Trimble Inc. (Trimble) provides technology solutions that enable professionals and field mobile workers to improve or transform their work processes.
With a focus on the industries that build, move, and feed the world, the comprehensive depth and breadth of the company’s solutions is transforming the way the world works, making it easier for Trimble customers to focus on what matters—getting the job done right.
The company innovates at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds with s...
Trimble Inc. (Trimble) provides technology solutions that enable professionals and field mobile workers to improve or transform their work processes.
With a focus on the industries that build, move, and feed the world, the comprehensive depth and breadth of the company’s solutions is transforming the way the world works, making it easier for Trimble customers to focus on what matters—getting the job done right.
The company innovates at the intersection of the digital and physical worlds with solutions that span the world’s foundational industries, including building, civil and infrastructure construction, geospatial, survey and mapping, natural resources, utilities, transportation, and government.
The company exists to empower its customers: asset owners, general and specialty contractors, engineers and designers, surveyors, energy and utility companies, trucking companies and drivers, as well as state, federal, and municipal governments.
Productivity and sustainability are at the heart of who the company is —woven into its work internally and through the company’s customers’ application of its technologies. The company’s solutions provide customers with the ability to improve their work quality while being safe, efficient, and sustainable. More than that, the company’s products enable reduced environmental impact in its markets, ranging from reduced greenhouse gas (‘GHG’) emissions to improved water stewardship.
Trimble offers a diverse range of coherent capabilities that connect applications, data, workflows, and mobile technologies to more efficiently orchestrate work, often in mixed fleet environments. The company deploys AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and similar technologies into its solutions across the company’s business segments to deliver customer value through process automation and operational insights. The company’s advanced positioning and autonomous guidance capabilities enable increased precision with large equipment, including equipment used in construction and civil engineering. The company offers integrated systems that track and manage fleets of vehicles, improve the driver experience, and provide real-time logistical analytics and insights back to the office. The company’s connected reality capture systems enable the management of large amounts of geo-referenced information, and its software solutions connect all aspects of a fleet, a farm, or a lane, while the company’s collaborative building information modeling (‘BIM’) solutions are used throughout the design, build, and operation of the built environment.
The company focuses on integrating its software application and cloud capabilities to create vertically focused, system-wide solutions that transform how work is done. The integration of sensors, software, hardware, and data in the company’s portfolio gives it a unique ability to provide detailed insights for the company’s customers to improve their specific workflows.
The company’s strategy is centered on the concept of open industry clouds and underlying common data environments as the nucleus of its connected solutions, allowing all stakeholders to collaborate and make decisions based on the same information. In construction, the company connects teams across the design, build, and operational phases of a project. The company’s connected supply chain solutions provide transportation companies and their drivers with tools to enhance fuel efficiency, safety, transparency, and sustainability.
Connected software applications and cloud platform services are key elements of the company’s solutions and account for a steadily increasing portion of its business. The company’s software enhances a broad range of other products and systems to allow its customers to optimize their work toward targeted outcomes and improve their decision-making and productivity. Ranging from embedded, real-time firmware to software that integrates data with large-scale enterprise back-office systems, many of the company’s solutions are extensible and can be tailored by users for customized business processes and workflows. Trimble software capabilities include extensive three-dimensional (‘3D’) modeling, analysis, planning and design solutions, AI capabilities, as well as a large suite of domain-specific software applications used across industries, including construction, geospatial, utilities, and transportation.
The company’s software is sold as subscription services, term licenses, or perpetual licenses, and is hosted as Software as a Service (‘SaaS’), or can be provisioned for on-premises. The company is extending its capabilities to run in multi-cloud environments while delivering the company’s unique value via domain-specific workflows and lifecycle management in its target industries.
The company’s global operations include major research, development, manufacturing, and logistics operations in the United States, the Netherlands, India, Germany, Finland, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.
Business Strategy
The company’s growth strategy is centered on multiple elements, including executing on its Connect and Scale strategy; delivering customer outcomes that can enable productivity, quality, safety, transparency, and environmental sustainability; focusing on software and services; addressing attractive markets with significant growth and profitability potential; capitalizing on domain knowledge and technological innovation that benefit a diverse customer base; driving geographic expansion with localization strategy; optimizing go-to-market strategies to best access its markets; and pursuing strategic and targeted acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and investments.
