CIMSOLUTIONS in Finance

Team Leader Corporate ICT Ian Kho (right) of with Web Developers Özkan Ulu (left) and Arno van Hout (centre) of CIMSOLUTIONS.

CIMSOLUTIONS provides high quality professional ICT con- of legislation in the area of accounting and reporting, such as sulting services and software development solutions in the Basel and IFRS, our financial clients are actively organising the areas of Business, Administrative and Industrial Automation. business processes to improve efficiency. This takes place both Our expertise covers all phases of the software life-cycle from internally, by thinking up generic solutions, as well as externally, specification and feasibility through design, development, by an improved integration in the chain. In both cases, Internet test & implementation, to maintenance, support and project technology and open standards like web services and XML are management of both tailor-made as well as standard increasingly used. Financial systems must be designed and applications, systems, hardware and networks. developed to function absolutely flawlessly. This accounts for the increasing attention for structured testing. CIMSOLUTIONS Business serves the market sectors: • Government CIMSOLUTIONS specifies, designs, develops, manages and tests, • Finance in close co-operation with our clients in the Financial sector, high • Healthcare quality (Internet) systems such as: globally used automatic col- • Trade & Transport lection software for multinationals, exchange of client information • Energy, Telecom & Utilities between insurance companies and hospitals, central calculation • Publication & Multimedia of lease installments, software to enable companies to administer • Internet & Web Applications pension for their own employees and management information • Offshoring in all market sectors systems.

Our clients in the Financial sector, like Robeco, ABN AMRO, As an illustration of our activities in the Financial sector, Volvo Financial Services, Binck bank, PGGM, Delta Lloyd / Ohra, CIMSOLUTIONS proudly presents the following example of De Friesland Zorgverzekeraar, Menzis, Trade Bank Robeco in the next page. and , have an outstanding reputation and are renowned for their innovative excellence. In addition to the implementation CIMSOLUTIONS in Finance

Robeco has more than 75 years of experience as an investment development, test & implementation, to maintenance, support and company with the creation of products which realise very high project management of both tailor-made as well as standard returns on investment, both for private individuals and business applications, systems, hardware and networks. investors. Robeco is one of the largest investment specialists in Europe, with managed assets worth more than 110 billion euro. CIMSOLUTIONS distinguishes itself by providing professional Robeco is also active with products in the areas of savings and and independent ICT services of the highest value available, at mortgages. the most competitive quality/price ratio, based on a long-term relationship with clients and employees, an efficient ISO and NEN By means of thorough analysis, company visits and quantitative certified organisation, a lean cost-structure and the vision to models, Robeco develops a number of well-performing funds in extend our services beyond the national boundaries. Our future is which investments are made. Other core activities next to the safeguarded by our strong client orientation, quality of our people determination of funds include the publication of company and and our services and the fact that we made profit every year investment results and giving advice to investors. The R&D and since our start in 1992. In the coming years we foresee a conti- ICT departments support the primary processes, which run more nual autonomous growth both within as well as outside and more via the web. The and Bangladesh.

CIMSOLUTIONS has worked on different projects for Robeco, as Since its establishment in 1992 in The Netherlands, Software Designer, Software Developer and Tester. Projects are CIMSOLUTIONS has grown to more than 250 professionals carried out in the DSDM manner, whereby software is developed operating from our six offices in The Netherlands and one office in in an iterative and incremental way in close consultation with the Bangladesh, serving our clients in The Netherlands and Europe. user. The software is designed and tested for user-friendliness at an early stage, whereby several proto-types are made to limit the CIMSOLUTIONS provides the following expertise and services: risks and to increase the acceptance: • Business & Information Analysis, Business process • A ‘Form Engine’ and a ‘Calculator Engine’ have been developed optimisation, Requirement Management. for the Mortgage Advice Module of Robeco Direct. The ‘Form • System & Software Architecture & Design, Service Oriented Engine’ takes care of the conversion of data, which is stored Architecture, Web, Internet, Portal, Cloud. in XML files, to ASP.NET pages on the server. The ‘Calculator • System development, Object Orientation, UML, Java, C, C++, Engine’ contains all relevant calculations which are necessary C#, Ruby, .NET. to generate a mortgage advice. • Test management, test & tools: (non)functional, automated, • For the publishing department IRIS a module is developed, exploratory, ISEB, ISTQB, TMMI, TMap NEXT, Agile Testing. which is used for generating publications in different formats • Databases, data warehouses, data vaults: Oracle, MS SQL Server. (such as XML, HTML, Word and PDF). This tool is integrated • System & Software Application Maintenance, Support & with the workflow management tool Staffware. Management. For the investment department of a multi-layered • Product Development and Innovation (Research & web ASP.NET application has been developed, which is used for Development). the reporting of various investment information. The application • Workflow management, Content management, Knowledge which generates Excel documents is set up in a generic way, management, Document Management. which makes it possible to extend the reports without having to • State-of-the-art ICT concepts: Agile Scrum, DSDM, RUP, change the code. Also used are XML files with XML queries and Lean IT, UML, XML, TMap NEXT, ITIL, ASL, BiSL. an XSL style sheet. • Business Intelligence: Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Cognos. • Business Solutions (ERP): SAP, Oracle ERP, MS Dynamics. The focus of CIMSOLUTIONS is to apply state-of-the-art ICT • Microsoft, Oracle and Open Source platforms and software. concepts in combination with the latest software engineering • Project and Quality management: Prince2, Agile Scrum, RUP, techniques in a highly professional manner to the optimal benefit DSDM, Lean IT, CMM(I), IPMA, ITIL, ASL, BiSL. of the client. Our passion is to learn, create and make things work. • Projects (also fixed-price), consulting, individual consultant and Our dedication is to help our clients to be successful in their pro­ dedicated team assignment. jects and goals. Our expertise covers all phases of the software • Offshoring in Dhaka (Bangladesh), on which a separate flyer is life-cycle from specification and feasibility through design, available on request.

Vianen CIMSOLUTIONS B.V. Best Havenweg 24, 4131 NM Vianen Deventer Telefoon: (+31) 347-368100 Fax: (+31) 347-373777 Amsterdam E-mail: [email protected] Groningen Internet: www.cimsolutions.nl Dhaka Internet: www.cimsolutions.com.bd