Bim 360 License Cost Some Ideas

Crazy Bim 360 License Cost RecommendationsYet another reason is that Autodesk controls licensing. You could keep hanging on to it but all they have to do is say it’s no longer a valid product…it’s ends of life. And your only option is to buy a full new subscription of this new β€œNavis Quantum” product (I just made that up….just like they can) that replaces it. If you’re trying to migrate users from AutoCAD to Revit, or implement other product roll outs, analytics are important to gauge adoption. I don’t want to pay an extra $30k a year just to remain license compliant, secure and informed about our users. And because there’s now a revenue stream behind it, perhaps Autodesk will finally give it the attention it’s long deserved. With all software being driven by only an Email address that doubles as an Autodesk ID any user can freely download and install the software at home or on a friends system. As long as they’re employed and have a license, IT compliance will be non-existent. With a company directive to double in revenue, migrating users from AutoCAD/CADmep to Revit Fabrication Parts and rolling out Collaboration for Revit, my forecast was within %0.1 over the next two years. As part of a TokenFlex engagement, you run their licenses for a trial period to gauge usage so you can forecast your purchase for 3 years. Autodesk’s abysmal analysis was simply add 5 of each license over 3 years. Didn’t matter if it was 150 seats of Revit or 1 seat of 3ds Max. Perhaps the real lost value in all of this in construction is the reduction of software access to users. My last employer signed one of those $3.5M/3-Year Enterprise Tokenflex deals. There’s a lot of reasons Autodesk might want β€œUser” based licenses. But they’ve never streamlined anything and made it cost less. Instead the complicate things. Then charge more to β€œsimplify” them. Today at work, my BIM360 Docs account says I’m using 110 of 30 licenses. Just broken licensing and poor implementation of reporting of a confusing and inconsistent license structure.

So fare we have only used the Document Management where we work towards the cloud model. Due to the current situation doing worksharing over BIM360 works great. Using this utility, you can use either a command line version or GUI to extract files embedded in an MSI file without installing it. An image if the program’s dialog is shown below showing the contents of the FlexLM MSI file. Your next step will be up update licenses once the products are released. Call me a conspiracy theorist but it is starting to appear like this is an intentional deployment and utilization strategy. Get teams dependent on the product, then pass around the collection plate. It’s my understanding that existing multi-user licenses that are renewed are not subject to the price increase. I suspect as Donnie pointed out in his Blog, they want to drive insights from users and provide that for a fee. Take away your ability to gain insight yourself. Instead you pay them for information about your data. They’re simply trying to modernize their business. Revenue model like others have. Failure to do so would likely lead to more activist investors attempting to hijack the board much like Carl Bass had to contend with toward the end of his CEO tenure there. Activist investors on Autodesk’s board is not a good thing for customers. If you don’t take up Autodesk on the offer during your next renewal come May 7, 2021 and after, you’ll no longer be able to renew those Multi-User plans. Your choices are stop using Autodesk products or buy new subscriptions at full MSRP. In 2019, CEO Andrew Anagnost issued an apology after the 2019 rollout killed prior versions of subscription software. Steve Johnsonβ€˜s CAD Nauseum blog has some commentary here. In short, this means youβ€