Join co-founders Don Murray and Dale Lutz for a look at what’s new in FME 2021. FME 2021.0 introduces the ability to: - Connect to More Systems - break down data silos with added support for Esri CityEngine, Apache Parquet, USD and more! - Transform with Speed & Agility - reduce your time to production with significant interface enhancements and performance improvements - Automate with Increased Control - Discover new ways to automate your workflows in Automations, authenticate your staff and scale your FME instance to meet your needs And more! With FME 2021, you’ll be more productive than ever.

1. Unveiling FME 2021.0

2. Dale Lutz
Co-Founder
Don Murray
Co-Founder
Presenters

3. Agenda
● Year in Review: FME 2020
● Themes of FME 2021.0
● Unveiling New Features
● Q&A

4. Year in Review: FME 2020
Highlights
● FME 2020 was most downloaded release ever!
● 17 features voted in from the Ideas Forum
● The FME Platform recognized as one of the Top 20 global Data Integration Tools on
the Gartner Magic Quadrant
● Approached by industry leading vendors (i.e. Snowflake, Google, etc.) to deliver the
best support for their new spatial data offerings

5. And Now...

7. CONNECT
with More Systems
TRANSFORM
with Speed & Agility
AUTOMATE
with Increased Control

8. CONNECT
with More Systems

9. Development Insights: Connect
Our Vision
At Safe, we continue to
expand the reach of the
platform delivering
industry leading system
support.
What We Delivered
In FME 2021.0, we add
and improve support for
13 new systems in the
form of readers, writers,
transformers, and
connectors
Value to You
We’ve built support for
more systems, ensuring
that no matter where
data is gathered, stored,
or used, with FME you
can maximize the value
of data for your
organization.

10. High data volume,
column-oriented data
storage.
Supports moving huge
quantities of data to the cloud
or between different systems.
A better CSV™
Apache Parquet
Stay tuned for an upcoming
cloud migration webinar

11. CKAN
The CKANConnector is available on FME
Hub.
Upload and download data from the
popular Comprehensive Knowledge
Archive Network (CKAN) open-source
open data portal.
Writing to CKAN DataStore is planned for
a future release.
Stay tuned for an open-data portal & CKAN webinar coming soon!

12. RabbitMQ
Connect to the RabbitMQ
message broker (AMQP 0.9.1)
to send, receive, acknowledge,
or count messages.
Supports new data streaming
workflows.

13. Azure Event Hubs
Publish or receive messages
asynchronously on the Azure
Event Hubs service

14. With FME 2021.0, users can
upload, download, or list files
hosted on BIM 360 Docs directly
to and from FME
BIM 360 Docs Connector

15. Geodatabase Writer
FME 2021.0 delivers added support for
writing ArcGIS Pro Annotations.
Note: This has been added to:
● Esri Enterprise Geodatabase (SDE)
● Esri File Geodatabase (FGDB)

16. Esri CityEngine
● The CityEngineModelGenerator
generates 3D models from input
geometry and CityEngine rule
packages.
● Is available as a package on FME
Hub.

17. OGC Updates
FME continues to deliver leading
support for OGC standards including:
● OGC WFS 3.0
● OGC WMTS
● OGC API Features 1.0

18. USD Writer
● 3D Format Developed By Pixar
● FME writer outputs .usda, .usdc,
and .usdz files
● USDZ, the native AR format for iOS
brings FME to the iOS AR ecosystem
● FMEAR will soon support this
payload for enhanced 3D models

19. FME Mobile
New Labelling
Use Cases
New PipeReplacer
Transformer
Updated UX

20. TRANSFORM
with Speed & Agility

21. Development Insights: Transform
Our Vision
At Safe, we work to
ensure users have an
enjoyable experience.
To us, experience is all
about usability,
flexibility, and speed.
What We Delivered
In FME 2021.0, we made
many UI enhancements
and dramatically
improved engine speed.
Value to You
We’ve been tuning the
inner workings of FME to
make transformers
easier to configure,
perform faster than ever,
and process streaming
data in real-time.

22. Data-Aware Transformer Dialogues
No more struggling to remember
the exact values in your source
data!
Test and TestFilter conditionals
are now out of Tech Preview, and
this new capability is now available
for the popular AttributeManager
transformer.

