ONION S.p.A.
2006
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- Year Results.
2006 has been a successful year for ONION, with a 27% growth with respect to the previous year. All operational areas showed positive trends, and the growth in volumes has been accompanied by a more than proportional growth in profitability. The solid order portfolio and the constant investments in innovation, marketing and process quality outline a positive 2007, too. The management would like to thank all customers for their trust in ONION and all the staff for their continuous engagement in the achievement of such positive results.
- Help Desk Solutions.
Important utility contracts ONION for the implementation of an Help Desk System based on BMC'S Remedy technoloy, to support a primary service delivered for the largest city in Northern Italy.
- Intranet Applications.
Important company in the automotive distribution sector contracts ONION for the implementation of functional evolutions to Microsoft-based Intranet applications.
- Vendor Rating.
Important company in the automotive sector contracts ONION for the implementation of functional evolutions to its Vendor Rating application.
- Business Performance Management.
Important service center in the banking sector contracts ONION for the implementation of an ONION BPM-based performance management application focussing on Customer Service processes, with numerous indicators deriving from data warehousing systems.
- Customer Service Solutions.
Important co-operative in Northern Italy contracts ONION for the implementation of an Help Desk system based on the BMC Remedy-based ONION Help Desk solution.
- Remedy Applications.
Important company in the property management sector confirms its trust in ONION for the maintenance of its Remedy-based applications.
- CRM Applications.
Important company in the telco equipment sector confirms its trust in ONION for the maintenance of its Remedy-based applications.
- Vendor Rating.
Important company in the mobile telephony sector contracts ONION for the implementation of a Vendor Rating Information System for specific suppliers categories.
- Demand Management & Project Management.
Important company in the energy sector confirms its trust in ONION for consultancy services.
- International Projects.
ONION implements functional evolutions of an Intranet application for the French subsidiary of the largest European car manufacturer.
- Industrial Automation.
ONION is contracted for the implementation of significant evolutions and extensions of an automation application in the naval sector.
- Intranet applications.
Important company in Piedmont contracts ONION for the implementation of functional extensions to several Intranet applications based on Microsoft as well as Open source technology.
- Customer Service Projects.
Primary company in the media sector extends its trust in ONION for the maintenance of Customer Service applications.
- Navision Projects.
ONION implements functional extensions to Navision-based information system of a company in the garments sector.
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- ONION - LG CNS Global Partnership.
Following fruitful co-operation for over one year, ONION and LG CNS Global have signed a strategic partnership agreement with the aim of strengthening the off-shore services in the Italian market. In the joint operational model, identified as "Managed off-shoring", ONION will act as the front-end towards the end-customer as well as the provider of requirements engineering, project management and acceptance services, whereas LG CNS Global will take the responsibility for implementation and test. Based on successful experiences with important companies in the Italian market, the model will be replicated through an operational plan directed to IT organizations aiming for a competitive quality/cost/time-to-market ratio.
LG CNS Global is one of the leading IT services company in India and is certified CMMI Level 5. The company is a subsidiary of one of the Top 6 IT Services Company in the Asia Pacific region - LG CNS (US$ 1.8 Billion). LG CNS is a part of the LG Group (US$100 Billion). The quality-based strategy of LG CNS Global makes the company a natural partner for the IT Quality Management and IT Governance services offered by ONION to its Italian customer base.
- Vertical solutions.
Company in the automotive sector, with significant investments in advertising on the media and other advertising channels, contracts ONION for an evolution of its Press Office management system.
- Intranet Applications.
Important company in the car distribution sector contracts ONION for the implementation of evolutions of its Intranet applications.
- CMMI Competence.
ONION strengthens its competences on the Version 1.2 of the CMMI model.
- Service Management in Extranet.
The Italian subsidiary of the leading automotive manifacturing group in Europe contracts ONION for a significant extension of a web-based application for spare-part distribution centers.
- Quality System.
ONION provides support to a PMI for the evolution of the Quality System towards process improvement management and obtainment of ISO 9001 certification.
- Systems Architectures.
ONION is chosen by an important company in the automotive sector for developments on the architecture of the Intranet support systems.
- Remedy Training.
ONION completes an extensive training session on the latest evolutions of the Remedy/OTSM technology on behalf of the technology owner.
- Customer Service.
Important company in Northern Italy requests from ONIONa significant temporal extension of the evolution maintenance services for its Remedy-based applications.
