RE: Student Versions of NX/Solid Edge? ubercad (Mechanical) In general, it'd be great if Siemens could move toward a model where the software is more quickly delivered at a reasonable price to potential customers. If this is a sign of things to come, it actually might be a good change, since the negotiations could be incredibly drawn-out and fatiguing. For example, Siemens has recently been running a steep discount on NX Advanced Simulation - available WITHOUT any negotiation at all. While this might seem to be a highly counter-intuitive strategic decision (especially in a down market, when you'd want to be very flexibly with customers' budgetary limitations), it actually might have a golden lining of sorts. I've heard that a lot of the ability to negotiate has been removed by "higher-ups" within Siemens recently (ie: 2009). One possible upside (to the customer) of this approach was the ability to negotiate large discounts on the license & maintenance cost. This high-touch, salesperson-heavy approach must add quite a bit of cost to the product on Siemens' side. Even if you know exactly which "Velocity" package you want to demo, getting the trial going is quite the chore. Although this might be changing, it seems to have recently (ie: 2008) been the model to assign a salesperson to each customer - it's "high touch" and takes a lot of back-and-forth to get set up. Siemens typically WILL give 30-day trial 's just not very "easy" to get set up.
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