Shared Web Licensing Overview


Shared Web Licensing enables multiple users to simultaneously share a pool of product licenses. The licenses in the pool are purchased and hosted on a cloud-based service. Users who have access to this service share the pool of licenses when they start Ansys applications. The number of simultaneously active users are only limited by the initial number of licenses in the pool.

Shared Web Licensing advantages include:

  • High availability: Built-in redundancy maximizes uptime

  • High scalability: The service can handle very high volumes of usage

  • Global access: Licenses can be accessed from anywhere in the world with an internet connection (subject to United States government export regulations), with minimal latency

  • Easy administration from the Ansys Licensing Portal

  • Detailed usage information available

  • Convenient access via Ansys ID Single Sign-On (SSO)

Summary of New and Changed Features

Listed below is a summary of those licensing items that are either new or have been changed since the last release. For a list of all major new and changed features of any product, see the Release Notes document for that product.

  • Web Licensing now includes new Named User products for Discovery Modeling and Discovery Simulation.

  • Web Licensing now includes more products for Shared Web, including "Ansys HPC Pack", "Ansys AVxcelerate", "Ansys Scade One", "Speos for Creo Parametric", "Ansys medini", and several others. Consult your Ansys account representative for the complete list.

  • Added support for users belonging to multiple user accounts in Web Licensing.

  • The ID Portal now supports bulk import of lists of users via Excel and CSV files​.