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Autodesk, Inc. FY 00
Strategic Accomplishment: Design 2000 Product Suite
We developed and delivered a family of AutoCAD 2000–based products that extend our reach into
new markets.
With AutoCAD 2000 as the intelligent and web-ready foundation, our Design 2000 product family provides
customers with integrated,scalable solutions for any industry-specific design project—from AEC to GIS,from land
development to mechanical engineering to low-cost 2D drafting. In addition to this potent platform, we created
compatible, innovative technologies for 3D visualization, image conversion, viewing, and redlining—and our
partners added thousands more.
Strategic Accomplishment: Autodesk Inventor
We developed and delivered Autodesk Inventor™ software,a new-technology 3D modeling solution that
is transforming the way mechanical designers work.
Developed so collaborative project teams could take advantage of crucial,emerging trends in manufacturing—
and so easy to learn and use that most customers are productive in a single day—Autodesk Inventor leapfrogs
the limitations of traditional parametric-based modeling systems. Its all-new adaptive technology lets our
customers design the way they think. For example, they can design a part’s function before designing its form;
this natural,intuitive process gets subverted in most pure parametric systems.With its collaborative capabilities,
Autodesk Inventor is the first midprice mechanical solution that can leverage design data across the entire enter-
prise. And with an exceptional record of industry awards and new releases available every few months, it’s
definitely a product to watch.
Strategic Accomplishment: Key Acquisitions
We broadened and strengthened our core competencies—in digital content creation and spatial data
management—with two key first-quarter acquisitions.
The visual effects,editing,production,and broadcast solutions of Discreet Logic,our largest acquisition ever,gave
us a preeminent position in digital content creation—far beyond our already strong standing, secured by 3D
Studio MAX® software, in 3D animation and interactive games development. Discreet™ systems and software
are widely used to create digital moving pictures for video, HDTV, the Web, broadcast graphics, on-air event
coverage, and interactive games. For example, the company’s inferno* system, the industry’s leader in online
noncompressed visual effects and compositing, was used in every 1999 film nominated for a Best Visual Effects
Academy Award.
With the world’s most creative on-air, on-screen, and online content-creation solutions, our new Discreet enter-
tainment division proved itself a consistent revenue generator even as we rebuilt its direct-sales force and
management team. It made further inroads into TV and film, shipping major new releases of fire* and smoke*,
its industry-leading online noncompressed editing solutions; edit*, the award-winning nonlinear Windows NT
editing system; and frost*, for on-air, resolution-independent graphics production.
We also acquired VISION Solutions, whose server technology gives us an end-to-end enterprise solution for
spatial data management for the communications and utility markets and government customers.Our VISION*®
backbone server technology links two of our GIS products, AutoCAD Map and Autodesk MapGuide® software,
with Oracle databases. Significantly, our VISION* solution includes consulting services—a new growth opportu-
nity for us.