Most Software is sold or leased on a per-product or per-module basis. That means you can only run the Products and Modules you have paid for. This tend to make it very expensive if you to use need a lot of products for a short span of time each.

The MSC One license is designed to solve this problem in an elegant fashion: MSC One licensing allows access to nearly all MSC Software. To make this work, the license contains a number of Tokens instead of a number of Product- or Module-licenses. Each Product and Product-Module requires a certain amount of tokens to run. Once done, it returns the tokens to the Pool. The number of MSC One Tokens in the license determines how many Products and Modules can run simultaneously.

As can be expected, this flexibility comes at a Premium: The license is more expensive than a Product-Based license because it allows access to so many Products. For this reason, a Product- and Module-Based license is still available from MSC. Additionally, a Reduced-Cost version with access to slightly less of the MSC Software portfolio - MSC One Start Edition - is also available.

The MSC One license comes into its own when you need to run more than one Product or need a lot of different modules, but each for a short period: Once use of a module is complete, the tokens is returned and is available for other Products or Modules. 

This is especially useful for Consultants that need to use different Products and/or Modules for different Projects, as well as for Product Design where different Phases of the design requires different Software.

The table below shows the MSC One Token-Use for a couple of products. These are then used in the examples that follow.