FME 23.1 provides several new features to improve productivity, accelerate project delivery, enable deployment anywhere, and expand the largest data integration ecosystem. Key updates include AI assist for authoring workflows, enhanced comparison of workspaces, deployment parameters for standardization, remote engine services, support for new cloud data formats, and major performance improvements for common transformations. The webinar demonstrated several new capabilities and encouraged attendees to download FME, explore additional resources, and provide feedback to help further improve the platform.

1. ElevateYour
Enterprise with
FME 23.1

2. Dale
Lutz
Co-Founder
Stewart
Harper
Technical Director,
Cloud Services
Rylan
Maschak
Product Manager,
FME Flow

3. Agenda
1 Introduction
2 Safe & FME
3 Unrivaled Productivity
4 Accelerate Project Delivery
5 Deploy Anywhere
6 Largest Ecosystem
7 Other Key Features & Enhancements
8 Getting Started with FME 23.1 & Resources
Agenda

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5. 1
Introduction

6. Achieving cross-departmental
success is crucial in today’s
dynamic data landscape.
Simplifying and streamlining complex processes is
essential for unlocking new growth opportunities.

7. 2
Safe & FME

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9. 29+
27K+
128
190
20K+
years of solving data
challenges
FME Community
members
countries with
FME customers
organizations worldwide
global partners with
FME services
29+
29K+
128
140+
25K+
years of solving data
challenges
FME Community
members
countries with
FME customers
organizations worldwide
global partners with
FME services
200K+
Users worldwide

10. One platform, two technologies
FME Form FME Flow
Build and run data workflows Automate data workflows
FME Flow Hosted
Safe Software managed instance
fme.safe.com/platform
FME Enterprise Integration Platform

11. Number
of
supported
data
types
in
FME
1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2023…
10
100
300
500
GIS
CAD
Database
XML
Raster
3D
BIM
Web
Point
Cloud
Cloud
Big
Data
IOT
Gaming
BI
Indoor
Mapping
AR/VR
Generative
AI
Cloud
Native
Tabular
Unrivalled Data Support

12. Availability
Systems & Data Types
Usability
Unstructured (Dark) & Structured Data
Integrity
Dirty & Clean Data
Delivery
ETL, Bulk/Batch, Real-time,
High Velocity Streams, and more
Organized &
useful
Disorganized &
unrefined
Inaccurate &
incomplete
Trustworthy &
high quality
All-data
integration
solution
1,000+ built-in data connections

13. Our Differentiators Define Who We Are
1 2 3 4 5
Unrivalled
Productivity
(No-Code Environment)
Largest
Ecosystem
(Only Integration Platform
with Geospatial)
Deploy
Anywhere
(Flexible, Performant,
Secure)
You Get It
All
(Every Component,
Every Capability)
Restaurant
Model
(Product and Service)

14. An Unfair
Advantage in
Geospatial
1
Largest
Ecosystem
(Only one with
geospatial)

16. Bringing new possibilities
to your data.
Let's take a closer look at all the ways FME 2023.1 takes your
business to new heights.

17. 3
Unrivaled
Productivity

18. AI Assist
Regex, SQL,
Python

19. AI Assist
● Meet your FME Form
co-author!
● Augment and accelerate
your authoring experience
Unrivaled Productivity

20. Demo

21. Regex
● Generate regex with text
string results
Unrivaled Productivity

22. SQL
● Generate SQL queries
Unrivaled Productivity

23. Python
● Generate, comment, and
refine
Unrivaled Productivity

24. We’d love your
feedback!
Use the ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs
down’ icon to submit your
comments directly in the tool

25. Compare
Workspaces

26. User-friendly
No-code visual interface for
citizen integrators.
Collaboration
Collaborate on workspaces
as a team or customize
externally authored
workspaces.
Productivity
Compare workspaces side by
side, see differences, and
reconcile changes.
Unrivaled Productivity

27. Fast-track Productivity
● Highlight changes
● Sync the scroll bar and
expand/collapse in the
Navigator
● Compare differences in
runtime order
● View dialogues side-by-side
Unrivaled Productivity

28. Graphically resolve git merge conflicts
git Integration
Unrivaled Productivity

29. Automations
Link Counts

30. Understand and Debug
Automation Workflows
● See the number of events
flowing through the
automation
● Which triggers and actions
are running
● How many triggers and
actions are running
Unrivaled Productivity

31. 4
Accelerate
Project
Delivery

32. Projects

33. Full Dependency
Support
● All nested dependencies
are now included when you
add items to a Project
● Dependencies are
viewable in the Projects UI
Accelerate Project Delivery

