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- ONION strengthens its Turin site.
In order to strengthen its delivery services towards customers, ONION strongly strengthens its Turin site, by opening new offices located in Via Cibrario. The site is the company core competence center for CRM projects; more over, it delivers E-business solutions for North-West Italy
- ONION reorganizes to better serve the market.
Since March 1st ONION S.p.A. is organized into two Business Units: PROJECTS/ SOLUTIONS and PRODUCTS/ SERVICES. The PROJECTS BU delivers ICT solutions tio support business processes, taking advantage of the best platforms at technology and application levels, as well as proposing system integration solutions; the PRODUCTS BU proposes ASP Services and develops/ markets an E-business suite specifically tailored to SME and SOHO targets.
- ONION implements a strong growth plan.
In the context of a strong company growth, ONION hires 35 ICT professionals, mainly in the "CRM Applications", "E-business Applications" and "E-business technologies" areas. Moreover, central functions get strengthened with new Marketing Manager and HR Manager.
- ONION strengthens CRM competences:
ONION Project Managers take part to the SIEBEL Certification training, at the EMEA site in Paris.
- ONION certifies Help Desk competencies:
ONION activates certification procedures as Remedy Teachers for its experienced Project Managers.
- Call Centre.
ONION performs cut-over of the banking Calla Centre of a regional bank. The Call Centre is in German language and is based on Remedy for Operation management and Novavox as CTI platform.
- IT Service Management.
ONION gets assignment by a Media Blue-Chip to implement HW/ SW procurement processes for both internal staff and sales representatives. The project will be developed with the Remedy platform.
- Remedy Competence Centre.
ONION is asked to perform a performance assessment and to propose a set of corrective actions for Remedy applications developed by third parties in the automotive domain.
- International Conferences.
ONION presents its "Web Testing Master-Class" tutorial in London in co-operation with UNICOM
- Software Engineering.
ONION completes the definition of Architectural Design for a railway system.
- ONION products: Easy Start.
ONION releases Version 2 of the Easystart product, designed for Web marketing and E-commerce B2C. Easystart V2.0 introduces important enhancements including a content management engine and a gateway for Credit Card payment.
- ONION Services: ONIONNET.
An Internet provider proposes to become an ONIONNET reseller; ONIONNET is a service for end-to-end operational testing and is based on the ONION Interprise Platform - Fennec Edition.
- SAP R/3 Solutions.
ONION activates a projects dedicated to the integration of SAP Modules ISU-FI-CA and SD aimed at billing features for services offered to consumers by a major organization.
- Quality Management for Software Development.
ONION is put in charge of the complete review of the QMS for R&D activities of a major TLC multi-national.
- SAP Reporting for Supply Chain Operations.
ONION will define improvement opportunities for SAP reporting as part of Supply Chain Management support for an important telco customer.
- SAP-based Order Entry with Web interface.
ONION releases to a steel-producing customer a solution enabling Web-based order entry with tight integration with SAP R/3 back-end.
- Software Configuration Management.
ONION will deliver Software Configuration Management training for the Italian sites of an important UK company, in the scope of a global software process improvement program.
- Intranet Solutions as a support to software development.
ONION releases to an important customer a complete Intranet solution for the management of quality control for source code, by integrating COTS packages (FlexeLint and Sniff) as well as developing ad-hoc solution.
- Intranet Solutions for Quality Management Systems.
ONION is contracted the development of an Intranet solution supporting QMS deployment for a telco operator; the solution will be based on the E-qms platform.
- ONION products: Interprise Server.
ONION releases to the market the new version of Interprise Web Edition, inclusive of the Small Internet Gateway and Firewall extensions; within short time, also the Interprise List Server Edition will be released, aimed at managing very large mailing lists.
- ONION Products: Syncronet.
ONION starts with intensive adoption of the Syncronet solution for company communication and training.
- Networking:
ONION completes cabling and network evolution activities for a large manufacturing group.
- Security Management:
ONION completes security assessment for Extranet applications of an important car distribution corporate.
- HelpDesk:
ONION completes design and customising activities for a Remedy-based Help Desk solution for mobile telephony service unit of large telco company. Next steps will focus on the analysis of the integration with back-end processes and platforms.
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- ONION keeps on growing.
ONION opens-up a second prestigious site in Brescia, at Via Abbiati 14.
- ONION at SMAU Impresa 2001.
ONION will participate at SMAU Impresa 2001 as primary Partner.
- International publications.
ONION signs a Publishing contract with a major UK publisher for a book on "Web Testing" planned to be on the shelves in 4Q2001.
