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- International co-operation:
Pursuing its strive to excellence, ONION enters the World Wide Web Consortium, the international body (founded by CERN and currently led by INRIA, MIT and University of Keyo, with membership from the most important companies world-wide) which is paving the way for innovation and standardisation in the Internet Technologies.
- Networking:
ONION staff is trained by CISCO on the latest advances in switching and routing technologies.
- Quality management:
Continuous improvement as a must! ONION releases new internal company rules for Sub-contractor management, Procurement, Contract Review, Quality Audits and Training.
- Information System Right-sizing:
Five members of ONION technical staff complete a 100 days training plan on technical and functional features of the SAP R/3 ERP System.
- EPIC Project:
Another successful workshop! Over 80 delegates from France, Denmark, Austria and Greece could benefit of lessons learnt by leading companies in the field of "Formal methods/ Security /Safety".
- Networking:
ONION completes the optimisation of the LAN of a manufacturing company.
- International conferences:
ONION gives an invited speech on "Extranet solutions for manufacturing industries" at the EuroMedNet Conference in Cyprus.
- EVENT Project:
the Project is ranked among the 20 most successful TBP projects, providing case stories which will be a major part of a book edited by the European Commission and released before the TBP (Technologies for Business Processes) Conference of Genoa (24-26 June 1998). The aim of this publication is to provide excellent examples of R&D projects to the business community and demonstrate therefore, how enterprises, being part of a TBP project, can successfully improve their business.
- Video-conferencing:
ONION is asked to provide a high quality solution for showing in real-time to remote customers in Germany the tests performed on utterly complex machine tools.
- International assignments:
ONION Partners will act as Panel expert and reviewer for the European Commission on TMR Projects in the field of Engineering Sciences.
- Software Process Improvement:
Look at how ONION is streamlining its development processes through the RADIUM WWW.
- Workshops:
ONION holds a successful one-day training on "Internet Testing" in co-operation with ToolNews.
- System Integration:
ONION develops a Web-based solution allowing real-time monitoring of traffic over a switched LAN composed of 700+ nodes.
- Networking:
ONION starts the analysis of structured cabling for a large manufacturing site.
- Networking:
ONION contributes to the specifications for structured cabling of an industrial complex in the Milan area.
- Multimedia:
ONION supports a major customer in multimedia show-cases during a major international expo.
- Multimedia:
ONION supports the specifications for a multimedia Computer Based Training solution running on Intranet.
- Intranet services:
ONION supports the completion of release 1 for a major Intranet solution featuring: Content provision, Help Desk, Training-on-line, Technical Documentation, Software Delivery and other advanced services.
- Internet services:
New advanced highly-graphical "Hit Log" services are now available to all ONION subscribers.
- Extranet services:
ONION is asked to solve Y2K problems and extend Web-based order management for the legacy system of an industrial company.
- Workshops:
ONION is invited to chair an international workshop on "Software Testing".
- Intranet Services:
ONION completes the development of an Intranet solution supporting on-line management of a ISO9001 certified Quality Management System of a major industrial group.
- Papers:
ONION completes four chapters for a book on "Software Practice and Experiences" to be published by IEEE in Fall 1998.
- Papers:
ONION participates to the editing of a paper on Process Improvement by Formal Specifications Languages presented by Italtel at the Aquis Conference in Venice.
- Software development:
ONION starts the development of a PERL based parser for a major telecom company.
- SAP R/3:
ONION supports the installation of a NT-based solution, starting also BPR-driven analysis activities for its tuning.
- Software Process Improvement and Quality Management:
ONION raises its support to a major telecom company on its long-lasting Process Improvement Programs.
- Camozzi WWW:
Several enhancements made by ONION to a highly professional Web site.
- Internet services beyond frontiers:
ONION performs the feasibility study for Internet services for a company based in Venezuela.
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- EPIC Project:
ONION manages the successful deployment of the fourth workshop, focused on "Software Process Improvement for embedded systems". Over 50 delegates from Italy, France and Denmark could benefit of lessons learnt by leading companies, including: Gemplus, Italtel, Masmec, Ramtex, Sodalia, etc.
- SAP R/3:
ONION starts the implementation of a major project, taking advantage of the features offered by the ASAP (Accelerated SAP) methodology.
- System integration:
ONION completes a solution for work-flow management based on MS-Exchange and MS-Outlook.
- Multimedia:
ONION releases a comprehensive Product Catalogue on CD-Rom, featuring product descriptions in PDF, advanced search facilities, friendly GUI and WWW-based company profile.
- Intranet services:
ONION gets an assignment for the set-up of a Intranet solution based on the Interprise Server.
- Internet Services:
ONION starts the development of a professional WWW for the "Tattile" company.
- Object-Oriented development:
ONION contributes to the set-up and training activities for the usage of UML and Rational Rose in the development of a large TMN system.
- Software Process Improvement:
ONION will bring-on for the whole 1998 the SPI Program of the R&D Unit of a major telecommunication company, focusing improvement efforts on: Test Automation, Planning and Tracking, Technology Innovation and Deployment in Projects.
- Intranet solutions:
ONION completes the mock-up of a WWW based repository for the collection of measurement data.
- Networking:
ONION contributes to the definition of the evolution strategy of a large LAN connecting more than 600 nodes.
- FDA Validation:
ONION completes a feasibility study for the retrospective validation of a shop-floor control system.
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- EPIC Project:
during the 4th General Meeting held in Athens, a major enhancement of the quality of video and audio during multi-point conferencing is planned, by strengthening the current communication infrastructure.
- EPIC WWW:
it gets significantly enriched both from a content and a look-and-feel point of view. Just have a look.
- MIS Right-sizing:
ONION gets an assignment for the deployment of the SAP R/3 system in an international group, inclusive of the features for managing the following business processes: Finance, Sales & Distribution, Controlling, Production and Material Management.
- BPR:
ONION starts a feasibility study for the optimisation of business processes and achievement of ISO 9001 registration in a manufacturing company.
- Networking:
ONION extends a WAN solution for multi-point fast exchange of large data files in order to fully cover the supply chain.
- Software Process Improvement:
ONION supports the integration of a CASE tool for formal specifications within Configuration Management and Documentation environments.
- ONION WWW:
Look at the enhanced description of ONION Business areas.
- Intranet Services:
ONION completes the mock-up of a large Intranet solution for a major telecommunication company.
- Tutorials and events:
ONION holds a two-days tutorial in co-operation with Systech on "Internet/ Intranet for BPR" to managers of major Italian companies.
- Tutorials and events:
ONION gets invited to hold the well-established tutorial on "Testing WWW Applications" at a forthcoming major exhibition in Milan.
- Extranet services:
ONION extends the Extranet services used by a fashion company to manage the whole design and production processes.
- System Integration:
ONION starts the introduction of MS-Exchange based work-flow management for a major manufacturing industry.
- Associations:
ONION enters AIB.
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