FME 2020 Unleashed webinar highlights new features in FME Server including enhanced security, automation improvements, pay as you go licensing, and server apps. Automations in FME 2020 now support looping, mass data loading, and building enterprise integration patterns. A demonstration shows automations processing thousands of workspaces in parallel and pay as you go licensing launching engines on demand. Attendees are encouraged to try the new features and contact Safe Software with any questions.

1. FME 2020 Unleashed:
Automation
Don Murray & Jen Luther-Thomas

2. Welcome to the Webinar!
Don Murray
Co-Founder
Jen Luther-Thomas
FME Server Technology Expert

3. Resources for
COVID-19
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licensing to prevent solutions
from being found or
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protected.
That’s why we’re offering FME
for free and we’re prioritizing
support cases for those with
work related to COVID-19.

4. Agenda
● Security Unleashed
● FME Server Apps
● Simple Automations
● Enterprise Integration
Patterns
● Pay As You Go Licensing

5. Let’s do a poll. What
version of FME Server
are you using?
2019, 2018, 2017 or
earlier, or “I’m not
using FME Server”

6. Security Unleashed
FME 2020.0 has added many new security
features including:
● Password enhancements
● Prevention of multiple logins
● Broadcast messages

7. Admin Password
Admin must select a
password on first login.

8. Default Password Rules

9. Password Expiration

10. Force Password Change
Administrators can force users to
change password on next login.

11. Multiple Session Login
Users are logged out of other
browsers on new login!

12. Admin Broadcast Messages
Administrators can communicate important
information with all FME Server users

13. FME Server Apps
With FME Server Apps, you can now:
● Add a Geometry Picker (map window)
● Authenticate Apps
● ‘Run Immediately’ (for apps that have no
input parameters)

14. FME Server Apps
Add a Geometry Parameter:
●

15. FME Server Apps

16. Automations
FME 2020 takes them
to the next level!

17. What are Automations?
Event-Driven workflows consisting of Triggers and Actions

18. FME 2019 Automations
delivered Enterprise
Orchestration
“Orchestrate complex
workflows consisting of
many FME workspaces.”

20. In FME 2020,
Automations delivers
Enterprise Integration
“Integrate and connect
applications across the
enterprise.”

21. Looping
With Looping in Automations, you can now:
● Resubmit workspaces if they fail (external
factors)
● Create ProcessManager workflows (one of
the Enterprise Integration Patterns)

22. Looping

23. What are Automations in FME 2020?
● The FME Server Automations Writer connects Automations to data
● This changes how FME solutions are built
○ Build small focused workspaces to run in series or in parallel
● Automations automatically maximize parallelism based on number of
engines
Automations deliver event-driven
integration capabilities to the FME Platform.

24. Building Data Driven Automations is Simple!
Step 1:
Add FME Server Automations
Writer(s) to a workspace in
FME Desktop
Step 2:
Upload the workspace to FME Server and
feature types will appear as ports in
Automations
Now workspaces control the actions of
Automations!

25. 2020 Automations:
Enterprise Integration

26. 2020 Automations:
Enterprise Integration
Demo

27. Huh!
What happened?
Can someone
explain what we
just saw?

28. ‘
Power of Automations in FME 2020
FME Server Automations Writer and Automations Supports:
● Multiple Messages - No limit on of Messages out of a single port.
● Any Number of Ports - Messages can come out of multiple ports.
● No Message - Output messages are not mandatory.
● Completion Ports Fire Last - One of ‘✓’ or ‘X’ always fire last.
● Connect to Any Node in Automation - looping can be done.
FME 2020 Automations give unprecedented
level of flexibility

29. Automations
Parallel
Processing

30. 1 Workspace
triggered
Up to 60
Workspaces
triggered here!
1000’s of
Workspaces
triggered here!
1 Trigger
Event

31. Automations
Mass Data
Loading
Great for loading large amounts of data into:
● Google BigQuery & BigQuery GIS
● Snowflake
● Amazon Aurora, Redshi , etc.

32. Mass Data Loading

33. Mass Data Loading
Demo

34. All made possible by
Automations and the
FME Server Automations Writer
Connecting Automations to the FME Engine brings
Enterprise Integration to the FME Platform.

35. What else can you do with
Automations in FME 2020.0?

36. Enterprise Integration Patterns are solutions for common challenges encountered by IT
architects when integrating applications. They provide a common language to use
when architecting solutions. EI Patterns are very popular amongst IT architects and
application integration specialists.
Enterprise Integration Patterns
FME 2020.0 can build 35+ EI Patterns:
● Content-Based Routing
● Dynamic Routing
● Scatter Gather
● Content Enricher
● Message Filter
● Splitter
● Process Manager
and many, many more!

37. What else is possible with Automations?
Dynamic workflows
● Data controlled workflows
● Branch forward or backward to create
loops
Improved Project Support
● Automations and all components easily
added to projects

38. Resources
Blog (safe.com/blog)
● FME Server 2020 and Enterprise Integration Patterns
Knowledge Articles (knowledge.safe.com)
1. Getting Started with Enterprise Integration Patterns
2. Building Integrations with the FME Server
Automation Writer
3. Creating Looping workflows within FME Server
Automations

39. TransformPay As You Go
Licensing
Enables “Dynamic Engines”
● Pay for CPU used instead of number of
engines
● Launch engines when more capacity is
needed

40. PAYG Licensing Server View

41. Pay As You Go Licensing - Why?
Complimentary - works with existing FME Server licensing
Unpredictable or infrequent workloads - Special or periodic high
volume processing required
FME Server Apps - Load on FME Server is in the hands of users
Data Streaming & IoT - Often dedicated engines spend much of
their time quiescent
PAYG supports new data processing models and solutions.

42. Pay As You Go Licensing
Demo

43. 1 Workspace
triggered
Up to 60
Workspaces
triggered here!
1000’s of
Workspaces
triggered here!
1 Trigger
Event

44. 1 Workspace
triggered
Up to 60
Workspaces
triggered here!
1000’s of
Workspaces
triggered here!
1 Trigger
Event
Demo

45. Do you want FME Server for your
organization?

46. More ways than ever to get
FME Server and the
FME Platform
(safe.com/pricing)

47. Subscription
Pricing

48. Pay As You Go Licensing
Demo

49. Pay As You Go Licensing
Demo

52. Let’s do another
poll. What feature
are you most
excited to try?
● Security
● Server Apps
● Automations
● PAYG
● Web UI
Publishing

53. If you haven’t tried
FME Server 2020,
you haven’t tried
FME Server!
Try it out at:
safe.com/fme/fme-serv
er/trial-download/

54. Stay tuned for a
virtual roadshow
For a statement and more info:
safe.com/worldtour/#covid-19

55. Thank you!
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us at safe.com