Using FME Server and FME Cloud just got a lot easier with new functionality like projects. See how to leverage new features to keep everything running smoothly across the enterprise, with an inspiring look at how others are putting this into practice.

1. FME Server:
Charms for the
Enterprise

2. Enterprise-Level Charms
★ Security - a new level with new charms
★ Deployment - move solutions easily
★ Automate the enterprise
★ Control over jobs

3. Security Charm #1
Active Directory

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

5. Active Directory Support
Import Active
Directory
Users

6. Over to FME

7. Security
Charm #2
Sharing and user control

8. ✓ Users can share with other users or groups.
✓ Sharing defined for everything except
“shared resources”.
✓ Users are isolated from each other.
✓ Administration load is low.
Familiar Sharing Model (Google, Dropbox, etc.)
Modern Sharing Model

9. User-Controlled Security
✓ Users have control of all FME Server components
✓ Similar to state-of-the-art services like Google Drive.

10. Security Charm #3
Connections & 3rd-Party Applications

11. ● User credentials are secure
● Databases and Applications supported
● Use across workspaces
● Share without revealing credentials
Benefits of Connections

12. Connection Based 3rd
Party Integration
Many web connections.
● Amazon Web Services
● OAuth 2.0 (tens of
thousands of services)
● Token
● HTTP Authentication
All FME-supported databases.

13. Database Connections

14. ● Amazon Web Services
● OAuth 2.0 (10,000’s of
web services)
● Good old Token based
● HTTP Authentication
(Basic, Digest, NTLM)
Web Connections
Connection Support is extensive!

15. Web Connections
Connections Live Here!!

16. Security Charm #4
We secure your infrastructure too.

17. On Premises vs FME Cloud
On Premises:
● You secure your infrastructure
● You configure FME Server security
FME Cloud:
● You configure FME Server security

18. FME Cloud Security
We manage data, application and transmission security.
● HTTPS only
● Annual security audit
● Automated security patching
● Leverage AWS Compliance - Industry leaders
● Control firewall rules (protocols & ports)

19. Deployment Charm
Easily move solutions

20. Challenge:
How can you move an FME Server
solution from one server to another?

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

22. FME Server Projects
Portable Server Solutions
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23. FME Server Projects
Portable way to move, distribute, and share FME Server solutions.
Benefit #1 - Move a project from one machine to another.
Development StagingTest Production

24. Projects.
Benefit #2 - Backup (export) a project any time for archiving.
FME Server Projects

25. Projects.
Benefit #3 - Share your projects.
First - Export your project!
Projects.
Project Export
FME Server Projects

26. Projects.
Benefit #3 - Share your projects
Next - Send to those with whom you want to share it.
Projects.
Project Export
FME Server Projects

27. Projects.
Benefit #3 - Share your projects
Finally - Receivers simply import the project.
Projects.
Project Export
FME Server Projects

28. Projects.
Benefit #4 - Publish Projects to FME Hub. (Coming Soon)
Share FME Server solutions with the FME
community.
Projects.
Project Export
FME Server Projects

29. Over to FME

30. Automation Charm

31. Enterprise
Automation
This charm is so
powerful that we have
another presentation
just on this.

32. Termination Charm

33. 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.

34. The highest number of votes of any FME Server idea ever of all time
Time Limits for Jobs

35. One job hangs
waiting on a web
service .
A backup in the job
queue ensues.
When Jobs
Need Limits

36. 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.

37. Charm: Specify maximum time a job can run.
If job takes longer than allocated then the job is cancelled.

38. Summary - FME Server 2017 Charms
✓ Enterprise Level Security: Enable fine-tuned control with
the new security model.
✓ Enterprise Deployment Model: Move server solutions
between machines using Projects.
✓ Enterprise Automation: Automate everything.*
✓ Enterprise Level Job Control: Define max job time so the
server doesn’t hang.

39. Questions?
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