ONION S.p.A.

ONION S.p.A.
2005 2nd quarter facts

June

Solid growth for ONION in the first half.
ONION closed the first half of 2005 with a positive trend for all its business indicators and a 30% growth of its business volumes compared to the previous years'; a solid order portfolio and continuing investments in innovation are the basis for an expected further growth in the second half.

Intranet Services.
The italian subsidiary of the largest European car manufacturer contracts ONION for the implementation of further evolutions of its Intranet and Extranet services in support of the dealers network and the customers.

E-Learning.
ONION is assigned the task to develop advanced E-Learning capabilities for an important company in the automotive sector.

E-Commerce.
Important company in the Veneto area contracts ONION for the development of an E-Commerce solution for the on-line sales of specialized training.

Microsoft System Support.
ONION is awarded a contract to perform advanced system maintenance activities on Microsoft technology by a primary italian company.

Remedy Applications.
ONION, on behalf of the largest italian service center in the finance sector, releases a personalized version of a Remedy-based Customer Service application for an important banking group.

Industrial Automation.
ONION is awarded a contract for the development of control software for speciel machine tools in the naval sector.

Remedy Maintenance.
Importante service center in the finance sector renews its trust in ONION for the evolution maintenance of the Remedy-based applications deployed to its customers.

RFiD Projects.
World leading company in the microprocessor sector selects ONION for the trial of the RFiD technology in a traceability enviroment integrated with a SAP back-end SAP. The trial will take place in the operational context of an importan company in the telco sector.

Web Agency.
Important company in the textile industry contracts ONION for the commercial management of its marketing CD-ROM.

Customer Service Integrations.
ONION releases the integration of the Remedy platform with the services of an important banking group for a primary company in the Property Management sector.

ONION Solutions.
ONION supports an important company in the Central Public Administration in the activation of its Time Reporting system based on the Magico-TR ONION solution.

SAP projects: authorizations.
As a result of an important process re-engineering activity, a primary roman company contracts ONION for a complete revision of the authorization system in SAP R/3.

Web Agency.
ONION releases a set of evolutions for the Web Site of an important company in the hydro-termic components sector.

Multimedia contens.
Primary company in the components sector contracts ONION for the development of a set of CD-ROM for its product catalogue.

CRM Projects.
ONION releases a significant functional evolution of the knowledge management system of an important company in the media sector; the system is based on ONION K-ARS solution, a custom solution for knoiwledge management Customer Service Remedy-based environments.

Process Improvement.
In the context of a project for the obtainment of a high CMMI level in an important research and development center in the telco sector, ONION completes the development of new guidelines on important subjects such as Project Management and Alternative Solutions for Technical Solutions.

Multimedia streaming.
ONION performs the il ramp-up of the team for the development of a multimedia streaming software platform for la test generation mobile terminals, in collaboration with a primary international group. The team includes several senior Java developers in a demanding time frame.

Java Developments.
ONION releases a set of functional evolutions for Java applications supportino the B2B and B2C portal of the Italian subsidiary of the largest European operator in mobile telephony.

Intranet Applications.
The French subsidiary of the largest European car manufacturer contracts ONION for the development of an Intranet application for its purchasing office.

May

Extranet Portals.
ONION releases a set of functional evilutions for the Extranet Portal of the Italian subsidiary of the largest european manufacturer in the automotive sector.

Computer System Validation.
Primary group in the pharla-chemical sector renewes its trust in ONION for FDA validation consulting.

Quality Systems.
ONION provides support for the evolution of the Quality System of an SME in the Brescia area.

Remedy Applications.
ONION releases an important evolution of the Remedy-based Customer Service application of an important bank, supported by the largest service center in Italy in the finance sector.

ONION Solution forTime Reporting.
ONION releases a second tranche of the developments of the Time Reporting System for contractors of an important company in the Public Administration sector; the project is bases on the ONION - Magico TR solution integrated with the SAP back-end.

Web Agency.
An important company in the hydrotermic components sector contracts ONION for a set of evolutions of its Web site.

Call Center Management.
ONION implements significant evolutions of the call center management application of an important banking group.

Internet Portals.
ONION releases the mock-up for the re-vamping of the Internet presence of an importanto manufactiring company in the Veneto region.

CMMI.
The ONION team starts the deployment of new procedures and tools for the support of the CMMI practices in the two main R&D areas of a multinational company in the mobile communication sector; special focus is dedicated to the re-organization of the Quality System and to the definition of tailoring guidelines based on quantitative parameters.

Estimation and planning Models.
ONION develops, in the context of a CMMI project, quantiavive models for the estimation and planning in hw/sw developments.

Software development in telephony.
ONION expands its support to the development of Call Handling Software for mobile applications, in co-operation with a primary international group.

Requirements treceability.
Within the context of an improvement project on requirements traceability, ONION proposes a tool for the management of the relations between activities and life-cycle documents, with positive reaction from the customer.

