ANSYS Profile
ANSYS, Inc. (Ansys) develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and services widely used by engineers, designers, researchers and students across a broad spectrum of industries and academia, including high-tech, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, industrial equipment, materials and chemicals, consumer products, healthcare and construction.
The company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs on-premises and/or via the cloud, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost-conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing, validation and deployment. The company distributes its suite of simulation technologies through direct sales offices in strategic, global locations and a global network of independent resellers and distributors (collectively, channel partners).
The company’s strategy of Pervasive Insights seeks to deepen the use of simulation in the company’s core market, to inject simulation throughout the product lifecycle and extend the accessibility to a broader set of users and use cases. The company’s business has three vectors of growth:
More Products. The company’s broad and deep multiphysics portfolio enables the company to grow with customers as they use simulation to solve more complex problems across a broad set of industries.
More Users. Investments in simulation education and user experience simplification has made simulation more accessible to a broader user base.
More Computations. Larger and more complex simulations drive more computation, requiring customers to use more Ansys licenses to complete their simulations.
Through various investments in the academic community and enhanced user experiences, the company’s solutions have become accessible and relevant beyond the company’s core ‘engineering’ end user, to reach more users upstream and downstream from the company’s core, which is the product validation process. The company’s multiphysics solutions enable its customers to address increasingly complex research and development (R&D) challenges from the component through the system and mission level of analysis. The company’s products seamlessly enable access to high performance compute capacity to run simulations, on-premises or in the cloud, which means the company’s customers' R&D teams are unencumbered by compute capacity limitations that can hinder R&D cycle times. The company’s investments in artificial intelligence capabilities across its simulation portfolio and technical support services enhance the customer experience, democratize simulation and further next-generation innovation.
The company has been investing and intends to continue to invest in its portfolio to broaden the range of physics and enable customers to analyze the interactions among physics at the component, system and mission level. The company’s strategy of Pervasive Insights is aligned with the near-term market growth opportunities and is laying the foundation for a future where simulation can be further democratized to broader classes of end-users and end-use cases. In addition, the company has and will continue to partner with industry leaders to extend simulation into other ecosystems and customer R&D workflows.
Portfolio
The company’s portfolio consists of the following capabilities:
Structures
The company’s structural analysis product suite offers simulation tools for product design and optimization designed to increase productivity, reduce physical prototyping and help deliver better and more innovative products in less time. These tools tackle real-world analysis problems by making product development less costly and more reliable.
The company’s flagship product is the Ansys Mechanical product, a finite element analysis software used for simulating and analyzing the behavior of mechanical and structural systems. It is commonly used for structural analysis, allowing engineers to simulate and study the response of materials and structures to various mechanical loads, including static, dynamic, vibrational and thermal loads. A key attribute is the ability to perform multiphysics simulations, where multiple physical phenomena, such as structural mechanics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics and electromagnetics, interact with each other. The software can handle nonlinear problems, including large deformations, material nonlinearity and contact interactions.
Ansys has a long history of technological innovations, including pioneering innovations, such as nonlinear adaptivity and separating morphing and adaptive remeshing technology to solve the toughest structural simulation challenges. The company also provides comprehensive topology optimization tools that engineers use to design structural components to meet loading requirements with reduced material and component weight. Additionally, the company’s comprehensive and scalable additive manufacturing solutions allow customers to reduce risk and provide high quality, certifiable parts.
The company’s LS-DYNA solver is a leader in explicit dynamics multiphysics simulation and is used worldwide by leaders in automotive crash, drop tests, airbag deployment and impact analysis. Innovations like multi-scale co-simulation capability for meso-scale effects allow electronics reliability simulations to predict component failure at a tiny scale when a macro scale printed circuit board drop test is analyzed.
Electronics
The company’s electronics product suite provides electromagnetic field simulation software for designing high-performance electronic and electromechanical products. The software streamlines the design process and predicts performance of mobile communication and internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (ICs) and printed circuit boards (PCBs). It is also used in low-frequency applications, such as electromechanical systems, automotive components, industrial electric motors and power electronics equipment.
The flagship Ansys High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) product is used in all aspects of radio frequency and microwave design for 5G/6G communications, avionics, aerospace and defense (A&D) and biomedical applications. It is used for advanced antenna design and integration, radar systems and electromagnetic interference analysis. Innovations have enabled the electronics industry to solve some of the most challenging design problems. Advanced automatic adaptive meshing, tangential vector finite elements and commercial implementation of domain decomposition are a few of the Ansys inventions that power finite element analysis for electromagnetics. Technologies, such as Mesh Fusion allow virtually unlimited size and scope of system-level electromagnetic simulation by leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) and the cloud.