- Call Center.
Company in the insurance sector contracts ONION for optimization activities on its call center dedicated to the sales force.
- Remedy Applications.
Important company in the facility management sector contract ONION for a cluster extension of its Remedy-based applications.
- CRM Applications.
ONION completes the porting to the latest Remedy version of the CRM applications of a primary company in the media sector.
- ICT Governance e Quality Management.
The Italian subsidiary of the largest European group of mobile telephony contracts ONION for the re-defintion of the software engineering processes in one of the main engineering groups.
- Call Centre Applications.
Important banki contracts ONION for the system and application evolution of its Call Center infrastructure.
- SAP Application Maintenance.
ONION strengthens its presence on the SAP Application Maintenance for an important manufacturing group.
- Sales Force Automation.
ONION releases the first version of a Sales Force Automation system for a company in the pharmaceutical sector.
- Networking.
ONION is contracted by an important industrial group for the optimization of the network infrastructure.
- Time Management.
ONION is contracted by an important company in the central Pulic Administration for evolutions of the time management platform.
- IAS managment in SAP.
ONION develops a SAP-based solution for IAS-compliant management of the balance sheets of the companies in an important industrial group.
- Web application maintenance.
ONION is contracted by an important industrial company in the Piemonte region for the application maintenance of Web-based applications related to sales and marketing support.
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- ONION Partners with BMC.
ONION has signed a partnership with BMC Italy for Education services on the Remedy/ITSM technology. ONION is the only company in Italy that provides BMC Certified Instruction Providers for in house e custom education in the Italian market.
- ONION invests in "Business Performance Management".
ONION has acquired a share in Twain S.r.l., a company specializing in the development and distribution of solutions for business performance management. The investment in Twain follows several years of fruitful co-operation and represents a further step in ONION's investment strategy on areas of interest for its main target market.
- Training Center.
ONION revews its training center, located at ONION Head Quarters in an historical building surrounded by a 5 acres park, with dedicated indoors and outdoors coffee break & lunch facilities. The training facility now includes an open-floor room with up to 20 seats for lecture training, plus exercise desks for up to 12 students based on course requirements. Lecture training is supported by fully equipped PC and projector. Exercise desks are equipped with desktop PCs and connection to local LAN, plus necessary server(s) based on course requirements. Wi-fi LAN available.
- BPM Cockpits.
Important operator in the mobile telephony business acquires ONION BPM (Business Performance Management), a solution developed in conjunction with Twain for the implementation of business performance management systems.
- Corporate Applications.
Important company in the automotive distribution business contracts ONION for the implementation of a set of functional extensions to corporate applications in Microsoft technology.
- Remedy Training.
ONION delivers a set of courses in the latest evolutions in the Remedy/ITSM technology.
- Customer Service Applications.
Important company in the automotive sector renews its trust in ONION for the evolution maintenance of its Remedy-based applications.
- Operational Planning Support.
The Italian subsidiary of the largest European group in mobile telephony confirms its trust in ONION for support services to operational planning.
- Content Management.
The Italian subsidiary of the largest European group in mobile telephony confirms its trust in ONION for support services to their business and consumer portal.
- IT Governance.
ONION extends its IT Governance activities for and important company in the telecomunications sector.
- IT Process Improvement.
ONION supports an important operator in mobile telephony in process re-design activities in adherence to the CMMI model.
- CMMI L4 adoption.
ONION, in co-operation with a CMMI Level 5 certified company, completes a gap analysis for Level 4 for an important customer.
- IT Security.
ONION sets the IT risk management and disaster recovery strategies for a company in the pharmaceutical sector.
- IT Security.
Manufacturing company contracts ONION for an analysis on the optimization of its IT infrastructure.
- Web Applications.
ONION is contracted by a primary company in the services sector for the implementation of a vertical application for business management support. The application is going to be integrated with the company's BPM cockpit based on ONION's BPM solution.
- Safety-critical System Test.
ONION begins a new activity for the design and execution of module testing for a company in the railways sector.
- TLC Systems Development and Testing.
Primary multinational company in the TLC sector renews its trust in ONION for development and test services on 2G and 3G mobile equipments.
- Development Support Systems.
ONION participates to the development of a Web application for the optimization of Configuration Management and Document Managment activities in a large international company; the application has a world-wide use in all international locations.
- Web design.
ONION completes a set of enhancements to the Web site of a manufacturing company in Northern Italy.
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