SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* WISE R HALSEY (Last) (First) (Middle) 135 PONTE VEDRA BLVD. (Street) PONTE VEDRA BEACH FL 32082 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 07/21/2016	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC /DE/ [ AZPN ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
No Securities Beneficially Owned	0	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	/s/ Frederic G. Hammond, attorney-in-fact for R. Halsey Wise	07/25/2016
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
FOR SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

Know all by these present, that the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes
and appoints each of Antonio J. Pietri and Frederic G. Hammond, signing
singly and each acting individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney in fact with full power and authority as hereinafter described to:

(1)execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
capacity as an officer and/or director of Aspen Technology, Inc. (the
?Company?), Forms 3, 4 and 5 (including any amendments thereto) in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
and the rules thereunder (the ?Exchange Act?);

(2)do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
which may be necessary or desirable to prepare, complete and execute any
such Form 3, 4 or 5, prepare, complete and execute any amendment or
amendments thereto, and timely deliver and file such form with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or
similar authority;

(3)seek or obtain, as the undersigned?s representative and on the
undersigned?s behalf, information regarding transactions in the Company?s
securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit
plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes
any such person to release any such information to such attorney in fact
and approves and ratifies any such release of information; and

(4)take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned,
it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney in fact
on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be
in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney
in fact may approve in such attorney in fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full power
and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full
power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney in fact, or such attorney in fact's substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this
power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The
undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys in fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not
assuming nor relieving, nor is the Company assuming or relieving, any of
the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Exchange Act.

The undersigned acknowledges that neither the Company nor the foregoing
attorneys in fact assume (i) any liability for the undersigned?s responsibility
to comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of
the undersigned for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii)
any obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under
Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorneys in fact.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of July 21, 2016.

/s/ R. Halsey Wise
Signature