North Patrol

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44 articles

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

31 May 2025

Camilla Heikkilä

Report: The Most Common CRM Systems in Finland in 2025

7 May 2025

Kimmo Parkkinen

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

5 March 2025

Camilla Heikkilä

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

Case Metsähallitus: New intranet for 1000+ employees – North Patrol as concept and tendering partner

29 August 2022

Camilla Heikkilä

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

12 May 2022

Anna Availa

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

1 October 2021

Heikki Toivo

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: Kemira.com renewal on a fast schedule – North Patrol produced the requirement specification in record time

31 May 2021

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

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

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

CASE: Eckerö Line succeeded with a complex web store renewal

5 August 2019

Mikko Jokela

Most popular web technology platforms in Finland 2019

8 April 2019

Mikko Jokela

How are the Swedish intranets doing?

11 January 2018

Hanna P. Korhonen

Are there any teamwork solution alternatives for Office 365?

8 December 2017

Kimmo Parkkinen

Are there any alternatives for Office 365 intranet?

30 November 2017

Kimmo Parkkinen

CASE: Tax.fi user-friendliness fine-tuned through testing

19 October 2017

Virpi Blom

Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre’s new web services – North Patrol as an expert guide through the large renewal

24 April 2017

Kimmo Parkkinen

Expert advice: Native mobile apps, bots or web apps?

14 November 2016

Perttu Tolvanen

Different conceptual approaches to self-service channels

23 August 2016

Perttu Tolvanen

What are the advantages of commercially licensed web content management platforms over open-source products?

23 May 2016

Mikko Jokela

When do mobile apps make sense?

29 February 2016

Perttu Tolvanen

Lumo Kotinyt.fi service was tailor made

8 December 2015

Virpi Blom

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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