Keynote by Ken Bragg (Safe Software) concerning FME2017

1. Welcome
Ken Bragg
Safe Software

2. Why we do what we do:
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.

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

4. Who has the Magic Ticket?
One Lizard Wizard USB drive
holds a free pass to the
FME International User Conference
2017 May 24-26 in Vancouver, BC
+ 5 Other Chances to Win FME Prize Packs
fme.ly/magicticket

5. Join the
conversation
#fmewt

6. “Any sufficiently advanced
technology is
indistinguishable from magic”
-Arthur C Clarke

7. Let’s go to magic school.

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

9. What’s New in
FME 2017.0

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

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

12. WEB SERVICES

13. Save more connections.

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

17. Powerful
Transformations

18. Browse web data like a local filesystem.

20. WEB FILESYSTEMS

21. Manage data stored remotely.

22. New
transformers
• AutodeskA360Connector
• BoxConnector
• DatabaseJoiner (renamed from Joiner)
• DropboxConnector (renamed from DropboxCaller)
• FMEServerResourceConnector
• Geocoder
• GoogleDriveConnector
• GridInQuestIIReprojector
• HTMLExtractor
• LineBuilder (renamed from PointConnector)
• LineExtender (renamed from Extender)
• OneDriveConnector
• PointCloudSimplifier
• PointCloudSurfaceBuilder

23. Transformer Updates

28. Dates and times

29. Working with
Dates and Times

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

31. Add formats with Quick Add.

33. Transformer parameters are a dockable pane.

34. Curved connection lines.

35. Squared connection lines.

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

37. Choose how to handle rejected features.

38. Copy and paste parameters.

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

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

41. FME Data Inspector

42. FME Data Inspector: Table view

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

44. Updates to
FME Server

46.  Any number of Active Directory domains
 Any number of users per domain
 A hybrid model - mix server and AD users
Active Directory

47. Active Directory Support
Import Active
Directory
Users

48. FME Server Projects
Portable Server Solutions
Place your screenshot here

49. 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

50. 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.

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

52. FME Cloud

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

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

55. New Instance Types
Starter
Standard
Professional
Premium
Enterprise
Previous New
4GB
8GB
16GB
32GB
30GB
3.7GB
7.5GB
15GB
30GB
30GB
30 30
55 62
1313
6.56.5
RAM Enhanced NetworkingCompute Units RAMCompute Units
Yes
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-
-
Enhanced Networking
-
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Burstable

56. Get all of today’s talks at
safe.com/presentations

57. Thank you!
Ken Bragg
ken.bragg@safe.com
@kenatsafe