Business Segments
The company operates through three segments: Architects, Engineers, Construction and Owners (‘AECO’), Field Systems, and Transportation and Logistics (‘T&L’).
Architects, Engineers, Construction and Owners segment
The AECO segment primarily serves customers working in architecture, engineering, construction, design, asset management, operations, and maintenance. Within this segment, the company’s most substantial product portfolios are focused on design, engineering, building and civil construction, capital planning, and asset management.
Architecture Design Software
Empowers creative professionals in architecture, design, construction, and related industries with capabilities like SketchUp for design & visualization, 3D modeling, construction and fabrication documentation, and architectural visualization. It facilitates innovative and detailed design processes, enabling seamless collaboration among stakeholders.
Engineering Software
Transforms workflows with precision by focusing on enhancing accuracy, productivity, and profitability. It includes capabilities for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (‘MEP’) trades for engineering and modeling, structural engineering and modeling, and civil design and engineering by delivering constructable solutions that drive project success.
Construction Software
Designed to optimize connected workflows, this software supports comprehensive project management through enterprise resource planning (‘ERP’) and operations solutions. Its capabilities span preconstruction and estimating, prefabrication, project and operations management, finance and human capital management, and digital supply chain management. The company’s construction portfolio also enables civil contractors to align operational efficiency from bidding to project execution through estimating, scheduling, field tracking, equipment maintenance, and reporting and analyses.
Owner Software
As architects, engineers, and contractors collaborate to deliver projects, the company’s asset lifecycle management (‘ALM’) portfolio centralizes data from capital planning, design, construction, and commissioning and unlocks its value into the operations and maintenance phases of the completed asset. This owner-centric technology speeds decision-making, progress measurement, and payment for the AEC providers while improving the owner’s asset stewardship maintenance for years across the public and private sectors.
When combining the company’s AECO software capabilities with its Field Systems portfolio, the company is uniquely able to bring comprehensive integrated workflows to the broad construction industry ecosystem. At the company’s core, it is able to bridge the gap between office and field by integrating detailed design models and project tracking capabilities with field hardware (GNSS receivers and laser scanners), and ERP solutions in real-time. This drives tremendous efficiencies in seamless workflows, error reduction, and process automation for the spectrum of construction users.
The company’s solutions enhance productivity and foster collaboration by improving data sharing across architects, designers, general contractors, subcontractors, and engineers. The Trimble Connect collaboration platform streamlines and integrates workflows and ensures interoperability between Trimble’s solutions as well as software tools from the broader construction ecosystem and marketplaces.
Through automation and innovation, the company’s solutions reduce costs, waste, and rework, enhance worker safety, expedite project timelines, improve decision-making, and enhance quality control. These technologies contribute to sustainability by fostering resource efficiency and environmental responsibility across the building construction industry.
In 2024, Trimble advanced its Connect & Scale strategy with significant AECO software updates. Highlights include AppXchange for ERP; Tekla 2024; and enhanced visualization for Sketchup. New AI-based capabilities were released in 2024, which included LiveCount AI Takeoff; AI Driven 3D Model Search; Sketchup Diffusion and Assistant; and AI-driven project management workflows in ProjectSight. Additionally, Trimble Unity launched, empowering public infrastructure owners with centralized data and connected digital workflows for ALM.
The company sells and distributes its products across the AECO segment through a robust, integrated network of direct, indirect, and digital channels, tailored to optimize customer experiences across the geographic regions the company serves. The company leverages its dedicated direct sales force to deliver software solutions to asset owners, clients, contractors, subcontractors, and consulting engineers, ensuring that the most appropriate channel is matched to each region for maximum market reach and customer satisfaction. The company develops and nurtures a global network of independent distributors with deep expertise and strong customer relationships in their respective markets, including BuildingPoint dealers that specifically address the needs of the building construction industry. The company’s digital channels complement this network by providing flexible, accessible, and scalable solutions that enhance customer engagement and streamline the purchasing process.
As the company extends its software and services offerings to cover the full set of construction lifecycle management solutions used by construction owners, designers, and construction companies, the company increasingly competes with large established companies that offer similar systems across all industries.
Field Systems segment
The Field Systems segment provides products and services to private, commercial, and government customers. The businesses within Field Systems service surveying and mapping professionals, civil construction, building construction field services, and positioning systems. The company sells and distributes its products in the Field Systems segment primarily through a global network of independent distribution partners.
