FME Server

QUICKLY MEET DIVERSE DATA ACCESS REQUIREMENTS

FME Server is a scalable spatial ETL platform that offers flexible spatial data distribution and loading services to help organizations quickly meet diverse data access requirements.

Answering the Demand for Better Spatial Data Access

Spatial ETL

Extract, transform and load spatial data.

Many organizations today are facing increasing pressure to provide better access to their disparate spatial data assets. New regulatory requirements, external market changes, mergers and acquisitions – these factors are not only increasing the demand for spatial data access, but often they are also placing tight time and resource constraints on GIS departments. As a spatial data manager, how can you possibly meet this daunting challenge, now, while still minimizing the impact to your resources and bottom line?

FME® Server is a scalable spatial ETL platform that enables spatial data managers to quickly meet

diverse data access requirements. The platform offers flexible spatial data services that can help you convert, load and distribute large volumes of data so end users can access it – where, when and how they need to.

FME Server brings the power of Safe Software’s proven spatial data translation, transformation and integration technology from FME Desktop to enterprise server environments, enabling organizations to take advantage of:

�� flexible spatial data distribution

�� scalable data loading and conversion

Why Choose FME Server?

�� It’s Quick to Deploy: Quickly meet your organization’s data interoperability requirements. FME Server is a commercial, off-the-shelf solution that’s simple to install, configure and deploy. It integrates with your current IT infrastructure and GIS applications to enable quick, cost-effective deployment.

�� It’s Flexible: Address diverse spatial data requirements using a single enterprise solution. With support for over 200 CAD, GIS, web, and other formats, FME Server offers a flexible set of spatial data services for:

� n Web-based spatial data access: downloading and streaming

� n Scalable data consolidation: loading and migration

� n Online quality assurance: spatial data uploading and validation

� n Server-based spatial data conversion: translation and transformation

Its scalable, services-oriented architecture (SOA) and ever-growing support for the latest data formats help you easily expand the system as requirements grow and evolve.

�� It’s a Safe Bet: Invest in the best. FME Server is powered by Safe Software’s proven data translation, transformation and integration platform which is recognized globally as the standard for spatial ETL. Integrated and endorsed by the top GIS, database and traditional ETL vendors, FME Server offers a low risk, scalable solution that can help you meet tough requirements – on time, on budget and for the long term.

Efficiently Validate, Load and Convert Large Volumes of Data

“FME Server is critical to ensuring that the data

we’re collecting is clean and correct. Its self-

service upload capabilities are also helping us

save significant time, money and resources.”

Clayton Wise Senior Programmer Analyst Hampton Roads Sanitation District

Publish FME data conversions (workspaces) to FME Server, enabling users both inside

and outside your organization to access and run them right over the web.

SERVER-BASED SPATIAL DATA CONVERSION SERVICE

Responsibility for running common data conversion tasks doesn’t have to reside solely within your department. FME Server provides a scalable, self-service solution for sharing the power of FME’s data conversion capabilities broadly across your organization, while still ensuring that your team maintains control over the spatial ETL process. Any data conversions (workspaces) created using FME Desktop’s authoring environment, FME Workbench, can be published directly to FME Server to take advantage of its scalable processing power. With FME Server, CAD, GIS and other professionals throughout your organization can convert data themselves by accessing and running these workspaces right over the web.

SCALABLE DATA LOADING AND CONVERSION SERVICES

SPATIAL DATA UPLOAD AND VALIDATION SERVICE

With FME Server, you can save time and improve data quality by creating an online data upload and validation service. Once data contributors click to upload their dataset, FME Server can perform geometric and attribute quality checks on the data before it’s published to your centralized spatial database. Data that meets your validation rules can then be dynamically restructured and converted by FME Server into the required format and data model and then loaded into your spatial database. If errors are uncovered, you can use FME Server to automatically fix these issues or highlight the data problems for the data contributor to fix. This self-serve process is an efficient way to ensure that only high quality, accurate data gets loaded into your spatial database.

BULK DATA LOADING AND MIGRATION SERVICE

FME Server is designed to support large scale data migration and replication requirements. It can help you efficiently integrate and load large volumes of disparate data into a range of popular spatial databases including ESRI Geodatabase, Microsoft SQL Server®, Netezza®, Oracle® and Smallworld®. You can also use FME to replicate or migrate data between different databases, as well as to perform daily or weekly database updates. Scaling the system is straightforward – simply add more FME engines to your FME Server deployment for increased processing power.

