Repo­si­tion­ing CAESES Free

Claus Abt and Stefan Harries, CEOs of FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS After more than three years of offering CAESES® Free along with our pro-version CAESES®, we are repo­si­tion­ing our product port­fo­lio. Our flag-ship product CAESES® – which com­prises sim­u­la­tion-ready CAD and opti­miza­tion within a flexible inte­gra­tion envi­ron­ment – will be con­tin­ued as is. The free academic and non-com­mer­cial edition for students will also be carried on. There will be new exciting products in 2017, but CAESES® Free will be faded out.

New Products

In 2017, FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS will start intro­duc­ing new inno­v­a­tive tools for CAE engi­neers. All of these tools will be based on CAESES®. Some will be provided via the web and a simple browser inter­face (check out this early preview), while others will be made avail­able as stand-alone versions. These new products made it nec­es­sary to review and change the current product port­fo­lio. And we plan to carry on with selected free offers in the future. 

What Happens to CAESES Free?

Nat­u­rally, we are not going to just stop CAESES® Free from one day to the next. Rather, existing users can today select between several options to continue the usage of CAESES® Free. New reg­is­tra­tions for CAESES® Free will not be avail­able after December 15, 2016. 

Last-Time License Extension

So far, we provided you with a web-based com­mer­cial license of CAESES® Free that was valid for six months at a time and you could repeat­edly prolong your license for another six months. You can now manually extend your current com­mer­cial license of CAESES® Free for one last time. It will then stay valid until June 30, 2017 –with exactly the same func­tion­al­ity as you are enjoying presently. With this action we guar­an­tee another full six months from now on. After this final period, your license expires auto­mat­i­cally. Link for reg­is­tered users: LICENSE EXTEN­SION NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Please extend your license manually until December 31, 2016 the very latest. Oth­er­wise, if you just want to fade out your usage of CAESES® Free you do not need to do anything. Your license will then simply expire at the end of your current 180 days runtime. Of course, until then you can still enjoy your CAESES® Free func­tion­al­ity as is.

Long-Term Solution for Current CAESES Free Users

FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS would be very happy to offer you a long-term com­mer­cial solution. As a special offer to our existing CAESES® Free users, you now have the one-time oppor­tu­nity to convert your license so that it gives you the same func­tion­al­ity as today’s CAESES® Free — in the long-term (also beyond 2017) and for an exclu­sive annual price of € 2000 (excl. VAT if applic­a­ble), includ­ing support. Other options like multiple licenses and addi­tional func­tion­al­ity are available.

For this special offer please fill out the form below until December 15, 2016, the very latest. Best get in touch with us right away so that we can discuss your needs indi­vid­u­ally. After this period, our standard prices will be applied. The offer is only valid for current CAESES® Free users. Update December 16, 2016: Form got removed — offer expired.