Thirty years of technological leadership

Trimble is a worldwide company headed by president and CEO Steven W. Berglund. The geographically diverse management team oversees 3,600 employees in 18 countries, as well as worldwide manufacturing and research and development facilities. Over the past five years, Trimble has experienced solid growth with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent and 2007 revenue of US$1.2 billion. Fifty percent of Trimble’s total 2007 sales were in the U.S., 27 percent in Europe, 12 percent in Asia-Pacific and the remainder from the rest of the world. In 2007, Trimble’s revenue growth was strong in all segments across geographical regions, but growth was even faster outside the U.S.

Trimble Financial Highlight

Revenue In $ Millions

Trimble reports its revenues in four segments: Engineering and Construction (E&C), Trimble Field Solutions (TFS), Trimble Mobile Solutions (TMS) and Advanced Devices. Trimble targets these markets through strategic alliances with industry leaders, and a global dealer distribution channel bolstered by a highly skilled internal sales and field service organization.

Acquisitions have played a role in Trimble’s strategy, principally as mechanisms to establish beachheads in new market spaces, fill in product line gaps, or add new technologies to its solutions portfolio. More importantly, continued innovation and industry domain experience are the primary drivers which allow Trimble to focus on organic growth as our principal strategy in our core market segments.

Engineering & Construction (E&C), the largest of these segments, includes Trimble’s survey products, which are state-of-the art tools for survey, engineering and construction professionals. E&C is also the home of the Connected Site™ model, a technology enhanced strategy that seamlessly and electronically ties the entire engineering and construction process from feasibility and planning through maintenance. Trimble has one of the broadest E&C product portfolios available in the market today.

The second segment, Trimble Field Solutions (TFS), includes Trimble’s Mapping and Geographic Information System (MGIS) and precision agriculture products. Precision agriculture includes Global Positioning System (GPS) farming systems that provide precise guidance for field operations, as well as map data collection on tillage, applications, planting, weeds, insect and disease infestations, cultivation and irrigation. GIS products cater to workers who are in the field and need to pass location data and productivity information back to the office. This includes field service, utility and environmental workers.

The Trimble Mobile Solutions (TMS) segment provides fleet management hardware and software to enhance worker productivity and asset utilization. The TMS segment has been an area of investment for Trimble, particularly with the acquisition of @Road, which was completed on February 16, 2007, and is a strategic focus for the Company going forward.

Trimble’s Advanced Devices segment is where much of the company’s early Intellectual Property (IP) resides. This division supplies chip and board-level products as well as technology licenses to OEMs. Advanced Devices is also focused on creating products that include value-added software and services such as the TrimTrac™ Locator, an asset monitoring device that combines GPS, a cellular modem, and a motion sensor in a small cable-free package.

Trimble and Survey
Trimble has pioneered many of the innovative technologies that have changed the way surveyors work. These innovations include Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS, servo and robotic total stations, and VRS™ (GNSS network infrastructure) technology.

Trimble's portfolio of survey solutions – GNSS and GPS receivers, optical total stations, 3D scanners and spatial imaging instruments, as well as VRS infrastructure technology – are all designed to work seamlessly together. Trimble’s Integrated Surveying™ concept has led surveying businesses to unparalleled levels of success and continues to be a key component in Trimble’s development efforts. The concept is based and dependent on Trimble’s system design, ranging from internal data communication between different sensors, structure of data bases, data security and reliability, and backwards compatibility of solutions while also preparing for new trends, such as 3D.

Trimble’s Integrated Surveying portfolio includes solutions such as the Trimble® R8 GNSS System, Trimble S8 and Trimble S6 Total Stations and other surveying instruments as well as data collection hardware and field and office software solutions such as Trimble Survey Controller and Trimble Survey Manager.

Trimble’s Spatial Imaging portfolio is focused on enhanced 3D solutions, visualization and enhanced end-user deliverables and includes products such as the Trimble GX™ 3D Scanner, the Trimble VX™ Spatial Station and Trimble RealWorks® Survey software.

