The company provides geophysical and geological software and geospatial server technology for professional geoscientists involved in natural resource exploration and related earth science disciplines.

The software interests of Paterson, Grant and Watson were spun off to form Geosoft Incorporated on February 1, 1986.

In July, 2007, Geosoft acquired the software rights to the potential-field modelling program GM-SYS from Corvallis, Oregon company Northwest Geophysical Associates .

Geosoft's DAP server[20] is enterprise software that provides services to catalogue, manage, deliver and visualize large spatial exploration data sets.

It is considered middleware technology, designed to deal with spatial data security, stability, retrieval and reliability across an organization.