Autodesk announce new way to purchase its software licences with Autodesk Flex

The introduction of Autodesk Flex allows customers to purchase their Autodesk software licences on a pay as you go basis, providing users with access to their products on an occasional basis as opposed to purchasing a longer term subscription.

The new pay as you go model by Autodesk allows you to pay a daily rate for software use and works through the purchase of a pre-defined number of tokens for occasional users. Autodesk Flex tokens are flexible to meet a variety of business needs. Each product offered holds a different daily number of tokens. You will only be charged the daily rate once every 24 hours when a user opens a product. When the product is closed, charges are stopped.

The benefits of using Autodesk Flex include:

• Saving money due to only paying for what is used
• Saving time by reducing the need to add/remove users for varied products mid-project
• Smarter working through using specialised tools at different stages of the design process 

When considering using Autodesk Flex, you should identify how often your users & occasional users are using their Autodesk products. For instance if you have users that are only accessing their Autodesk software for 7 days or less per month, Autodesk Flex would be a cost-effective option for them. If users are using Autodesk products more frequently, such as 2+ days a week, a single user subscription licencing model would be the more cost-effective option.

In order to help you establish how often your Autodesk software licences are being used, Symetri provide a service which can monitor, manage and analyse your usage.

For more information on Autodesk Flex, read our blog post here. Alternatively, please get in touch with us.