AIM-quoted Milestone Group, a digital media, technology solutions and services provider, is to acquire two applications to extend the range of services on offer and will issue new shares to fund the £65,000 purchases.
Milestone deals in digital content, including user interface design, media production, publishing services, online services, and mobile services. One its purchases, Facilitated Electronic Data System (FEDS) is a web application that can be run on portable networked computer systems. Milestone will use its own cross-platform mobile software and mobile skills to extend the platforms FEDS will operate on.
The other acquisition is for Live Incident Management Interactive Trainer (LIMIT), a training platform for use within crisis management that is used by organisations to assess their incident management policies and procedures, to test their response to a crisis
Milestone’s objective is to enable digital connections between different organisations, businesses and customers. With a strong emphasis on onine and social media, mobile, digital brand strategy and digital production, as well as enterprise integration and business logistics, it touches many areas. That might not make for a cohesive business but the emphasis on what TechMarketView refers to as disruptive technologies (see here) is interesting and helps bring them together.
Cross platform, cross device and cross function connectivity and interaction are the foundations of business operations today therefore both businesses and vendors need a more holistic approach to their implementation and management. We’re not overly familiar with Milestone so we cannot say whether it has the winning approach, but it looks like it has an approach that could fit with emerging business demands.