Trimble’s infrastructure business today offers solutions that are essential to the backbone for geodetic networks with its well-known Trimble VRS technology. The vast majority of worldwide geodetic networks are powered by Trimble VRS. In addition to the CORS hardware and software components, the solution has evolved into complete turn-key systems and also a services business – Trimble VRS Now™ Service, making it easier than ever to achieve centimeter-level positioning with reduced complexity and investment.

Providing technology leadership to enhance the productivity of our customers is the foundation of Trimble’s R&D efforts. And it is these efforts that have led Trimble to develop its Connected Site model.

Trimble’s primary drivers for the Connected Site solutions for survey include productivity through innovation, scalable solutions, building partnerships and global service and support. Taking Trimble’s Integrated Surveying to the next level, the Connected Site enables surveyors to choose from a broad range of options, including surveying techniques, communications channels and facilitating services such as GNSS infrastructure in one fully-integrated and interoperable surveying solution. Surveyors benefit from complete data compatibility with Trimble field and office software; increased flexibility in employing the best tools and techniques for the job at hand; the adaptation of specialized technologies to fit the ideal workflow of surveyors; and the localization of surveying solutions to address specific market needs throughout the world. In addition, Trimble’s worldwide network of knowledgeable, local distribution partners help Trimble users select the best solutions to address their specific business challenges and provide for their service and support needs.

Trimble’s Connected Site solutions integrate three innovative technologies – positioning technology, wireless communication and information management – into daily project workflows. By employing technology advances to tie hardware to hardware, hardware to software, hardware and software to networks, and to tie all of these to project stakeholders, the Connected Site model can revolutionize work processes.

Enabling productivity through innovation is a hallmark of Trimble. Technology will continue to advance – and Trimble will continue to be at the forefront, providing innovative solutions that change the way surveyors work, both now and in the future.

Highlighted Trimble Survey Products

Trimble S8 Total Station and Trimble 4D Control Software for Surveying and Specialized Engineering Applications
The Trimble S8 Total Station is Trimble’s most advanced optical instrument to date. Designed to deliver unsurpassed performance in both surveying and specialized engineering applications such as monitoring and tunneling, the robotic Trimble S8 offers 1" angular accuracy and EDM precision of 1 mm + 1 ppm, plus numerous features to enhance efficiency and productivity.

The Trimble S8 instrument is built on Trimble’s latest total station technologies. Trimble’s MagDrive™ servo technology ensures the total station is fast and silent so users can survey or monitor (unobtrusively) more targets in less time, detect movements faster, and initiate alarms earlier.

Equipped with unique features, the Trimble S8 Total Station includes Trimble FineLock™ technology and high-speed data synchronization outputs. FineLock is a smart tracker sensor with a narrow field of view that enables the Trimble S8 to detect a target without interference from surrounding prisms. The 10 Hz high-speed synchronized data output makes data collection faster and more accurate. For example, when monitoring a railway car or ATV, the instrument can move more quickly without compromising accuracy.

The Trimble S8 Total Station works with the Trimble CU and TSC2® Controllers running Trimble Survey Controller software, which offers an optional Engineering module. Trimble 4D Control software is a postprocessing software designed for engineering applications such as monitoring. When target movement is detected over time, the customizable Trimble 4D Control software generates alarms and warnings so the information can be acted on quickly.

The Trimble S8 Total Station’s optical data can be combined with GPS and 3D scanning data, or it can be used as a Trimble I.S. Rover.

Trimble GX 3D Scanner – the Next Generation
The Trimble GX 3D Scanner is an advanced surveying and spatial imaging sensor that uses high-speed laser and video to capture coordinates and image data. The data is then processed in Trimble RealWorks Survey software and delivered to clients in compelling 2D and 3D.

With the latest generation of the Trimble GX 3D Scanner, users can collect millions of points for photo-realistic resolution, or they can collect exactly the number of points they need with Trimble SureScan™ technology. SureScan patented technology maintains a user-defined, equal density of points even for target objects such as roads and tunnels. Users won’t capture too many points at short distances or too few points at longer distances. The system enables surveyors and geospatial professionals to collect and process data faster by focusing on collecting the right points, not just more points.

