ONION S.p.A.
1998 2nd quarter facts

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  • Exploiting Web Technologies at international level: ONION participates to the Advisory Committee Meeting of the W3C held in Geneva at CERN premises.

  • Strategic co-operations: ONION signs a Trade Agreement with a major telecom manufacturer.

  • The EVENT Project undergoes its Final Review by European Commission Officers and Assessors. Quoting their evaluation: ". the reviewers are happy with its progress and conclude that the project has fulfilled its project goals and congratulate the partners on finishing the project with these satisfactory results".

  • Telecommunications services: ONION gets involved in a multi-site international project managed by a leading telecom company, with the aim of providing support for GDMO and ASN.1 techniques and tooling.

  • SAP R/3: ONION progresses in the analysis for integrating an automatic Warehouse Management System for a manufacturing industry.

  • SAP R/3: ONION extends its staff of experts in customising and ABAP/4 programming.

  • SAP R/3: ONION performs a bench-marking of vendor solutions based on the NT-Oracle platform.

  • Networking: ONION co-ordinates the cabling and networking of a 10.000 sqm. Industrial plant.

  • Networking: ONION performs a feasibility plan for a comprehensive evolution of the networking architecture of an international industrial group.

  • The EPIC Project defines a new technology for distance-training and establishes a new calendar for the future international workshops: have a look at the WWW for up-to-date information.

  • Training: ONION performs an intensive training on Microsoft Outlook technologies and applications.

  • Multimedia applications: ONION completes a bi-lingual product catalogue on CD-Rom.

  • International conferences: ONION acts as expert and invited speaker to a Software Testing international conference held in Brussels.

  • Video-conference: ONION sets-up a professional solution for communications between Sweden and Italy

  • Video-conference: ONION performs a successful trial for sharing of CAD applications throughout several geographically distributed sites.

  • Video-conference: ONION performs a feasibility study for high-quality services based on radio transmission and satellite applications in co-operation with R&D labs and industrial companies in Denmark, Germany and Spain.

  • Intranet Services: ONION opens a comprehensive Intranet solutions for a community of 500+ designers and enters into the Web Control Board aimed at its harmonised evolution.

  • Intranet Services: ONION signs a contract with a major group for the definition of its Intranet services.

  • System integration: ONION supports the set-up of electronic kiosks in Italy and Austria.

  • System Integration: ONION delivers advanced solutions for work-flow management of messaging applications.

  • Internet services: the Pedretti WWW is on-line. Have a look at the wonderful engravings.

  • Internet services: the Italclem WWW service is on-line. Electrical equipment gets to life on the WWW.

  • Internet services: the Dropsa WWW service is on-line, Look at the many innovative products proposed by this international industrial group.

  • Internet services: the Corus WWW service is on-line. When communication reaches high standards.

  • Process Improvement: ONION manages the Steering Committee Meeting of a long-lasting process improvement programme of a large software producing unit.

  • Papers: ONION publishes a paper at an international conference on usage of Formal Languages and Tools in requirements engineering.

May
  • Many of our services live a life far from the spotlight, thanks to the fact that we live in a needle-point world, connected in a million new ways by threads twined from copper cables and optical fibres. In this context, ONION Networking services keep on providing LAN solutions for leading manufacturing industries.

  • The right decisions at the right time: this is the goal of MEDAL (Measurement Data Library), a web-enabled Intranet application released in First Office Application to a key customer in the telecommunication domain.

  • The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. ONION extends the Extranet of an international industrial group by including its Swiss premises in the Information Flow of the Extended Virtual Enterprise.

  • ONION puts the world at the touch of a button by setting-up professional video-conferencing services between Italy and Sweden, with usage of Intel Pro-Share technology tightly coupled with the ONION-made "Synchronet" system.

  • SAP R/3: ONION progresses in the customising of SAP modules for an international company, including: sales and distribution, materials management, financial and controlling.

