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5
Autodesk, Inc. FY 04
Discreet
Discreet serves customers who create high-
value, design-intensive content such as
effects-rich feature films, premier program-
ming, television commercials and interactive
gaming. We also help them simplify their
processes by providing integrated workflow
solutions that go beyond the creation of
digital media assets to include storage,
management and distribution.
Our customers recognize the importance
of digital workflow in driving their own
efficiency and profitability, and Discreet pro-
vides the award-winning technology to do
that. Discreet’s inferno, flame, fire and lustre
systems are the industry’s leading technolo-
gies, enabling visual artists to create content
once and use it anywhere, from start to
finish. 3ds max—Discreet’s industry-leading
modeling, animation and rendering soft-
ware—is used by the world’s top 3D artists
and designers to create eye-catching visual
effects, cutting-edge games and unique
design visualizations.
Divisional
Review
Design Solutions Group
Our DSG customers can never get enough
performance. Performance improvements
deliver increased productivity and profit-
ability to users, and give them a competitive
advantage. In fiscal 2004, we shipped new
releases for our entire family of AutoCAD
products—one of our most successful
releases ever—as well as all other major
products, including Autodesk Inventor Series
and Autodesk AutoCAD Revit Series. We also
released several new strategic products dur-
ing the year, such as Autodesk Inventor
Professional and AutoCAD Electrical and the
important new Autodesk Vault functionality.
And customers responded enthusiastically
to them all.
Platform Technology Division: In our continu-
ing commitment to providing even better
software, we listened to our customers’ feed-
back and suggestions to create product
releases with improved functionality, such as
smaller file sizes, quicker file opening and
closing, faster design creation and easier file
sharing. And customer feedback has already
provided the road map for upcoming
releases over the next three to four years.
Manufacturing Solutions Division: In fiscal
2004, we strengthened our position as
the industry leader in this critical market.
Autodesk Inventor Series was the best-
selling 3D manufacturing software for the
third straight year. To extend its power, we
released Autodesk Inventor Professional,
which provides additional functionality.
Less than 20 percent of our manufacturing
customers currently use 3D, so there is a sig-
nificant growth opportunity for this division.
Infrastructure Solutions Division: ISD saw
growth in all geographies and all markets—
transportation, civil engineering and infra-
structure management—and record growth
in all sectors of government as budgets
were increasingly redeployed toward public
safety and first-responder projects. As prom-
ised last year, fiscal 2004 saw new releases of
virtually all ISD products, including Autodesk
Map, Autodesk Land Desktop, Autodesk
Civil Design, Autodesk Survey, Autodesk
Raster Design and the new and strategically
important Autodesk Civil 3D.