Partnerships

Every three months, we welcome the Ruhr area group of DataMonsters to our offices in Kamp-Lintfort. As part of our partnership, we regularly offer the community a platform for exchange, discussion, and practical insights into modern data platforms. The meetings thrive on a broad range of topics – from in-depth technical insights to BI and analytics – and a particularly lively atmosphere conducive to discussion. It's not uncommon for the conversations to continue long after the presentations have concluded. We are delighted to be part of this vibrant community and to actively contribute to the professional exchange in the Ruhr area together with the DataMonsters.

ADN DISTRIBUTION GROUP is a leading provider of DIGITAL SOLUTIONS for IT resellers. ADN identifies current IT trends in the areas of cloud and managed services, next-generation security, data center infrastructure, UCC, and modern workplace, and combines the strengths of innovative technologies to create attractive future solutions for resellers and manufacturers. With our high quality standards and growing number of specialist retail partners, we play a key role in developing the IT solutions of tomorrow.

Efficient reports must answer three questions: How well are we doing? What's important? And what needs to be done?

In practice, however, we repeatedly experience that many reports are too complex, too time-consuming to create, and ultimately don't provide a clear basis for decision-making. This is precisely where we, together with Zebra BI, come in.

Zebra BI was founded in 2014 with the goal of rethinking business reporting. The tools enable complex data to be visualized concisely—understandably, interactively, and directly actionable. For decisions based on clear facts—not gut feeling.

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Data management and data integration are an important part of successful business intelligence. Through our partnership with AnalyticsCreatorSolutions GmbH, a Munich-based company, and the AnalyticsCreator tool, we have the opportunity to combine both aspects in a powerful way and to automate them at the highest level. From the generation of the database schema, to the automated creation of the necessary ETL/ELT processes, and the connection ofthe front-end visualisation, everything can be covered.

Making forecast modelling and anomaly detection accessible to a wide range of users and use cases is Tangent Works' mission. With its Tangent Information Model (TIM), the Belgian tool provider for predictive analytics has created a machine learning engine that can do just that.
The award-winning tool automates the process of providing forecasting models and anomaly detection based on time series. With TIM, accurate forecasts can be created in the shortest time possible, enabling more efficient predictive analytics.

Efficient predictive analytics play a critical rolein gaining a competitive advantage in almost every industry today. For example, a more accurate demand forecast or workload forecast and better fraud detection can be achieved via a higher number of models.

Milestone Consult supports you in your forecasting project with regard to data preparation and provision towards a harmonised database, which is necessary for the use of TIM. We then prepare TIM for your task. In this way, Milestone Consult ensures that the benefits of the Instant Machine Learning Engine are brought to bear in your usecase and that TIM creates immediate added value for you.

TIM & Tangent Works have already won several international competitions for the best Forecasting Engine.

Cognigy is an enterprise software vendor for self-service automation solutions via Conversational AI based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Cognigy's Cognigy.AI product is the leading enterprise conversational automation platform for automating customer and employee service processes. Available both as a SaaS and on-premise solution,Cognigy.AI enables companies to interact with their customers on any conversational channel, including messaging, voice assistants or telephony in an automated way. Cognigy.AI-based solutions leverage deep machine learning (artificial intelligence) to enable effective and intelligent communication with customers and employees.

Our customers plan to use chatbots and virtual assistants in their processes both externally (customer dialogue) and internally (e.g. in human resources). The future of customer communication will be unthinkable without the use of artificial intelligence. Companies want to increase the quality of customer dialogue and thus customer satisfaction. As a result of automation, work is not only made easier, but leads to more targeted tasks and efficient, motivated processing. Milestone relies on Cognigy technology here.

The Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbachand Krefeld is a renowned and attractive educational and research institution. With approximately 15,000 students, it is one ofthe largest and strongest universities for applied sciences in Germany.

Milestone cooperates with the departments of economics, subdivision business informatics, as well as the departments of computer science and electrical engineering. In addition to project work, the cooperation also includes the supervision of bachelor's and master's theses. The regular exchange of information and experience on scientific topics, projects and current trends is enriching for both sides.

In the future, the cooperation will also be extended to include collaboration in funded projects. With the Institute for Business Process Management and IT (GEMIT), which is involved in application-oriented research in the areas of logistics, IT and human resources, an initial project was started as part of the digital transformation.

