Exploring the intelligent world as a community - what does it all mean?

The global video management industry is seeing innovation like never before, creating new opportunities that transform the way video management technology is used - not only to protect people and assets, but also to help optimize business and improve the way people live and work.

With its open platform approach, Milestone Systems is making innovations easily available to buyers - integrators, consultants and end-customers – enabling the industry to build intelligent solutions together and expand their reach.

 Open platform, open business

Platforms provide an open infrastructure, which radically changes the way products are developed and the way to go to market. In Milestone the ‘open’ infrastructure is an integral part of the thinking behind our software. The open platform gives partners the ability to change a solution through open software architecture. Not by changing the basic code (that would be open source) but by add-on modules and intrinsic scripting abilities. This allows partners to leverage the Milestone open platform to easily extend and enhance the software into a total integrated solution, to fulfill the customer’s needs with a minimum of effort. This provides adaptability and agility, which means efficient go-to-market abilities. Just what is needed in this fast-moving world.

Platforms also create value by enabling direct interactions between two or more customer groups, and by connecting sellers and buyers faster than ever. By developing a strong partner ecosystem, a company will therefore tend to have more unique offerings and the ability to execute faster in an ever-changing world.

 Connected through community

Milestone early identified the value of partnerships and we extended this approach to our entire business model, creating the partner community that has been the driving force of our success.

By expanding our platform thinking, Milestone effectively acts as a ‘connector’ in our business community and in the overall physical security industry. Through the recently launched Marketplace, we bring together companies who are brilliant in their respective fields and make it easy for them to work together to create pioneering solutions for the customer. We provide the environment for that to occur and work closely with them to ensure that the end result is useful and effective. 

Looking forward to get your feedback on this? What are your thoughts on Platform business in our industry?

By the way, do you know that Milestone just launched a new innovation hub in the UK? Interested in knowing more? My colleague Neil Killick will enlighten you here: https://bit.ly/2ZAaiLm