Anark Corp., a Boulder-based technical content management and visual collaboration software company, has hired Fred Waugh as its new CEO.

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Waugh Brings Proven Track Record Driving Rapid Cloud-SaaS Revenue Growth
Co-Founder Stephen Collins to Continue to Serve on Board of Directors
March 01, 2022 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
BOULDER, Colo.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Anark Corporation , leading provider of technical content management and visual collaboration software, today announced that the company’s Board of Directors has appointed Fred Waugh as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Waugh assumes day-to-day leadership of the company and will also join Anark’s Board of Directors. Co-founder Stephen Collins will continue to serve on the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Collins and Mr. Waugh will work closely together to ensure a smooth transition and to further the Anark mission to empower secure and effective data access and collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and service operations for the world’s most innovative manufacturers. Mr. Waugh is a seasoned go-to-market and operational executive with a proven track record of helping companies achieve rapid Cloud-SaaS adoption and revenue growth while delivering a high level of customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Anark, Mr. Waugh was a Vice President of Marketing at PTC, which he joined as a part of PTC’s recent acquisition of leading Cloud-SaaS PLM provider, Arena Solutions, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer. “It has been an honor to serve as the CEO of Anark since founding the company, and I am very proud of what our team has accomplished together,” said Mr. Collins. “We’ve grown the business significantly and made substantial progress toward our major company priorities, building upon our track record as the most advanced provider of MBE-enabled technical data package (TDP) solutions as a foundational component of our full-featured technical content management and visual collaboration platform delivering value for global leaders throughout the discrete manufacturing industry.”
“This is an exciting time to join Anark and help lead the company into its next phase of growth,” said Mr. Waugh. “Anark’s growing customer base already includes many of the world’s leading manufacturers, a testament to the success of the platform. With increased investment, and by harnessing the value of our growing set of powerful new product capabilities and Cloud-SaaS deployment options, Anark is poised to capitalize on the unmet need for effective, secure data access and collaboration.”
David Brunel, Anark’s Chairman, noted that, “After an extensive search, the Board is confident that Fred is the right person--with his experience in building successful, high-growth SaaS companies--to lead Anark through its next growth phase. The Board is grateful to Stephen for his strong leadership bringing Anark to this pivotal stage where we are poised for rapid growth and looks forward to tracking his future success.”
About Anark Corporation
Anark is a leading provider of technical content management and visual collaboration software, empowering leading global manufacturers such as Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Allison Transmission, Ericsson, Cohu, Cisco, and the US DoD to communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely, throughout engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and field service operations. As a result, customers yield reduced delivery risk and material waste, and higher-quality products and services with substantial cost savings. Anark Core thrives within heterogenous data environments, enabling our customers to easily publish, manage, and deliver the right information to the right place at the right time. For more information visit: www.anark.com
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Anark Appoints Fred Waugh as Chief Executive Officer

Waugh was most recently vice president of marketing with Boston-based software company PTC Inc.
“This is an exciting time to join Anark and help lead the company into its next phase of growth,” Waugh said in a prepared statement. “Anark’s growing customer base already includes many of the world’s leading manufacturers, a testament to the success of the platform. With increased investment, and by harnessing the value of our growing set of powerful new product capabilities and cloud-software-as-a-service deployment options, Anark is poised to capitalize on the unmet need for effective, secure data access and collaboration.”

