What is the Anari history?
Anari was founded in late 2006 by Andy Wolstenholme and Nigel Dowden, both of whom brought with them a fair bit of expertise with business intelligence and travel companies, especially airlines. The company has grown in staff numbers, turnover and customers every year since.
If you put ‘Anari’ into Google or Wikipedia you’ll find a few interesting references including:
Our business name ‘Anari’ was not inspired by any of these – instead it came from combining two things. Firstly our founders’ initials (Andy and Nigel) and secondly our very first customer project, which was to help Aeroflot define their Airline Revenue Integrity organisation and solution.
For those of you that speak Hindi, we had no idea in the beginning that Anari means ‘an innocent man’ or ‘simple person’. That has caused much amusement in our business dealings since – and we kind of like it!
– we value our employees; and aim to deliver solutions which generate real business value
Andy and Nigel are the co-founders and owners of Anari. They are both business intelligence and airline professionals, having over 35 years of experience between then. Andy is married, has three children and lives in Cheshire. Nigel is married, has two children and lives in Norfolk. Neither are good sailors!
Andrew has been with Anari from its inception and is a much trusted and experienced IT consultant who looks after the day to day operations, for our software and managed services customers. When not in the office or on customers sites, he is our resident fitness guru, and can be found running up hill, down dale, in all weathers. Andrew competes in marathons, and has graduated to ‘Ultra’ running, which is normally >50 miles in one go!
Sharon is Customer Support & Education Team Leader and has over twenty years’ experience in customer service. She enjoys the occasional 21 mile walk and is a ‘fair weather runner’. She has used a number of excuses not to run with the Anari running team during lunch-times, however the excuses ran out and a 3 mile run was completed!
Why choose Anari?
We are genuinely passionate about what we do, and we care about delivering successful solutions which that deliver real value for our customers.
We are large enough to be investing in improving our skills, developing new solutions, and building a high-speed SaaS platform. But we are still small enough to be nimble both commercially and technically. If you need particular features or functions, we will apply our expertise to helping you define the solution options, and whittle it down to something that works for both you and for us. We listen. We understand. We solve problems. We deliver.