Business: Autodesk, Inc. is a world leading design software and services company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful technology products and services. They serve customers in the architecture, engineering and construction, manufacturing, and digital media and entertainment industries. Their sophisticated software products enable their customers to experience their ideas before they are real by allowing them to create and document their designs and to visualize, simulate and analyze real-world performance early in the design process by creating digital prototypes. These capabilities give their customers the flexibility to optimize and improve their designs before they actually begin the building process, helping save time and money, improving quality and fostering innovation. Their software products are sold globally, both directly to customers and through a network of resellers and distributors.