FME supports a wide range of non-spatial data, from spreadsheets (CSV, Excel) to databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and to key applications (Salesforce, Socrata). In this webinar, discover how to easily transform non-spatial data for use, even adding a spatial component to your non-spatial data. You'll also hear how SYNCADD has been using FME to solve non-spatial challenges in a variety of situations.
2. Who Are We?
Dale Lutz
Co-Founder and
Vice President of Development
Safe Software
Aaron Koning
FME Server Product Manager
Safe Software
3. Guest Speakers
Daniel Riddle
GIS Specialist for
SYNCADD Systems Inc.
Kristofor Carle
Software Developer for
SYNCADD Systems Inc.
4. Questions are Encouraged!
This morning’s Q&A Support:
Mark Stoakes
Manager Professional Services
Safe Software
Iris Gutowski
Product Support Specialist
Safe Software
5.
6. FME – Feature Manipulation Engine
Powering The Flow of Spatial Data
7. FME – Feature Manipulation Engine
Powering The Flow of Data
8. FME Capabilities
Transform Data to Use and Share
Convertspatial data between
hundreds of formats
Transformspatial data into the
precise data model you need
Integratemultiple different data
types into a single data model
Sharespatial data with people
where, when and how they need it
12. Why FME for Non-Spatial?
Beats Writing Code
Easier to maintain
Faster to configure
Powerful Transformations and Filtering
Supports Most Common Formats
Consistent Handling of Spatial and
Non-Spatial in one tool
22. 2 – The Office
DEMO
Reorganize the Vancouver Business
Licenses Excel File
Separate tabs for license state
Create summary tab
Flag errors into a new file
26. 3 – Hipster
DEMO
Check if my electric car needs charging
Read the Tesla Vehicle Webservice (which returns JSON)
Explode the JSON
Check if charging needed
Send email if yes
Honk horn if NO
30. 5 – Cloudy
DEMO
Publish data from SalesForce to Socrata
Filter out bad data along the way
Plus do schema restructuring for data
sharing
31. Guest Speakers
Daniel Riddle
GIS Specialist for
SYNCADD Systems Inc.
Kristofor Carle
Software Developer for
SYNCADD Systems Inc.
32. Story 1: Data Upload Monitoring
• The Mission: Monitor data uploaded via a web
interface to an Army Geospatial Data Warehouse
for compliance and data model validation,
reporting the results.
• The Solution: Use FME Server and custom
transformers to run QA tests and email the
results as Excel spreadsheets.
33. SYNCADD
• Custom transformers are created and source user
parameters are published to leverage FME Server.
• Readers Used: Schema; ESRI Personal, File, & SDE
Geodatabase
36. Story 2: Non Spatial MS Access ETL
• The Mission: Evaluate, document, and reproduce
a non-spatial ETL process currently maintained in
MS Access so that business experts (not just data
analysts/DBAs) can understand it.
• The Solution: Use FME to reorganize the process
into diagrams in custom transformers. Add visual
QA/QC checks directly into the workflow.
39. SYNCADD
• Inspection points and FME Data Inspector make it easy
to evaluate the process even on the fly in a meeting.
• Visually compare link counts on printed diagrams after
each data import to look for possible problems.
42. Summary
Don’t let the Spatial scare you off!
FME is a powerful Non-Spatial problem
solving machine
FME is not just for the desktop
FME Server is engineered for enterprise data
transformation
Automate your non-spatial workflows
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44. Upcoming webinars
How to Easily Read and Write CityGML Data Using
FME – March 27
How to Load Spatial and Non-Spatial Data into
Terdata using FME – April 3
PostGIS2.0 – How to Improve Interoperability
using FME – April 24
Recorded Webinars:
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