1.
City of Coquitlam
Sean Watson, Business Systems Analyst
Canada

2.
● 6th largest city in British Columbia, Canada, with over
150,000 residents and more than 80 municipal parks.
● The Information & Communications Technology (ICT)
Division is dedicated to ongoing information sharing
and data integration initiatives.
● FME Desktop users for 17+ years and FME Server users
for over a decade.
Overview

3.
Connecting data across
the city
● Garbage & organics cart collection
(IBM Maximo, Tempest, 3rd party data)
● LED streetlights conversion project
(Excel, Oracle eBusiness Suite)
● Parking violations & ticketing
(AMANDA)
● Bulk packaging of as-built drawing
requests (FME Server App)
● Self-serve spatial data catalogue
(Amazon S3)
15+
integrated
applications
...and more.

4.
Objectives
Solve diverse data integration
challenges across multiple
departments and projects.
● Improve data sharing and
accessibility between
internal teams and external
vendors.
● Enable faster and more
accurate decision making.

5.
Challenges
● Data existed in silos and across
disparate systems.
● Replace manual and labour
intensive processes.
● Poor data integrity and quality
meant time spent on manual
data cleaning.

6.
Solution
DATA SILOS
Internal and external
data
Maximo
Tempest
AMANDA
...and more.
FME
FME Desktop
FME Server
FME Data Express
DATA & APPLICATION
INTEGRATION

7.
FME Workspace - Spatial data catalogue
Go through your proof points.
A.
B.
C.

8.
Automations

9.
Output:
Spatial Data Catalogue

10.
Output:
Spatial Data Catalogue,
Utility Data

11.
Output:
Spatial Data Catalogue,
LiDAR Data

12.
Results
● Significantly reduced manual processes and
eliminated the risk of human error.
● Streamlined operational processes and
increased staff productivity.
● Ensured high data quality from external
sources while preserving data integrity.

13.
● Continuously contributing to the delivery of
quality programs and services across the city.
● Leveraging one platform to maximize the value
of data while enabling multiple teams to use
the best fit-for-purpose applications.
● Achieving more with less.
Benefits

14.
Tips
● When upgrading workspaces, don't forget to
upgrade your readers and writers.
● Take advantage of available training - the more
people that know the tool, the better.
● Annotate your workspaces just as you should
comment code; with multiple developers
accessing the system, they can copy existing
workspaces to solve new problems.

15.
“FME is enabling digital transformation within
the City. We could not achieve our goals
without the products and support from
Safe Software.”
- Sean Watson, City of Coquitlam

16.
Thank you!