Perhaps one of the biggest surprises for Abaqus user community in 2018 is that the two most popular licensing schemes of Abaqus would gradually go away for new customers. These schemes are Abaqus analysis pack and Abaqus portfolio pack. It’s worth mentioning that many of our Abaqus customers are still using either of these two licensing schemes. While our current customers who have perpetual or lease licenses may be able to continue with these schemes, our future customers will have to migrate to something that is available as a replacement. Instead of putting this news as a surprise to each customer individually, I thought a common piece of information well in advance through a blog article would keep the anxiety under control.

THE MIGRATION PATH

The migration path eventually leads to a token configuration that has been available since couple of years now. It is called the extended tokens configuration. While many of our customers have already migrated to this licensing scheme by choice, others are still using one of the traditional licensing schemes. Let’s look at the logic behind this high-level decision. If we look at the history of acquisitions that Dassault Systemes has made in past few years, it looks like this:

The inception of extended tokens is related to acquisition of three companies in above chart: FE-Design, Safe Tech and Engineous. The product offerings from these companies, if coupled with Abaqus can greatly enhance its simulation portfolio. Following acquisition, these products were offered as point tools for a long time with their individual licensing and pricing schemes. As a result, existing Abaqus customers who wished to use either one or more of these products had to go through a complicated purchase and IT process. Dassault Systemes has been looking for a consolidated licensing scheme that would enable users to procure these products along with Abaqus in a single license file that works on a single token scheme and on a single license server. This token scheme is now called the extended tokens. At this point of time Dassault Syetemes believes it makes sense to migrate all existing Abaqus users to extended tokens through a migration path that would enhance the simulation portfolio of users in a cost-effective way.

           COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT TOKEN SCHEMES