FME Server includes three powerful spatial data loading and conversion services to help you support high volume spatial data requirements:

Meeting high volume spatial data requirements doesn’t have to tax your systems or resources. Built on a services-oriented architecture (SOA), FME Server offers a powerful and scalable solution to your high throughput data loading and conversion requirements. With built-in load balancing and priority-based queuing, it automatically allocates spatial ETL processing and loading tasks across multiple FME engines. In case of system interruptions, all data transformation requests are tracked by FME Server to ensure efficient job recovery. Plus, as user demand grows, you can easily scale the system by deploying additional FME engines to increase processing power.

Designed for quick deployment, FME Server integrates with your current IT environment and GIS applications. It supports Windows®, Linux® and UNIX® operating systems and can be used to integrate data in a wide range of data formats from your GIS, CAD, raster, BIM, 3D, web and database systems.

Share Spatial Data with Users – Where, When and How They Need It

Satisfying users’ requests for spatial data doesn’t need to drain your limited resources. With FME Server, you can quickly provide internal and external users with online access to the spatial data they need – where, when and how they need it. Data stored in hundreds of GIS, CAD, raster, 3D, database and web formats can be dynamically restructured based on individual user requirements. With FME Server, your end users benefit from immediate access to the latest spatial data, while your team gains precious free time.

“FME Server is

an instrumental

component of our

GeoStor system. It

enables us to offer

all of our vector and

raster datasets to

users in a seamless

manner, while

reducing duplicative

efforts and saving

costs.”

Learon Dalby GIS Program Manager Arkansas Geographic Information Office

FME Server dynamically transforms and integrates data from disparate systems for immediate end user access – where, when and how they need it.

To help you automate data sharing, FME Server includes two flexible spatial data distribution services:

Use FME Server to transform data in real-time for streaming, for example as a KML Network Link in Google Earth.

FLEXIBLE SPATIAL DATA DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

SPATIAL DATA DOWNLOAD SERVICE

With FME Server, you can eliminate the manual processes associated with fulfilling requests for customized datasets: simply deploy FME Server’s online spatial data download service. Through a configurable web interface (that can be integrated with your current web mapping technology), users select the dataset and layer for the area they’re interested in, and then choose the output format or coordinate system they want. FME Server then automatically converts the data on the fly and sends the user an email with a link to the resulting dataset. Clip, zip and ship – it’s that easy.

With FME Server, end users can clip, zip and ship spatial data by specifying the output format and coordinate system they need, directly with your current web mapping technology.

SPATIAL DATA STREAMING SERVICE

Using FME Server, you can create spatial data streaming services to automatically deliver the latest information to users through popular web applications like Google™ Earth/Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth™, OpenLayers and others. FME Server dynamically integrates and converts data into a wide range of web-friendly formats, including GeoRSS, KML (Google Earth) and GeoJSON, as well as popular raster formats such as PNG, GIF, TIFF and JPEG. Pre-built web services for KML Network Link, OGC® WFS and OGC WMS are included for quick deployment to users in the formats they require.

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About Safe Software

Safe Software powers the

flow of spatial data with its

software platform, FME.

The recognized standard in

spatial ETL (extract, transform

and load), FME is the only

complete solution for data

conversion. It delivers the

most extensive format

support for data translation

and integration, and provides

unlimited flexibility in data

model transformation and

distribution.

For more information, visit

www.safe.com.

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Expert Service and Support

Whether your team needs expert deployment advice, hands-on training or technical support, Safe Software’s Professional Services team is available to help. We are committed to helping your organization succeed in getting the most value out of FME, for the long term.

FME Server includes free technical support and software updates for the first year to help your organization take full advantage of your FME investment.

For more information, please visit www.safe.com/fmeexpertservice.

Experience the Power of FME Server

FME Server enables scalable and efficient spatial data access across your organization. To request a personalized web demonstration, email us at sales@safe.com or call us at 604-501-9985.

“We are facing the data harmonization

challenge with the help of FME’s

sophisticated data schema transformation

capabilities. FME Server’s web feature

service is the key that enables public

agencies to contribute spatial data to the

INSPIRE initiative, while maintaining their

internal systems.”

Dr.-Ing. Andreas Donaubauer Project Manager Munich University of Technology

With the increasing pressure to share spatial data assets both within and across organizational boundaries, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) initiatives are emerging around the globe. Designed to facilitate SDI efforts like INSPIRE, FME Server’s scalable platform offers a flexible way for you to exchange and share your spatial data assets in community-accepted models.

FME Server’s flexible approach makes data harmonization easy. Its powerful data transformation capabilities enable SDI participants to easily share their data in standard data models, while keeping their internal data models, schemas and systems intact. Once data has been transformed, FME Server can stream it via web services or make the data available for self-service download. This efficient approach ensures timely data access to the latest data by all SDI participants.

To learn more about FME and SDI’s, please visit www.safe.com/sdi.