber named other areas that currently concern him about IT modernization. He’d like to continue modernizing and reworking in the cloud, as well as build a product-centric organization, away from traditional service teams. Other topics high on his agenda is developing into a DevOps organization, and sourcing; Eon-IT hired 400 new employees last year and is planning to hire more. Weber’s goal is to ensure that critical issues no longer lie with partners through outsourcing, but with the company’s own employees.
Companywide ambitions
Weber wants to take all employees with him on this journey. That’s why, for example, he recently opened a Leadership Excellence training program for everyone interested, with a separate conference for IT employees. This way, he ensures that IT is no longer perceived as the company backwater it used to, and continues on its modernization journey. But he knows the hard work will continue. “We’re not yet a wellness oasis,” he said. “There’s still a lot to do.”
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