Business Intelligence (BI) tools allow you to make better business decisions through effective data analysis and visibility. Unfortunately, dealing with disparate geospatial data sources can make it difficult to bring your data together into one central BI space. Cue FME: the data integration platform with the best support for geospatial data worldwide. With FME, you can easily bring a multitude of data sources into BI. During this webinar, you’ll learn: What BI tools are available for geospatial data How to get your spatial data into BI How to use webhooks to provide real-time updates to data in your BI tools Our team of live FME Specialists will answer any questions you may have on this topic. By the end, you’ll know how to use FME to bring your data into BI so you can gain valuable insights and make better decisions.

1. Power Up Your
BI with
Geospatial Data

2. Meet the Presenters
Laura Wu
Technical Support Team
Lead, FME Server
Daragh Broderick
Technical Support
Specialist, FME Desktop
Kezia Yu
Technical Support
Specialist, FME Server

3. Agenda
● Introduction to FME and BI
tools
● Getting spatial data into BI
● Using webhooks to provide
real-time updates to data in
BI tools
● Working with high-volume
data streams
● Resources

4. What are BI Tools?
What is Business Intelligence (BI)? BI analyzes data generated by a business and
presents easy-to-digest reports, performance measures, and trends that inform
management decisions.
Business Intelligence Tools are types of application software that collect and process
large amounts of unstructured data from internal and external systems, and visualize
the data in a manner that allows for effective decision-making.

5. Location Intelligence and BI
Combining your business data with geospatial information provides
important context to your data and helps unlock new insights

6. But dealing with disparate
geospatial data sources can
make it difficult to bring your
data together into one central
BI space.

7. Obstacles
So a lot people just donʼt use their geospatial data.
What happens to many businesses, is they let their valuable data go wasted because itʼs
too frustrating or confusing to work with. If youʼve ever felt this way about your data,
youʼre in the right place.

8. Geospatial data is not always easy to use
The most common frustrations people have with their geospatial data are:
● It is spread across various sources
● It is in unusable formats
● Processes for analyzing across programs are complex
● Dealing with different coordinate systems

9. FME can help!
The data integration platform with the best support for
geospatial data worldwide.
FME makes it possible to bring a multitude of these data sources together into BI,
easier than ever before.

10. Our Mission
To help you maximize the value of
your data.

11. Company Profile
Safe Software
Years of solving data challenges
25+
10,000+
Organizations trusting us worldwide
Partners supporting our network
150+
128
Countries with FME customers

12. FME®
Integration Platform
Connect. Transform. Automate.
FME Desktop FME Server FME Cloud
Build & Run Data Workflows Automate Data Workflows
(on-premises)
Automate Data Workflows
(cloud)
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13. Unrivaled Data Support

14. Spatial Data Prep for BI

15. Connect
Data between
450+ systems
Extend
Capabilities with custom
connections, transformers,
R & Python
Run
Workflows locally or publish
to FME Server
FME Desktop
Quickly author repeatable, self-documenting data integration
workflows using an intuitive visual interface.
No coding required.

16. BI Tools in FME
● Tableau - Hyper Writer
● Qlik - Qlik JSON Reader & Qlik Data eXchange Writer
● PowerBI - Web Connection

17. Spatial Data Prep
The Goal
Introduce FME
Desktop, Validate
our data, enrich
spatial data and
write out to
Tableau
The Obstacles
Data Validation,
remove “bad data”.
Prep spatial data
for Tableau
The Solution
Use FME Desktop to
perform a data
validation and clean
up workflow and
write the data to
Tableau
The Result
Clean data that can
visualized in our BI
tools

18. Demo

19. We learned...
● How FME handles
data with a spatial
element
● How to perform data
clean up
● How to write out to
Tableau

20. Something a little more advanced...
This example showcases
the extent of the abilities
of FME.
Data Integration, data
validation, spatial
relationships, raster
interpolation.
Webinar: Integrating
Geospatial into the
BI Picture

21. Using webhooks to provide
real-time updates to data in BI
tools

22. API - Webhook - Power BI
The Goal
Visualize Google
API data in Power
BI Report
The Obstacles
Obtain up to date
data to visualize in
a BI Tool
The Solution
Create Webhook in
FME Server to deliver
data to BI Tool
The Result
Visualization of
current data in
Power BI through
FME Server
Webhook

23. Demo

24. Try It Out
Data
● API
● Database
Applications
● FME Desktop
● FME Server
● Your favourite BI tool
Resource: FME Server Data Streaming
service + webhook + Power BI

25. Data Streams

26. IoT Data
Sensors are everywhere these days sending out large volumes of messages measuring
everything from temperature to GPS location
The data is valuable, but how do you manage its sheer volume?

27. Location Data Streaming
The Goal
Collect and analyze
data from GPS
sensors on a
vehicle fleet
The Obstacles
Thereʼs too much
data!
GPS locations
arenʼt always
accurate
The Solution
Use FME to filter the
data into 30 second
periods
Move the points to
overlap with the
nearest road
The Result
Data is filtered,
cleaned, and
enhanced in real
time as the
information is sent

28. Demo

29. Working with Streams of Data
Use a Connector
transformer to pull in data
from many streaming
sources
Use filtering transformers
to reduce data volume
Store cleaned data in a
database

30. Summary
FME can help you get your geospatial
data under control
FME Serverʼs webhooks let you run data
processing workflows on demand
Use Stream Connector transformers to
connect to and process high volume
data streams

31. Next Steps
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workspaces from this
webinar
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data to manage
changes
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32. Resources
Article: How to Automate Citizen Reporting with BI Tools
Article: Local Government Citizen Services and BI Reporting
Webinar: Integrating Geospatial into the BI Picture

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