Enabling Cross-Enterprise Process Visibility

In a world of reduced IT budgets and application backlogs, organizations must be able to reuse services and extend legacy technology. Further, with the ability to orchestrate these services into cross-enterprise business processes, a paradigm shift can be achieved in how applications are constructed, resulting in reduced costs and complexity in offering new services to customers.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) has achieved this paradigm shift with the deployment of an SOA-based, business process-driven infrastructure.

In a world of reduced IT budgets and application backlogs, organizations must be able to reuse services and extend legacy technology. Further, with the ability to orchestrate these services into cross-enterprise business processes, a paradigm shift can be achieved in how applications are constructed, resulting in reduced costs and complexity in offering new services to customers.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) has achieved this paradigm shift with the deployment of an SOA-based, business process-driven infrastructure. As the largest health insurer in New England, BCBSMA will discuss how it is now able to provide increased agility and significant cost reduction to support new business initiatives and comply with future regulations.

Speaker Bio:

Stephen Edens, Enterprise Integration Architect, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Stephen was the program architect who helped design the e-Business platform for The Hartford. (Sun technology) He is also the architect of the BPM commercial insurance trading platform used most of the world's energy companies. (Sonic technology). Finally, Stephen is also an author for IBM and WROX and was a transformation leader for IBM, meaning a TQM, and Business Process expert.