Before you move to an Industry Collection (which are very price lucrative) especially if you use multiple products concurrently....
Autodesk is claiming you can only run 2 products concurrently for the same user on the same system.
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/insta...g/td-p/7250896
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/searc...Licensing.html
This means to run AutoCAD, CADmep and Navis and/or Revit, you need 2 collections. How do you assign 2 stand alone collections to a single user? You can't. Need a stand alone Navis which is now tied to a user who already has access via a collection. Network scenario is similar. I can't get a subscription network Navis to float to the occasional user that needs multiple products, they need a second collection license.
If you're running network licenses, you can't even buy the extra Navis Manage Network on subscription, they only network them now in a collection.
In the MEP construction world, it's common to have AutoCAD, CADmep (runs in AutoCAD) and Navis running. Even Revit now with the addition of Fabrication parts. That's 2 collection licenses per user for any MEP contractor.
Checked with 3 separate resellers who I know and trust and understand licensing, this was never communicated to them.
Check with several Autodesk insiders I know well and they were all unaware too.
Even if this isn't a "hard" technical limit rather a "soft" contract language only limit, the fact remains, once you go to subscription they can change the rules anytime. Maybe they start enforcing it like. C4R had a convenient "oops" that allows access without licenses which "magically" got fixed a little while ago leaving many users out of their products till they coughed up the funds.
Maybe the restriction isn't "technically" enforced and later you find yourself in a license audit and you now have to pony of some $ because you're our of compliance with licensing contract language. If you look up the Licensing Audit folks from Autodesk on LinkedIn, those that provide details about their position, it's clearly about revenue.
Or maybe down the road, when the economy is bad, and revenue is low because people stop renewing subscriptions, maybe you can then use any product you want from a collection but only 1 at a time and you get up-charged for other concurrent products or have to but additional licenses.
Back in the day, it was cheaper to go to a Revit MEP suite than stay on AutoCAD...until renewal which was then higher. Want to go back? Pay a downgrade fee.It was a deferred price increase disguised as getting more for less.
Wasn't that long ago they no longer sold the Revit MEP Suite and tried to get those grandfathered in to pay to upgrade to a design suite during a promotion "before it's too late and you're forced to pay full price" only to turn around and uplift all customers to a design suite for free 6 months later. One of my former employers they tried to take for $300k this way until I got wind of it and intervened. Again, trying to pass off as a "promotion and savings" what was really a waste of money.
Never...ever trust Autodesk when it comes to sales/pricing even when the price is lower. Your reseller is typically honest but really doesn't know..they sell what they are told to. Every single licensing "crisis" over the last 2 decades was created and orchestrated by Autodesk for the "simplification and benefit" of customers.
Even the mad rush to buy Perpetuals "while you can" was heavily promoted by Autodesk knowing full well they'd just mark up the price of maintenance subscription down the road to force people to subscription. They collected a lot of $, and people will still move to subscription because it will be cheaper....until the other option disappears organically. Sorry, your perpetual Navis Manage you can keep running but we don't make it any longer. We now have "Navis Quantum" which is subscription only.
There's a lot to like about Subscriptions and/or Collections. I'd love to streamline all our licensing into network Collections. But they aren't for everybody or every scenario. Understand the details before you make a decision. It's not just about price, it's about price, value and these hidden little gems like 2 product concurrent limit that don't show up in the Autodesk FAQ's about collections or the reseller's web sites. Unless you specifically search for "concurrent usage" regarding industry collections or browse to the a forum post, you won't see them.