- Quality Systems for Supply Chain Management.
ONION defines ISO9001 compliant Quality Management System procedures for Logistics and Production Processes of a telco manufacturer.
- Video-conferencing.
ONION supports an important bank for broadcasting in video-conferencing the speech of the Italian Minister of Education.
- Domotics.
ONION completes the feasibility study for a large residential site.
- Networking.
ONION completes a planned set of activities for a manufacturing company.
- Web design.
ONION completes and publishes the Web site of Cremona Export.
- Training.
Following the "Remedy Administration" Class, Vision Partners provides training on "Remedy Web Enterprise 4.0" to both internal employees and external customers.
- Training.
Vision Partners specialists will provide training sessions in UK and France for the usage of Remedy and Call Centre applications for the Italian automotive company.
- Software Engineering.
ONION completes the "Validation Plan" for a railway project.
- ASP Services.
ONION gets the extension for the provision in service of the Techincal Assistance system of a manufacturing company, based on Remedy. The agreement covers also enhancements at platform level.
- ONION focuses its organisation.
In order to better serve customer needs and to put in practice an ambitious growth plan, ONION reorganizes in two Business Units: "Products/ Services" and "Projects/ Solutions".
- Intranet Applications.
ONION receives commitment for the development of an Intranet application aimed at publishing Configuration Management outputs for a large software R&D unit.
- ONION Products.
Edisontel, a new telco operator, includes in its offer two services based on Easystart V1.0 and Interprise Web Edition, two of the products of Proxima Ventura, the new "Products and Services" Business Unit of Onion.
- Intranet Services.
ONION completes the basic infrastructure of the Intranet Information Portal of an international ICT company.
- Web applications for SCM.
ONION completes the first version of a Web-based application for industrial forecast management integrated with SAP R/3.
- Web applications for telco industry.
ONION gets the assignment for the feasibility study of a Web-based application aimed at publishing detailed info concerning interfaces of a mobile telephony application.
- E-commerce B2C.
ONION completes and put on-line "The cube of cubes" B2C site.
- E-commerce B2B and B2C.
ONION will perform the prototyping of a portal devoted to professional services offered to companies and citizens of specific district areas.
- Balanced Scorecard on Web.
ONION will manage the evolution of a Web-based application for the management of company indicators for the a major telco company, in adherence with the "Balanced Scorecard" methodology.
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- Partnerships.
ONION becomes Microsoft Certified Partner
- Supply Chain Management Consulting.
ONION defines the framework for Supply Chain performance indicators of an international company, in adherence with the SCOR-4 model
- Offer evolution.
ONION proposes new solution for the product lines: Onionnet e Syncronet
- Technology Support.
ONION is put in charge to make a substantial contribution to the feasibility study for the evolution of a big industrial area into a technology park
- Help Desk.
ONION strengthens its Help Desk with innovative solution based on Remedy
- M-Commerce.
ONION performs the cut-over of a Mobile-Commerce solution used by a major metallurgic company to access SAP R/3 transactions through Short Message Services (SMS)
- Training.
ONION performs a training session on "Designing an Intranet solution" in co-operation with Systech
- Intranet Solutions.
ONION finalises the prototype of an Intranet solutions, integrated with SAP R/3 for the management of industrial forecast of a multi-national company
- E-business B2C.
ONION is contracted the development of a B2C application, teaming with a banking institution specialized in electronic payment systems
- Quality Management Systems.
ONION develops ISO9001 compliant procedures for the "Plan", Source" and "Make" processes of an important telecommunications company
- Web design.
ONION develops the web Site of an international Design and Printing Service company
- E-business B2B.
ONION performs the tuning of a B2B market-place for an English company
- Web design.
ONION completes the evolution of the Corporate Web for a company leader in cook-ware
- International conferences.
ONION presents its tutorial "Web Testing Master Class" at the Testing Conference in Bangalore (India)
- Intranet Solutions.
ONION gets the assignment for the development of an sophisticated Intranet application for the management of Marketing information within the Service department of an international automotive company
- Conferences.
ONION presents its experiences in "Web Testing" at the Bologna University
- Help Desk Projects.
Vision Partners completes a first step of development for an application managing post-sales support of Mobile Radio products of a leading UK company. The system has been developed using Remedy and integrating info from BAAN, Notes and Office.
- Help Desk Projects.
Vision Partners supports an important company in the design and implementation of support processes in software development, using Remedy technology.
- Call Centre Projects.
Vision Partners develops for an important banking institution, the integration of banking components to access info related to the customer account.
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