Autodesk, Inc. (Autodesk) provides 3D design, engineering, and entertainment technology solutions. The company is spanning architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment.
The company’s customers design, fabricate, manufacture, and build anything by visualizing, simulating, and analyzing real-world performance early in the design process. The company’s professional software products are sold globally through a combination of indirect and direct c...
Autodesk, Inc. (Autodesk) provides 3D design, engineering, and entertainment technology solutions. The company is spanning architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment.
The company’s customers design, fabricate, manufacture, and build anything by visualizing, simulating, and analyzing real-world performance early in the design process. The company’s professional software products are sold globally through a combination of indirect and direct channels.
Products
The company’s architecture, engineering, construction and operations products improve the way building, infrastructure, and industrial projects are designed, built, and operated. The company’s product development and manufacturing software provides manufacturers in automotive, transportation, industrial machinery, consumer products, and building product industries with comprehensive digital design, engineering, manufacturing, and production solutions. These technologies bring together data from all phases of the product development and production life cycle, creating a digital pipeline that supports greater productivity, accuracy through process automation, and insights that enable more sustainable outcomes. The company’s digital media and entertainment products provide tools for digital sculpting, modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and compositing for design visualization, visual effects,3D animation, games production, and enables connection of workflows and data from pre-production to post-production. The company’s portfolio of products and services enables its customers to foster innovation, optimize and improve their designs, save time and money, improve quality, communicate plans, and collaborate with others.
Autodesk’s product offerings include:
Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO)
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Collection
The AEC Collection, including AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D, and Revit, aims to help the company’s customers design, engineer, and construct higher quality, more predictable building and civil infrastructure projects, commonly used by AECO industry experts.
AutoCAD Civil 3D
AutoCAD Civil 3D solution provides a surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution for civil engineering, including land development, transportation, and environmental projects. Using a model-centric approach that automatically updates documentation as design changes are made, AutoCAD Civil 3D enables civil engineers, designers, drafters, and surveyors to significantly boost productivity and deliver higher-quality designs and construction documentation faster. With AutoCAD Civil 3D, the entire project team works from the same consistent, up-to-date model so they stay coordinated throughout all project phases.
Autodesk Build
Autodesk Build delivers a connected set of project management and collaboration tools for the construction industry. Autodesk Build provides a toolset for managing, sharing, and accessing project documents that results in streamlined workflows between the office, trailer, and jobsite. In addition, Autodesk Build can be used to track the quality and safety of the project with issues and forms. Team members can use Autodesk Build for requests for information (RFIs), submittals, and meetings to manage the flow of information and track project progress across the construction timeline. The PlanGrid Build mobile app delivers field critical project information and collaboration from Autodesk Build to the jobsite. As part of Autodesk Construction Cloud, Build connects data originating in design and preconstruction to the construction and operations phase, allowing users to identify, manage and de-risk project decisions.
BIM Collaborate Pro
Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro is cloud-based design collaboration and design management software that enables teams to organize project data, democratize access, and connect; improve project visibility to deliver on time; and work together on increasingly complex projects.
Building Connected
Building Connected is a SaaS preconstruction solution that combines the largest real-time, construction network with an easy-to-use tool that helps general contractors and owners streamline subcontractor qualification, and the bid and risk management process.
Revit
Revit software is built for Building Information Modeling (BIM) to help professionals design, build, and maintain higher-quality, more energy-efficient buildings. Using the information-rich models created with Revit, architects, engineers, and construction firms can collaborate to make better-informed decisions earlier in the design process to deliver projects with greater efficiency. Revit includes features for architectural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design, as well as structural engineering and construction, providing a comprehensive solution for the entire building project team.
Tandem
Tandem is a cloud-based platform that transforms the built asset lifecycle. Tandem helps AECO firms harness BIM data throughout the project lifecycle to create and hand over a digital twin. Tandem helps owners connect operational systems to the digital twin, turning fragmented data into business intelligence.
AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
AutoCAD
AutoCAD software is a customizable and extensible CAD application for professional design, drafting, detailing, and visualization. AutoCAD software provides digital tools that can be used independently and in conjunction with other specific applications in fields ranging from construction and civil engineering to manufacturing and plant design.
