Mark Stoakes, Safe Software

1. Getting Started
with FME 2017

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

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

5. Let’s go to magic school.

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

8. What’s New in
FME 2017.0

9. 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)

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

11. Powerful
Transformations

12. 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

13. Transformer Updates

18. Put Your Date/Times in a
Bottle
(or at least a transformer)

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

20. Time-saving
charms for
everyday use

21. Add formats with Quick Add.

23. Transformer parameters are a dockable pane.

24. Curved connection lines.

25. Squared connection lines.

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

27. Choose how to handle rejected features.

28. Copy and paste parameters.

29. Telekinetic Data
Transformation

30. WEB SERVICES

31. Save more connections.

34. WEB FILESYSTEMS

35. Browse web data like a local filesystem.

36. Manage data stored remotely.

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

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

39. FME Data Inspector

40. FME Data Inspector: Table view

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

42. Automate
your data
chores

43. Run workspaces
on demand, on a
schedule, or in
response to a
trigger.

44. Updates to
FME Server

46. FME Cloud

47. FME Cloud Launch Magic

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

49. 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

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