Geospatial
Through the company’s surveying, mapping, and building construction product portfolio, professional surveyors and engineers provide services to the construction, engineering, mining, oil and gas, energy and utilities, government, and land management sectors. The company’s solutions replace less productive conventional methods of surveying, mapping, 2D or 3D modeling, monitoring, measurement, reporting, and analysis. The company’s suite of solutions includes field-based data collection systems and field software, real-time communications systems, and back-office software for data processing, modeling, monitoring, reporting, and analysis. The company’s field-based technologies are used in handheld, land mobile, and airborne applications and incorporate technologies, such as mobile application software, high precision GNSS, robotic measurement systems, inertial positioning, 3D laser scanning, digital imaging, and optical or laser measurement. The company maintains a joint venture with Nikon, which focuses on the design and manufacture in Japan of surveying instruments, including mechanical total stations and related products. The company’s office-based products include software for planning, data processing and editing, quality control, 3D modeling, intelligent data analysis and AI-based feature extraction, deformation monitoring, project reporting, and data export. The company’s customers in this area benefit from using its products, including significantly improved productivity in both field and office activities, improved safety through non-contact measurement and detection of potentially dangerous ground or structure movement, and improved data flow that enables better decision-making.
Civil Engineering Construction
The company’s civil engineering and construction portfolio spans the lifecycle of civil infrastructure assets from feasibility and capital budgeting, to planning and design, to construction, through long-term operation and maintenance. The company’s solutions serve key industry stakeholders, including asset owners or clients, design engineers, consultants, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers. The company’s technological suite is employed across the entire project lifecycle to improve productivity, reduce waste and re-work, including reduced carbon emissions, and enable more informed decision-making through enhanced situational awareness, data flow, data-driven insights and decision support, and project collaboration. At the same time, the company’s solutions can improve worker safety and reduce environmental impact. The company’s suite of integrated solutions and technologies in this area includes field and office software for estimating and job cost management and optimized project design and visualization; software for 3D design and data sharing; systems to automatically guide and control construction equipment such as excavators, bulldozers, wheel loaders, motor graders, and paving equipment; systems to monitor, track, and manage assets, equipment, and workers; and software to facilitate the management of the construction process and for sharing and communication of data in real-time. Together, these solutions are designed to transform how work is done within the civil construction industry.
The civil construction market portfolio integrates data and information across the entire construction process and across mixed fleets. This includes data from site positioning and machine control systems, construction asset management equipment and services, and various software applications. Utilizing wireless and internet-based site communications infrastructure, the company’s solutions include the ability to track and control equipment, deploy a 3D model to machines, track the progress of work in real-time, and reduce re-work. By leveraging the company’s technology, contractors gain greater insight into their operations, helping them to lower costs and improve productivity, worker safety, and asset utilization.
The company maintains a joint venture with Caterpillar, Caterpillar-Trimble Control Technologies, to develop the next generation of advanced electronic guidance and control products for earth-moving machines. The company also maintains a joint venture with Hilti, which focuses on the joint development of measuring solutions for the building construction trades and integrating data for construction management.
Positioning Services
Trimble Positioning Services serves customers in a variety of end markets, including agriculture, construction, geospatial, automotive, and other markets. This service improves positional accuracy and enables higher levels of precision and automation for work processes and systems, including autonomous solutions. Trimble GNSS-based correction services are available in a variety of formats and accuracy levels, depending on the relevant application’s specific needs. Subscription-based services offered by Trimble Positioning Services include VRSNow; CenterPoint RTX; FieldPoint RTX; Rangepoint RTX; ViewPoint RTX; Trimble xFill; and OmniSTAR (HP, XP, G2, and VBS) services.
During 2024, the company announced several new developments in Field Systems, including the Trimble R980 GNSS receiver, its new flagship model featuring industry-leading ProPoint and IonoGuard technology; the configurable Trimble X9 3D laser scanning system, available with perpetual and term-based licensing options; and Trimble Reality Capture platform service, an extension within Trimble Connect, unlocking the potential of scan data in the cloud. The company further expanded its reality capture portfolio with the new Trimble MX90 and Trimble MX60 mobile mapping systems and an update to the company’s Trimble SiteVision augmented reality software, which also includes scanning capabilities. Additionally, the company delivered multiple feature releases in its powerful Trimble Access field software; Trimble Business Center office software; Trimble 4D Control monitoring software, as well as TerraFlex and TerraOffice software. The company’s software development continues to be focused on driving productivity through enhanced connectivity, supporting strategic industry workflows by delivering connected workflows and emphasizing interoperability.