Fluids
The company’s fluids product suite enables modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena. The flagship Ansys Fluent computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package is used for simulating and analyzing the behavior of fluids (liquids and gases) and their interactions with solid structures. It is commonly employed in various industries to perform simulations that help engineers and researchers gain insights into fluid flow, heat transfer and chemical reactions and related phenomena. Innovations include its mixed-element unstructured solver and interactive architecture with pervasive HPC scaling. Recent additions to the company’s fluids product suite substantially reduce simulation solve time and total power consumption using the native multi-graphics processing unit (GPU) solver available in Fluent, with results showing that four typical GPUs have greater performance than 1,000 central processing unit (CPU) cores. In Ansys 2023 R2, the company extended multi-GPU support to sliding mesh, compressible flows and eddy dissipation model combustion simulations for applications such as internal combustion engines, centrifugal pumps and fans, turbochargers and compressors. Also, Ansys 2023 R2 expands to clusters that use ARM-based servers, which have the potential to reduce hardware cost and overall energy consumption.
Semiconductors
Advancements in semiconductor design and manufacturing enable smaller electronic architectures. Shrinking geometries, especially in the emerging 3D-IC, finFET and stacked-die architectures, reveal design challenges related to power and reliability. The company’s power analysis and optimization software suite manages the power budget, power delivery integrity and power-induced noise in an electronic design, from initial prototyping to system sign-off. These solutions deliver accuracy with correlation to silicon measurement and the capacity to handle an entire electronic system, including IC, package and PCB.
Ansys RedHawk-SC is the flagship electronic design automation (EDA) software tool, used for the analysis and sign-off of ICs, focusing on power integrity and reliability issues. It is used by semiconductor designers and engineers to simulate and optimize power delivery networks in ICs and heterogeneous 3D-ICs ensuring that they operate reliably and efficiently. The Ansys RedHawk-SC product is an industry trusted gold standard voltage drop and electromigration multiphysics sign-off solution for digital designs. Its powerful analytics quickly identify any weaknesses and allow what-if explorations to optimize power and performance. Redhawk-SC’s cloud-based architecture gives it the speed and capacity to handle full-chip analysis. Sign-off accuracy is certified by all major foundries for all finFET nodes, down to 3 nanometer (nm).
Innovations include 'dynamic' power noise simulation technology, behavior simulation of power distribution networks under realistic, time-varying activity loading, and with the distributed, big-data data management capacity to handle full-chip analysis with many billions of electrical nodes. The Redhawk-SC product and other Ansys tools provide the industry's first foundry-validated hierarchical thermal analysis flow for multi-die 3D-IC designs and 5nm/3nm chips.
Optics, Virtual Reality (VR) and Photonics
Ansys Optics software uniquely simulates a system's optical performance, evaluates the final illumination effect, and predicts and validates the impact of lighting and material variations on appearance and perceived quality all in real conditions. Using optical sensor and closed-loop, real-time simulation, the company’s optics simulation capabilities now span the simulation of a wide range of sensors, including lidar, cameras and radar; the multiphysics simulation of physical and electronic components; the analysis of systems functional safety, as well as the automated development of safety-certified embedded software. This functionality can be integrated into a closed-loop simulation environment that interacts with weather and traffic simulators for automotive applications, enabling thousands of driving scenarios to be executed virtually.
The company’s photonic design and simulation tools enable customers to predict light's behavior within complex photonic structures and systems. Silicon photonics is an expanding market and the company’s solutions provide a comprehensive set of tools for the design and analysis of integrated photonic components and systems, similar to the traditional EDA environment. The Ansys Lumerical product is a complete photonics simulation software solution that enables the design of photonics components, circuits, and systems. Device and system level tools work together to allow designers to model interacting optical, electrical and thermal effects. Flexible interoperability between products enables a variety of workflows that combine device multiphysics and photonic circuit simulation with third-party design automation and productivity tools. Python-based automation and flows for building and using compact models support the industry's leading foundries.
