ONION S.p.A. 2005 4th quarter facts

December An excellent 2005 for ONION. ONION closes the year 2005 with an organic YOY growth of over 30% for its value of production, and a significant increase for all profitability indicators. A solid order portfolio and continuous investments in innovation, marketing, and process quality set a positive outline also for the year 2006. ONION's management wishes to thank all its Customers for the continuing trust in the company and all the staff for the dedication and perseverance in reaching these important results. Web Applications. Important company in the automotive sector contracts ONION for the execution of evolution maintenance activities of Microsoft-based Intranet/Extranet applications for the dealer network. Human Capital Management. The Italian subsidiary of the largest car manufacturer in Europe contracts ONION for the implementation of a significant evolution of the training growth management application for the operational staff. Customer Service Applications. Primary banking group renews its trust in ONION for the maintenance of the application platform supporting its Remedy-based call center. CRM Services. Important service centre in the Finance sector contracts ONION for the execution of evolution maintenance activities for a set of Customer Service applications supporting banking institutions. Remedy projects. ONION expands its skill profile on the Remedy platform in an important customer in the automotive sector. Mobile Applications. World-leading company in the wireless technologies sector contracts ONION for the development of an experimental project for the introduction of real-time communication solutions in mobile operational contexts. Help Desk Services. Important company in the facility management sector contracts ONION for a set of evolution manintenance activities on its Help Desk applications. Application Customization. ONION releases a set of customizations of SAP-based and SAP-integrated applications for a company in the central public administration. Development Innovation. ONION actively co-operates with an international company in the TLC sector for the definition of large-scale initiatives for the improvement of technologies and environments supporting research and development. Advanced E-Learning. The ONION-developed solution for the driving schools portal of a rapidly growing company in the services sector is officially presented at the Bologna Motor Show. IT Quality Management. Within the context of a project for the introduction of the CMMI practices in the largest Italian research centre in the telco sector, ONION completes the fine-tuning activities for the development environments and the assessment preparation plans. Testing services. ONION significantly re-enforces the dedicated testing teams for customers in the telco and railway sector. Web Portals. ONION supports the release of important technological evolutions in the platform supporting the portal of an important company in the mobile telephony sector. Java Developments. ONION releases the first set of evolutions for B2B and B2C portal applications of the Italian subsidiary of the largest European operator of mobile telecommunications. Web Services. ONION completes and releases in production the new web sites of a primary industrial group; the project has been based on open source content management system. Machinery control software. Manufacturing company in the textile machinery sector contracts ONION for the evolution of portions of its machinery control software. Wireless Solutions. ONION is assigned a contract by a manufacturing company for the supply of hand-held devices connected to the information system via a Wi-Fi network. Sales Force Automation projects. Leading company in the media sector renews its trust in ONION for the management of its Sales Force Automation system. SAP CRM projects. Leading company in the automotive sector renews its trust in ONION for the management of its SAP-based CRM Marketing Management system. Mobile applications. ONION experts contribute to the definition of international patents in the field of Multimedia Streaming solutions for mobile applications. Corporate Performance Management. ONION releases an evolution of a Business Performance Management system based on the Balanced Scorecard methodology for a primary company in the TLC sector. Web Services. ONION extends the Web services offered by a leading company in the food industry by enhancing the user profiling functions. November Co-operation with India. ONION signs an agreement with the Indian subsidiary of one of the largest multi-national companies in Asia, specialising in software engineering, for the joint conduction of IT activities in the italian market. E-commerce Solutions. The italian subsidiary of the largest car manufacturer in Europe contracts ONION for the development of an important evolution of its Accessories E-commerce site. E-Learning Web Applications. Important company in the automotive sector contracts ONION for the evolution maintenance of Intranet/Extranet applications in Microsoft technology for training support. Business Intelligence Projects. ONION co-operates in an important Business Intelligence project, with data mining activities from a set of different information systems. Web Services. ONION completes and releases in production the web sites of four companies belonging to an important industrial group: the sites are based on an open source content management system. Remedy Training. ONION finalizes