FME allows for data connection and integration coming from many sources, applications and systems. It possesses tools necessary to connect directly with servers, databases or WMS/ WMTS services. Creating script in FME Desktop is quick and easy. Just connect each transformer to create a workflow to convert data. Using FME server allows for full automatization of the processes, therefore saving time. No need for a constant, manual script running with each actualization of input data. Simply project the correct automatization, and FME will take care of everything.
Functionalities
- Data and services integration
- Data Transformation
- Formats and standards conversion
- Data control and validation
- Processes automation
Connect your data coming from multiple sources and services
Every day, most companies and organizations create more and more gigabytes of data from various software sources, often incompatible with each other. Thanks to FME you can integrate data coming from multiple sources and creating data warehouses or Big Data databases. The direct connection with outside services and environments allows downloading data and sharing its results.
Transform data exactly as you want it
Very often data quality is below our expectations. We may need to correct it or edit in some way to achieve a different result. Here is where FME can prove its worth. Using this platform for data integration, we can use it for almost every transformation possible. FME tool library has a solution for every problem you might have. They allow for example for aggregation, filtrating, connecting, sharing and deleting duplicated data. Transforming doesn’t require script od code writing. Simply connect together couple transformers in a logical and easy way to add some attributes and its done!
Share and download data in any format and coordinate systems
Every institution or company uses data stored in multiple formats, varying from the software that they use. It can be exhausting to try and open files in incompatible formats. Thanks to FME it’s possible to use data in 450 different sources and formats, including spatial data. Using this platform you can download and share data in any format, allowing it to be used in the most popular apps.
Build your processes based on precise, current and verified data
Data validation is very important in data transformation processes. It helps to improve the accuracy of the results. Different types of validations are:
- Data integration control – data form unification, spell check, data types, deleting null values.
- Formats and standards control – using correct data models compatible with popular apps.
- Geometric validation – control the objects’ geometric accuracy, its topology or relation between objects.
Save time with process automation
Most of FME user-created scrips are repeating and based on the current data.
It is necessary to restart the process after each data update. It’s exhausting in case of daily or even more frequent updates. In this case, using FME Server might be a solution. It allows automating processes and running them based on a schedule or input data update.
FME Products
FME Server
Automate your processes created with FME Desktop, transform data on a schedule and save time.
FME Cloud
Automate your processes using FME Server, but without the troubling with hosting data and infrastructure – leave it to us!
Apps and technologies supported by FME
Microsoft
FME supports several commonly used Microsoft products including SQL Server, Access, SharePoint, Azure services and Dynamics 365. Additionally, it supports a wide range of on-premises and cloud solutions like Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Google Sheets, Dropbox, many databases and basically any web service with an API. Using FME’s graphical user interface, create connections between systems that migrate, replicate and sync data, without writing any code. FME supports hundreds of data formats – Excel, Access, JSON, XML – and has a library of over 500 tools for data manipulation. Split, merge, delete, add, rename columns, create pivots, calculate statistics, validate and rework data as part of the connection workflow so it fits the required data model.
Oracle
FME allows to store any data in Oracle and use Oracle data anywhere. FME gives the power to move data between Oracle databases and any of the over 400 formats and countless applications that it supports. FME’s functionality and capabilities are geared towards reducing the manual effort on the part of the user and improving productivity.
GE Smallworld
Convert data between GE Smallworld and other formats and applications inherent to effective utilities and telecommunications planning like CAD, GIS files, data bases, etc.) Achieve more than straight format conversion with FME’s library of transformation tools that allow you to access and manipulate the contents and structure of a dataset, precisely mapping and preserving all its components to their proper place in the destination system. For added confidence, add a validation step to your FME workflows to ensure data’s quality prior to import into Smallworld or any other application.
