What is the Autodesk Forma industry cloud?
The Forma industry cloud is Autodesk's AI-native platform for the AECO industry that connects all stakeholders, fragmented workflows, and project data across planning, design, construction and operations into a single, insight-driven environment. This helps support more informed decision-making across planning, design, construction, and operations. Learn more about the Forma industry cloud here.
Is Forma replacing Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)?
No, we are expanding the Forma industry cloud by adding the capabilities of ACC to it. ACC products will be represented as part of the Forma industry cloud brand. In fact, ACC’s enterprise controls, infrastructure, and user management will now extend across all of Forma. By bringing ACC into Forma, we’re creating a single, connected industry cloud for all of AECO.
What has changed?
These updates reflect branding changes across the platform, but they do not change how developers access APIs, integrations, or project data.
Autodesk Docs will be renamed to Forma Data Management, serving as the common data environment across Forma and enabling cloud-connected project data across the project lifecycle. Additionally, several existing product names will be updated to reflect their inclusion in Forma. Beginning March 24, these new names will appear across our websites, contracts, licensing, and Autodesk Account. No action is required from you and there are no changes to the APIs themselves.
• Autodesk Forma → Forma Site Design
• Autodesk Docs → Forma Data Management
• Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro → Forma Design Collaboration
• Autodesk Build → Forma Build
• Autodesk Takeoff → Forma Takeoff
• Autodesk Estimate → Forma Estimate
• Preconstruction Bundle → Forma for Preconstruction
• Model Management Bundle → Forma for Model Management
• Construction Operations Bundle → Forma for Construction Operations
• ACC Account Admin → Forma Hub Admin
• ACC [functionality] API → Forma [functionality] API
(Check out all ACC API name changes here.)
• Forma API → Forma Site Design API
• Data Management API → APS Data Management API
What’s not changing
The experience you know today will remain in tact.
• No changes to URLs, logins, APIs or integrations.
• No changes to workflows or automations setup in ACC.
• No data migration. All projects, members, settings and data remains as is.
Will this impact current product roadmaps?
No. Current product roadmaps will continue to be delivered as planned. In fact, joining the Forma industry cloud provides us with more scale and accelerates our development. For you, that should mean a more seamless experience and accelerated delivery of new tools designed to help you work smarter.
Will there be changes to current ACC product capabilities, modules, or workflows?
No, there will be no disruption to how existing customers access or use ACC products. Licensing, subscriptions, files, permissions, folder structures, and current connections to other ACC products like BuildingConnected will remain intact. Additionally, any automations, integrations or APIs currently in place will not be affected. And, importantly, there will be no data migration required for current ACC or Forma customers.
A single, common data environment and platform across AECO will enable improved data flow across the project lifecycle and introduce more AI-native workflows
It’s a new day on March 24
We are very excited for this change as it is a large step in the direction of unifying AECO workflows across Autodesk software and tools. If you have questions or need support on this transition feel free to reach us at help.autodesk.com.