Are we being risky enough with our Autodesk technology previews?

Last week I had a blog post regarding what a technology preview is compared to a beta?

One of the basic differences is that the expectation after beta is a production release. With a technology preview, there is no such assurance. Based on the feedback received during a preview, a technology can retire instead of graduate. Given that, I then followed up with another blog post:

The upshot of that post is that for the industries that Autodesk serves, the probabilities of a technology graduating instead of retiring are:

Industry

Graduation
Rate

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction 69%
Product Design 66%
Media and Entertainment 60%

For customers who participate in technology previews, it’s great that there are better than 50-50 odds that they are not wasting their time learning, trying, and providing feedback on…

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