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5
Autodesk, Inc. FY 00
Transforming Business by Design
This is an auspicious time for Autodesk. Here’s why.
The design world is vast and enduring.
Look around. If what you see wasn’t forged by nature, chances are excellent Autodesk software played a part.
(The same goes for much of what you don’t see.) Will Autodesk customers be the ones who continue to modify,
add to, and improve our physical and digital environments? Absolutely.
We’re entering our greatest era of innovation.
The Internet is radically changing how people create, maintain, and enhance the real and virtual worlds—and
we’re adapting to provide our customers with powerful new opportunities in communication, collaboration,
content, and commerce. Keep in mind that moving to the Internet is a natural extension of our design and
entertainment businesses.
Autodesk and our customers hold a powerful and unique position.
Our 4 million-plus customers, the largest installed base in the design and entertainment worlds, make choices
worth trillions of dollars each year. Only Autodesk customers have a strong presence in all the major design
and entertainment markets. And they use our software to create the information that is poised to become the
universal language for much of e-commerce and other web-based collaboration.
We can tie together the value chain.
We’re doing it with a new business model that has as its center Autodesk and our assets—our global customers,
our world-class technologies,our industry-leading partners, our sales and service channels, and our brand.We’re
adding spin-offs and strategic investments and alliances.Digital information can now be leveraged throughout
a corporation’s entire value chain to bring new competitive advantages.As our network of businesses grows and
evolves, we’ll reach far more customers than we do today.
The design world is becoming increasingly connected. And so are we.
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer