Aegon's end of year parties are an excellent moment to wine down in a nice atmosphere with the people i have worked so hard with. Realizing how much we have achieved and what a great team we actually have i am looking forward to continue contribute to the project success. Happy new year Gloria's team and see u in 2017.

It has been a pleasure to see you all at the drinks on the 14th of December in Utrecht. Chatting, drinking and having a bite outside of work filled me with joy. I must admit that both myself and Arthur were a little bit nervous. Have we been able to create a comfortable atmosphere where our guests could relax in and enjoy? Hoping so and seeing you there reassured me that i'm working with the people that i not only think high of, respect for the hard work and talents but gener

Another proud achievement: I have received my certification on Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service from Oracle. Oracle positions this cloud based reporting solution not as replacement of on premise Hyperion Planning but as complementary. It's in fact a very interesting planning solution for mid-sized companies who are looking to accelerate their planning reporting cycle and move away from error prone processes typically based on spreadsheets. I have no doubt that this offer i

In 2016 another great collision occurred among two companies which specialization overlaps greatly. Instead of starting fierce competition Arthur van den Berg from Thuros and Andrea Leandri from Qubico started a strong working relationship to share and tackle the most difficult challenges on the Hyperion Planning/Essbase horizon (offline or on cloud) that our combined network can offer. Thuros is a specialized companies that several clients in the education sector and next th

The Solvency II reporting project executed at Aegon has tipped the difficulty and complexity of a few projects that I experienced in my EPM career. I have carried out international workshops, collected business requirement, brainstormed through design sessions, build prototypes and several other activities which included the build, testing and issue resolving of their final global Solvency II reporting application based on a Tagetik platform in combination with TowersWatson R