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Case: Veho aims for a five-star online customer experience – North Patrol supported the website renewal project

44 weeks ago

Over the past year and a half, Veho’s websites have undergone a major transformation. The first site to be renewed was Veho.fi in late spring 2024, and during the spring of 2025 the revamped websites for the Baltic countries were also launched. Behind these renewals lies a broader overhaul aimed at improving the customer experience and reducing the number of websites.

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Case: The Scout Movement’s systems landscape is being renewed – North Patrol supported the work with concept design, service design and technology selection

55 weeks ago

The Guides and Scouts of Finland launched the Paju project in 2022 to comprehensively renew its digital systems. The aim is to modernize the Scout movement’s digital services while enhancing usability, improving operating processes and clarifying the overall information architecture.

North Patrol supported the Scouts in shaping the concept for the new digital service ecosystem, designing the services, and evaluating alternative technology options.

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Case: Rejlers renews its websites to drive growth with the support of North Patrol

56 weeks ago

In the spring of 2023, engineering consultancy firm Rejlers faced a challenge: its website needed an overhaul, but the key question was how to approach it. Rejlers enlisted North Patrol to help plan and design its new online service. The collaboration proved successful, with North Patrol supporting Rejlers through to the launch of the revamped site.

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Case: The Finnish Transparency Register – North Patrol helped with the requirements definition and tendering process

112 weeks ago

Finland implemented its long-prepared transparency register on January 1, 2024, as the transparency register law came into effect. The transparency register is a system where lobbyists for companies and associations must disclose how they attempt to influence decision-makers. North Patrol acted as the project’s consultant partner in the preparation, requirements specifications, and tendering process.

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Case: Ramirent renewed its digital services with a customer-centric approach – North Patrol provided consulting support for the project

112 weeks ago

Ramirent Finland Oy (Ltd) is a leading construction equipment rental company in Finland, serving its customers nationwide through a network of over 60 rental outlets. The company’s customer base is extensive and diverse. While the construction industry represents Ramirent’s largest single customer group, its clientele also includes installation companies, industrial facilities, shipyards, municipal and government agencies, as well as private households.

North Patrol supported Ramirent in a comprehensive digital service renewal, assisting the company throughout various stages of the project.

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Report: ERP Systems in Finland 2025

30 weeks ago

The use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems among Finnish companies has grown significantly. Today, ERP systems are part of everyday operations in organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries.

North Patrol conducted a review of the Finnish ERP market in 2025. In this overview, we present the key ERP solutions available in the Finnish market. The solutions have been grouped into four categories: leading global players, international challengers, Nordic and domestic alternatives, and industry-specific solutions designed for specialized needs.

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Report: The Most Common CRM Systems in Finland in 2025

47 weeks ago

The CRM system is often one of the most essential systems in any organization, whether in the private, public, or third sector (such as associations). Today, the quality of a CRM system and how it fits the company’s business can be a decisive factor in how well the organization succeeds in taking care of its customers and acquiring new ones. We investigated which CRM systems are the most common in Finland in 2025, as well as what kind of use cases and organizations they are best suited for.

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Report: Web platforms in Finland 2024

98 weeks ago

We at North Patrol updated our analysis of Finnish web technologies. We analyzed the websites of 2500 different organizations, including a comprehensive sample of large corporations, online stores, public administration organizations, and associations. This first review article of this year’s survey focuses on the platforms of the main websites of these organizations.

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Report: Public IT Contracts in Finland – 1.6 billion euros

106 weeks ago

North Patrol analysed all public IT procurement contracts made in 2023. We analysed and categorised the data based on the subject of procurement, the contracting organisation, the contract value, and the selected suppliers. At the same time, we assessed how genuine and transparent the competition in public IT procurement is.

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Report: SaaS search solutions in Finnish websites

160 weeks ago

These days, internal search functions for websites are more and more often implemented as separate SaaS (Software as a Service) services. This can simply mean that a cloud-based search engine crawls the site regularly and forms a search index based on the contents and descriptive information of the site. In this case, only a search field and the user interface needed to present the search results need to be added to the actual site.

As part of our last year´s Web technology data report covering 2,500 noticeable Finnish websites, we also looked into which SaaS-based search solutions have been used on the sites. This article discusses the share of SaaS search solutions in Finland and a little bit in other parts of the world, and what the solutions are suitable or not suitable for. 

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