ONION S.p.A. 2007 4th quarter facts

December Year Results. 2007 has been yet another a successful year for ONION, with a 10% 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 2008, 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. Navision Competences certification. ONION expands the number of resources certified by Microsoft on the Navision platform. IT Governance. Important company in the energy sector confirms its trust in ONION by increasing the resource profile and extending to the whole yeer 2008 the mandate for IT Governance. SAP HW Upgrade. ONION co-operates to the migration project of the SAP HW platform of an important manufacturing group, with the adoption of Intel Quad-Core processors.  Networking. As part of its IT management tasks for an important manufacturing group, ONION re-designs the world-wide group WAN. IT Service Management. Leading company in the automotive sector confirms its trust in ONION for the support services of Service Management Applications. SAP Roll-out. ONION contributes to the detailed definition of SAP roll-out activities in Ucraine for an important manufacturing group. IT Service Management  Events - Rome Following the success of the event in Milan, ONION, in co-operation with BMC Software and Accenture, repeated in Rome the seminar: "ITIL V3 New contents - Innovation, Technology and Training ". The event was extremely successful, with the participation of a very qualified audience of over 200. ONION presented ITSM training paths, for which it is a BMC-accredited business school in Italy and abroad; this allows ONION to keep its resources aligned to the latest developments and to achieve on spec, on time, on budget on Remedy and ITSM projects. The afternoon session focused on the "BSM Airport Simulation", an "experiential workshop" in which the strict relationship between business and IT is demonstrated in a real-life scenario. The objective of the demonstration is to simulate the activities in an international airport and show the interdependence of individual function - luggage, control tower, security -  showing the interdependence between IT and business. BMC Partnership on Educational Services. ONION renews its partnership with BMC  BMC on Educational Services on the Remedy and ITSM solutions; as the only "Approved Education Partner" in Italy for these technologies, ONION will deliver public training as well as in-house, both in Italy and abroad. ONION Solutions - Time Reporting. ONION enhances its Web-based solution for Time Reporting for an important unit in the public central administration. Embedded SW Development. ONION experts begin a 6-months mission in Finland for the requirements collection and technology acquisition for the next developments of mobile telephony equipments.   Project Management and  Quality Assurance. Important company in the TLC confirms the mandate to ONION for Project Management and  Quality Assurance activities. E-Commerce. Important company in the fashion sector contracts ONION for the development of an innovative  E-Commerce portal. IT Support. Important company in the transport sector contracts ONION for IT Support for its  Milano and Brescia offices. Custom Applications for the energy sector. The Italian subsidiary of an important german utility  contracts ONION for the development of a custom application for the enhancement of billing functionalities.   ONION Solutions - Business Performance Management. ONION releases important enhancements to its Business Performance Management solution for an important manufacturing group, currently managing the KPIs of over 30 companies in Europe, Asia, USA, Russia e South-America IT Security. ONION implements a technology watch for the identification of an optimal IT Security suite for an important manufacturing group. ONION Solutions - Product Catalogue Management: Web publisher. ONION completes important enhancements to its Product Catalogue Management platform for an international group, with the objective of on-line web publishing of their product catalogue. IT Governance: ERP carve-out. ONION defines and implements the carve-out rules for the information system of a well-established Milan company in the nuclear sector. Web Applications. ONION defines an agreement with an important ICT group for the delivery of Web Application activities for the largest mobile operator in Europe.   BMC-Remedy Projects. Company in the Defense sector contracts ONION for important enhancements to its Remedy-based customer management system; the activities include a platform release upgrade.    ITSM Projects. ONION defines the business blueprint for the introduction of the  BMC ITSM platform in a service centre, with coverage of the Incident, Asset Management and SLM processes. (Lutech - New Entry) Navision Projects. ONION is awarded a contract for the implementation a Navision-based information system by a company in the Energy sector.   MS-CRM Projects. ONION successfully completes the implementation of a Sales Force Automation service based in MS-CRM. ONION Solutions: Vendor Qualification e Rating. Important comnpany in the energy sector contracts ONION for important enhancements of the ONION solution used by the purchasing office.   BMC Solutions. Primary utilità in Lombardy contracts ONION for the maintenance extension of BMC software licenses.   Web Applications - Document Management : Primary company in Veneto contracts ONION for the development of an Intranet application for the optimization of the company documents management.   ITSM 7.x Training. ONION delivers a training session on the BMC-Remedy platforms for a national banking group. CMMI Events. ONION delivers a speech on the benefits of CMMI for Small and Medium Enterprises at an important conference in Milan organized by a major association of enterprises in co-operation with a prestigious Project Management Institute. BMC-Remedy Training. ONION a training session on the performance optimization and system tuning of the BMC-Remedy applications. Technology Innovation. ONION participates to the trial activities in a business context of the innovative V-Pro Intel technologies. ONION Solutions -  Product Catalogue Management. The ONION PCM solution is successfully adopted in a company in the Distribution sector.   