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- ONION facts:
ONION closes 1997 F-Y with a steady growth (about + 120% in sales revenues w.r.t 1996) and excellent figures about order portfolio, cash-flow. The Board of Directors wish to thank customers, suppliers and partners for yet another fine and fruitful year. And a special thank to the ONION staff without whom such an end-of-year result would not have been possible. An ambitious investment plan for 1998 shall secure ONION capabilities to keep abreast of the latest IT development and turn them into new products, services, processes and solutions for the market.
- SPI and video-conference at work:
ONION successfully co-ordinates the third EPIC public workshop, dedicated to Software Process Improvement in Banking, Insurance and Finance sectors. Over 50 delegates from Austria, Italy, Holland and Spain could tale advantage of the video-conference facilities and synchronous web browsing features provided by ONION Labs, to benefit of best practices and lessons learnt by major European organisations, such as: ABN Ambro Bank, Banco Ambrosiano Veneto, CECA, Istiservice, Memolux, SIA, etc.. Special emphasis was given on the Y2K problem and its challenges. Do not miss the next workshop on Embedded Systems, scheduled for February 10.
- SIRAL WWW:
Stay tuned for a new service by ONION staff. Coming soon!
- Intranet Services:
ONION opens several Intranet/ Extranet services for a major industrial group with headquarters in Brescia. Services include: Commercial Forum, Who is Who, Funnel System, Help Desk, On-line Training and are intended, as a start, for business partners in Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA, Venezuela.
- MIS Right-sizing:
ONION completes a feasibility study for the introduction of the SAP ERP System in a multi-site multi-national manufacturing company.
- Concurrent engineering:
ONION completes a feasibility study for hardware/ software co-design together with a number of European excellence centres leaded by the University of Aachen.
- DROPSA WWW:
stay tuned; you will see exciting things in the world of lubrication.
- Web quality of service:
ONION completes a feasibility study for the quantitative assessment of WWW QoS, together with other R&D partners, including INRIA and LIUC.
- Best Practices: The PI3 Project gets selected as a Reference Best Practice for Process Improvement Experiments in Europe. The case study report will follow in due course as part of the EU European Software and System Initiative, with which ONION has been involved from the outset.
- Conference:
ONION holds a speech on "Internet and Industrial Application" at the "Internet: futuro remoto o congiuntivo perfetto?" conference at University of Brescia.
- Internetworking:
ONION completes a WAN solution for multi-point fast exchange of large data files.
- The stamp of quality on software: ONION co-ordinates efforts for the application of source code quality tools, resulting in the spotting out of a number of uncovered faults of a critical software applications currently installed in hundreds locations world-wide. The validity of the approach gets confirmed also by a benchmarking with similar experiences matured abroad by major companies.
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| November |
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- BEST 97:
A standing ovation. ONION captures the
attention of more than one hundred decision makers, interested on the various subjects of the Information Age
illustrated by key-note speakers from the European Commission, from academy as well as from industry.
- Intranet services:
ONION signs a contract with an European-wide manufacturing company with
headquarters in the surroundings of Milan. Management of information flows and Commercial Bulletin Board will
be the challenges to meet by means of advanced technologies.
- Intranet services:
ONION releases a first set of services oriented to the commercial management
business-to-business relationships within an European wide industrial group.
- Intranet services:
ONION starts the development of an Intranet solution for a large software
development unit.
- IT Security Management:
ONION signs a contract with a leading manufacturing company in the
Piemonte area for an assessment on the security of their communication infrastructure.
- COMTECH:
ONION completes an impact study on EC HCM networks in the field of
Communication Technologies, as part of an assignment by EC DG XII.
- SPI and video-conference at work:
ONION successfully co-ordinates the second EPIC public
workshop, dedicated to Software Process Improvement in Public Administration. Over 30 delegates from France,
Holland and Spain could tale advantage of the video-conference facilities and synchronous web browsing features
provided by ONION Labs, to benefit of best practices and lessons learnt by major European organisations. Do not
miss the next workshop on Banking, scheduled for December 10.
- Streparava WWW:
A comprehensive Web for a leading company, that put its trust in
ONION quality of services.
- Merlo WWW:
ONION is honoured to host a tri-lingual service developed by
Proxima Ventura.
- Software Process Improvement:
ONION signs a contract with the European Commission for a
16 months Process Improvement Experiment focused on Rapid Application Development using Multimedia.