an agreement with the italian subsidiary of the owners of the Remedy technology world-wide, through which ONION's Remedy Certified Teachers will deliver the official Remedy courses in Italy. Training delivery started in November. E-Learning. ONION develops significant evolutions of a proprietary E-Learning platform to allow the management of virtual lessons with synchronised sharing of graphical contents and interactive user participation. Navision-based information systems. Important company in the fine chemical sector contracts ONION for the evolution maintenance of its Navision-based information system. Corporate Portals. ONION releases a set of functional improvements for the Internet, Intranet and Extranet applications of a primary company in the lubricants oil sector. Mobile Applications. World-leading company in wireless technologies contracts ONION for the development of and experimental project on the use of mobile technologies in business processes. Call Center. ONION completes the development of a customer-facing call center for a primary life insurance company belonging to an important banking group. CRM Projects. Important company in the media services sector renews its trust in ONION for the evolution maintenance of its Remedy-based applications for Customer Service. Help Desk. Primary company in the defence sector contracts ONION for significant evolutions of its Remedy-based applications. The contract encompasses the revision of the whole production environment, including the base platforms. Mobile Applications platforms. Primary telco manufacturer contracts ONION for further developments of an experimental platform for multimedia streaming. Process Improvement. Within the context of a CMMI-introduction project for the largest research center in Italy in the telco sector, ONION supports the fine tuning of the development and organization processes. Test services. ONION expands significantly its system test team for 2G and 3G mobile telecommunication networks. Java developments. ONION releases an important set of modifications to Java applications in the B2B and B2C portal of the italian subsidiary of the largest european operator of mobile telephony. ONION Solutions. Leading company in the mobile communication sector starts an extensive marketing campaign for the ONION Mobile BPM solution, expected to be of special interest for the operational managers in several market sectors. October ISO Certification. The yearly inspection conducted by the CSQ confirms the ISO 9001:2000 certification for all activities and all ONION sites. The company is ISO 9000-registered since 1998. SMAU 2005. The most important ICT event in Italy has seen again ONION's participation alongside Microsoft. ONION, as a Microsoft Business Solutions partner, presented its competences about NAVISION and the ONION BPM solution, a Business Performance Management system integrated with the ERP and accessibile via mobile devices through the ONION M-BPM extension. E-commerce. The Italian subsidiary of the largest European car manufacturer contracts ONION for the graphical evolution and the CD-ROM implementation of one of its e-commerce services. Web Applications. Important company in the automotive sector contracts ONION for the evolution maintenance of Intranet/Extranet applications in Microsoft technology. Supplier Qualification. As a result of the excellent results obtained as a service company, ONION has been officially inserted in the vendor list of a primary Italian company in the energy sector. Business Portals. Primary company in the lubricant oil sector contracts ONION for additional maintenance activities of its Internet, Intranet and Extranet applications. Customer Service applications. ONION strengthens its maintenance team for the customer service applications of an important company in the automotive sector. Web Agency. ONION releases the new web site of an important Internet Service Provider in Italy listed in the new market stock exchange. The site has been implemented using a leading content management platform in the Open Source segment. Application Maintenance. Leading company in the telescopic handlers sector contracts ONION for supporting activities in the maintenance of its Intranet/Extranet applications. Application Customization. Company in the central public administration contracts ONION for the customization of SAP-based and SAP-integrated applications. Advanced E-Learning. ONION releases a driving-schools support portal for a fast-growing company in the services sector. Especially important are the on-demand e-learning functionalities with studio-registered audio contents. Technology Improvement. ONION kicks off an estensive technology improvement programme for an important research center in the telco sector. 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 supports the dissemination activities to an audience of several hundreds resources. Web Portals. The Italian subsidiary of the largest European operator of mobile telephony renews its trust in ONION for the maintenance activities of its B2B and B2C portal. Testing support. Important company in the mobile telephony sector renews its trust in ONION for the support activities of Web-oriented application testing. TLC Services. ONION further extends its supply profile for an international group active in the telecommunication sector. The extension involves process improvement, software development, system test, and technological support.

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