SW Simulators for Test Automation. ONION is awarded a contract for the development of a set of simulators of mobile telephony devices, in order to increase the test automation degree in complex telco systems. Intranet Applications. The French subsidiary of the largest european car manufacturer contracts ONION for important enhancements of the contents and services of its Intranet.   Education Grants. Like in previous years, ONION provides education grants for students in a high school in Brescia. On-line recruitment. Recognizing recruitment as a key factor for its growth, ONION opens up a new CV submission and management system on its Web site. IT Services. ONION strengthens the HW infrastructure of its Data Center through the adoption of advanced virtualization platforms. November   ONION Solutions - Product Catalogue Management. ONION completes important evolutions of the Product Catalogue Management platform for an international industrial group; the project has covered also data loading and high-quality paper deloverables in several languages.Quality Management Consultancy. ONION expands its support for Quality process management ina company in Brescia. IT Service Management. ONION provides an important contribution to the implementation of outsourced management of the IT services of an important bank Emilia Romagna. SAP Release Upgrade. ONION co-operates to the release migration project of the SAP platform in an important manufacturing group. IT Governance Cockpit. ONION co-operates in the development of a KPI managment cockpit for IT Governance in an important company in the telco sector. IT Service Management  Events - Milan. ONION, in co-operation with BMC Software and Accenture, organized in Milan the seminar: "ITIL V3 New contents - Innovation, Technology and Training ". The event was extremely successful, with the participation of a very qualified audience of over 100. During the event, the managers of important operational functions of the main Italian companies had the chance to discuss and understand the new contents of ITIL V3, not only in relation to technology, but also to training and to the relationship with BMC's BSM solution. Web Marketing. ONION supports a listed company in the optimal use of Web Marketing technologies. ONION Solutions: M-BPM. ONION successfully completes a trial of the use of the  "BPM - Business Performance Management" solution in its Mobile version for an important company in the energy sector. Computer System Validation. ONION expands its support for Computer System Validation according to GAMP4 for the italian subsidiary of an international group engaged in the production of active principles for the pharmaceutical market. ONION Solutions - Business Performance Management. ONION completes the automation of the KPI collection for the italian subsidiary of an important Swiss manufacturing group. Web applications. ONION extends the Extranet application for warranty managment for an important company in the ground moving machines sector; the application is used by subsidiaries and dealers worldwide. IT Support. ONION intensifies its IT support activities for the italian subsidiary of an important manufacturing group in the automotive sector.  Test Automation Tools and Methods. ONION releases important functionalities for a custom platform for Test Management in the telco sector; at the same time, methodological activities are conducted for increasing of the amount of automated tests. Technical support for mobile telephony systems. The Italian R&D Center of the world largest   producer of equipment and devices for mobile telephony confirms and extends its trust in ONION for worldwide technical support for GSM platforms. Integrated Project Management Solutions. ONION releases, for an important R&D Unit, an Integrated Project Management solution based on MS-Project Server.ONION Solutions - Product Configurator. ONION releases an important verticalization of its On-line Configurator for a manufacturing company in Lombardy. CMMI Consulting Services. Important mobile operator confirms and extends its trust in ONION for  CMMI Consulting Services. IT Governance. Within the context of an important project of IT Transformation ONION is contracted for IT Governance consulting activities. CMMI SCAMPI B. Members of the ONION CMMI Team participate to an official SCAMPI Class B appraisal for an important company in the telco sector.Management Consulting. ONION defines a new Management Control model for a multinational group, as well as its operational implementation in SAP. SAP Projects. ONION contributes to the detailed definition of the SAP roll-out activities in a company belonging to a manufacturing group in Brescia.  IT Support. ONION extends its IT Support activities for an important company in the food sector.  Test for safety critical systems. ONION completes software tests activities for safety critical rail systems produced by an important multinational group. Remedy projects. Leading company in the media sector contracts ONION for significant enhancements to the functionalities of a  Remedy-based Sales Force Automation system.Service Management on BMC technologies. The main italian utility company contracts ONION for important enhancements of the Service Management solution used by an important public administration for the monitoring of street equipment. Strategic Consulting on embedded sw. Important manufacturing group contracts ONION for the strategic management of methodologies and technologies in electronics and embedded software; the mandate includes the supervision of the main projects performed by the group companies.  