Segments

Autodesk reports segment information based on the “management” approach. The management approach designates the internal reporting used by management for making decisions and assessing performance as the source of the Company’s reportable segments. Autodesk has four reportable segments: Architecture, Engineering and Construction ("AEC"), PSEB, Manufacturing ("MFG") and Media and Entertainment ("M&E"). Autodesk has no material inter-segment revenue.

The AEC, PSEB, and MFG segments derive revenue from the sale of licenses for software products and services to customers who design, build, manage or own building, manufacturing and infrastructure projects. Autodesk's M&E segment derives revenue from the sale of products to creative professionals, post-production facilities and broadcasters for a variety of applications, including feature films, television programs, commercials, music and corporate videos, interactive game production, web design and interactive web streaming.

AEC software products help to improve the way building, civil infrastructure, process plant and construction projects are designed, built and managed. A broad portfolio of solutions enables greater efficiency, accuracy and sustainability across the entire project lifecycle. Autodesk AEC solutions include advanced technology for BIM, AutoCAD-based design and documentation productivity software, sustainable design analysis applications, and collaborative project management solutions. BIM, an integrated process for building and infrastructure design, analysis, documentation and construction, uses consistent, coordination information to improve communication and collaboration between the extended project team. AEC provides a comprehensive portfolio of BIM solutions that help customers deliver projects faster and more economically, while minimizing environmental impact. AEC’s revenue primarily includes revenue from the sales of licenses of Autodesk Building Design Suites, Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suites, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Architecture, and AutoCAD Map 3D.

PSEB includes Autodesk’s design product, AutoCAD. Autodesk’s AutoCAD product is a platform product that underpins the Company’s design product offerings for the industries it serves. For example, AEC and MFG offer tailored versions of AutoCAD software for the industries they serve. Autodesk’s AutoCAD product also provides a platform for Autodesk’s developer partners to build custom solutions for a range of diverse design-oriented markets. PSEB's revenue primarily includes revenue from sales of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, the AutoCAD Design Suite and many other design products, including consumer design products, as well as from sales of licenses of other Autodesk's design products.

MFG provides the manufacturers in automotive and transportation, industrial machinery, consumer products and building products with comprehensive digital prototyping solutions that bring together design data from all phases of the product development process to develop a single digital model created in Autodesk Inventor software. Autodesk’s solutions for digital prototyping enable a broad group of manufacturers to realize benefits with minimal disruption to existing workflows. MFG’s revenue primarily includes revenue from the sales of licenses of Autodesk Product Design Suites, AutoCAD Mechanical, Autodesk Delcam products, and Autodesk Moldflow products.

M&E consists of two product groups: Animation, including design visualization, and Creative Finishing. Animation products, such as Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites, provide tools for digital sculpting, modeling, animation, effects, rendering and compositing, for design visualization, visual effects and games production. M&E products are also included in a number of PSEB, AEC, and MFG focused suites. Creative Finishing products, such as Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Smoke, and Autodesk Lustre, provide editing, finishing and visual effects design and color grading.

All of Autodesk’s reportable segments distribute their respective products primarily through authorized resellers and distributors and, to a lesser extent, through direct sales to end-users.

The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in Note 1, “Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” of Autodesk's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2015. Autodesk evaluates each segment’s performance on the basis of gross profit. Autodesk currently does not separately accumulate and report asset information by segment, except for goodwill, which is disclosed in Note 9, “Goodwill.”

Information concerning the operations of Autodesk’s reportable segments is as follows:



	Three Months Ended April 30,
	2015			2014
Net revenue:
Architecture, Engineering and Construction	$	236.7		$	195.5
Platform Solutions and Emerging Business	185.3			211.9
Manufacturing	184.6			147.3
Media and Entertainment	39.9			37.8
	$	646.5		$	592.5
Gross profit:
Architecture, Engineering and Construction	$	217.0		$	175.6
Platform Solutions and Emerging Business	163.3			191.0
Manufacturing	158.1			132.7
Media and Entertainment	32.7			29.0
Unallocated (1)	(16.4		)	(14.5		)
	$	554.7		$	513.8

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(1)	Unallocated amounts primarily relate to corporate expenses and other costs and expenses that are managed outside the reportable segments, including stock-based compensation expense.

Information regarding Autodesk’s operations by geographic area is as follows:



	Three Months Ended April 30,
	2015		2014
Net revenue:
Americas
U.S.	$	199.6	$	169.5
Other Americas	44.4		36.2
Total Americas	244.0		205.7
Europe, Middle East and Africa	245.4		225.5
Asia Pacific
Japan	65.1		86.6
Other Asia Pacific	92.0		74.7
Total Asia Pacific	157.1		161.3
Total net revenue	$	646.5	$	592.5