- Multimedia at work:
ONION improves the features provided in the remote
vision of large machine tools projects.
- Multimedia development:
ONION completes the main bulk of development activities for a
comprehensive and innovative product catalogue on CD-Rom.
- Training:
ONION manages a series of workshops on mobile systems for a
major telecommunication company.
- International conferences:
ONION holds a tutorial and an invited speech at EuroStar 97 in Edinburgh,
the largest European Conference on software testing, on the topic: "Testing WWW based applications".
A reward to our commitment to innovation.
- International conferences:
ONION holds a tutorial and an invited speech at ESI-ISCN 97 in Budapest,
on the topics: "Intranet for BPR" and "Distance Training and Co-operative Work through Internet
Video-Conferencing" respectively.
- International conferences:
ONION manages the EPIC stand at the EITC conference in Brussels, the
European Information Technology Conference, sponsored by the European Commission.
- Workshops:
ONION plays an active role in the workshop on "TBP in the Textile Industry",
hold in Brussels under the auspices of the European Commission.
- Workshops:
ONION gives a presentation on "The integration of Internet technologies in Machine
Tools".
- Workshops:
ONION sponsors the annual INN.TEC conference.
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| October |
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- ONION WWW:
ONION re-focuses its mission
and vision, to be prepared for the challenges of the next years. Visit our completely
re-designed Web Site to know who we are and what we do.
- BEST 97:
A workshop focused on
leveraging factors and competitive advantages of IT Technology. Look at the final
program and do not miss this major event organised by ONION and scheduled for Nov. 20
- Software Process Improvement:
ONION drives the deployment of a major
test automation project in GSM development.
- Intranet services:
ONION start the analysis and protoyping of a large
Intranet project for the R&D department of a major telecom
manufacturer, offering to the designers' community services likewise:
documentation management, work-flow management, advanced mailing
features and internal information publishing.
- SPI and video-conference at work:
ONION successfully manages the first
EPIC public workshop, dedicated to Software Process Improvement in
Industrial applications. Over 60 attendees from Italy, Denmark,
Germany, Holland and Spain used video-conference facilities and
synchronous web browsing to benefit of best practices and lessons
learnt by major European companies, including: BAV (I), Bijo data (D),
Digianswer (DK), CAD-LAB (I), Laben (I), Labein (E), MicroLogica (D),
Philips (NL), Schlumberger (NL), Tebodin (NL). Do not miss the next
workshops on Public Administration (November) and Banking (December).
- MIS Rightsizing:
In light of a progressive strengthening of its
involvement in such area, ONION visits SAP headquarters in Walldorf.
- Quality at work:
ONION manages the deployment of tool driven code
review on a multi-processor embedded system consisting of over 1 million lines of code.
- Camozzi Germany WWW:
Designed to meet the needs of the most requiring
industrial market in Europe.
- Camozzi Sweden WWW:
Now on-line the profile of a fast growing and
customer-oriented company.
- Camozzi Benelux WWW:
Have a look to see how Camozzi manages its sales
and distribution in Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
- New development paradigms:
ONION completes the evaluation of O-O
technologies to be used in a multi-national multi-site major
development project.
- International conferences:
ONION presents the paper "Putting Intranet
and Extranet at Work in the Virtual Enterprise" at the ICE
International Conference in Nottingham. A joint effort by AVS OY, CAL,
Camozzi and ONION.
- Electronic Commerce:
ONION completes an "Electronic Textile Workbook"
product based on WWW technologies allowing to streamline design and
commercial processes in the textile industry.
- Sportfreizeit WWW:
Look at how the WWW can help commercial SMEs.
- CAL WWW:
the complete profile of a company which has been present
since long on the WWW with two of its most known brands: Blue Notes
and Great Escapes.
- ONION training:
ONION announces a two-days training on "Internet,
Intranet, Extranet for Business Processes" to be held in January 1998
in Milan in co-operation with a major technology transfer institute.
- Project management:
ONION advances in the analysis of Function Point
adoption in software development.
- ONION infrastructure:
ONION doubles again its communication lines and
ensures high quality of service to its partners abroad thanks to high
guaranteed band-width at international level.
- Extranet services:
ONION co-operates to the development of an on-line
Spare Parts Management System, developed with usage of dynamic WWW
technologies.
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