Overview AEGON is a leading insurance, pensions, mortgages, savings and investment provider. Established in 1983 as a result of numerous mergers, the company has 28,000 employees worldwide and operates in the United States, Europe, Canada and the Far East, making it one of the world’s largest insurers. In 2009, its worldwide revenue was €29.8 billion. The nerve center of AEGON is a business appli- cation known as CAESAR. Written in COBOL and residing on an IBM mainframe, CAESAR controls the pension administration. Challenge INFORMATION REQUESTS OUTPACED PROCEDURES TO PROVIDE ANSWERS The pension application was built in the nine- ties against a DB2 database on the mainframe. Over time various web systems were added, and an increasing number of information re- quests were subm

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