Some long-term users may still operate under older "perpetual" licenses, where the software was purchased outright.
| Scenario | Recommended License | | :--- | :--- | | | Standalone Perpetual (Buy once, use for 5+ years) | | Medium Firm (10 staff) | Network Concurrent (5 licenses for 10 staff) | | Large Corporate | Subscription (For budget flexibility & cloud features) | | Legacy Project Support | Keep an old Standalone dongle on a virtual machine. | tedds license
Still unsure? Open your Task Manager. If TEDDS is running right now in the background while you read this blog, you are wasting a license seat. Go close it. Some long-term users may still operate under older
Trimble is slowly integrating TEDDS logic into Trimble Connect and other cloud ecosystems. If you are buying a new TEDDS license today , chances are high it will be subscription-only. The era of buying a physical CD and a dongle for a one-off fee of $3,000 is ending. Open your Task Manager
: Access to the Tedds API documentation is included, enabling users to automate calculations or integrate Tedds into third-party software workflows.