NEW ORLEANS — Trimble on Monday launched a lineup of new AI-powered products and integrations as the company kicked off its 2025 Insight Tech Conference, aiming to accelerate automation and connectivity across the transportation and logistics sector.
The conference, held Sunday through Tuesday, includes around 700 attendees and features more than 200 information sessions and product demonstrations.
During an opening keynote, CEO Rob Painter and Michael Kornhauser, senior vice president of transportation and logistics, outlined a strategy centered on linking data, people and workflows through a unified, intelligent ecosystem.
“We choose the future where our connected ecosystem is that magic thing, growing and transforming the trajectory of our industries. We see our job as delivering confidence,” Painter said.
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) is a provider of technology for trucking companies, freight brokerages and third-party logistics providers. The company also operates in industries such as construction and buildings, geospatial hardware and software, and resources and utilities.
The conference’s marquee announcement was the debut of Trimble TMS, a cloud-native, modular transportation management system designed for the “AI age.”
“This is the cornerstone of your connected future. Trimble TMS is not just an upgrade. It is the only Trimble-connected, cloud-first, AI-powered TMS,” Kornhauser said. “What makes it unique is it was built for the complex operations of enterprise transportation companies. Trimble TMS is designed to be a single intelligence center of our connected transportation ecosystem.”
At a media roundtable on Monday, Kornhauser emphasized that the new TMS is intentionally configurable — not customizable — a shift meant to reduce risks associated with bespoke software.
“Customers understand that customized software only they consume is risky for their business,” he said. “Our goal is to turn customizations into configurations and provide an extensible platform that can scale.”
Painter added that the new platform is designed to become a “system of intelligence” for fleets. “People get inspired by a system of intelligence — a single place to run your business — not just a system of record,” he said.
The new TMS embeds AI across seven modules — order, capacity, supply/demand, status, back office and control center — to automate order-to-cash functions and provide predictive insights, including seven-day network load forecasting.
The system can be deployed either as an end-to-end platform or integrated into existing Trimble TMS products.
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