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5
Autodesk, Inc. FY 02
Fiscal Year 2002 Milestones
The goal at Autodesk remains simple but far-
reaching—to give our customers the tools
they need to harness their digital design and
visual media data and turn it into something
tangible, something real. Not just in the draft-
ing room or the production studio but also
across extended teams and along the entire
value chain. We want to help customers get
the most from their data by connecting every
step of the process, from initial concepts and
designs through the management and distri-
bution of those assets.
This has had significant strategic implications,
simplifying the complex processes customers
use to engineer and manufacture products,
design and construct buildings, develop and
maintain infrastructure, and create and distrib-
ute visual media. And it has also reached down
into, and radically altered, the fundamental
processes that businesses use to create value
and satisfy customers.
We had a number of significant achievements
in fiscal year 2002, including the following:
•Empowering design on the desktop:
We shipped the AutoCAD 2002 family of
products—the strongest lineup of vertical
applications in our history. We shipped
Autodesk Inventor 5, which is now a sales
leader in the mainstream 3D modeling
market. We also shipped the strongest, most
interoperable set of Discreet products ever.
•Building a strong foundation in collaboration
services: We launched Autodesk Streamline,
our powerful, hosted collaboration service
for manufacturing customers. We acquired
Buzzsaw—the most successful online colla-
boration service in the building design and
construction market. And we began to unite
these two technologies into a common
collaboration platform.
•Broadening our reach in media and
entertainment: We acquired Media 100’s
world-class video streaming technology
for the Web. And we partnered our 3D
imaging technology with Microsoft’s Xbox
system to give game players more flexibility
and creativity.
•Improving how we reach our customers:
We began implementing a new sales model—
with a global major account sales team and
a goal of 40 percent direct sales. At the same
time, we successfully tightened and revitalized
our reseller channel and launched worldwide
sales websites.
•Helping customers manage their design
technology infrastructure: We continued to
deliver AutoCAD-family extensions—periodic,
modular software enhancements that replace
major releases for our subscription customers.
•Growing our recurring revenue stream: We
successfully launched our new subscription
program in the Americas and will roll it out
in EMEA and Asia Pacific in fiscal year 2003.
We’re proud of these accomplishments. We’re
also proud that we did all these things in a
difficult global economic environment while
producing solid financial results.