BEI Webinar on Business Architecture at Wells Fargo: Leveraging Strategic Planning & BPM for Loan Process Optimization

NEEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- OMG's® Business Ecology® Initiative (BEI) today announced that Paul Tazbaz, senior enterprise architect, and Jeffi Sannapu, senior systems architect, will present "Business Architecture at Wells Fargo:  Leveraging Strategic Planning & BPM for Loan Process Optimization," on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. EDT as part of the BEI Webinar Series. To register to attend this complimentary webinar, visit http://www.business-ecology.org/events.htm.

Webinar Overview

Business optimization efforts often struggle to justify the costbenefit for new development projects. This can often be attributed to lack of visibility into where those improvements will specifically reduce cost, time to market or risk in a given line of business. Join Paul Tazbaz and Jeffi Sannapu from Wells Fargo as they present a case study in leveraging industry standards for strategic planning, process analysis and workflow development to implement quantifiable business solutions for optimized loan processing.     

About the Presenters

Paul Tazbazis a Senior Enterprise Architect from Wells Fargo Enterprise Architecture. Paul has over 18 years experience working in business and IT roles with an emphasis on integration and business optimization technologies targeted for banking, insurance, and retailmanufacturing solutions. Paul's current focus within the architecture program at Wells Fargo is the management of a Business Process & Decision Management Center of Excellence (COE) that provides governance, consulting and target architecture guidance across people, process and technology areas. Paul holds a B.S. in Business Administration and an M.S. in Software Engineering. He is also certified in Lean, Six Sigma and TOGAF.

Jeffi Sannapu is a Senior Systems Architect from Wells Fargo Retail Organization. Jeffi has over 15 years of experience covering a broad range of technology solution areas and playing various roles including Software Engineer, Systems Analyst, Sr. Developer, Technology Manager/Offshore co-coordinator, Project Manager and J2EE Architect. He is responsible for Line of Business Technology Strategy with focus on SOA, BI, BRM, ECM and BPM areas. Jeffi has Associate's, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Sciences and Engineering. He is also an AIIM certified ECM Practitioner and BPM Specialist.

BEI Webinar Series

Each complimentary webinar in the series examines trends, best practices and hot button issues in one of five categories: Business Planning & Design, Business Process Excellence, Intelligent Business, Sustainable Business, and Secure Business – the five main focus areas of the BEI and its communities of practice. The next webinar the series is:

• October 25th, 2011, 11 a.m. -- 12 p.m. EDT, The role of Business Architecture in Acquisitions & Mergers, Deb Boykin, Pfizer

The previous webinar, "Formal Business Architecture: Separating the Data and Analytic Functions of Business Process Improvement," by Theodore Kahn, Independent Systems and Business Architect, formally a Systems Engineer working on NASA's Constellation Program, is now available on-demand on the BEI website; visit http://www.business-ecology.org/events.htm.

Other upcoming BEI Events:

• "Business Ecology and Value-Driven Design: Creating sustainable business value through a market-driven, value-network approach to enterprise architecture," September 21, 2011, Orlando, FL
• "Business Ecology Initiative's Intelligent Business Conference: Sense, Make Sense & Respond," October 13th, 2011, New York City, NY

The Business Ecology Initiative is sponsored by IBM.

About the Business Ecology Initiative

Business Ecology® is a management imperative to make business more responsive, effective, sustainable and secure in a complex, networked world. Organizations that pursue Business Ecology optimize business operations and foster innovation through business-technology convergence, better decision making, business process excellence, removal of waste from business practices and technology portfolios, holistic risk management, and real-time insight and action.

The Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) is a non-profit, member-led organization committed to breaking down silos and promoting Business Ecology practices both within organizations and among them. It provides thought leadership, education, advocacy and a platform for the development and sharing of case studies and practices among business and technology leaders.

For more information or to join the BEI, visit http://www.business-ecology.org or email [email protected]. The BEI is managed by OMG®.

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