Ariadne: your interactive QM software

QM software made for you and your team

Document all your processes in one digital QMS
Involve every employee and get them excited about QM
Gather all information in one central place
Every feature you need for living QM
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More than 2,500 companies rely on Ariadne

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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.

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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
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A process map inside the Ariadne manual

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Various interface elements of Ariadne risk and opportunity management

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)
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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.

Ariadne
Other QM software

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?

QM software benefits for employees

  • Active involvement in shaping processes
  • Better collaboration across all departments and locations
  • A valuable information and work platform with up-to-date content in one central QM system

For leaders

  • More efficient processes and clear responsibilities with quality management software
  • Fewer follow-up questions and lower error costs
  • Participatory leadership and satisfied employees

For QM managers

  • Less workload thanks to decentralized maintenance and a convenient approval process right in Ariadne
  • High access numbers and better process compliance
  • Faster certification for standards like ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949 and many more

For the IT department

  • Minimal administrative effort
  • Professional support based in Germany
  • ISO 27001 certified

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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Discover the QM software that you and your whole team will love.

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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.