AutoCAD LT
AutoCAD LT software is purpose built for professional drafting and detailing. AutoCAD LT includes document sharing capability without the need for software customization or certain advanced functionality found in AutoCAD. Users can share all design data with team members who use AutoCAD or other Autodesk products built on AutoCAD.
Manufacturing (MFG)
Fusion
Fusion is the first 3D CAD, CAM, and computer-aided engineering (CAE) tool of its kind. It connects the entire product development process on a single cloud-based platform.
Inventor
Inventor enables manufacturers to go beyond 3D design to digital prototyping by giving engineers a comprehensive and flexible set of tools for 3D mechanical design, simulation, analysis, tooling, visualization, and documentation. Engineers can integrate AutoCAD drawings and model-based design data into a single digital model, creating a virtual representation of a final product that enables them to validate the form, fit, and function of the product before it is ever built.
Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
The Product Design & Manufacturing Collection offers connected, professional-grade tools that help the company’s customers make great products today and compete in the changing manufacturing landscape of the future. The collection offers access to a wide range of the company’s products, including AutoCAD, Fusion, Vault, and Inventor.
Vault
Vault data management software makes it easier to manage data in one central location, accelerate design processes, and streamline internal/external collaboration. Vault integrates with more than 30 Autodesk design applications, provides powerful revisioning and access control capabilities, and enables customers to share product data securely to improve engineering cycle time and reduce manufacturing errors.
Media and Entertainment (M&E)
Flow Production Tracking
Flow Production Tracking is cloud-based production management software for the M&E industry. Creative companies use the Flow Production Tracking platform to provide essential tool collaboration, review, scheduling and tracking to producers, production managers, artists and supervisors, who often work globally with distributed teams.
Maya
Maya software provides 3D modeling, animation, effects, rendering, and compositing solutions that enable film and video artists, game developers, and design visualization professionals to digitally create engaging, lifelike images, realistic animations and simulations, extraordinary visual effects, and full-length animated feature films.
Media & Entertainment Collection
The M&E Collection provides end-to-end creative tools for entertainment creation. This collection enables animators, modelers, and visual effects artists to access the tools they need, including Maya and 3ds Max, to create compelling effects, 3D characters, and digital worlds.
3ds Max
3ds Max software provides 3D modeling, animation, and rendering solutions that enable game developers, design visualization professionals, and visual effects artists to digitally create realistic images, animations, and complex scenes and to digitally communicate abstract or complex mechanical, architectural, engineering, and construction concepts.
Product Development and Introduction
The majority of the company’s research and product development is performed in the United States, Canada, and India. Translation and localization of the company’s products are performed in several local markets, principally Singapore and Ireland. The company generally localizes and translates its products into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified and traditional Chinese.
Marketing and Sales
The company sells its products and services globally, through a combination of direct and indirect channels. The company transact directly with its enterprise and named account customers, with customers through its online Autodesk branded store, and with certain customers through its new transaction model whereby Solution Providers provide a quote to customers, but the actual transaction occurs directly between Autodesk and the customer. The company introduced the new transaction model for its token-based Flex offering in North America, and certain countries in EMEA, and APAC during fiscal 2024. Most of its subscription offerings transitioned to the new transaction model in Australia during fiscal 2024. In fiscal 2025, the company transitioned most of its indirect business to the new transaction model in the company’s major markets. The new transaction model helps customers with enhanced control and time savings through self-service, consistent pricing, and a more personalized buying experience. Also, it gives Solution Providers and Autodesk access to essential data to improve the company’s offerings and the customers’ buying experience.
The company’s indirect channel model includes both a two-tiered distribution structure, where distributors sell to resellers, and a one-tiered structure, where Autodesk sells directly to resellers. The company has a network of approximately 1,260 resellers and distributors worldwide. For fiscal 2025, approximately 58% of the company’s revenue was derived from indirect channel sales through distributors and resellers. The company employs a variety of incentive programs and promotions to align its direct and indirect channels with its business strategies.
