Primary use cases include: creating automatic data flow processes, enabling users to self-serve their data needs, and handling real-time events. It is a fault-tolerant, scalable multi-tier solution, so it has backup facilities. One can use a multi-server setup with a database. We can download data, start processes, update databases, send messages, tweets, push notifications, and almost everything in a few clicks. With spatial data, it has almost no competitors.
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Intuitive with great integrations and excellent spatial features
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
FME handles all ETL processes, refreshes data, and produces reports and dashboards.
Automated data enrichment and analysis using the setups we use are great for just doing the jobs by hand.
We easily share data and workspaces among users in a secure setup with managed authorizations, connected to Active Directory.
There is even a hosted solution, where one does not have to worry about having the appropriate server environment. All that is required is selecting a platform version, data storage region, performance type, and need for data space and ignite!
What is most valuable?
All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable.
The integration between FME Flow and FME Form is super as is its integration with scripting like Python is superb.
It is a really intuitive product; just type anything in the canvas and methods for processing pop up. Data is processed intelligently, though for optimal dataflow some human thinking has to be done.
What needs improvement?
Improvements could be made to mapping presentations. Though there are functions available for this, it is a complex and broad area that is not covered to the fullest extent. There is a presentation module, however, it is in no way a real GIS.
For now, there is the FME Forms product to enter detailed data mapping setups, which is a great tool. However, having an online medium for this would be great. In a future version, it would be great to have a website where you can log in and create your workspace to do the detailed data processing and publish it to the FME Flow environment where it can be used to participate in the general data processing setups.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using FME Flow, a.k.a. FME Server, now for 15 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I never got a blue page, however, that might be on my side.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Performance is where you put the computational power. Do not drag large datasets over the internet if you just need the total number of addresses in a country.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did some work with Azure Functions, Databricks, and AWS Web Services. It is just for historical and pricing reasons that I did not switch to AWS or Azure platforms.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
FME is the nicer and cheaper platform that supports all the functions of larger platforms.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options. I rolled in and fell in love with the platform.
Powerful geographic data manipulation, conversion and visualization tool
What do you like best about the product?
The FME platform has many built-in transformations from one format to another. Also, FME has split out common functions in to standalone tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with any software meant to munge data, FME Desktop will seem confusing and even opaque to the new user. For example, it is not immediately obvious how to access custom data in an imported data structure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using FME Platform I am able to quickly and easily convert and simplify government boundary datasets into a format suitable for my own applications.
FME - Swiss knife for the spatial data transformation
What do you like best about the product?
FME is an easy to use tool to create ETL(extract-transform-load) workflows for spatial and non-spatial data. It handles enormous number of spatial and non-spatial data formats, so you could transform almost anything-to-anything. Most common formats including shapefiles, ESRI file geodatabases, spatial data in various relational databases. You even can automatically post tweets based on your data. Besides the format conversion, other important feature is data transformation capabilities, so you can perform complex spatial transformations, like buffering, subsetting, spatial queries, joins, attribute calculations - almost anything that you can do using the conventional GIS, like ArcGIS or QGIS but in an automated way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Product is expensive, no way to run the FME workflows for free.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Various ETL projects, such as tiling scanned raster maps, and converting the data between various formats.
Works as expected
What do you like best about the product?
Put in one file type and another one (desired) will come out on the other end. It does exactly what you can expect it to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface and whole ux could use a bit of a revamp into 2018
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to now perform complex automated analysis in the form of FME workbenches.
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