Digital Mission Engineering
The company’s mission-simulation, modeling, testing and analysis software for aerospace, defense and intelligence applications empowers the company’s users to solve challenges by simulating from the chip level all the way to a customer's entire mission. Digital mission engineering products enable engineers, operators and analysts to connect modeling and simulation efforts across all phases of the engineering product life cycle. Users can model operational environments and the interrelationships of assets with accurate, dynamic, physics-based simulations to validate system designs with respect to the mission's outcome. Modeling of assets may be performed across multiple domains, including land, sea, air and space.
The company’s technology enables its customers to consider the entire mission engineering of a product or system. Engineered products and systems can involve thousands of components, subsystems, systems and systems of systems that must work together intricately. The company’s software simulates these puzzle pieces and their functional relationships to each other, and increasingly, to their environments.
3D Design
The company’s Discovery product family allows engineers to benefit from the insight of simulation in their product design. The Discovery products range from early design exploration tools powered by interactive real-time simulation and intuitive geometry editing, to detailed product validation solutions utilizing proven flagship solver technology with easy-to-use guided workflows. These tools allow for design engineers to utilize simulation across the entire product design process and to work seamlessly with simulation experts using the company’s flagship products for even more advanced analysis.
The company’s Discovery product’s ease of use and speed enable more engineers to benefit from simulation. Increasingly, ‘shifting-left’ or moving simulation up front in the design process has become a critical business initiative for the company’s customers, enabling more engineers, more analysts and more designers to get early insights into their product design. The Discovery application has become more integrated with the broader Ansys portfolio. This has manifested itself into many analysts starting in the Discovery product and then moving to more detailed analyses in the company’s other applications.
The company continues to invest in and advance the Discovery product and Discover Live physics technology, improving accuracy, expanding capabilities and accelerating productivity. Recent advances include the addition of electromagnetics simulation for upfront antenna design for IIoT and 5G, breakthroughs in solver numerics to support unstructured meshes that deliver both speed and accuracy across all CFD applications, and a Microsoft 365 integration for enabling data management and collaboration among designers, analysts and stakeholders using a connected digital thread. Additionally, the Discovery application has become more tightly integrated with the broader Ansys portfolio through new Ansys optiSLang and ModelCenter integrations.
Platform
The company’s platform is the framework upon which its suite of advanced multiphysics engineering simulation technologies is built. It allows engineers and designers to incorporate the compounding effects of multiple physics into a virtual prototype of their design and simulate its operation under real-world conditions. As product architectures become smaller, lighter and more complex, companies must be able to accurately predict how products will behave in real-world environments where multiple types of physics and various domain disciplines interact in a coupled way. The company’s software enables engineers to simulate the interactions between structures, heat transfer, fluids, electronics, optical elements and embedded software all within a single, unified engineering simulation environment.
Products have integrated electronics and semiconductors, embedded software, wired and wireless connectivity and advanced sensors and displays. Product success requires the company’s customers to consider the full system operation in a broad context. The company has extended the company’s platform to support scalable solutions that leverage new algorithms, additional physics, system solutions, embedded intelligence, HPC and integrated cloud. The company’s HPC product suite and cloud solutions enable enhanced insight into product performance and improve the productivity of the design process.
The following tools are part of the company’s platform and add capability to the core of the company’s offered products:
The Ansys HPC software suite leverages multicore computers to perform more simulations in less time. These simulations can be bigger, more complex and more accurate using HPC. Various Ansys HPC licensing options allow organizations to scale to whatever computational level of simulation is preferred, from single-user or small user group options for entry-level parallel processing up to virtually unlimited parallel capacity. Apart from parallel computing, Ansys also offers solutions for parametric computing, which enables users to explore the design parameters more fully (size, weight, shape, materials, mechanical properties, etc.) for products early in the development process.
The company’s cloud portfolio comprises two marketplace offerings (Ansys Gateway powered by AWS and Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure) and a managed cloud offering (Ansys Cloud Direct), providing customers scalable location-independent access to simulation. The company continues to enhance its solvers and collaborate with HPC leaders such as NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to maximize scalability and speed. Ansys 2023 R2 included tuning of the company’s Fluent and Mechanical GPU solvers for NVIDIA’s latest architecture and for AMD’s GPUs. Refinements include an electromagnetically coupled solution that provides a 7.5X speedup for IC applications in HFSS. The company also added new features in Ansys HFSS that take advantage of high-performance computing to simulate complex antennas that advance 5G and 6G radio systems. Ansys Maxwell has a new capability that leverages HPC to enable users to determine the cause of undesired noise and vibrations in PCBs.