Connecting people to the technical data they need has never been easier
November 02, 2021 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
BOULDER, Colo.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Anark Corporation today announced that it has enhanced its capabilities for connecting people to the digital thread with the release of Anark Core 4.5.59. The newly released capabilities include an innovative mobile-first user experience that makes it easier than ever to provide secure access and collaboration for both technical and non-technical content. With the addition of a mobile-first user experience, Anark Core is now the only content collaboration platform capable of securely serving up complex technical data in an intuitive, browser-based user experience on any device. "If you can use a smart phone, you can now interact with complex 3D CAD, BOM, drawings, schematics, and other technical content, as well as any number of traditional documents. This was an important investment to make to ensure that anyone can get connected to their business's digital thread. Nearly all the world's knowledge is available from your smartphone, and now so is your technical data," said Scott Collins, CTO, Anark. "Secure mobile access to technical content means that your suppliers and contract manufacturers, in house manufacturing, and service teams can find the critical information that they all need to perform their jobs, but without the paper and without the fuss, all from their smart mobile devices." To unite cross functional teams in the supply chain, manufacturing, and aftermarket service Anark Core offers easy to use activities-based, visual collaboration to solve problems quickly while remaining fully traceable. With Anark's mobile-first UX, anyone can graphically markup technical content or uploaded photos to bring attention to problems, ask questions or suggest solutions, using only their mobile phone. When a user posts comments and markups to an activity, the activity participants are all notified in the application or via email, allowing them to jump directly into the conversation. By bringing mobile-capable technical content together with easy-to-use graphical markup tools, secure content sharing, full traceability, and participant notifications, teams can work together asynchronously in the office, on the plant floor, or in the field. The full mobile first user experience enhances a number of key capabilities that lead to business value:
Secure mobile access to up-to-date technical data: 3D CAD, BOM, drawings, schematics, plant diagrams, procedures
Navigate a browser-based mobile experience, including favorites and other common actions
Stream content to ensure reliable access even in unreliable networks
Unite cross-functional teams asynchronously
Track conversations, and trace history of work
"The era of digital transformation has introduced a variety of powerful solutions for those experts who use them every day. But it has also created new digital silos of inaccessible data and documents at almost every company. Sometimes it's inaccessible due to security policies, and other times its simply difficult to remember how and where to find the required information so people give up, and delays occur. The mobile first user experience is the next step in our mission to make both technical and non-technical content easily accessible for anyone, anywhere, on any device," says Patrick Dunfey, VP of Marketing and Sales Enablement, Anark. With the new mobile first user experience, Anark has significantly expanded the amount of value that companies can gain from their digital threads, improving supply chain visibility and performance, reducing manufacturing errors, accelerating time-to-market, and optimizing field service. About Anark
Anark is a leading provider of technical content collaboration software, empowering leading global manufacturers such as Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Allison Transmission, Ericsson, Cohu, Cisco, and the US DoD to communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely, throughout engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and field service operations. As a result, customers yield reduced delivery risk and material waste, and higher-quality products and services with substantial cost savings. Anark Core thrives within heterogenous data environments, enabling our customers to easily publish, manage, and deliver the right information to the right place at the right time. For more information:

Anark&apos;s Mobile First User Experience Simplifies Digital Thread Access

Connecting people to the technical data they need has never been easier
BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anark Corporation today announced that it has enhanced its capabilities for connecting people to the digital thread with the release of Anark Core 4.5.59. The newly released capabilities include an innovative mobile-first user experience that makes it easier than ever to provide secure access and collaboration for both technical and non-technical content. With the addition of a mobile-first user experience, Anark Core is now the only content collaboration platform capable of securely serving up complex technical data in an intuitive, browser-based user experience on any device. « If you can use a smart phone, you can now interact with complex 3D CAD, BOM, drawings, schematics, and other technical content, as well as any number of traditional documents. This was an important investment to make to ensure that anyone can get connected to their business’s digital thread. Nearly all the world’s knowledge is available from your smartphone, and now so is your technical data, » said Scott Collins, CTO, Anark. « Secure mobile access to technical content means that your suppliers and contract manufacturers, in house manufacturing, and service teams can find the critical information that they all need to perform their jobs, but without the paper and without the fuss, all from their smart mobile devices. »
To unite cross functional teams in the supply chain, manufacturing, and aftermarket service Anark Core offers easy to use activities-based, visual collaboration to solve problems quickly while remaining fully traceable. With Anark’s mobile-first UX, anyone can graphically markup technical content or uploaded photos to bring attention to problems, ask questions or suggest solutions, using only their mobile phone. When a user posts comments and markups to an activity, the activity participants are all notified in the application or via email, allowing them to jump directly into the conversation. By bringing mobile-capable technical content together with easy-to-use graphical markup tools, secure content sharing, full traceability, and participant notifications, teams can work together asynchronously in the office, on the plant floor, or in the field. The full mobile first user experience enhances a number of key capabilities that lead to business value:
Secure mobile access to up-to-date technical data: 3D CAD, BOM, drawings, schematics, plant diagrams, procedures
Navigate a browser-based mobile experience, including favorites and other common actions
Stream content to ensure reliable access even in unreliable networks
Unite cross-functional teams asynchronously
Track conversations, and trace history of work
« The era of digital transformation has introduced a variety of powerful solutions for those experts who use them every day. But it has also created new digital silos of inaccessible data and documents at almost every company. Sometimes it’s inaccessible due to security policies, and other times its simply difficult to remember how and where to find the required information so people give up, and delays occur. The mobile first user experience is the next step in our mission to make both technical and non-technical content easily accessible for anyone, anywhere, on any device, » says Patrick Dunfey, VP of Marketing and Sales Enablement, Anark. With the new mobile first user experience, Anark has significantly expanded the amount of value that companies can gain from their digital threads, improving supply chain visibility and performance, reducing manufacturing errors, accelerating time-to-market, and optimizing field service. About Anark
Anark is a leading provider of technical content collaboration software, empowering leading global manufacturers such as Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Allison Transmission, Ericsson, Cohu, Cisco, and the US DoD to communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely, throughout engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and field service operations. As a result, customers yield reduced delivery risk and material waste, and higher-quality products and services with substantial cost savings. Anark Core thrives within heterogenous data environments, enabling our customers to easily publish, manage, and deliver the right information to the right place at the right time. For more information:

Anark’s Mobile First User Experience Simplifies Digital Thread Access

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