Gavin Park, Sterling Geo

1. Demystifying FME and
the Cloud
Gavin Park

2. Agenda
What is FME Cloud Cloud in Action FME with the Cloud

3. Why Cloud?
• Scalable
• Cost Effective
• Secure

4. Security and compliance is now becoming a reason to
move to the cloud.
it’s secure enough for the CIA to
use, it’s probably secure enough for
us too.
http://fme.ly/cloud

5. Data lives in the cloud

6. What is FME Cloud?

7. FME Cloud is FME Server as a
hosted service

8. The hosted version of FME Server
Automated Backups Real-time Monitoring
Instance Scheduling Notification Framework
Automated Security Patching
No Responsibility for Hardware Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Vertical Scaling
FME Cloud

11. FME Cloud in Action

12. Data Download Portals

13. MK: Smart Solar App
Data Processing
Delivers Content
Creates Dynamic Pages

14. Generate Web Pages

15. Asset/Coffee Van Tracking

16. Cloud Powered Mapping
Build a business
intelligence site with no
servers

18. Drive Data Dashboards

19. • Mobility is here
• Need for focused “at
a glance”
information
• FME provide
information engine

20. • Even Monitors Chocolate
stocks!
• FME can read the website and
work out current availability
• Sends a notification with
current status
• Notifications to Slack for
instant awareness!

21. Saving Money on
FME Cloud
• Scheduling
• Subscriptions

22. Run instances exactly when you need them

23. Access FME Server for
the price of a coffee!

24. FME
Subscriptions
Cloud Subscriptions
• Convert existing
instance
• Save on running costs
• Upgradable

25. FME Cloud
Alerts
● Set up alerts for the health
of your FME Server
instance.
● Send notifications via email
or third-party services.
● Enjoy real-time monitoring.
Be the first to know if your
FME Server has an issue!

26. Real-time instance monitoring

27. Custom notifications

28. Create
Alerts
Receive
Alerts

29. FME with the Cloud

30. Understand Cloud Services

31. Landsat Monitoring

32. Automated Vegetation Health Monitoring
Elastic Group
NDVI Image
Auto Scaling Group

33. Scalability

34. Solar Architecture
API Gateway
AWS Lambda
JSON

35. FME Cloud + AWS
provides a robust
platform without
the infrastructure

36. Managed FME Cloud

37. Success in the Cloud
Biggest opportunity with FME
Cloud is your FME Expertise.
You can help build solutions
that are orders of magnitude
cheaper than traditional
approaches.

38. Trial without credit card

39. Cloud Training
FME Cloud Training
FME Cloud Workshop

40. • FME Server for
Docker (Technology
Preview)
• FME Server is
supported on any
platform that
supports Docker

41. Thank you!
gavin.park@sterling-power.co.uk
@gpgeo