This document summarizes a presentation about Safe Software's data integration tool FME and its Grant Program. The presentation introduces FME and its capabilities for data transformation and integration. It provides examples of how customers have used FME for projects involving flood risk management, wildlife conservation, and more. The presentation also describes Safe Software's Grant Program which provides over 11,000 free FME licenses annually to educational institutions, researchers, and non-profits to help them use data to better their communities and the world.

1. How Better Data Can Change the World

2. Meet the Presenters
Moira Seabloom
Senior Sales Operations
Coordinator
Jovita Chan
Technical Support
Specialist, FME Desktop
Mark Warren
Technical Support
Specialist, FME Server

3. Agenda
● Grant Program
● Introduction to FME
● Customer Stories
● Grant Program Stories
● Resources
● Q&A

4. Make an impact within your local
community, or around the globe.

5. FME is the Data Integration tool
that can help you get there.

6. What is the Grant Program?

7. What is the Instructional Grant Program?
~300 Academic Institutions

8. What is the Research Grant Program?
~70 Non Profit Organizations

9. But data is messy.
Itʼs scattered all over, itʼs full of errors,
itʼs in different formats, itʼs trapped in old
programs.
So how can you use it to better the world?

10. Our Mission
To help you maximize the value of
your data.

11. Company Profile
Safe Software
Years of solving data challenges
25+
10,000+
Organizations trusting us worldwide
Partners supporting our network
150+
128
Countries with FME customers

12. What is Data Integration?
“Businesses have lots of different kinds of data and multiple data management
systems. Data integration combines various data types and formats into a single
location – commonly referred to as a data warehouse.”

13. FME®
Integration Platform
Connect. Transform. Automate.
FME Desktop FME Server FME Cloud
Build & Run Data Workflows Automate Data Workflows
(on-premises)
Automate Data Workflows
(cloud)
Get a free trial of FME Desktop and FME Server at safe.com

14. What is FME Desktop?
● Connect to data sources
● Use Transformers to manipulate data
● Write out to your destination
● Publish to FME Server

15. What is FME Server?
● Deploy, Automate, Share
● Share workspaces and data across the web
● Build event-based and real-time workflows
● Create user-focused, self serve applications

16. Unrivaled Data Support

17. Customer Stories
What kinds of data integration workflows are folks performing with FME?

18. Project
Support authoritative data publishing to the Federal Geospatial
Platform (FGP) and Canadaʼs Open Government Portal.
Solution
Build streamlined workflows to transform data, harvest from
GeoNetwork and OGC Catalogue Service, catalogue metadata, perform
QA/QC, and provide feedback to program areas.
Results
● Published thousands of datasets to Open Government portal.
● Improved work efficiency with automated data validation.
● Improved authoritative data sharing among federal departments
and agencies and increased government transparency.
Environment and
Climate Change Canada
Customer Story
“Iʼve been using FME for over 20
years now. Itʼs the glue between
systems and data.”
- Christopher Thorne, Environment and
Climate Change Canada

19. Customer Story
Fortis BC
Project
Assess the current wildfire threat to assets.
Solution
Integrate active wildfire data from provincial government with their GIS.
Results
● Workflow automatically runs at same interval as source
dataset updates.
● Notifications & reports are immediately sent to Operations Managers
who can coordinate with Emergency Services.
“We love FME.
Weʼve been using it for about
20 years.”
- Piet Nooij, Fortis BC

20. Transport for London
Project
Flood risk mitigation for the London Underground transit system.
Solution
Automated the integration of 5,000 datasets to build a single GIS model and
delivered information to the relevant stakeholders.
Results
● Reduced data processing time by 13 weeks per year.
● Saved the organization £15,000 in survey work.
● The GIS team is freed up from repetitive integration tasks.
“FME is quite intuitive. You donʼt need a programming background to use
it. Iʼm largely self-taught and used the FME Knowledge Centre and
1Spatialʼs support to learn how to do things.”
- Naomi Ang, Transport for London

21. City of Oshkosh
Project
Child Abduction Response Team (CART) Leads Tracker
Solution
Integrate spatial data mapping from Leads Tracker application into
ArcGIS Online (AGOL) via a webhook.
Results
● Eliminated manual mapping of spatial data from incoming
lead reports.
● Lat/long markers automatically loaded into AGOL within seconds.
● CART and incident command leaders can now make real time
decisions and deploy rapid search and rescue resources.
Customer Story
“FME automatically updates
spatial data within seconds
versus manual updates that
were very time consuming. This
was the missing component.”
- Matthew Lenox, City of Oshkosh

22. Grant Stories

23. Project
Monitoring the condition of mangrove shorelines through
crowdsourced videos from citizen volunteers.
Solution
Extract still-frames from videos and assign the stills to shoreline
segments, and output summary Shapefiles.
Results
● Replacing manual steps with FME reduced the processing
time from 1 day to 5 minutes.
● Time saved has increased MangroveWatchʼs capacity to
expand the amount of coastline that will be monitored.
● Increased efficiency, output quality, and participation.
Mangrove Watch
Grant Program Story

24. SMART Partnership Helps
Defend Endangered Species
Project
Measuring and improving wildlife law enforcement patrols and
site-based conservation activities.
Solution
● Using geospatial technology to help endangered species globally
● The SMART software: globally scalable suite of tools to empower
rangers, patrol leaders and law enforcement managers to
leverage geospatial data using simple as possible technology.
Results
● Migrating diverse historic data sets has been simplified greatly
with FME through our grant program.
Grant Program Story
“Source data isnʼt always as
clean as you would like …
without FME we may have been
facing an impossible mission!”
- Jonathan Palmer, the Director for
Global ICT for the Wildlife Conservation
Society

25. Resources
FME Grant Program Profile: The SMART Partnership Helps Defend Endangered Species
FME and the Democratization of Science: Unleashing the Power of Volunteer-Generated Data
safe.com/free-fme-licenses

26. Safe Software Grant Program

27. Every year, we provide well over 11,000 free
FME licenses to educational institutions of
all levels, researchers, and non-profit
organizations of every stripe.

28. You can make the
world a better place
using FME.
🗣 Chat Storm
If you did qualify for the grant program,
what would you like to do using FME to
make a difference?

29. ● Visit the Free licenses landing page
● Program requirements/eligibility for
each stream is included in program
description
● Short application form
Grant Program Eligibility

30. Grant Program - Apply now!
Visit
safe.com/free-fme-licenses
Apply now! Wait for response

31. “Safe Software FME is in a league of its own, way ahead of its competitors
with the power to automate all your processes with ease. A tool used to
extract, transform, and load spatial and non-spatial information to meet all
your requirements. Implementing FME through the grant program has been
a great success … showing new and exciting ways to manipulate, analyse,
integrate, and edit information, giving our students a competitive edge
when it comes to applying for jobs”.
- Greg Patterson, Spatial and Surveying Teacher, College of Vocational Education, RMIT University

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36. Q&A

37. Poll: What sector do you identify with?

38. Poll: Were you aware of Safe
Software’s Grant Program prior to this
webinar?

39. Thank you!
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