About Arter
On this page, you will learn more about Arter’s operations and why Arter is the best choice for your organization.
Turn good leadership into a lasting capability
Your organisation deserves a lasting capability for good leadership. A capability that endures key personnel changes, evolving requirements, and the disruption brought by AI.
Why is Arter the best choice for your organisation?
Success requires the ability to lead strategy at every level of the organisation.
This requires two things:
1. visibility into what’s actually happening in your organisation, and
2. a clear structure that builds a bridge between strategic choices and everyday practice.
We help you create a lasting leadership capability — one that won’t disappear when key personnel change, requirements evolve, or AI brings its disruption.
Here’s how we do it:
1. Our experts help transform your organisation’s strategy and requirements into working structures that guide people in their daily work, and into views that enable your leadership to make better decisions.
2. Our softwares make capability verifiable and brings it into the everyday life of your entire organisation.
3. Our ongoing partnership ensures that capability is sustained and continues to evolve even as individuals, requirements, or the operating environment change.
How do we work?
Our mission is simple but demanding: Committed to ease your everyday life.
This promise guides everything we do.
Our goal is to offer our clients clarity and lasting structures that make everyday life easier in the long term.
Is Arter the right partner for your organisation?
Our services are designed for organisations whose goals include:
– growth or renewal,
– continuous development of their operations,
– finding structural solutions instead of quick fixes,
– building lasting leadership capability.
Arter’s products and services
✅ We provide consulting and training services to support quality management, enterprise architecture, and the development of management systems.
In addition, we develop and offer two in-house software products:
✅ ARC software, which enables you to document and maintain your organization’s enterprise architecture descriptions.
✅ IMS software, which allows you to build a quality or management system tailored to your company’s or organization’s specific needs.
Our services and the ARC and IMS software are suitable for your entire organization – from leaders to operational-level employees.
Arter in numbers
✅ Arter is a Finnish company founded in 1998, employing around 40 specialists.
✅ Nearly 600 software customers already trust our expertise.
✅ Arter’s customers stay with us for a long time—the average customer relationship lasts 7 years, with the longest lasting up to 22 years.
✅ Since June 2019, we have been part of the Dutch Total Specific Solutions organization.
✅ In June 2021, Arter was awarded the ISO 27001 certification.
✅ Arter is a financially solid company, bringing three decades of expertise in leadership, enterprise architecture, and management system development to your organisation.
Arter is trusted by nearly 600 software customers
Get to know Arter’s services
IMS-software
With the IMS software, you can build a quality management, management, or operational system tailored to your organization’s needs, making quality transparent.
ARC-software
The ARC software is a flexible enterprise architecture visualization tool that allows you to model, document, and maintain your organization’s enterprise architecture descriptions
Arter´s story
In the 1990s, the ISO 9001 standard had just been published, and a wave of quality management system certifications swept into Finland. Our founding members, Ossi Ritola and Jussi Moisio, who worked as chief evaluators at the Finnish Standards Association, started offering quality management training as entrepreneurs. The focus of the training changed over time, but at its core, it was always about developing the customer’s business.
We noticed that customers repeatedly lacked modern tools for business development. As a solution, we programmed them ourselves in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki, and began offering domestically built software for quality management and enterprise architecture.
Thanks to our strong desire for development, we solve customer challenges today in municipalities, listed companies, and small boat workshops. We do this with a genuine desire to make our customers’ daily lives easier.
Our dream is to help organisations grow and renew themselves
The pace of change in the world is accelerating. Quality management or enterprise architecture alone is no longer enough for success. We realised that something bigger was at stake: to succeed, organisations need a lasting capability for good leadership.
A capability that endures key personnel changes, evolving requirements, and the disruption brought by AI.
Our vision is to provide every organisation with a lasting capability for good leadership.
Important years in Arter’s history
Since June 2019, we have been part of the Dutch Total Specific Solutions, which includes nearly 85 independently managed software business units in Europe. TSS’s headquarters are located in the Netherlands, and the company has over 2300 employees in Europe. TSS is part of the Dutch publicly listed Topicus.com group.
In June 2021, Arter was awarded the ISO 27001 certificate. The ISO 27001 certificate is a proof granted by an accredited certification body that Arter Oy’s operations follow good information security principles and that we operate responsibly and systematically in the field of information security.
Our values
Entrepreneurial
At Arter, an entrepreneurial mindset means taking responsibility and genuinely caring.
It means ownership of your role, your goals, and your results—as well as the ambition to move us forward through your own work.
We value every Arter employee’s work, well-being, and ability to thrive.
Dedicated
At Arter, commitment means working together in a way that builds trust and supports everyone’s success.
It is reflected in everyday life through open and respectful interaction, clear communication, and keeping our promises.
We commit to agreed ways of working and act for the common good.
Innovative
At Arter, innovation means development and continuous improvement.
It is reflected in our drive to understand our customers’ needs and to create user-friendly solutions that make everyday work easier.
Innovation is not an individual effort for us—the best ideas are created together. We dare to challenge the status quo and seize new opportunities with courage.
