Category: CMS selection

A succesful technology selection is always based on thorough prestudy project which analyses the current situation, business use cases, business goals and service concept requirements.

North Patrol’s consultants have completed dozens of CMS selections for international companies. Typical engagements last 2-3 months and most reference customers are large companies headquartered in Finland.

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Peculiarity of Finland: Liferay a popular web content management system

15 October 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Confluence Challenges SharePoint as an Intranet Platform

8 September 2014

Hanna P. Korhonen

Modern CMSs are built for power users – interview of Tony Byrne

2 September 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

eCommerce is the new name for web content management – interview with Boris Kraft

25 August 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Contentful — CMS for mobile applications and custom web services

13 August 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Marketing has inherited the web, but doesn’t know what to do with it

25 June 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Good questions to ask yourself when choosing a Content Management System

9 June 2014

Virpi Blom

WordPress agencies in Finland

3 June 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Future, present and history of CMS user interfaces

26 May 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

CMS battle: Drupal vs. EPiServer

20 May 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Interview with Drupal insider Vesa Palmu

3 March 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Choose the blogging platform that is best for you

30 January 2014

Perttu Tolvanen

Future, present and history of CMSs as told by CMS expert Deane Barker

11 November 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

WordPress challenges Drupal in media sites

31 October 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

Present and future of CMSs by Jeff Eaton

26 September 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

Predicting the CMS of 2017: Smart previews, stream management and simpler CMSs

17 September 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

WordPress setting the minimum standard for web content management systems

22 August 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

Web CMS market trends in Finland

3 June 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

Is the role of the Web CMS getting smaller?

3 June 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

Advice on working with large software integrators

17 April 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

Project story: Reincarnation of a large online service – North Patrol as technology advisor

20 March 2013

North Patrol

Don’t expect your CMS to do multichannel publishing

28 February 2013

Perttu Tolvanen

How to avoid vendor lock-in in a web project

23 January 2013

Sami Kalanen

CMS trends: App store model

10 December 2012

Perttu Tolvanen

CMS Market in Finland: Domestic products

4 October 2012

Perttu Tolvanen

CMS Market in Finland: International Products

3 October 2012

Perttu Tolvanen

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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