Revenue through the company’s largest distributor, TD Synnex Corporation and its global affiliates (collectively, TD Synnex), accounted for 33%, of the company’s net revenue for the fiscal years ended January 31, 2025. In the third fiscal quarter of 2025, the company entered into a new distribution agreement with TD Synnex for government business in certain jurisdictions. Existing distribution agreements will continue in emerging markets. The company has increased its selling efforts with Solution Providers in connection with the company’s new transaction model.
The company’s customer-related operations are divided into three geographic regions: the Americas; EMEA; and APAC. Each geographic region is supported by global marketing and sales organizations. These organizations develop and manage overall marketing and sales programs and work closely with a network of domestic and international sales offices.
The company also works directly with reseller, distributor, and Solution Provider partner organizations, computer manufacturers, other software developers, and peripherals manufacturers in cooperative advertising, promotions, and trade-show presentations. The company connects with its audiences through scalable marketing strategies such as webinars, live and virtual events, personalized outreach, digital campaigns, sponsorships, and targeted advertising across industry publications, technology platforms, media outlets, and social networks. The company also foster global user networks and online communities, enabling customers to connect, collaborate, and share insights about its products, services, and solutions.
The company generates revenue primarily through various offerings that provide recurring revenue. Under its subscription plan, customers can use the company’s software anytime, anywhere, and get access to the latest updates to previous versions through term-based product subscriptions, cloud service offerings, and enterprise business agreements (EBA). Historically, the company had increased EBA sale activity in its fourth fiscal quarter (year ended January 31, 2025). This seasonality may also affect the relative value of the company’s billings, Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO), and collections in the fourth and first fiscal quarters.
Customer and Partner support
The company provide technical support and training to customers through a multi-tiered support model, augmented by direct programs designed to address certain specific customer needs. Some of the company’s customers receive support and training from resellers and distributors from which they purchased subscriptions or licenses for its products or services, with Autodesk in turn providing second-tier support to the resellers and distributors. Some of the company’s customers may also purchase support and training from Solution Providers. Other customers are supported directly via self-service using the Autodesk Knowledge Network, which guides customers to answers in the company’s online support assets, support forums, or webinars, or to support representatives using different modalities such as social media, phone, email, and webchat. The company also support its resellers and distributors through technical product training, sales training classes, webinars, and other knowledge-sharing programs.
Developer Programs
The company’s business and its customers benefit from its relationships with an extensive developer network. These developers create and sell their own interoperable products that further enhance the range of integrated solutions available to the company’s customers. One of the company’s key strategies is to maintain an API based architecture of its software products to facilitate third-party development of complementary products and industry-specific software solutions. This approach enables customers and third parties to customize solutions for a wide variety of highly specific uses. The company offers several programs that provide strategic investment funding, technological platforms, user communities, technical support, forums, and events to developers who develop add-on applications for its products. For example, the company has established the Autodesk Platform Services to support innovators that build solutions to facilitate the development of a single connected ecosystem for the future of how things are designed, made, and used. Autodesk Platform Services facilitates the development of a single connected ecosystem for integrating Autodesk applications with other enterprise, web, and mobile solutions.
Competition
The company’s primary global competitors include Adobe Systems Incorporated, Bentley Systems, Inc., Dassault Systèmes S.A. and its subsidiary Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp., Intergraph Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, MSC Software Corporation, Nemetschek AG, Oracle Corporation, Procore Technologies, Inc., PTC Inc., 3D Systems Corporation, Siemens PLM, and Trimble Navigation Limited, among others.
Acquisitions
On May 20, 2024, Autodesk acquired 100% of Aether Media, Inc. a provider of a cloud-based artificial intelligence pipeline for creating computer-generated 3D characters into live-action scenes.
On March 15, 2024, Autodesk acquired 100% of the PIX business of X2X, LLC, a production management solution for secure review and content collaboration in the media and entertainment industry.
On February 20, 2024, Autodesk acquired 100% of the outstanding stock of Payapps Limited, a leading cloud-based software platform for managing construction-related payments.
History
Autodesk, Inc. was founded in 1982. The company was incorporated in California in 1982 and was reincorporated in Delaware in 1994.