  • SAP R/3: ONION starts the analysis of Quality Management and of the integration between Internet/ Intranet/ Extranet and the SAP system.

  • SAP R/3: ONION starts the analysis for integration of Warehouse Management with an automatic stock management system.

  • ONION Quality Management System: new rules get defined for Project Management activities.

  • The EVENT Project comes to an end, delivering all expected outcomes on time, within budget and with an excellent Return On Investment.

  • ONION Networking on the fast lane thanks to new assignments for WAN services.

  • Training on Intranet services: ONION supports a major training programme on the benefits and mechanisms of Intranet services to 50+ designers.

  • EPIC Project: ONION successfully manages a video-conference workshop on "The Return On Investment from Software Process Improvement" attended by about 50 delegates from Spain, Denmark, and Holland, with participation of speakers from major companies, including: ESI, Caja Madrid, Origin and Schlumberger.

  • International co-operation: ONION co-operates to a stage in Software Quality Assurance offered to Indian experts.

  • International conferences: ONION acts as expert and invited speaker to an EUREX Workshop dedicated to "Software Testing".

  • Training services: ONION issues a packaged version of its course on "Internet for Business Processes" to a fashion organisation in Florence.

  • International assignments: ONION acts as Project evaluator on behalf of European Commission DGXII for a TMR Engineering Science Project participated by leading universities and industries in Europe.

  • There are lot of ways for business to enter the Internet. Look at how Camozzi Sweden WWW was built for the purpose
April
  • ONION growth: another striking quarter, with sales revenues more than doubled with respect to the same period in 1997.

  • SAP R/3: ONION starts the analysis and customising of SAP modules for an international company, including: sales and distribution, materials management, financial and controlling.

  • ONION in W3C: ONION starts contributing to the international efforts made by W3C, starting to focus on the integration between Television and the WWW.

  • Return On Investment from ONION services: in accordance to a research made by the University of Neurtingen, the advanced Intranet features developed in the EVENT Project have contributed to optimise business processes and to determine impressive quantitative ROI. Look at the EVENT WWW for more details!.

  • Networking: ONION becomes a CISCO reseller.

  • Internet Services: Learn on the WWW how the Siral ball valves quickly have earned the consent thanks to their low costs of maintenance, to the easy operativity, the watertight closing and the compactness.

  • Intranet services: ONION develops an Intranet solution to track and monitor a major project development effort.

  • Technologies at work: ONION co-operates to the definition of an effort-intensive migration plan to Solaris of a large software development environment.

  • Internet Services and Art: world-wide renowned engravings soon on the WWW thanks to a co-operation between Pedretti and Onion.

  • Internet Services: ONION brings on the WWW product and services offered by Tattile.

  • Camozzi wins with Mercedes-McLaren: see the last updates in the Camozzi F1 WWW section.

  • WWW Services: coming soon for ItalClem company!.

  • Development methodologies: ONION supports the tuning of a major effort for introducing formal specifications languages in the large.

  • Internet services: if you like to play, stay tuned for the incoming Toyce WWW.

  • Applying BPR to our own internal processes: ONION betters its procedures for project management and configuration management.

  • EPIC Project: ONION succesfully manages a video-conference workshop on "Software Product Quality and Testing" attended by about 100 delegates in France, Denmark, Germany, Ireland and Holland, with participation of speakers from major companies, including: CAP Gemini, Banque San Paolo, IQUIP, Credo Group, Philips, Mettenmeier, Gementeekredit.

  • Software Process Improvement: ONION extends its support to Quality Assurance and Control activities for a large telecom manufacturer.

  • Video-conferencing: ONION provides a high quality solution for showing in real-time to remote customers in Germany the tests performed on utterly complex machine tools.

  • International co-operation: ONION starts an international feasibility study for the usage of advanced video-conferencing systems for process control.

  • Multimedia CD Catalogues: ONION moves to multi-lingual solutions for its customers.

  • International conferences: ONION gets invited to a TMR workshop in Graz.


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