Industrial software is the“key foundation”for promoting the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, and it is now extremely urgent to achieve its independent control. In response to the prominent issues of domestic industrial software being“unusable,unwilling to use,and afraid to use”,this paper selects the seismic data processing and interpretation software GeoEast as a typical case and systematically analyzes the key measures it has taken to solve the application problems. Research has found that GeoEast has effectively alleviated users’concerns about“not being able to use”,“unwilling to use”,and“daring not to use”domestic software through long-term high-intensity investment,distribution of application incentive allowances,and establishment of administrative assessment systems,and successfully achieved large-scale substitution of imported software. Based on this,this paper puts forward suggestions for accelerating the domestic substitution of industrial software from the three aspects of long-term investment,incentive policies,and assessment systems,which provides a reference for exploring application and promotion paths that conform to the development model of domestic industrial software.