1.1. Overview of Elastic Licensing

Ansys Elastic Licensing is a "pay-per-use" licensing system that enables hourly-based licensing of virtually every Ansys product through a single product offering called Ansys Elastic Unit (AEU). Ansys Elastic Licensing complements other licensing solutions from Ansys by providing you with on-demand access to core portfolio of pre-post, solver, and HPC simulation solutions. You only pay for what you use, allowing you to efficiently meet fluctuating licensing demands throughout the year, while accommodating high usage periods associated with critical new projects. You simply buy a number of AEUs and from this "pool" as you consume them. Each Ansys product consumes a number of these AEUs per hour.

You can see the number of AEUs consumed by each product in the elastic license rate table. For information on viewing this table, see Viewing License Entitlements.

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:

  • Web Licensing performance improvements:

    • Faster license checkouts

    • Expanded health checks and failover mechanisms

    • Resiliency against third-party Cloud infrastructure and service issues​

  • Web Licensing Assignment improvements

    • Automatic Assignment updates when entitlements expire​

  • Shared Web Denial reporting improvements

    • Transactions table now shows best Product match if customer does not have a product with the requested feature(s)​

    • Related transactions are now grouped for easier interpretation​

    • Denials are now available in charts​

  • Added access to the following Products, Missions and Bundles:

    • Missions AI+​

    • SNOPT optimizer for spacecraft trajectory design​

    • STK​

      • Engine Deployment​

      • Enterprise​

      • Premium Air​

      • Premium Space​

      • Pro​

      • RF Channel Modeler Enterprise​

      • RF Channel Modeler Radar​

      • Scheduler​

      • Shield Plus

    • Digital Missions Bundle​

    • Structures Explorer​

    • GRANTA Advanced Materials​

    • GRANTA MI

    • GRANTA MI Editor​

    • GRANTA MI Viewer​

    • GRANTA Selector

Licensing Portal and ID Portal:

  • Enhancements to the Licensing Portal include:

    • Page header “breadcrumbs” now clearly indicate which page is active

    • Convenient buttons to download table data, clear all filters, and reset the view

  • New option to remove existing Members before importing from a file​ (Available for both Users and Groups)