The company sells and distributes its products in the Field Systems segment primarily through global networks of independent distributors with expertise and customer relationships in the respective markets, including SITECH Technology dealers, which serve the civil construction industry, and BuildingPoint dealers, which serve the building construction industry. The company also sells many of its software solutions through the company’s own direct sales force when bundled into Trimble’s Construction One offering to contractors, sub-contractors, and consulting engineers.
Transportation and Logistics segment
The T&L segment provides a suite of solutions for shippers, carriers, and intermediaries globally. Within this segment, the company’s most substantial product portfolio addresses the truckload freight market.
Transportation
The company’s transportation solutions provide capabilities for the long-haul trucking and freight shipper markets to create a connected supply chain and integrate all forms of transportation, drivers, back-office management, shippers, and freight. The company provides enterprise and mobility solutions focused on business intelligence and data analytics, safety and regulatory compliance, navigation and routing, freight brokerage, AI-powered transportation procurement, supply chain visibility and final mile, and transportation management and fleet maintenance.
In the transportation market, the company offers a suite of solutions that provides comprehensive fleet and transportation management systems, analytics, routing, mapping, reporting, and predictive modeling solutions to enable the transportation industry to achieve greater overall operational efficiency, fleet utilization, including greater fuel efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, and profitability while ensuring regulatory compliance. In addition to cloud-hosted solutions, the company also integrates its applications and services directly into the customer’s IT infrastructure.
The transportation management system serves as a central hub from which the core operations of transportation organizations are managed, data is stored and analyzed, and mission-critical business processes are automated. The company’s enterprise transportation management system automates business processes spanning the entire transportation lifecycle for shippers, carriers, and intermediaries, delivering visibility, control, and decision support for the intricate relationships and complex processes involved in the movement of freight. The company’s products also provide truck routing, mileage, and mapping solutions, as well as a voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation solution.
Transporeon
The company’s Transporeon solutions cover the transportation lifecycle from freight sourcing and procurement, through freight execution, including dock and yard management all the way to freight auditing. The company’s collective offerings position it uniquely to help customers tackle everyday challenges in the supply chain industry. Each Transporeon product can be used standalone or in combination with each other. With the amount of data, the company generates every day—up to approximately 200,000 transports and dock scheduling appointments get executed and booked on the Transporeon platform daily—it is able to provide data insights and market benchmarks, and enable the company’s customers to use Generative AI enabled products, which base the decision making and learning on historical data, as well as a constantly growing set of new information.
During 2024, the company had a number of developments in T&L. In September 2024, Trimble and Platform Science announced a partnership to transform the transportation industry through a definitive agreement for Platform Science to acquire the company’s Mobility business. The transaction closed on February 8, 2025, and Trimble became a shareholder in Platform Science’s expanded business. Additionally, the company integrated its real-time visibility solutions from Trimble and Transporeon for workflows to improve customer service and operational efficiency by giving customers the ability to notify their ecosystems of exceptions and delays with their shipments in real-time; and Transporeon offerings were standardized on Trimble Maps and PC*Miler routing offering customers the benefit of Trimble’s commercial routing solution globally.
The T&L segment generally sells directly to end users and OEMs. Competitors in this segment are typically companies that provide transportation management software, and digital freight matching. The company competes principally on the basis of interoperability, domain expertise, customer support and service, price, innovative product offerings, quality, and the completeness of its solutions.
Seasonality of Business
Construction equipment revenue, within the company’s Field Systems segment, historically has been higher in early spring. However, overall, as a company, it is experiencing less seasonality as a result of the diversification of the company’s businesses across segments and the increased impact of software and subscription revenue.
Intellectual Property
The company holds over 1,000 unique issued and enforceable patents covering key technology areas, including precision GNSS, optical and inertial positioning solutions, AI and machine learning, IoT, cloud computing, laser scanning, 3D modeling, point cloud processing, augmented reality, and many others.
History
The company was founded in 1978. It was incorporated in 1981. The company was formerly known as Trimble Navigation Limited and changed its name to Trimble Inc. in 2016.