The company’s Ansys Minerva platform is a knowledge management application that secures critical simulation data, and provides simulation process and decision support to simulation teams across geographies and functional silos. Available for both on-premises and cloud deployment, the Minerva platform delivers benefits by connecting simulation and optimization to customers' existing ecosystem of tools and processes. The Minerva platform provides integration and automation of chained data flows and design space exploration for optimal performance parameters. With the Ansys Minerva platform, customers can connect simulation for life cycle traceability and to enable collaboration and decision support.
PyAnsys is a collection of Python-based, open-source projects tailored specifically for engineers seeking to extend the capabilities of Ansys products. Developed as a collection of Python client libraries, PyAnsys offers engineers a comprehensive set of tools and utilities that seamlessly integrate with Ansys software, empowering them to enhance their simulations and analyses. PyAnsys provides an extensible platform-centric approach to the development and deployment of new verticalized, or use-case-specific, applications and workflows that leverage simulation.
The Ansys optiSLang product is a leading-edge answer to the challenges posed by computer-aided engineering (CAD)-based robust design optimization (RDO). Its state-of-the-art algorithms efficiently and automatically search for the most robust design configuration, eliminating the slow, manual process that used to define RDO.
The Ansys ModelCenter platform is a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) software platform for managing and automating simulation processes in engineering. It enables the automation of any simulation tool and enables the creation and automation of simulation workflows. A unique capability of the ModelCenter platform is rigorous MBSE enablement by connecting with system architecture modeling tools to verify system performance throughout the product design lifecycle. The software provides a centralized environment for managing simulation inputs, outputs and results, as well as for running trade studies and optimizing system designs in the conceptual design stage. It supports integration with various Ansys simulation tools, as well as with third-party software tools.
Embedded Software
The company’s SCADE product suite is a comprehensive solution for embedded software simulation, code production and automated certification. It has been developed specifically for use in critical systems with high dependability requirements, including aerospace, rail transportation, nuclear, industrial and automotive applications. SCADE software supports the entire development workflow, from requirements analysis and design, through verification, implementation and deployment. SCADE solutions easily integrate with each other and the rest of the company’s product suite, allowing for development optimization and increased communication among team members.
Materials
With the company’s materials technology, the company’s customers benefit from access to the world's premier system for managing corporate material intelligence and the market-leading solution for materials sources, selection and management. The Ansys Granta MI system is a leading system for materials information management in engineering enterprises. Ansys Granta Selector technology is the standard tool for materials selection and graphical analysis of materials properties. A comprehensive materials data library plus unique software tools enable engineers to use materials to innovate and evolve products, quickly identify solutions to material issues, confirm and validate choice of materials and reduce material and development costs. The CES EduPack product is a unique set of teaching resources that supports materials education across engineering, design, science and sustainable development. Granta Materials Data for Simulation provides easy access to materials property data from within Ansys Mechanical and the Ansys Electronics Desktop environment.
Safety Analysis
The company’s safety and cybersecurity threat analysis software facilitates model-based safety analysis, safety concept creation, safety management and cybersecurity assessment for safety-critical electrical, electronic and software-controlled systems. Using this software, engineers can deliver safer and more secure products, reduce time to market, increase profit margins and comply with industry standards. The Ansys Medini Analyze desktop product supports efficient application of quality, safety, reliability and cybersecurity analysis engineering methods at system, item, software, hardware and printed circuit board levels. It allows engineers to deliver safe and secure products. The Cloud-based product, Ansys Digital Safety Manager, provides safety analysis accessible through the web so that teams may collaborate on the management of safety in product development, deployment and operation.
Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
The company’s autonomous vehicle simulation solutions are designed specifically to support development, testing and validation of safe automated driving and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) technologies. This autonomous vehicle simulation solution saves time and costs versus traditional development and testing methods by allowing testing of drive designs on a virtual vehicle in a real-world environment. Ansys autonomous vehicle simulation solutions offer a set of dedicated features for sensors and headlamps for developing ADAS and autonomous systems. Designers can utilize component-level model-in-the-loop testing and can dynamically test physics-based sensor and lighting systems. The company’s autonomous solutions connect to popular driving simulators to recreate real-world driving conditions to test systems under variable traffic, terrain, weather and lighting conditions. The Ansys AVxcelerate product can generate reliable, synthetic training data enriched with ground truth information for all sensor types; this data is essential for artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML)-based perception algorithm training and validation.
