FME Server Key Capabilities

FME Server enables organizations to quickly share spatial data using flexible web-based distribution and loading services. Here's an overview of the top capabilities available in
FME Server:

Share Spatial Data with Users - Where, When & How They Need It

FME ServerSatisfying users’ requests for spatial data doesn’t need to drain your limited resources. Using
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.

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

Spatial Data Download Service

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 integrates 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 data set. Clip, zip and ship – it’s that easy.

Spatial Data Streaming Service

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.

Efficiently Validate, Load and Convert Large Volumes of Data

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.

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

Server-based Spatial Data Conversion Service

FME Server 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.

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.  

Spatial Data Upload and Validation Service

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.

Leverage Your Current IT and GIS Environments

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.

Participate in Spatial Data Infrastructure Initiatives

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. 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.

Benefit from Expert Service and Support

Whether your team needs expert deployment advice, hands-on training, or technical support, Safe Software’s Professional Services team is here to help. Committed to helping your organization succeed in getting the most value out of FME, the team is comprised of individuals chosen for their in-depth knowledge as well as extensive practical experience in information technology and spatial data management.