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- ONION keeps on growing, closing 1998 F-Y with excellent results..
- ISO 9001 certification:
DNV certification body certifies that the Quality System of ONION S.p.A. has been found to conform to the quality system standard UNI EN ISO 9001; 1994. The certification is valid for a wide service ranges, covering all ONION activities, namely the Design and provision of Information and Communication Technology services: management and technical consulting, software development and integration, Internet technologies, networking, ERP systems analysis and implementation.
- EPIC Project:
ONION successfully manages the 11th and last EPIC Workshop on "Highlights of SPI in Europe". The workshop was an accompanying event to IST and had its central site in Vienna, while being connected to Italy, Spain, Germany and Holland through multi-point video-conferencing technology.
- Multimedia development:
ONION starts the design and development of an innovative CD-Rom for a fast growing SME.
- Intranet services:
ONION delivers a new release of a custom-application for the management of software related quantitative measures.
- Intranet services:
ONION delivers a solution for life-cycle supporting activities for WIN NT and Solaris platforms.
- SAP R/3:
ONION completes system test of a "big-bang" solution involving the FI, CO, MM, SD and PP modules.
- SAP R/3:
ONION completes data migration and cut-over activities for a major project.
- Internet/ Intranet/ Extranet:
ONION starts the design and development of a comprehensive solution for a major company in the automotive domain.
- Networking:
ONION completes the WAN of a chemical group.
- Networking:
ONION completes installation and testing of a Frame Relay connection between Italy and Switzerland.
- Networking:
ONION restructures its Network Operating Centre and doubles the bandwidth of its international connectivity.
- Networking:
ONION completes the LAN of a manufacturing company.
- Marzoli WWW:
going to be restructured by ONION in due course. Stay tuned.
- International conferences:
ONION holds an invited speech on "Internet Testing" at the SIGIST Workshop in London..
- Workshops:
ONION will continue its co-operation with SYSTECH also in 1999.
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| November |
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- BEST 98:
The yearly conference organised by ONION achieves a great success in terms of attendance and interest of presented topics.
- School Project:
ONION defines an innovative approach to contribute to the growth of high potential people towards the work market.
- ONION Intranet:
ONION greatly enhances its own internal Intranet services.
- ISO 9001 Quality Management System:
The ONION QMS is found consistent with ISO 9001 clauses by the DNV certification body. Next step before certification will be the inspection of the deployment of the QMS in the daily routine work.
- EPIC Project:
ONION successfully manages the 10th EPIC Workshop on "SPI and ISO 9000". Over 100 delegates from France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain have benefited from the experiences learnt by many companies, including: AICQ (Italy); ESI (Spain); SAET (Italy); Lantik (Spain); B-Kin (Spain); Software Uno (Italy); IGA (Germany). The workshop has been performed using White-Pine MCU video-conferencing technology.
- Workshops:
ONION holds an invited tutorial on "Internet Testing" at the Software Quality Week Europe held in Brussels.
- International conferences:
ONION attends the Israeli Telecom 98 Conference and Exhibition in Tel Aviv (Israeli).
- Internet Services:
ONION designs the Web-Site of Stop a leading company based in Venezuela.
- R&D:
ONION attends the COMDEX Fall in Las Vegas in order to be aligned with the evolution of technologies.
- R&D:
ONION builds a prototype for a weareable computer system aimed at remote plant surveillance and maintenance.
- Consulting:
ONION starts the definition of FDA and ISO 9001 compliant IT Quality Assurance procedures for a major pharmaceutical company.
- Test Automation:
ONION strengthens its support to a major project on-going by a major telecom company.
- SAP R/3:
ONION successfully tests an IDOC-based integration with an automatic warehouse management system.
- SAP R/3:
ONION prepares for cut-over of a "big-bang" large project to 3 sites in Italy and 1 site in Switzerland.
- SAP R/3:
ONION successfully tests an Ole-based integration with a manufacturing control machine.
- SAP R/3:
ONION performs an intensive training to end-users for FI, CO, SD and MM modules.
- Internet Services:
the Camozzi Sweden WWW gets significantly enriched.
- ONION Intranet:
ONION finalises a new release of "Load Delivery" service for a large customer.
- Networking:
ONION finalises the cabling of two large manufacturing sites.
- Training:
ONION performs several training sessions on MS-Office applications.
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| October |
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- BEST 98:
The final program has been finalised. Do not miss the event!
- EPIC Project:
ONION successfully manages the 9th EPIC Workshop on "SPI for emerging technologies". Over 95 delegates from Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, France and Germany have benefited from the experiences learnt by many companies, including: Big Systems Limited, IBM, SAIT Devlonics, Thera. The workshop has been performed using White-Pine MCU video-conferencing technology.
- International conferences:
ONION is invited to attend the Israeli Telecom 98 Conference and exhibition, to be held in Tel Aviv in November 98
- Internet services:
General Plastic WWW. Coming soon, stay tuned!
- Networking:
ONION performs a feasibility study for LAN and WAN evolution of five-companies chemical group.
- CD-Rom Product catalogues:
ONION completes release 2.0 of a major product catalogue, releasing the following features: Support of English and Italian language; Availability of CAD files for download; CAD files browsing; Optimised product search; Browsing of distributors; Up-to-date off-line WWW; Up-to-date product descriptions.
- CD-Rom Product catalogues:
ONION starts the translation into German and Polish of a major product catalogue.
- Intranet services:
ONION progresses in the definition of documentation and configuration management rules to be followed in the development of a large Intranet project.
- SAP R/3:
ONION defines a comprehensive training plan to ensure successful cut-over of a major project.
- SAP R/3:
ONION installs a production system composed of a clustered-NT solution.
- SAP R/3:
ONION starts the roll-out of a major project to three international sites.
- SAP R/3:
ONION performs a feasibility study for a chemical group.
- IT strategic planning:
ONION defines the medium-long term evolution plan in Information Technology for a machine tool manufacturing group.
- Software development:
ONION starts the development of a custom application dedicated to human resources management.
- Internet services:
the Camozzi Germany WWW becomes fully bi-lingual (English and German).
- Training:
ONION signs an agreement for a wide training plan on Office applications.
- International publications:
The European Commission officially issues the "TMR Report EUR 18264", co-authored by ONION experts.
- Training:
ONION performs a training on "Software Quality Assurance and Computer System Validation" for a major pharmaceutical company.
- International events:
the last workshop of the EPIC Project gets officially linked with the IST Conference, the largest event in Information Technology organised by the European Commission.
- Quality management:
ONION finalises its own Quality Management System, preparing the whole documentation set (Quality Manual, Operating Procedures, Working instructions, etc,) for deployment and ISO 9001 registration activities.
- Networking:
ONION finalises agreements for the cabling and LAN design/ set-up of two manufacturing sites.
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