ATR Soft has more than 20 years' experience of software development for companies. Our principle is to seek precisely the best solution for each customer.
We aim to remain scalable and competitive by meeting the growing software needs of our customers. At the same time, we guarantee for our employees interesting, diverse and varying projects.
Just one year after its establishment, ATR Soft was already a significant software supplier for Nokia. Later, Nokia chose our company as its primary supplier of PDM services.
Our rigidly flexible way of working and our ability to listen to the customer are our guarantee for a smooth cooperation.
approx. 7 years
The average length of time that ATR Softers
have spent working at ATR so far
approx. 12 years
The average length of experience that ATR Softers
have in the software business
More than 10 years
experience in the software business - approximately
60% of ATR Softers
"Our idea was to start building a business that was focused on meeting the needs of our customers. So we went after customers who had needs that others hadn't been able to solve, and we started to solve them."
Mika Reinilä
Co-Founder of ATR Soft
ATR Soft's story began in 2000 with three enthusiastic software developers. The start of the journey of course involved many blunders and challenges, not to mention the floppy disks and tubed computer displays, but now they all sound so far away. . Let Mika enlighten us about what happened:
20 years ago, when ATR Soft began, it was somewhat different from what it is now. It was small and actually consisted only of us three owners. We were all strictly working for the customers, meaning that we were kind of a small specialist company.
Our first office was in Tuotekatu in Raisio. We shared the premises with the SOLIDWORKS dealer, which was called CadOn. We had one room there.
ATR Soft was born when its owners, Esa Aaltonen, Mika Reinilä, and Raimo Tammero, merged their former companies. The former companies had been established in the mid-nineties.
"We were young, enthusiastic software developers back then. We really wanted to do nothing but software development. The idea was to start building the kind of business that would meet the needs of our customers. We were looking for customers who had a need that others hadn't been able to solve.
Today, ATR Soft is a very different employer than it was in the beginning. There are many more of us now. We have a lot of different experts and different types of people, and it's great to work with them. Now we don't have to be locked solely into software development anymore; we can do much more.
In 2031 we will probably be similar to what we are today. Hopefully, we'll be bigger, and we'll be able to serve more customers and grow our business. In the future, anything could be possible, even that we grow, for example, by merging with other companies, for instance through acquisitions or partnerships.
The best thing in 20 years has been meeting and getting to know different people, employees, customers, and partners. Of course, the most challenging part is making the tough decisions when business is down, or it's a bad year.
If I met those young, enthusiastic developers that we were 20 years ago, all I would say is have a nice trip; it's a nice trip. It's worth going.
The best thing we have is community. All our employees, customers, and partners. Working together is the basis of everything we do.
The development of ATR Soft's own CUSTOMTOOLS product began in the late 1990s and, since the very beginning, it's been an official SOLIDWORKS partner product. In 2003, we achieved SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner status. At the same, we single-mindedly expanded our CUSTOMTOOLS network of dealers. The first SOLIDWORKS dealer for CUSTOMTOOLS outside Finland was the Danish Edge Team, which is still one of our dealers.