Ever since Autodesk introduced Project Quantum in 2016, architects, engineers and construction professionals had legitimate questions about where their desktop tools were going. Would they continue to be seats of software sold via individual licenses? Would they be part of an all-encompassing cloud offering? What would that even look like?
Six years after the introduction of Quantum, Autodesk finally answered the "where are we going?" question at its Autodesk University conference in New Orleans last month. Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk president and CEO, told users that the company has developed a granular data layer for the sharing of project information that will, eventually, be the basis for an entirely new AEC cloud platform known as Forma.