There are 3 challenges with physical workstations:
- Time to Provision: A new workstation can take 4-6 weeks to provision
- Physical Site Requirements: The workstation must be provisioned at a physical site, limiting the ability to hire a 3D CAD designer anywhere in the world
- Data Replication Challenges: For every physical site, the data must be replicated. The infrastructure to replicate data can be complex.
Many of our customers have adopted cloud workstations to solve for these problems, resulting in significant benefits:
- Provision in minutes
- 3D CAD designers can be anywhere in the world
- Replicate data to 2-3 regions
There are 2 different options to adopt cloud workstations:
- Full replacement as a primary workstation
- Secondary workstation to enable work from anywhere
The cost of a secondary workstation is closely tied to the value it will deliver: for less than a $1/hr you can enable the productivity of a designer who is charging $150/hr. Every physical workstation user can be given a secondary workstation to fire up when they need it. The table below summarizes the options.
