North Patrol

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76 articles

Report: ERP Systems in Finland 2025

3 September 2025

Sami Kalanen

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

31 May 2025

Camilla Heikkilä

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

13 March 2025

Noora Linnermo

Report: Web platforms in Finland 2024

13 May 2024

Sami Kalanen

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

8 February 2024

Mikko Jokela

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

5 February 2024

Mikko Jokela

Composable solutions – when to use them and when not?

3 April 2023

Kimmo Parkkinen

Report: SaaS search solutions in Finnish websites

7 March 2023

Kimmo Parkkinen

Report: The most popular Headless CMS products in Finland and in the Nordic countries

10 January 2023

Mikko Jokela

Report: The most popular platforms for collaborating in Finland: Miro, Mural, Trello and Howspace

26 October 2022

Noora Linnermo

Gartner´s views on the development of the e-commerce market

20 September 2022

Mikko Jokela

Case Solita: New intranet on Unily platform – North Patrol as technology advisor

12 May 2022

Anna Availa

Report: Web technologies in Finland in 2022

6 May 2022

Perttu Tolvanen

The beginning of the end of the Magento Open Source version?

1 October 2021

Heikki Toivo

Case: New website with ecommerce like user experience for M2-Kodit – North Patrol as concept design partner

6 September 2021

Mikko Jokela

Case: Traficom’s new digital self-service channels – North Patrol as technology consultant

30 August 2021

Mikko Jokela

Case: University of Eastern Finland’s new website – North Patrol as concept design partner

23 June 2021

Anna Availa

Case: Uponor’s new intranet – North Patrol facilitated the concept design process

1 March 2021

Camilla Heikkilä

Utilizing Contentful as a content management system

7 December 2020

Mikko Jokela

Many end up choosing two web content management systems

23 November 2020

Perttu Tolvanen

Report: eCommerce technologies in Finland 2020

2 November 2020

Heikki Toivo

Magento partners in Finland

7 October 2020

Mikko Jokela

Report: Web content management systems in the Finnish public sector – analysis of over 500 websites

24 September 2020

Anna Availa

Case: The service directory plays a key role for the staff intranet of the University of Oulu

11 August 2020

Virpi Blom

Case: Ramirent’s New Intranet – North Patrol as prestudy consultant

6 August 2020

Camilla Heikkilä

37% of large organizations use WhatsApp – and that’s a problem

25 June 2020

Perttu Tolvanen

Case: Teosto renews all its online services – North Patrol as prestudy consultant

17 June 2020

Mikko Jokela

CMS market shares in finance sector companies of Nordic countries

2 December 2019

Heikki Toivo

End of life of old Magento versions is here soon!

11 November 2019

Heikki Toivo

Report: eCommerce technologies in Finland

4 November 2019

Heikki Toivo

About North Patrol

We’re eight experienced consultants — designers and technology specialists — focused on vendor-neutral, practical results. Every year, we complete 30-40 customer engagements with customer satisfaction at 9.5/10. Clients come to us to make confident decisions and deliver better digital services.

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How to work with us

  • Small consulting engagement

    A small engagement is ideal when you need a clear answer to a specific question, a tough decision supported by independent analysis, or simply a quick outside view.

    Pricing is a fixed fee agreed in advance to keep things predictable, and getting started is as simple as sharing your goals and any background material so we can propose a crisp scope and price.

  • Prestudy & feasibility evaluation projects

    A prestudy is the right choice when you are framing a larger initiative, building internal alignment, or testing whether an idea is worth pursuing — for example a platform change, a new digital service, a consolidation effort, or an AI/automation use case.

    In four to eight weeks we interview key stakeholders, map needs, assess the current state across content, architecture, integrations, and governance, and combine vendor‑neutral market insight with technical feasibility and risk analysis.

    We then outline effort, budget, and timeline ranges with clear assumptions and scenarios, and we shape a high‑level solution concept and target architecture sketch.

  • Supervision & quality control for technical implementation

    Independent supervision is most effective when you already have a delivery partner and want oversight that keeps scope, quality, and budget on track.

    We manage risks, provide executive‑level updates, support acceptance testing, and conduct readiness reviews before go‑live.

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