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Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., today announced its Professional Services division. Comprised of industry-savvy veterans and engineers, Discreet professional services offer customers a competitive advantage with expert analysis and recommendations for fast and efficient hardware/ software configuration. Discreet Professional Services Division offers significant advantages to customers by facilitating installation and customized workflow solutions and training -- helping them get quickly into production. Discreet Professional Services offers both standard and customized consultancy options. Standard services include project assessment, installation, training and workflow solutions -- to help customers start or finish projects and deliver on tight deadline demands. Custom Services offers dedicated, on-site consultants that provide technical expertise that can include advanced training, product enhancement, custom application development and third party product integration. "Production demands in the digital content creation industry are constantly in a state of change," said Martin Vann, Vice President of worldwide sales and marketing at Discreet. "With continuing hardware evolution, tighter deadlines, ever-demanding and complex visual effects and creative requirements and budget constraints, Discreet professional services was created to specifically provide our growing customer base of 3D game and animation, visual effects, and editing & finishing artists the guidance to succeed -- and realize maximum return on hardware and software investment." Discreet Professional Services is available now for all Discreet customers on all Discreet turnkey, integrated and software platforms. Please contact Scott Hamilton (scott.hamilton@discreet.com) or your local Discreet sales representative or dealer. More details are available at: http://www.discreet.com/professionalservices .