34. Preview Import
● Preview what is in a Project
before you import it
● Decide if you wish to import
key items
Accelerate Project Delivery

35. Demo

37. Deployment
Parameters

38. DevOps-ready
Simplify and make production
pipeline simpler and more
reliable.
Standardization
Same configuration across
FME deployments.
Portability
Move solutions from one
FME deployment to another
with no edits.
Accelerate Project Delivery

39. Increase Efficiency
and Eliminate Errors
● Maintain and standardize
FME Platform configuration
in one place
○ Apply to different
environments
● Create local overrides to
parameter values for easier
testing and flexibility
Accelerate Project Delivery

40. Demo

42. 5
Deploy
Anywhere

43. Data today is larger, faster, more
varied and more distributed than
ever before.
Deploy Anywhere

44. Remote Engine
Service

45. Security
Support data compliance and
security by keeping the data
in its secure location.
Increased
Efficiency
Process your data wherever it
resides—eliminate network
latency and data transfer.
Deploy
Anywhere
Deploy processing anywhere
as part of one deployment.
Hybrid Cloud/On-prem, Multi-Cloud,
Multi-Region
Deploy Anywhere

46. On-Premises to Cloud
Deploy Anywhere

47. Global Remote
Engine Deployment
Deploy one FME Flow and
distribute Engines across your
entire corporate cloud
infrastructure.
Deploy Anywhere

48. Multi-Cloud
Deployment
Securely place processing in a
cloud that FME Flow does not
reside in.
Deploy Anywhere

49. Automatic Licensing
● Licensing now controlled
from the main FME Flow
● Easier deployment of
distributed processing
● Disposable, transient
processing where you
need it
Deploy Anywhere

50. Demo

51. 6
Largest
Ecosystem

52. ● Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) (23.0)
● Cloud Optimized Point Cloud Reader (COPC) (23.1)
● FlatGeobuf (23.0)
● GeoParquet (23.1)
● ZARR (23.1)
New Cloud Optimized Formats
Ecosystem Expansion

53. ● Generative AI Reader (23.0)
● AI Transformers (9 on FME Hub)
New Frontiers
natural language
Ecosystem Expansion

54. HTTPCaller & OpenAPI
● Import and auto-populate
parameters from the
OpenAPI Specification
Ecosystem Expansion

55. ● EsriReprojector: Support multi-step transformations
System Updates
Expand Your Data Connectivity
● DGN: Read/Write Coordinate System
● ArcGIS: Improved Feature Dataset Handling
● ArcGIS: New datetime fields and 64-bit integer field type
● Snowflake: Improvements
New Transformers

56. Transformer Designer
● Build and share custom
connectors to support
specific use cases, meet
your clients’ needs, and
show your expertise
● Transformer Designer
works in combination with
the Python Package SDK
Democratize the Creation of FME Transformers

57. ‘Verified’ Publisher Tier
● Build and publish your own
solutions to Hub, greater
acknowledgement in product,
quality for robust workflows
FME Hub
🚀Apply Today
https://hub.safe.com/verified-publisher

58. Easy Access to Hub
Content
● Find and view FME Hub
content directly within
Quick Add, and see this
grouped by publisher type
FME Hub & Workbench

59. 7
Other Features &
Key Enhancements

60. Feature Information
Window
● Simplified content relevance
and hierarchy
● Bonus: List collapse/expand
Other Features & Key Enhancements

61. Flow Connection in
Toolbar
● Communicate directly with
an FME Flow instance
● Access deployment
parameters
Other Features & Key Enhancements

62. Performance

63. Aggregator
● One Hour to Just Over 6 Minutes
● Large Group-by scenario
Other Features & Key Enhancements
AreaOnAreaOverlayer
● Many cases are 2x faster
● At least one case is 70x faster
Surface Clipping
● At least one workspace with a large
candidate mesh is 110x faster
Raster Clipping
● At least one case shows a 3x
performance improvement
● At least one case uses 55x
smaller peak memory

64. Clipper: Curve-Area Clipping
● At least one workspace with large donut clippers is 17x faster for Clipper
versions 14 and above
● The same performance improvements will apply to older Clipper versions in
FME 2024.0
Other Features & Key Enhancements
Clipper: Area-Area Clipping
● 18x faster (28m 31s down to 1m 35s)
● ∞x faster (Out-of-memory crash to
2m41.3s)
● > 25x faster (20ish minutes down to 50
seconds)
● 16x faster (2.5hrs down to 9m20s)
● > 10x faster (10+ minutes down to
50s)
● 36x faster (18 minutes -> 30s)

65. Poll: Which features will drive the
most value for your organization?
(Select up to 3)

66. 8
Getting Started
with FME 23.1
& Resources

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