Why is a FLEX Subscription Program of Interest to your Company?

To remain competitive in today’s volatile market, a manufacturer that can be trusted is needed to help companies drive digital transformation with guarantees of success. The technical and commercial flexibility provided by a subscription program like AVEVA Flex is the core that will facilitate these changes and help to provide flexibility and achieve success in the future in an agile manner.

The digitization of information is a reality and the process is happening very quickly, which forces many companies to act agilely by varying the ways of achieving their successes. On many occasions, this accelerated change makes it very likely that an additional software tool should be included in our initially planned program. Your company is almost certainly in this situation if you have asked yourself any of these questions when planning a project:

• How do I act if I want to optimize my software investment by reducing initial costs and capital expenditures?
• How could I easily scale the software to adapt it to the needs of the company?
• How could I analyze the information of administration and IT resources in real time to know the use I am giving to my software, and what if there was also a centralized license self-management portal?
• Would it be possible to adapt the program to benefit from regular software updates, expert technical support, and successful services?

All these questions are easy to answer, and for this it is enough to stop and study how industrial software is evolving in recent years, maintaining its fundamental principles, such as reliability and robustness, but in turn adding characteristics that the software of the IT world collects. One of these most important characteristics, necessary for such a changing world, is the possibility of changing the licensing program: the way of acquiring licenses has changed, we went from a PERPETUAL licensing model to a SUBSCRIPTION licensing model and also, a model that can be flexible, at any time and as many times as necessary.

To better understand this concept of flexibility, there is no other way than to understand the terms CAPEX (capital expenditure) and OPEX (operating expenditure). Traditionally, software licensing has been a CAPEX expense, that is, an initial investment has been made, just as it would be in the purchase of a building; however, this modality is changing to an OPEX model, where a company can pay per use for short periods, which allows reducing expenses immediately if necessary.

In the next post, we will explain more news of the FLEX subscription model.

In addition, you can register for the Webinar at the following link, so that you can assess how this new model would fit into your company:

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