ONION Solutions for Business Performance Management.
ONION releases a new version of ONION-BPM, a Business Performance Management solution which facilitates the implementation of a monitoring cockpit inspired to the Balanced Scorecard methodology; the new version enables the definition of personalised indicators and views, as well as import/export from/to external files. The new version will soon be available also to mobile users, through the ONION M-BPM extension.

Business Performance Management in manufacturing.
ONION releases its BPM solution for an important manufacturing group in the Brescia area, which will use the system for the performance monitoring of nearly thirty companies. The system will be progressively integrated with the SAP R/3 back-end.

SAP Projects.
ONION performs project management and specialised developments for the optimization of the use of SAP in a leading company in tool machines for the aerospace industry.

Software development/test in the railway sector.
ONION performs a set of new development and test activities for a primary international group in the railways sector.

Business Process Re-Engineering.
ONION completes a BPR project for a company in the tool machines sector; the results include an increased order portfolio, cost reduction, and process optimisation.

ONION Partnerships.
ONION signs a commercial partnership with I-Anywhere, worldwide leader in mobilization solutions. The partnership relates to the M-Business Anywhere platform, which enables the implementation of mobilization solutions for Web-Oriented applications such as ONION M-CRM and ONION M-BPM.

Conferences and workshops.
ONION participated as speaker to the Wi-fi & Wireless Forum organised by Centro Studi Banca Europa, with a speech titled "Mobilization scenarios for Business Applications". ONION has also sponsored a workshop on Security in the banking sector, organised by Centro Studi Banca Europa.

Conferences and workshops.
ONION partecipated as Track Chair to the SQS conference in Dusseldorf, Germany, one of the main events in Europe dedicated to testing and software quality.

April

SAP Applications.
Primary company in the steel sector contracts ONION for the development of a set of functional extensions to its back-end SAP/R3-based applications.

Intranet Services.
The Italian subsidiary of the largest European manufacturer in the automotive sector contracts ONION for the implementation of further Intranet services for management support of Customer services.

Extranet Portals.
Leading company in the automotive sector awards ONION a contract for the development of an improved version of its sales force evaluation system in its Extranet.

CRM Platforms.
Important banking group contracts ONION for the supply of additional user licenses for the Customer Service applications developed and maintained by ONION.

IT Security.
Primary industrial group in Northern Italy assigns ONION the task of developing specific IT Security components for its internal communication system deployed on a High Availability platform.

Navision Maintenance.
Important company in the chemical sector acquires from ONION additional maintenance activities for its Navision-based information system.

Remedy Integrations.
Primary company in the Property Management sector contracts ONION for the implementation of a set of integrations between its Remedy platform and the banking services of an important banking group.

ONION Time Management solutions.
ONION releases the first set of integrations between the ONION MAGICO-TR-based Time Reporting system of an important company in the Central Public Administration and the SAP back-end for the controlling of external resources.

Remedy Application Maintenance.
Leading company in the media sector renews its trust in ONION for the evolution maintenance of its remedy-based applications.

Application architecture evolution.
Important company in media services contracts ONION for evolving its application architecture towards Remedy Mid-Tier, while implementing functional evolutions of its main applications.

Process Improvement.
ONION completes the deployment of a new process for technical skills management in an important research centre in the telco sector.

CMMI.
The ONION CMMI implementation team releases a set of new procedures and tools within the boundaries of a CMMI deployment project in two R&D departments of a multinational company in the telecom equipment sector.

Software Development for embedded systems.
ONION expands its support profile for the development of software for embedded systems in the TLC sector.

Mobile Applications.
ONION confirms its supplier relationship with an international company for the development of advanced applications and platforms for streaming multimedia contents fruition on 3G devices. The reference development technology is Java.

Project Management.
ONION increases its collaboration on Project Management for an important R&D development centre in Lombardy.

CRM in banking.
ONION expands its support to the largest service centre in Italy in the banking sector, for the management of Remedy-based CRM systems; new activities include the porting to ARS 6.0 of existing applications.

Web Content Management.
Leading company in the mobile telephony sector confirms its trust in ONION for the management of its content management system for its Web portal.

Test Management.
ONION is given the task to support the planning and monitoring of the testing and configuration management activities in one of the largest Web solution centres in the mobile operators sector.

Java Developments.
The Italian subsidiary of the largest European Operator of mobile telephony contracts ONION for the implementation of important evolutions of a set of Java applications for its B2B and B2C portal.

Workshops and Conferences.
On May 12 2005 ONION will be speaker at the Wi-fi & Wireless Forum organised by the Centro Studi Banca Europa in Milan with a speech titled "Mobilization scenarios for Business Applications". The conference is targeted to the finance sector and large companies. The programme can be found on www.bancaeuropa.org.

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