Ariadne: your interactive QM software
QM software made for you and your team

More than 2,500 companies rely on Ariadne
Living QM with Ariadne
Which features should modern QM software offer?
Quality management covers a wide range of tasks. Modern QM software should reflect that range – and support you on every level. With Ariadne, you get quality management software that helps you achieve more: you improve collaboration, streamline your processes and documentation, and gain powerful digital support for your organization.
Ariadne QM software is more than the sum of its features:
Participatory and alive
Employees get involved and contribute their knowledge right where it's needed.
Improve together
Continuous improvement in quality management has never been this easy.
Centrally connected
Processes, documents, knowledge, audits, risks and more all work hand in hand.
Modular and expandable
Features and add-on modules grow with your organization's needs.
Personal consulting
The Ariadne team is there for you.

Where does it hurt?
Many QM managers know these problems – do you?
Quality management is meant to make everyday work easier. But when information, tasks and responsibilities don't come together in one place, pitfalls appear.
Scattered information
Process descriptions, documents and knowledge live in different places – or only in the heads of individual colleagues. Finding up-to-date information takes time and patience.
Disconnected from daily work
When processes and guidelines are documented but don't reflect how you actually work, your management system turns into a parallel world.
QM as a solo act
Keeping processes current, controlling documents, preparing audits, tracking risks: without a way to involve employees, all the threads end up with a few QM managers.
Too many tools
Processes here, audits there, risks and the QM manual somewhere else entirely. That means media breaks and duplicate maintenance – and makes it hard to see how things connect.
Intuitive, alive, digital
Ariadne's key QM software features for your quality management
From processes and documents to audits and risk management: Ariadne brings every QM software feature together in one central place.
Quality management
Build and maintain quality management according to ISO 9001
- Map multiple standards & frameworks
- Maintain a digital management manual
- Use central templates (e.g. work instructions)
- Put continuous improvement into practice
- Targeted distribution of information
- View usage statistics and access data
- Smart search to find content


Process management
Understand processes, shape them together and keep improving them
- Show process flows simply and transparently
- Find process knowledge fast
- Create clickable, custom process maps
- Model processes in BPMN 2.0 or display them as tables
Artificial intelligence
Real help, not hype: AI-powered features for your quality management
- Model and optimize processes in seconds with AI
- Real-time process suggestions
- Automated process visualization in line with BPMN standards
- AI-powered comprehension check as a smart addition to read confirmations
- AI search to find information even faster and more precisely
- MCP interface to your own approved information in Ariadne


Information security management
Ensure information security – today and tomorrow
- Set up a robust ISMS
- Map information security processes
- Integrate ISO 27001
- Define responsibilities
- Provide evidence centrally
- Share information security knowledge
More features
Document management
Control documents audit-proof – from creation to the next review
- Version control & change history
- Integrated digital approval workflows
- Edit and update documents as a team in real time
- Central document templates & automatic document header
- Collect read confirmations
- File attachments as controlled documents
- Share content with exactly the right people

Knowledge management
Collect, share and find knowledge
- A living, interactive company wiki and manual
- Smart search for fast results
- Edit & update stored knowledge together
- Create user profiles and manage roles and permissions
- Embed external media (e.g. images, videos and tables)
- Built-in spell check
- Glossary
- Usage statistics with access numbers

Audit management
Prepare, conduct and follow up on internal and external audits
- Plan, manage and conduct audits digitally
- Use audit templates and checklists
- Import existing audit templates
- Document findings and nonconformities
- Derive actions directly from audits
- Create and export audit reports

Risk management
Reliably identify, handle – and prevent – risks
- Capture, monitor and assess risks centrally and systematically
- Define responsibilities
- Link actions to risks
- Link risks to processes
- Document risk information centrally

Integrations & interfaces
Fit Ariadne seamlessly into your existing system landscape
- Web-based access
- Embedding of external content
- “Ariadne Connect” browser extension
- User management (Active Directory)
- Interfaces to third-party systems (e.g. SharePoint, Jira)
- Connection to SAP
- Content API and AI interface (MCP)