Autodesk
Convert key Autodesk formats from AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Map 3D, and Revit into hundreds of other formats and applications including MicroStation, ArcGIS, MapInfo, KML, 3D PDF and more. You can conversely convert and integrate business data from CSV, Excel and database formats into Autodesk applications. FME handles the unique structural manipulations required when converting data from Autodesk solutions. Creating polygons from points and lines, mapping annotation to attributes, extruding 2D floor plans into 3D structures, and extracting shells from BIM datasets are a just few of the transformations that can be achieved with FME’s transformation tools.
ArcGIS
Integrate outside data and extend the capabilities of ArcGIS using FME’s spatial data transformation technology. It allows easy access and manipulation of data from nearly any source for use within ArcGIS. Whether you’re trying to import data from non-native GIS applications, like MapInfo or Smallworld, Excel spreadsheets, CAD designs, raster images, LiDAR, JSON, XML or databases, FME makes the conversion process simple. Many organizations are interested in participating in the Esri Community Maps program to make their data more widely available in the program’s World Topographic Map. Use FME directly within Model Builder and, without writing a single line of code, you can design workflows that bring your data straight from the source to the destination, creating no intermediate data.
Take advantage of Google Earth and Maps’ enhanced graphics, widely accessible platform and dynamic display capabilities when presenting your data. FME’s support for hundreds of formats allows you to easily translate and integrate data from almost any source into KML including GIS applications, Tabular datasets, CAD programs, Databases, Raster files, Cloud source. Add FME Server to your Google Earth and Maps KML workflows to automatically stream and display real-time data from any source in a live spatial dashboard.
Amazon Web Services
Take full advantage of the capacity of AWS database and storage solutions by ensuring any data can be loaded in, and that stored data can be used with other applications. FME facilitates AWS integration with its advanced data conversion technology and automation. Without writing any code, create customized data migration workflows that connect applications in a way that meets your organization’s objectives. Through its many readers and writers FME converts and migrates data between hundreds of formats and applications including Amazon S3, Aurora, RDS, Redshift and DynamoDB. FME also has an expansive library of transformation tools that can manipulate data’s contents and structure to fit any system’s model.
PostGIS/PostgreSQL
FME has built-in transformators allowing for direct connection with PostGIS or PostgreSQL databases, and data conversions from those databases into any format. Additionally, it allows fro automatic data downloading and uploading into and from PostGIS or PostgreSQL databases.
Planet
Enrich Your Data with Planet Imagery. Blend your data with the latest images from Planet’s 150+ satellites. Use FME’s drag-and-drop interface to connect to data from the web, databases, GIS, DEMs, and hundreds of other systems. Satellite maps are valuable for tracking, visualizing change, providing insight, and more. Here are a few examples of how you can use Planet imagery in your workflows.
Bentley
Bring non-native data into the MicroStation design environment or use your MicroStation designs in other applications. FME converts data between MicroStation DGN v8 and v7 and hundreds of other formats including GIS Tabular, datasets, Other CAD programs, Databases, Raster, Cloud sources etc. Experience detailed data translation with FME’s unique transformation tools that preserve data’s integrity by mapping and restructuring its contents to fit the exact requirements of the destination system. Additionally, you can use FME for: CAD and GIS integration, 2D to 3D conversion, Data validation and quality assurance, CAD migration, Coordinate reprojection
GeoMedia Professional
Use FME’s broad format support and enhanced transformation tools to seamlessly integrate GeoMedia workflows with many external data and system. Increase the amount of data available to your GeoMedia system using FME’s support for its framework and hundreds of additional formats to transform and import data from practically any source. Configure workflows quickly in FME’s intuitive graphical interface – no coding required. Its ease-of-use, automation and flexibility enable you to spend less time fighting with data and more time using it to meet your objectives.
MapInfo
Powered by FME technology, the Universal Translator in Mapinfo Professional gives you access to 15 non-native formats. Add a full FME license and gain the use of over 450 formats as well as FME’s advanced data transformation tools that allow you to manipulate data’s content and structure for more precise translation.