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Autodesk Named User Licensing Saves Time & Money

Autodesk Named User Licensing Saves Time & Money

Customer challenge

The challenge is the customer was realizing lost productivity due to a lack of understanding on how software was being used and through ongoing I.T related costs for ongoing license management and updating. Customer has multiple locations with various products and contract, all with various renewal dates. To make this matter more complex the customer had a variety of deployment mechanisms where some users were using networked "multi-user" licenses along with other less efficient licensing tools.

Project goals

The desire was to have a standard for software across all manufacturing facilities as well as having a consistent way to deploy software throughout the enterprise. The secondary desire would be licensing that required less human contact day to day and when deploying software updates. The third desire was to have a service contract that could be address enterprise wide at a single point in time while maintaining group identity for cost center and budget allocation.

Solution

As part of ongoing customer success engagements with Design and Software (DSi), the account manager was able to identify the lost productivity and added IT costs identified as a result of the current mix of contract and legacy licensing. Having understood the business impact and lost productivity this was causing, it was recommended by DSi to embrace the "Named User" licensing that Autodesk was offering. The solution was to migrate all users to One licensing methodology as well as consolidating various contract onto a single renewal period. Furthermore DSi was able to demonstrate the gain in productivity since all the licensing would be handle through the Autodesk cloud based licensing manager.

Business outcome

Through adopting One licensing mechanism that was managed through a cloud portal, the customer was able to reduce the amount of IT burden that were nearly weekly interruptions of not only the product users but also the related IT staff it would need to resolve these issues. After successful adoption lead by the DSi team, there have been zero interruptions to productivity due to licensing issues of software. The secondary results are greater insights to how technology was being utilized, providing better informed decisions on how technology should be purchased.

Conclusion

Through named user licensing and premium insights real productivity was realized. There was an unexpected added benefit of being able to understand license utilization so that licenses would not go unused and could be deployed where demand was needed at that time.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 180
  • 2021-04-30

    Autodesk solutions

  • PowerInspect
  • PowerMill
  • PowerShape

    Services provided

  • Collaboration & Productivity
  • Security Management
  • Data Migration
  • Business Analytics & Reporting
  • Technical Support
  • Product Activation & Onboarding
  • Software Asset Management & Usage
  • Customer Success Management

    Customer industry

  • Subtractive Manufacturing
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