Presentation given at the FME WT in Cardiff

1. Getting Started with
FME 2017
David Eagle
Managing Consultant
FME Certified Professional & Trainer
david.eagle@1spatial.com
Twitter @david_eagle

2. DATA IS ALL AROUND US,

4. Why FME?
Data should be free to use wherever, whenever
and however it’s needed.
Information should flow between
systems, applications, and formats.
You should spend your time making decisions,
not fighting with data.

5. FME – Feature Manipulation Engine

6. Translation

7. Transformation

8. EAT
SLEEP
REPEAT

9. Deploy it in the best way for you
FME Desktop FME Server

10. Getting Started with
FME 2017
Mark Stoakes
Head of Professional Services
Safe Software
mark.stoakes@safe.com

11. FME 2017
✔ Connect more systems
✔ Perform powerful transformations
✔ Create workflows quickly and easily
✔ Inspect any data, any time
✔ Automate anything

12. Let’s go to magic school.

13. Goal:
Turn raw satellite imagery
into a useful 3D model.

14. Over to FME

15. What’s New in
FME 2017.0

16. New formats
• Autodesk FBX (R/W)
• BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) (R/W)
• CSV
• Cesium 3D Tiles (W)
• glTF (W)
• HTML Table (R)
• IBM dashDB (R/W)
• MapBox MBTiles (R/W)
• MapInfo Extended TAB (R) (> v15.2)
• OGC Geopackage Raster Tiles (R/W)
• OpenStreetMap PBF (R)
• Planet (R)
• QlikMaps (R/W)
• Sentinel-2 on AWS (R)
• STL (R/W)
• New on OS X: Tableau (W), Collada (R/W)
• New on Linux: Tableau (W)
• New background map: Japan GSI Maps

17. FME 2017
✔ Connect more systems
✔ Perform powerful transformations
✔ Create workflows quickly and easily
✔ Inspect any data, any time
✔ Automate anything

18. Powerful
Transformations

19. New
transformers
• AutodeskA360Connector
• BoxConnector
• FMEServerResourceConnector
• GoogleDriveConnector
• OneDriveConnector
• Geocoder (AGOL, Bing, FreeGeoIP, Google, HERE, OSM etc)
• GridInQuestIIReprojector
• HTMLExtractor
• DateTimeCalculator (more later!)
• PointCloudSimplifier
• PointCloudSurfaceBuilder

20. Polished
transformers
• DatabaseJoiner (wasJoiner)
• DropboxConnector (was DropboxCaller)
• LineBuilder (was PointConnector)
• LineCombiner (was LineJoiner)
• LineExtender (was Extender)
• S3Uploader / S3Downloader
• ShortestPathFinder
https://blog.safe.com/2016/11/fmeevangelist158/
• RasterMosaicker
• GeometryValidator

22. FME 2017
✔ Connect more systems
✔ Perform powerful transformations
✔ Create workflows quickly and
easily
✔ Inspect any data, any time
✔ Automate anything

23. Time-saving
charms for
everyday
Workbench use

24. Add formats with Quick Add.

26. Transformer parameters are a dockable pane.

27. Straight connection lines.

28. Curved connection lines.

29. Square connection lines.

30. Straight– you’ll never go back!

31. “Open Containing Folder” and “Inspect”
transformers that use an external file.

32. Choose how to handle rejected features.

33. Copy and paste parameters.

34. Telekinetic Data
Transformation

35. WEB SERVICES

36. Save more connections.

38. WEB FILESYSTEMS

39. Over to FME

40. Browse web data like a local filesystem.

41. Manage data stored remotely.

42. FME 2017
✔ Connect more systems
✔ Perform powerful transformations
✔ Create workflows quickly and easily
✔ Inspect any data, any time
✔ Automate anything

43. Reveal the Prince or
Princess in your data
(no kissing necessary!)

44. FMEDataInspector

45. FMEDataInspector
Tableview

46. FME 2017
✔ Connect more systems
✔ Perform powerful transformations
✔ Create workflows quickly and easily
✔ Inspect any data, any time
✔ Automate anything

47. Automate
your data
chores

48. Run workspaces
on demand, on a
schedule, or in
response to a
trigger.
What’s FME Server?

49. Updates to
FME Server

51. Enterprise-Level Charms
★ Security - a new level with new charms
★ Deployment - move solutions easily
★ Control over jobs

52. Security Charms

53.  Any number of Active Directory domains
 Any number of users per domain
 A hybrid model - mix server and AD users
Active Directory
Functionality based on feedback and
experience from users! Thank you!

54. Web Connections
More are being added
to
FME Hub all the time

55. Deployment Charm
Easily move solutions

56. Your FME Server solutions usually
consist of many components.
Workspaces Subscriptions Schedules
Publications Resources Connections
Custom Formats Custom Transformers Topics

57. FME Server Projects
Portable Server
Solutions

58. FME Server Projects
Portable way to move, distribute, and share FME Server solutions.
Benefit - Move a project from one machine to another.
Development StagingTest Production

59. Projects.
Benefits
• Backup a project any time for archiving
• Share a project with a friend
FME Server Projects
Project Export

60. Projects.
Benefit - Publish Projects to FME Hub. (Coming Soon)
Share FME Server solutions or patterns with the
FME community.
Projects.
Project Export
FME Server Projects

61. Termination Charm

62. Goal: Ensure FME Engines don’t get stuck on a job.
Workflows are often dependent on 3rd Party applications/services.
An engine may hang or take too long waiting on responses.

63. For any job you now have a new setting (Schedules and run Workspace)
Max elapsed time job will run.
If timer expires job is killed!
Charm: Specify maximum time a job can run.

64. FME Cloud

65. FME Cloud Launch Magic

66. Pricing change (lower for 95% of users).

67. New region support
New! Canada East
New! US-West
US-East
Frankfurt
Sydney

68. FME 2017
✔ Connect more systems
✔ Perform powerful transformations
✔ Create workflows quickly and easily
✔ Inspect any data, any time
✔ Automate anything

69. Now to hear some user experiences…