Digital Twin
The company’s Twin Builder product allows customers to implement complete virtual prototypes of real-world systems. These can be deployed to manage the entire lifecycle of products and assets. The company’s digital twin simulation paradigm allows customers to increase efficiencies over time, scheduling maintenance around predictive methodologies that become more accurate with real-world testing and response. Access to this information allows engineers to unlock additional value out of existing assets, preventing unscheduled downtime and lowering operating costs, while working at optimal efficiency.
Academic
The company bundles its commercial software by physics area and work with universities to utilize the company’s software in teaching and research. There are more than 2,900 university customers across 86 countries using Ansys. Additionally, the company’s digital engagement strategy has evolved to include an ‘Access, Learn, Engage’ model that is supported by the company’s free student downloads, free Ansys Innovation Courses and Learning Forum available through Ansys Innovation Space that makes it easy for learners to access the company’s product, learn how to use it and ask questions to their peers and the company’s experts. The company also works to develop partnerships in areas, such as student team sponsorship, strategic curriculum and research opportunities and STEM.
Product Development
The company makes significant investments in research and development and emphasize frequent, integrated product releases. These investments are made across five technology pillars: numerics, HPC, AI/ML, Cloud and experience and digital engineering. The company’s investments in these pillars are applicable across its portfolio and demonstrate how the company is building upon its product and technology leadership to further differentiate the company’s solutions. The company’s products also run on the most widely-used engineering computing platforms and operating systems, including Windows, Linux and most UNIX workstations. The company’s customers increasingly leverage GPU computing hardware and Cloud computing to solve large and complex problems. The company’s machine learning applications enable customers to discover details within their designs and to unlock potential new designs.
The company’s total research and development expenses were $494.9 million in 2023. The company has traditionally invested significant resources in research and development activities and intends to continue to make investments in expanding the ease of use and capabilities of the company’s broad portfolio of simulation software products.
The company recently completed the following major product development activities and releases:
In early February 2024, the company released Ansys R1 2024, which introduces an elevated user interface that facilitates collaboration, amplifies digital engineering productivity and removes barriers caused by engineering complexity. The company also recently launched Ansys SimAI and Ansys AI+ technologies. Ansys SimAI is a cloud-enabled, physics-neutral platform that empowers users across industries to accelerate innovation and reduce time to market. With Ansys SimAI, users are able to reliably predict performance of complex simulation scenarios rapidly. The tool allows users to first train an AI model using simulation results and then make predictively accurate analogous designs. With Ansys AI+, Ansys incorporates and extends AI features within its industry-leading desktop products to enhance core functionalities. The new AI+ offerings empower customers with more choice for how they access Ansys AI capabilities across the company’s desktop products.
In July 2023, the company released Ansys 2023 R2, which brings enhanced computing power to optimize complex products, assemblies and systems across industries. It enables customers to get better products to market faster with systems engineering workflows to help stakeholders understand subsystem interactions. Ansys 2023 R2 enables distributed engineering teams with new technologies and improved performance to drive forward industry innovation. It combines an exceptional range of enhanced numerics capabilities, performance improvements and cross-disciplinary engineering solutions to equip organizations with advanced physics solvers, scalable GPU-based computing and seamless workflows. Ansys 2023 R2 enables users to run large jobs and help overcome hardware capacity limitations with HPC, both on-premises and in the cloud. Enhanced solver algorithms capitalized on GPUs to speed simulation. In Ansys 2023 R2, the Fluids product line enables additional industrial simulations to run natively on GPUs, substantially reducing solve time and total power consumption. For example, Ansys 2023 R2 extends multi-GPU support to sliding mesh, compressible flows and eddy dissipation model combustion simulations. That means analysis of internal combustion engines, centrifugal pumps and fans, turbochargers and compressors, stirred tanks and reactors and hydraulic machinery can now be supercharged with the Ansys Fluent multi-GPU solver.
Sales and Marketing
The company distributes and supports its products through its own direct sales offices, as well as a global network of independent channel partners. The company’s products are utilized by organizations ranging in size from small consulting firms to the world's largest high-tech and industrial companies.
The company’s direct sales organization develops an enterprise-wide, focused sales approach and implements a worldwide go-to-market account strategy. The sales management organization also functions as a focal point for requests from the channel partners and provides additional support in strategic locations through the presence of direct sales offices.