The Trimble GX 3D Scanner system also supports the field-proven Trimble TSC2 Controller. The TSC2 Controller runs Trimble PocketScape™ field software, plus standard and specialized Windows® Mobile® programs. Its industry-leading communication technologies offer cable-free convenience and wireless connectivity anywhere, and the TSC2 Controller can be used with all Trimble positioning sensors on a job, including GPS systems and total stations.

Trimble VX Spatial Station – Greater Efficiency in the Field and Office
The Trimble VX Spatial Station has been enhanced through new functionality in Trimble Survey Controller field software and Trimble RealWorks Survey™ office software, improving field productivity and allowing users to create enhanced deliverables in the office.

The new in-field functionality for Trimble Survey Controller includes polygon framing that allows users to select exactly the area they want to scan. Users can thereby complete scanning jobs faster. Users can also view captured point clouds over the video stream of their job site, as well as enjoy panoramic image capture. These new capabilities enable users to minimize gaps and overlaps in scan data, reducing redundancy and rework.

For enhanced office deliverables, Trimble RealWorks Survey software allows spatial imaging professionals to provide data to clients as a walk-through or fly-through in 3D, which is ideal for a comprehensive project review. In addition, users can export 3D models into Google™ Earth, so data can be viewed as it will actually appear as an object onsite.

Trimble VRS Now Networks in Europe – Connect, Correct and Measure
Professionals who rely on precise measurements in Great Britain have enjoyed a boost in field productivity since 2006 with Trimble VRS Now service. The subscription service enables field positioning professionals to obtain instant access to network RTK corrections. Centimeter-accurate GPS measurements are no longer dependent on time-consuming base station setups. With Trimble VRS Now, RTK corrections require only a rover receiver and a cellular connection.
Using data from OS Net, the nationwide GPS network operated by Great Britain's mapping agency Ordnance Survey, the Trimble service delivers centimeter-level RTK positioning customized for each GPS receiver's exact location anywhere in the network. The service supplies fast and accurate GPS positioning for a variety of applications including surveying, urban planning, urban and rural construction, environmental monitoring, resource and territory management, disaster prevention and relief, and scientific research.

Germany was the second EU country to have access to a Trimble VRS Now service. Implemented in 2006, the Trimble RTK network service has made recent changes that make centimeter positioning accuracy easier than ever. Partnering with T-Mobile, Trimble is providing mobile phone coverage with subscriptions to Trimble VRS Now in Germany. By combining mobile minutes and network RTK into a single contract, users now have one less contract to manage, one less bill to pay and a single contact to acquire and activate their country-wide network correction service. Three levels of RTK service and differential GPS service are available in Germany. Simplifying everything from package to purchase, Trimble VRS Now makes RTK easy.

The latest network expansion includes coverage for all of Germany. The Trimble VRS Now network also includes GLONASS streams in areas of availability. Users in enabled areas can connect with the complete range of GNSS signals available today for improved initialization times. In Germany, Trimble also supports both GSM and GPRS so subscribers maintain a seamless link to the system in areas where either communications systems is preferred.

Ireland and Northern Ireland have also implemented Trimble VRS Now Service. Using the precise data supplied by Ordnance Survey of Ireland and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, users can connect to centimeter-accuracy on demand with a GPS receiver, a mobile connection and a subscription to the service.

Trimble VRS Now Service was also recently launched in Madrid, Spain. The Madrid GNSS network covers approximately 28,900 square kilometers across the greater Madrid area. The Trimble VRS Now Service represents a major advance in precision surveying productivity: Rigorous testing for reliability and accuracy ensures high-quality performance on an ongoing basis. And without the need for base station hardware, the user’s GNSS receivers can now work independently as rovers – saving time and money.

For further information: info_europe@trimble.com or www.trimble.com