Why FME Server? - You need to distribute data to your team, your organization, contractors, public, regulators etc. - You need to process a lot of data on a schedule - You need users to upload data and you need to ensure it’s valid and matches your format and data model - You need to get or send live data for decision makers

1. Twitter Hashtag: #FMEWT
FME Server 2013
A Few of our Favourite Things
Ken Bragg @KenAtSafe
European Services Manager
Safe Software
April – June 2013

2. Why FME Server?
 You need to distribute data to your team, your
organization, contractors, public, regulators etc.
 You need to process a lot of data on a schedule
 You need users to upload data and you need to
ensure it’s valid and matches your format and data
model
 You need to get or send live data for decision
makers
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3. Share Data - Data Download

4. Schedule – Data Transformation Jobs

5. Validate Data – Data Upload

6. Live Data

7. CN Railway
 FME Server brings spatial to real time event
processing

8. FME 2013 – What’s New

9. Installation
Architectures
 Express
 High Capacity
 High Availability

10. Installation – High Capacity
 Not new – see Admin Guide Chapter 4

11. Installation – High Availability
 New for 2013
See Admin Guide Chapter 5

12. All New Web Interface!

13. Web Interface
 All New – built on HTML5/JavaScript framework
 Combined user and admin interface
 Repository based navigation

14. Job Routing
Enables organizations to control how jobs are run.
Reserve Engines for:
high priority jobs
special 3rd party licenses
different users or departments

15. Job Routing

16. Scheduling

Job Routing tag

Time to live

17. Processing Real-time data
Two flavours:
 Notification Service – Flexibility
 Message Streaming – High capacity

18. Notification Service
Note the Terminology Change!
Send and receive notifications
Publish and subscribe pattern
 Publications
 Topics
 Subscriptions

19. Notification Service

20. Data Transformation by Email
Easy to use
 Email

21. Demo: Data Transformation

22. New ways to trigger notifications
Sample clients that publish to FME Server
 Database trigger
 Directory watcher

23. Publish to Topic upon Job Completion
2013 SP1 - Available now
Helps with Job Chaining!
Use cases:
 Send an email when a job completes
 Send an email to the administrator anytime the job fails
 Send the resultant data to a FTP site
 Run a job only after another one completes successfully…

24. Notify Success or Failure
Workspaces provide the key functionality for
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
 Receive (subscribe)
Demo
 Process and filter
 Spatial, Temporal, Numeric, Textual
 Send (publish)

25. Getting Started with Notifications
FME Server Notifications Tutorial – Step 1
http://goo.gl/vPoKO
FME Server Notifications Tutorial – Step 2
http://goo.gl/5x6oM

26. Message Streaming

Achieve high throughput (1000s messages/second)

Direct communication to/from FME Engine

Protocols
 TCP/IP
 JMS (2013 SP1)
 Python
 HTML5 WebSockets

27. Message Streaming – TCP/IP
Workspaces provide the key functionality for
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
 Receive (subscribe)
Demo
 Process and filter
 Spatial, Temporal, Numeric, Textual
 Send (publish)

28. Enterprise Integration
Integrate with other Enterprise Applications
 Java Messaging Service (JMS)
JMS Providers
 IBM WebSphere MQ
 Apache ActiveMQ
 Jboss HornetQ

29. Enterprise Integration

30. FME Server Backup, Recovery,
Migration, and upgrade
FME Server Configuration Reader/Writer
 Repositories
 Schedules
 Notifications
 Security
 Services

31. Backup/Migration/Upgrade
Migration
2013
2013
Upgrade
Backup
2014
FFS File
2013 SPx

32. Upgrade
FME Server Configuration Reader/Writer
 2013 -> 2014
 2013 -> 2015
 2013 -> 2016

33. Highlights - Mobile Apps…
FME Reporter
FME Alerts

34. .. On Multiple Devices

35. Developers
 New Developer’s Guide
 REST API
 Notification methods improved
 2013 SP1/2 – Security methods
 .NET API enhanced to match Java offering

36. Questions

37. Thank You!
 Ken Bragg
 ken.bragg@safe.com
 @KenAtSafe
 New to FME?
 http://www.safe.com/fme/getting-started/
 More Questions?
 Please see your local partner