The Ansys Product Improvement Program

This product is covered by the Ansys Product Improvement Program, which enables Ansys, Inc., to collect and analyze anonymous usage data reported by our software without affecting your work or product performance. Analyzing product usage data helps us to understand customer usage trends and patterns, interests, and quality or performance issues. The data enable us to develop or enhance product features that better address your needs.

How to Participate

The program is voluntary. To participate, select Yes when the Product Improvement Program dialog appears. Only then will collection of data for this product begin.

How the Program Works

After you agree to participate, the product collects anonymous usage data during each session. When you end the session, the collected data is sent to a secure server accessible only to authorized Ansys employees. After Ansys receives the data, various statistical measures such as distributions, counts, means, medians, modes, etc., are used to understand and analyze the data.

Note: You can disable the Ansys Product Improvement Program for all users so that each user is not prompted to enable the program when they first start Electronics Desktop. To do this after installing the software, run the following command as a user with permissions to modify the installed fileset:

UpdateRegistry.exe -set -ProductName ElectronicsDesktop2024.2 -RegistryKey Desktop/Settings /ProjectOptions/ProductImprovementOptStatus -RegistryLevel install -RegistryValue 1

Data Collected

For all products that offer the Ansys Product Improvement Program, we only collect anonymous data such as session statistics, hardware information, types of loading, solution types, solution statistics, and similar data. The specific data collected varies from product to product.

For Ansys Electronics, Ansys collects the following information:

Application

Build information

System information

Country
Country code
CPU architecture
CPU brand
CPU identifier
Graphics card
Operating system
Operating system version
Processor count
Time zone
Total RAM value

Session

Workbench session
Total CPU time
Execution mode
Start method
Number of processes
Number of compute nodes (HPC)
Session begin
Session end

Mesh

Number of nodes
Number of elements
Number of zones
Number of faces

Data Not Collected

The Product Improvement Program does not collect any information that can identify you personally, your company, or your intellectual property. This includes but is not limited to names, addresses, file names, part names, geometry- or design-specific inputs, material property values, etc. Ansys makes no record of where the data was collected from.

Opting Out of the Program

You may stop your participation in the program any time you wish. To do so, select Ansys Product Improvement Program from the Help menu. A dialog appears and asks if you want to continue participating in the program. Select No, then click OK. Data will no longer be collected or sent.

The Ansys, Inc., Privacy Policy

All Ansys products are covered by the Ansys, Inc., Privacy Policy, which you can read here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Am I required to participate in this program?

No, your participation is voluntary. Ansys encourages you to participate, however, as it helps us create products that will better meet your future needs.

Am I automatically enrolled in this program?

No. You are not enrolled unless you explicitly agree to participate.

Does participating in this program put my intellectual property at risk of being collected or discovered by Ansys?

No. We do not collect any project-specific, company-specific, or model-specific information.

Can I stop participating even after I agree to participate?

Yes, you can stop participating at any time. To do so, select Ansys Product Improvement Program from the Help menu. A dialog appears and asks if you want to continue participating in the program. Select No, then click OK. Data will no longer be collected or sent.

Will participation in the program slow the performance of the product?

No, the data collection does not affect the product performance in any significant way. The amount of data collected is very small.

How frequently is data collected and sent to Ansys servers?

The data is collected during each use session of the product. The collected data is sent to a secure server once per session, when you exit the product.

Is this program available in all Ansys products?

Not at this time, although we are adding it to more of our products at each release. The program is available in a product only if this Ansys Product Improvement Program description appears in the product documentation, as it does here for this product.

If I enroll in the program for this product, am I automatically enrolled in the program for the other Ansys products I use on the same machine?

Yes. Your enrollment choice applies to all Ansys products you use on the same machine. Similarly, if you end your enrollment in the program for one product, you end your enrollment for all Ansys products on that machine.

How is enrollment in the Product Improvement Program determined if I use Ansys products in a cluster?

In a cluster configuration, the Product Improvement Program enrollment is determined by the host machine setting.