The internationally oriented Rhine-Waal Universityof Applied Sciences with its campuses in Kamp-Lintfort and Kleve offers 25 bachelor's and 11 master's degree programmes in natural sciences, economics and engineering. In addition, social and health sciences are also offered. The combination of scientific content and practical relevance provides students with the best possible preparation for their future professional lives.

Milestone maintains a particularly intensive exchange of information with the Communication and Environment Faculty. This cooperation takes place in the area of bachelor and master theses. In the future, we also aim to collaborate onprojects and project work.

Bfz-Essen was established 45 years ago as a model institution to counter the consequences of the coal and steel crisis. Since then, the company has developed into one ofthe leading education service providers. More than 50,000 men and women have been given new career prospects here. On the campus in the Essen Education Park, 750 participants learn and work. Long-term internships give participants a good chance of being taken on by the companies later on.

Milestone Consult has been working successfully with Bfz-Essen for many years and offers internships several times a year. Through this cooperation, a trusting relationship has developed, so that many internships at Milestone have already been successfully completed. Some of the interns have found the career path to Milestone and are now key employees.

The IT-Akademie Dr. Heuer is a future-oriented training company at the locations Bochum and Düsseldorf. The educational institution sees itself as a link between companies and people on the one hand, and a very dynamic environment in the field of high technology on the other. The focus of the training at the IT Academy is on information technology with courses in classroom form.

Milestone Consult maintains active cooperation withthe IT-Akademie Dr. Heuer GmbH for the “IT Specialist Application Development” training course. Intensive meetings are held with participants several times a year to provide information about internships and career opportunities at Milestone Consult.

IBB is one of the largest and most successful private education providers in Germany. With 350 locations, it is represented in all German states and many thousands of course participants are trained on a full-time or part-time basis. With a comprehensive qualification offer, the prerequisite for a successful professional reorientation is thus created.

Milestone started the cooperation with IBB in 2017. Since then, several participants have been able to successfully complete their internship and also make the project work in cooperation with Milestone a success. Based on our good experience, we intend to continue our cooperation with IBB in the future.

COMCAVE.COLLEGE is currently represented at 47 locations in Germany.

Milestone Consult and Comcave.College, Duisburg have been working together since 2019. Since then, Milestone has offered participants (IT specialists in application development) the opportunity for long-term internships and support in successfully completing the IHK examination.

Continuing education or retraining that makes participants experts in their field offers the best opportunities for professional development. Well-trained specialists have good prospects for a successful career. With newfound expertise and a freshly taken, certified exam, participants stand out from other applicants and secure better opportunities for career entry, advancement or transfer.

As a Microsoft Partner, we are listed in the AI Cloud Partner Program in the specializations of Digital and App Innovations as well as Data and AI. With this certification, Microsoft acknowledges our excellent expertise in the cross-system management of data and the development of analysis and AI solutions, as well as in the creation, execution, and management of intelligent applications. This milestone underscores our partnership with Microsoft that has been ongoing since 2015.

Talend is a leading provider of data and cloud integration tools. In particular with regard to the rapid growth of data, Talend offers very effective and fast data loading and transformation functions as well as data integration techniques with its efficient ETL tool.

Talend is recognised as an industry leader by prominent market analysts and endorsed in publications such as Forbes and InfoWorld.

As a Talend Gold Partner, Milestone uses the ETL platform primarily in customer projects with high data volumes. The result shows the efficiency: extremely stable loading processes with reduced process runtimes.

Tableau Germany GmbH, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, helps users transform data into actionable insights. The data can be explored with unlimited visual analysis. Create dashboards and perform ad hoc analysis with just a few clicks. Sharing the results of the work promotes the success of the company. From global enterprises to startups and small businesses, users from around the world rely on Tableau to make their data visible and understandable.
Milestone Consult and Tableau signed an AlliancePartner Programme agreement in August 2019 to expand their business analytics business.

PowerBuilder is a development environment for client-server applications that enables fast and easy creation of database applications. It covers all areas of software development, from programming business logic to designing an appealing user interface. Data-intensive applications in particular benefit from this simple and fast development tool.

The manufacturer Appeon has its headquarters in the USA and the PowerBuilder development environment is used by more than 18,000 companies worldwide.

Milestone has been using PowerBuilder since 1991 and is the largest know-how provider in Germany. We are listed on Appeon's web presence and are contacted by potential customers when a PowerBuilder specialist is needed for a project. The range of applications we have implemented over the years is diverse and includes, for example, solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP), insurance management or logistics service providers. As a special service, we also offer our support for the further development of customer-specific PowerBuilder applications.