Account

A software licensing account for an Ansys customer.

AEC

Ansys Elastic Currency

AEU

Ansys Elastic Unit

AHC

Ansys Hardware Currency

Ansys Customer Portal

The Ansys Customer Portal provides access to a wide range of helpful information including, product descriptions, downloads, training, support and knowledge resources.

Cloud License Server Pin

A 6-digit PIN is required to access Elastic Licensing.

Entitlement

A pre-paid pool of AEUs (Ansys Entitlement Units). Represents credits purchased by a customer against which license usage is debited.

Many-to-one relationship with an account. Value of Entitlement "End Customer|Account" field = value of Account "AccountId" field.

Product

An identifier for (name of) an Ansys product. Optionally included in a Usage.

Project

An identifier for (name of) an Ansys project. Optionally included in a Usage.

Usage

A 'spend' of AEUs by a user on a licensed product. Each Usage represents a number of AEUs to be deducted from an Account Entitlement.