Altair Units
To be “all-in” means spending more than three decades pioneering solutions that transform the world. When we developed our patented licensing system, we aimed to put the power of innovation into anyone’s hands, in line with our commitment to democratizing software accessibility. It was revolutionary then, and it’s still revolutionary today. Altair Units have been, and will remain, all-in and always-on – and that’s something nobody else can say.
What do we mean when we say Altair Units are all-in and always-on? It’s simple – users get full access to our software tools whenever they need them, and they can determine when, where, and how they want to use different tools without needing to worry if they’re eligible for access.
Units give users the flexibility to run software anywhere, the freedom to choose what software tools they need when they need them, and unparalleled value that maximizes use and minimizes cost.
Flexibility to Run Anywhere
Customers have full, instant access to our software – including more than 180 Altair and partner products – and can run these applications on-demand locally, in the cloud, or in a hybrid setup.
Freedom to Choose
Users can leverage the same licenses for many different applications in one environment. Consolidation also contains management costs and eliminates restrictions floating within a zone.
Value-Based Licensing
Users can leverage a variety of software applications simultaneously on a machine, only drawing units for the most valuable product. With Units, users can explore more options with licensing designed for all-hands collaboration.
“Altair Units allows the flexibility to access, utilize, and collaborate across our global engineering community coupled with an industry best practice licensing option to ‘stack units’ which allows significant cost efficiency across the broad range of Altair products. Altair offers its products in an unfederated infrastructure which allows for easy application programming interface (API) integration critical to our digital model-based engineering environment.”
IT manager, global aerospace manufacturer
“With Altair Units, we can transversally access all the product lines of our organization with a wide range of tools. This licensing scheme offers us complete freedom to cover needs in different technical areas with different levels of knowledge and specialization, allowing us to explore a diversity of physical and numerical methods to promote innovation in our products. Altair Units give us flexibility, accessibility, and scalability.”
CAE manager, global appliance manufacturer
“The Altair Units system allows for the use of numerous applications, making it a tool that can cater to the individual requirements of each developer. Altair Units has become an indispensable presence in our manufacturing processes. If you have even a slight interest in Altair Units, we encourage you to give it a try. We believe you will undoubtedly achieve the functionalities and results you seek.”
Director, digital engineering, global motorcycle manufacturer
“Thanks to Altair’s licensing system, it’s possible to increase productivity without any sort of time or financial penalty. The HPC helps a lot and everything is easy to implement, so the team can go from zero to full speed in a matter of seconds.”
Ignacio Carranza Guisado, CAE manager, Managing Composites
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Units-Based Subscription Model
Altair Units is a patented, units-based subscription licensing model for software that has transformed the way our customers operate. With Units, customers have full access to every Altair and Altair Partner product, plus the power to solve on any scale. Packaged as a comprehensive set of applications, our units-based structure is scalable, shareable, and more cost effective than obtaining individual licenses.
Licensing is as easy as 1-2-3:
- Customers purchase a pool of sharable Altair Units
- Users draw Units from the pool to access multiple products from any location
- Units return to the pool after use and again become available to all users
Giving Your Team the Tools to Succeed
We've organized our product portfolio into suites of tools that align with organizations’ core roles. From designers and engineers to data analysts and enterprise users, our solutions give teams the tools and scope they need to be successful under a single, value-based license. Users receive:
- Access to a rich portfolio of technologies at affordable price points with tailored bundles of products that target specific users
- Scalability that maximizes the power of existing investment into high-performance computing (HPC) resources in-house, in the cloud, on-demand, and in hybrid approaches
- Portability to execute simulations anywhere (on-premises or cloud) without business restrictions
- Simplicity of a single Altair One experience to manage software and HPC hardware assets and its usage
Altair One Cloud-Based License Management
Altair One connects you to your work, your team, your data, and your computing resources. Explore further with scalable, collaborative access to simulation, artificial intelligence (AI), HPC, and data analytics resources – all in one place. With Altair One, users can:
- Mobilize resources instantly to meet real-time demand
- Slash time-to-market
- Scale easily and pay only for what’s needed
- Access managed data that’s always a click away
- Leave the integrations to us so users don’t need to be a cloud expert on every platform
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