Named account transition

[DougFresh760]

We've been a long standing Autodesk customer with hundred of seats.  We had purchase suites of software for civil and 3D design as well as hundreds of seats of all flavors of AutoCAD.  Last year we converted our perpetual seats to  multiple user subscriptions and three Collections.  At the time, we were promised a fixed price for the next two years, and not to exceed increases for the next five.  Now we hear of this bait and switch 2 for 1 deal which in no ways covers the seats satisfied by having floating seats for our users.  Not to mention the overhead in collection and creating these new named accounts and ongoing maintenance and changes to how we deploy out software.  I'm glad to see that Autodesk has achieved it's goal of 95Plus- Composite Rating Club status, but I can't see how

[lena.talkhina]

Hello,

Thank you for the question. If I get it right, you are asking about software deployment due to the reason of subscriptions changes.

So the answer is there is no changes for the technical side of deployment. As before, you can create a deployment for single-user (now named user), install it on each machine.

What will change is the process of management these licenses. CAD manager will need to create named users accounts in their admin account and provide details to user. 

[lena.talkhina]

Hello @DougFresh760 !

In addition to what I have said before:

You will keep the M2S discount. And you will keep no more than 5% increase every other year until 2028.

Also, about how to manage users. Please, find more information by this link

I hope that clarify changes.

[DougFresh760]

I understand the discount, and that's ok..  but my concern is that the 2:1 conversion of named accounts to subscription floating licenses will not satisfy the base that the floating licenses cover.  how are we supposed to mange this?

We need a tool and time to assess the impact.  When will Autodesk provided some tools like they offered when evaluating the previous offering token credits.  I need to asses the low and high water mark usage of the licensing.  I can estimate the best usage when I have more detail.

-Douglas

[rkmcswain]

@DougFresh760 wrote:

I understand the discount, and that's ok..  but my concern is that the 2:1 conversion of named accounts to subscription floating licenses will not satisfy the base that the floating licenses cover.  how are we supposed to mange this?

Autodesk is aware of this. They are hoping that you will just rent more licenses. But they are aware that some customers won't do this and go elsewhere. It's a calculated risk on their part.