Ariadne compared
Shape it together in QM software that's alive
Rigid management systems and dusty QM manuals are a thing of the past. With Ariadne, you shape your quality management system interactively, as a living system and, above all, together.
Clickable, custom process map
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Process descriptions as tables and in BPMN 2.0
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Integrated approval workflow
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Direct mapping to standards (e.g. ISO 9001)
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Custom read confirmations
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Modern file management and smart search
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Intuitive to use for every employee
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AI for creating and optimizing processes
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AI-assisted document import
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Automatic linking of all web tools with Ariadne Connect
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QM is a team effort – with Ariadne, everyone's on board
More than 2,500 companies already benefit from our interactive QM software. Will your organization be next?
Voices from the field
What our customers say
Find out how our QM software supports companies on their way to process and quality management that people actually live. Get inspired!
Protection One GmbH
“By introducing Ariadne, we've moved away from dusty QM documentation to an interactive management system that people actually accept.”
Thorsten Schmidt / Leitung QM & Datenschutz
WAS Wirtschaft Arbeit Soziales
“Ariadne has become our central platform for processes, workflows, responsibilities and work instructions.”
Michelle Hüsser/ Unternehmensentwicklerin und Qualitätsmanagement-Verantwortliche WAS
Rehm Thermal Systems GmbH
“With Ariadne, our employees truly live our Integrated Management System, because it's close to their everyday work. That leads to better understanding and high acceptance.”
Raphael Germann/ Abteilungsleiter Qualität, Arbeitssicherheit, Nachhaltigkeit & Umwelt
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FAQ
Our answers to the most important questions
Welche Funktionen sollte eine moderne QM-Software bieten?
Eine moderne QM-Software sollte Qualitäts-, Prozess-, Dokumenten- und Wissensmanagement zentral abbilden. Wichtige Funktionen sind unter anderem die revisionssichere Versionierung, Freigabeworkflows, Lesebestätigungen, Maßnahmenmanagement, eine intelligente Suche sowie die Abbildung und Verknüpfung von Prozessen.
Welche Funktionen bietet QM-Software von Ariadne für das Prozessmanagement?
Mit Ariadne kannst du individuelle Prozesslandkarten erstellen und Prozesse tabellarisch oder als Flussdiagramm nach BPMN 2.0 modellieren. Verknüpfungen, automatisierte Freigabeworkflows, Versionierung und integriertes Dateimanagement sorgen dafür, dass Prozesse aktuell und miteinander vernetzt bleiben.
Wie unterstützt Ariadne mich bei der Dokumentenlenkung?
Die QM-Software von Ariadne digitalisiert die Dokumentenlenkung von der Erstellung über Prüfung und Freigabe bis zur Kenntnisnahme. Versionen werden automatisch verwaltet und archiviert, während Rollen und Rechte dafür sorgen, dass Mitarbeitende die für sie relevanten Informationen erhalten.
Kann ich in Ariadne Prozesse mit BPMN 2.0 abbilden?
Ja, mit dem integrierten Editor kannst du Prozesse nach BPMN 2.0 modellieren und einzelne Prozessschritte direkt mit Rollen, anderen Prozessen oder externen Inhalten verknüpfen.
Wie lassen sich Normanforderungen in Ariadne Prozessen zuordnen?
Normanforderungen lassen sich in der QM-Software von Ariadne direkt den relevanten Inhalten zuordnen. So kannst du beispielsweise Anforderungen aus ISO 9001 oder ISO 14001 digital mit deinem Managementsystem verknüpfen und nachvollziehbar umsetzen.
Unterstützt Ariadne Freigabeworkflows und Lesebestätigungen?
Ja, Ariadne bietet integrierte Freigabeworkflows und individuelle Lesebestätigungen. Dadurch kannst du nachvollziehen, welche Inhalte freigegeben und ob relevante Änderungen von den zuständigen Mitarbeitenden gelesen wurden.
Wie bindet Ariadne Mitarbeitende in das Qualitätsmanagement ein?
Ariadne setzt auf ein interaktives Qualitätsmanagement: Mitarbeitende können ihr Wissen direkt einbringen und gemeinsam Prozesse und Inhalte weiterentwickeln. So wird die QM-Software vom reinen Dokumentationssystem zum Werkzeug für den Arbeitsalltag.
Welche KI-Funktionen bietet Ariadne?
Unsere QM-Software unterstützt dich mit KI unter anderem bei der Erstellung und Optimierung von Prozessen sowie beim Import von Dokumenten. KI-Funktionen helfen dabei, vorhandenes Wissen schneller nutzbar zu machen und den Pflegeaufwand im Qualitätsmanagement zu reduzieren.
Lässt sich Ariadne mit anderen Softwarelösungen verbinden?
Ja, du kannst Ariadne mit anderen Systemen und Webtools verbinden. Dadurch können Informationen und Anwendungen miteinander verknüpft werden, ohne dass das Managementsystem zur isolierten Insellösung wird.


