The Leading Licensing Solution for the Geoscience Industry
Trusted by leading geoscience software providers, 10Duke powers flexible, secure, and scalable licensing for companies delivering subsurface modeling, geological analysis, and geospatial solutions.
Powering Modern Geoscience Workflows
Geoscience platforms are built around complex, data-intensive workflows that span disciplines such as geology, geophysics, and geospatial analysis.
Typical use cases include:
- Subsurface and 3D earth modeling
- Seismic interpretation and reservoir characterization
- Geological data integration from drilling, surveys, and sensors
- Resource estimation and mine planning
- Environmental and groundwater modeling
These workflows are:
- Highly collaborative, involving geoscientists, engineers, and analysts
- Distributed across offices, field sites, and remote locations
Dependent on large datasets and compute-heavy simulations
As a result, licensing must support:
- Dynamic access across users and locations
- Hybrid environments (desktop + cloud + HPC)
- Project-based and usage-based work patterns
Legacy licensing approaches are not designed for this level of complexity.
Driving Growth in Geoscience Software
Seequent is a global leader in geoscience software, providing solutions for subsurface modeling, geological data analysis, and earth modeling across mining, civil engineering, and environmental sectors.
Challenge
Seequent needed to modernize licensing to support:
- A global and growing user base
- Complex geoscience workflows across multiple environments
- More flexible monetization approaches beyond dongles and static licenses
Solution
By implementing 10Duke’s cloud-based, identity-based licensing, Seequent was able to centralize license management and enable flexible, user-centric access to its applications.
Result
- Scalable licensing across global teams
- Improved access for geoscientists and engineers
- Reduced operational complexity
- Enabled continued growth and innovation
The Result
10Duke played a pivotal role in Seequent's accelerated revenue growth, culminating in their acquisition by Bentley Systems for $1.05 billion.
"Since 2016, Seequent have used 10Duke to provide customers with flexible seat licenses, enabling their teams to work more efficiently. This gave us the ability to create new forms of commercial models to unlock revenue."
"10Duke provided important new levels of user insight to better understand our customers when it came to renewal time. The use of this data driven approach has been pivotal in our fast growth rate as a business."
What Do the Engineers Say?
10Duke Enterprise was the only product, in our assessment, that had the flexibility and extensibility to support the existing license models for our existing desktop software and the web based software we were bringing to market. Through a highly extensible design, 10Duke Enterprise can be extended to deliver any authorization and licensing solution you need. 10Duke Enterprise has been able to grow with our business. It was always performant, scaling with our user base.
"It’s reliable, it’s stable, it’s going to operate 24/7, and it’s also highly configurable. 10Duke have really opened up our business to quickly adapt to the needs of the customers."
Why 10Duke is the Go-to Licensing Solution for Geoscience
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Support Subsurface and Geological Workflows End-to-End
Enable seamless access to applications used in subsurface modeling, geological interpretation, and geospatial analysis, ensuring users can move between datasets, models, and tools without licensing friction.
02
Enable Licensing Across Exploration and Field Operations
Geoscience work often spans headquarters, regional offices, and field environments such as drilling sites or survey locations. 10Duke supports flexible access across distributed teams and intermittent connectivity scenarios.
03
Adapt to Project-Based and Resource-Driven Work
Licensing in geoscience often aligns with exploration phases, mining projects, or environmental studies. 10Duke enables flexible licensing methods that match how software is actually used, including identity-based, floating, and usage-based approaches.
04
Handle Large-Scale Data and Compute Environments
Geoscience applications frequently process large geological datasets and run advanced simulations, including reservoir models or geostatistical analysis. 10Duke supports licensing across local machines, cloud platforms, and high-performance computing environments.
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Secure Access to Sensitive Geological and Geospatial Data
Control access to valuable subsurface data, geological models, and proprietary datasets with secure authentication, entitlement management, and integration with enterprise identity systems.
Monetize Advanced Geoscience Capabilities
Control and monetize access to high-value features such as advanced modeling modules, simulation tools, and data integrations using identity-based licensing.
Enable trials, tiered feature access, and flexible licensing methods that align with your commercial models.
Deliver these capabilities through a fully managed, cloud-based licensing service, without requiring customers to deploy or maintain license servers
From Case Study to Real-World Impact
Modern Licensing enabled Seequent to scale access, collaboration, and commercial flexibility.
This reflects a broader shift in the geoscience industry, where software providers are moving toward more flexible, scalable, and user-centric licensing approaches.
Build the Future of Geoscience Software with 10Duke
Whether your solutions support subsurface modeling, seismic interpretation, or geospatial analysis, 10Duke provides the licensing foundation to scale your business.
Deliver flexible access, improve monetization, and support complex geoscience workflows with a modern, cloud-based licensing platform.
Unlock 15-35% more license revenue from existing customers
10Duke is the best-in-class cloud-based software licensing platform designed for fast-growing software businesses.
Improve how you license and monetize your software products.
