What are the benefits in taking out a subscription?

Autodesk Subscription helps improve your organisation’s productivity by ensuring your staff always have the latest versions of their Autodesk design tools. It gives you a unique entitlement to keep on using previous software versions even after you’ve installed the latest upgrades. The program boosts your staff’s design skills via online tutorials and web support, simplifies administration, license management and allows for predictable technology budgeting.

Finally, exclusive to subscription customers, the password-protected subscription Centre provides invaluable subscriber-only resources and events.

With Autodesk subscription, you’ll benefit from:

Improved productivity With direct, one-to-one, web-based support, you can submit technical questions to Autodesk experts who respond through email and the web. Support tracking is available, making it easier for you to manage multiple requests at once. Cost savings Subscription is more cost effective than upgrading the traditional way. With traditional upgrades you do not receive the productivity boosting benefits that are reserved for our Subscription customers.

Predictable Budgeting
Autodesk Subscription helps make your technology budgeting easy and pain-free.
You know your annual licensed software expenditure in advance – and know that one fixed fee per license guarantees you automatic access to all upgrades and extensions during the lifetime of your subscription contract. You are saving time in your budgeting process and increasing accuracy when submitting your budget figures.

Enhanced skills
Autodesk Subscription includes access to self-paced e-Learning lessons for many Autodesk products. Developed by Autodesk experts, these short interactive lessons help users quickly master key features of upgraded or enhanced software. Users can also use e-Learning to analyze their existing skills. e-Learning identifies skills gaps, and directs users to the appropriate lessons. A post-learning test is also available to help users assess their progress. E-Learning is accessed either through the Subscription Centre or directly from your Autodesk software via the InfoCenter. These short lessons are available on demand and complement more in-depth training provided through Excitech.

Simplified Software Management With Autodesk Subscription, you will get an opportunity to simplify your software management – from purchase through installation and upgrading. For the term of the subscription contract, you are entitled to receive all software upgrades at no additional charge. Flexible Purchasing Options Autodesk products can be purchased with subscription on an annual basis or for a term of up to two or three years.

Simple License Management
With Autodesk Subscription, you can take control of your Autodesk license(s) via the Autodesk Subscription Centre, a password-protected portal, reducing the complexity in managing license arrangements. You’ll have added flexibility to allow your employees to use their subscription software. Better still; your designers will be entitled to run previous versions of the software concurrently with the latest release.

Competitive Edge
With Autodesk Subscription, you are sure to keep your design software and skills up-to-date. Autodesk Subscription ensures you always have the latest version of your design software. Product upgrades and extensions are automatically shipped to you or made available for download. Free e-learning lessons ensure that your employees get the knowledge they need to use the software effectively.

Lower deployment risks Subscriptions are a better way to support your infrastructure as you grow. Rather than paying up-front for a software license that delivers diminishing value over time, the subscription model is designed so you pay as you go. You are delivered continuous value over the lifetime of your subscription. The value is access to new technology, improved features, web support, etc. A subscription reduces your financial risk, protects your investments, and makes your IT spending predictable.