Navision projects. ONION extends its ERP management support services for a manufacturing company in Brescia. Navision projects. ONION completes the first batch of activities for the implementation of Navision in a fast-growing company in the housing equipment sector. Automation projects. ONION is awarded a contract for the enhancement of a visual management system used in a complex industrial automation plant. ONION Solutions - Vendor Qualification and Rating. The purchasing office of the largest european mobile operator contracts ONION for enhancements to its solution for vendor qualification and rating. Virtualization solutions. ONION supports an important manufacturing group in the adoption of virtualization solutions based in Intel processors and VM-Ware Software. On-line services for the citizen. ONION completes the tuning phase of a Web-based service for the access to innovative postal services. October IT Service Management. ONION takes over the responsibility for the operational management of the IT Service Center of an important bank in central Italy. ONION Solutions - Product Catalogue Management. Important company in the multimedia publishing sector contracts ONION for the implementation of a set of services based in the new solution ONION Product Catalogue Management, which is attracting significant interest among specialised operators. IT Governance. ONION successfully completes an IT Governance project for the re-organization of the operational processes in the Italian subsidiary of the largest European operator of mobile telephony. ICT Quality Management. Important telecom operator confirms its trust in ONION for the co-ordination and management of ICT Quality Assurance Services in the Technology Division.  Web Applications - Active Cycle. The Italian subsidary of the largest car manufacturer in Europe contracts ONION for the development of a custom Web application for the management of promotional campaigns, strictly linked to the other managment applications.  Service Management Applications. Le largest italian service center in the banking sector contracts ONION for the development of new evolution activities for its Service Desk in BMC-Remedy technology, as well as for application maintenance. ONION Solutions - Product Catalogue Management. ONION performs a feasibility study for the use of its PCM solution in a specialised vertical environment. ITSM 7.x Training. ONION completes the delivery of complete training path on BMC-Remedy ITSM 7.x for the main financial institution in the country. Telelogic DOORS certification. ONION becomes the first company in Italy to attain certified competences on the Telelogic DOORS platform for Requirements Life-Cycle Management. ONION Solutions - Vendor Qualification and Rating. The Purchasing Office of an important company in the telco sector contracts ONION for the implementation of a set of improvements for its vendor management and rating platform based on the ONION Vendor Rating solution. CMMI Competences. Members of the ONION CMMI team partecipate to an Assessment Team Members training session and are included in the assessment resource pool officially registered at the US Software Engineering Institute. Web Applications. ONION implements new Extranet applications for a leading company in the lubricant oil sector. IT Security. ONION supports an important manufacturing company in Veneto in the implementation of security and privacy management procedures. SAP Application Maintenance. ONION is confirmed as a provider of SAP Application Maintenance services for an important company in the Public Administration.   Agile Programming and Testing. ONION strengthens its consulting and mentoring services for the application of  Agile Development techniques according to the SCRUM method for an important research center in the telco sector. Embedded Software development for mobile telephony systems. The Italian R&D center of the world largest producer of equipment and devices fot mobile telephony confirms and extends its trust in ONION for the development of software for GSM and UMTS platforms. Technology and Process Innovation. Important research and development unit confirms and extends ONION's mandate for Technology and Process Innovation activities in Software Development. Web agency. ONION implements a number of important evolutions of the web sites of an important manufacturing group. Web security. ONION implements significant IT Security evolutions for the Web portal of a listed company.   IT Support. ONION extends its IT Support activities for a group in the pharmaceutical sector. Service Management on BMC technologies. The main italian utility company contracts ONION for important evolutions of its Service Management solutions based on BMC technology. Navision Projects. ONION completes a feasibility study for a Navision project for an important manufacturing group in Brescia. Automation Project. ONION is contracted for the implementation of important evolutions of an industrial automation system for welding process automation in the largest company in the naval sector. Technology Innovation. ONION participates to the trial in a business environment of the innovative Blade HP servers equipped with Intel processors. IT Support. ONION performs the replacement of the HW platforms for the main IT Systems of a manufacturing company in Lombardy. E-Commerce. ONION performs an assessment for the optimization of the management of an E-Commerce portal in Italy dedicated to motorbikes; at the end of the assessment, ONION is contracted for the supervision of the portal evolution. ITIL Competences Certification. ONION expands the number of resources certified by EXIN on the ITIL framework. BMC-Remedy Projects. ONION extends its support for the application maintenance of the functionalities provided by a service center in the utilità sector, based on the BMC-Remedy technology.

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