Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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

Mention Priority Code: G1M2089W1ME

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

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

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.

Scott Hendler, Migration Strategy Lead
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

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.

System Requirements:
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.3.9 (Panther®) or newer