Institute for International Research

When: 29-May-08, 2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada)
Cost: FREE - Online Registration is OPEN

Mention Priority Code: G1M2089W1XX

WEB SEMINAR DESCRIPTION: 

With the ever expanding technological needs of companies, IT managers have to consider several critical questions:

•  Is your architecture good? Is it great?
• How do you determine where to invest your IT budget?
• Which technologies should you keep? Which should you cut?
• What process are you using to understand the impacts of the above decisions?
• Is your current strategy producing the greatest return on your investment?

In this Webinar, enterprise architecture veterans from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield will discuss their approach to Application Portfolio Rationalization. Learn how they successfully use APR and enterprise architecture in this large health care organization

What you will learn by attending:

•  Application Rationalization and how to apply it
• Baseline and future state planning
• How Excellus BCBS is currently leveraging its enterprise architecture
• Excellus experiences with MEGA

Speaker:
Eric Stephens, Director of the Enterprise Architecture & Integration Team
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

Speaker:
Scott Hendler, Migration Strategy Lead
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

  
About the Speakers:

Eric Stephens is Director of the Enterprise Architecture & Integration team at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. He specializes in Enterprise Architecture practices, SOA maturity, and Enterprise Architecture modeling. Prior to joining Excellus Eric provided architectural leadership with AppliedTheory Corporation servicing a number of U.S. Government clients. He also led innovation at Questra Consulting and Mutual of New York during his 20+ years in the IT industry. Concurrently with his responsibilities at Excellus and AppliedTheory, Eric held an adjunct faculty position with the Center for Business Information Technology at Syracuse University where he now sits on the advisory board.

 
Scott Hendler is the Functional Business Process Manager for IT at Excellus BCBS. His responsibilities include developing strategies to migrate and use new technologies by Application Developers, as well as, assist in developing long term strategies for IT applications, tools and utilities. Scott has been employed by Excellus for 12 years, 11 years in IT. Over the past 17 years, he has worked in the government and healthcare industries. Scott has a Masters Degree of Public Administration from Rockefeller College, State University of NY at Albany.