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Beta sites have the greatest opportunity to influence the final implementation of features and to identify critical problems with the best chance of early resolution. Your active participation as a core site will be essential to our goal of delivering an outstanding product line. The goals of each beta release are to collect your assessment of the overall feature set, to get your opinion on the implementation of each feature, and to begin identifying bugs which occur in your use of the product and in your environment.

Customers are selected to become Beta Sites based upon their interest, willingness, and ability to provide timely information. Beta Sites provide product feedback throughout the development process until the final release.

All customer problems, issues, enhancement requests, and suggestions are reported to the Beta Team and escalated to the appropriate development teams. Regular contact with Autodesk via bug reports, weekly summaries, and questionnaires is expected.

Beta Sites are also selected on the basis of background information obtained from enrollment data - specific information about you and your testing environment will be required. This information is necessary to select sites that are best suited for each beta program. This information is not used for any purpose other than your evaluation for this or any future beta program here at Autodesk.

Each beta program varies, but at a minimum, we expect you to spend as much time as possible in your normal production environment with the software to expose defects. Along the way, we also expect you to send in your comments about the software as well as any wishlist items you may have. Additionally, you are asked to respond to our surveys about your opinion of the beta software. There are special occasions where we may even ask you to interview with the industry press.

Once accepted into any of our product Beta Programs, you will be sent a packet of general information along with a nondisclosure agreement. You will be asked to print out, sign, and return our Beta Site License Agreement to begin the program. Each Beta Site must remain in compliance with the provisions stated in the Nondisclosure and Beta Site License Agreement until the software is formally released.

So, How do I sign up? Specific information about you and your testing environment is required. This information is necessary to select sites that are best suited for each Beta Program.

The enrollment form will take about 20 minutes to fill out. We will need specific information about your company and the hardware and type of software you are currently using. This information is not used for any purpose other than your evaluation for this or any future Beta Program here at Autodesk.

For questions, comments or suggestions on content please email: betaprograms@autodesk.com