The company’s channel partner network provides the company with a highly-specialized channel of distribution and technical support. It also enables the company to draw on business and technical expertise from a global network, provides relative stability to the company’s operations to help mitigate geography-specific economic trends and provides the company with an opportunity to take advantage of new geographic markets or enhance the company’s sales coverage in existing markets.
The channel partners, under the direction of the company’s sales management team, market and sell the company’s products to new customers, expand installations within the existing customer base, offer training and consulting services and often provide the first line of the company’s technical support. The company’s channel partner certification process helps to confirm that each channel partner has the ongoing capability to adequately represent the company’s expanding product lines and to provide an appropriate level of training, consultation and customer support.
Strategic Alliances and Marketing Relationships
Ansys has and continues to be committed to operating as an open platform, enabling the company’s customers to easily integrate simulation into their R&D workflows. To further that vision, the company has established and continues to pursue strategic alliances with advanced technology suppliers, cloud computing providers, hardware vendors, software vendors, specialized application developers and CAD, EDA and PLM providers. These relationships facilitate accelerated incorporation of advanced technology into the company’s products, provide access to new customers, expand the company’s sales channels, develop specialized product applications and provide direct integration with leading CAD, EDA, product data management and PLM systems.
The company has technical relationships with leading CAD vendors, such as Autodesk, PTC and Siemens Digital Industries, to provide direct links between products. These links facilitate the transfer of electronic data models between the CAD systems and the company’s products.
The company works with leading EDA software companies, including Altium, Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Siemens EDA and Zuken, to support the transfer of data between electronics design and layout software and the company’s electronics simulation portfolio.
The company has strategic relationships with public cloud providers to enable customers to seamlessly access HPC in the cloud. The company has a partnership with Microsoft to develop Ansys Access powered by Azure, which will enable customers to launch Ansys products using their Azure enrollment and connect third-party tools. In addition to the company’s joint initiatives in the cloud, the company has a broader relationship with Microsoft focused on more market-specific endeavors in the area of Digital Twins, autonomy and use of AI in simulation.
The company also has a strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform cloud-based engineering simulations. Ansys Gateway powered by AWS facilitates seamless access and deployment of Ansys products on AWS, making simulation workloads more user-friendly, while offering scalability and flexibility with easy access to software and storage solutions from anywhere with a web browser.
In addition to marketing relationships to promote the adoption of HPC, the company maintains technical relationships with Intel, NVIDIA and AMD to optimize the solver performance and scalability of its portfolio, enabling faster simulations, better graphics and a shorter time to market for the company’s customers. In the area of GPU computing, the company has tuned and optimized the Fluent GPU and Mechanical solvers for ‘Hopper’ GPUs from NVIDIA. With AMD, the company has expanded support in the Ansys Mechanical product for the latest AMD Instinct MI200 Series accelerators, AMD's data-center-class GPU family. Support for these new GPUs gives customers more flexibility when choosing HPC hardware, both on-premises and in the cloud. As an inaugural member, the company has joined both Intel Foundry Services' (IFS) Design Ecosystem Alliance and Intel Foundry Services Cloud Alliance. The company expects that its EDA tools and multiphysics solutions will help IFS to deliver industry-leading bespoke silicon to their customers, both on-premises and in the cloud.
The company’s Partner Program actively encourages developers of specialized software solutions to use the company’s technology as a development platform for their applications and provides customers with enhanced functionality related to their use of the company’s software. With over 350 technology partnerships, spanning a wide range of solution areas, including materials, optimization, electronics, optical, mechanical, fluid and systems simulation, the company’s partner ecosystem extends the depth and breadth of the company’s technology offerings.
Proprietary Rights and Licenses
The company has obtained federal trademark registration protection for Ansys and other marks in the United States and foreign countries. Additionally, the company was awarded numerous patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or equivalent offices in other jurisdictions and has a number of patent applications pending.
Seasonal Variations
The company’s business has experienced seasonality, including quarterly volatility in software sales driven primarily by the timing of customer renewal cycles. It is typical to see slowdowns of customer activities during the summer months, particularly in Europe, as well as from the seasonal purchasing and budgeting patterns of the company’s global customers. Subscription lease and maintenance contract renewals, as well as the company’s revenue, are typically highest in the fourth quarter (year ended December 2023).
History
ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970. The company, a Delaware corporation, was incorporated in 1994.