23. Parameter Dialog Builder
Provides workspace and custom
transformer authors with a rich,
drag and drop GUI experience
for configuring user parameter
dialogs
Enables rich dialogs for
FME Server Apps to run:
● In the browser
● In FME Data Express

24. PROJ7
FME 2021.0 delivers support for the
latest version of PROJ, which allows
remote access to grids.

25. H3
FME now can compute,
manipulate, and visualize spatial
data indexed by the Uber H3
Worldwide Geospatial Hexagonal
Indexing framework.
On-demand
H3 webinar &
blog available at
safe.com!

26. FME Server
Streams
Easily switch from batch to stream
processing with the new interface in
FME Server called Streams.
With streams users can build
workflows that process real time
streaming data.
Stay tuned for an
upcoming Streams
webinars series!

27. ● TimeWindower creates time based “group” IDs
● Group By Mode on transformers causes processing
when Group By values change
○ Now including PythonCaller & FeatureWriter
FME Engine Stream Processing
Stay tuned for an
upcoming Streams
webinars series!

28. Improved Engine Speed (YMMV)
Many transformers have been improved by ongoing Bulk Mode/Algorithmic Redesign efforts:
Transformer Times Faster Than FME 2020.2
AreaOnAreaOverlayer Up to 5x
AttributeKeeper Now Builds Bulk Features
Bufferer Up to 11x
Dissolver Up to 2x
FeatureMerger Up to 5x
GeometryExtractor Up to 7x
PointOnAreaOverlayer Up to 3x
ShortestPathFinder Up to 30x
SpatialFilter Up to 100x
SpatialRelator Up to 10x
Tester Up to 10x

29. AUTOMATE
with Increased Control

30. Development Insights: Automate
Our Vision
At Safe, we work to
ensure you have the
tools to tackle datasets
of any size.
What We Delivered
In FME 2021.0, we
started the foundation
for autoscaling.
We have also added
features to build
complex automation
workflows.
Value to You
This increased control for
automating data
integration workflows,
enables you to solve new
challenges.

31. 2020 Challenge: Scaling Up FME
How much CPU and memory
resources do my
workspaces require?
Should I use dynamic
engines,and how should I
assign jobs/queues to
them?

32. 2021 Solution: Job Information
Laying the groundwork for autoscaling so organizations can optimize engine
deployment.
In FME 2021.0, users have access to:
● Job Execution Metrics
● Queue Control
● Queued Time for Jobs

33. Job Execution Metrics
Admins can use job execution metrics to identify when engines are most or least
busy to help them use engines most efficiently.
Metrics that will be made available include:
● Job processing time (total elapsed, user, system)
● Memory usage (start, end, peak)
● CPU time (user + system)
● CPU percent (CPU time / total elapsed)

34. Queue Control
This is a way for FME Server admins to manage the load on FME Server Engines. Admins can now
determine how jobs and engines are assigned to queues thru new rule based queue assignment
capabilities.
Register for our webinar on advanced job control - safe.com/webinars

35. Manual Trigger
Run an automation with the click of a
button.
Great for automations that are run
on-demand by the user.
Also useful when building complex
workflows.

36. Guaranteed Delivery
Ensures that an external action or workspace will
be retried until successful.
You configure the attempts, both handling and
tracking failures in multiple internal and external
systems as you see fit.
This is key when communicating with external
systems that may be periodically unavailable.

37. Generic Directory
Like Active Directory this authentication
capability enables administrators to use
existing corporate security infrastructure.

38. CONNECT
with More Systems
TRANSFORM
with Speed & Agility
AUTOMATE
with Increased Control

39. Procurement Trends

40. Procurement Trends

41. The Why of Dynamic Engines
● Enable new solutions to be built and deployed
● Support leading edge deployments such as Kubernetes,
scalable cloud, and serverless
● Supports FME Server Apps, Automations, and Streams
where loads can be unpredictable or variable
Dynamic Engines enable organizations to use
the FME platform to solve new challenges

42. The What of Dynamic Engines
● Same capability as standard engines
● Users only pay for the CPU time used, not when the
engines are idle
● Users can scale engines up and down as needed - there is
no per engine cost
● A fundamental building block of the autoscaling
foundation technology.

43. Download the
2021.0 release
now!
Go to:
safe.com/downloads

44. Come one, come all on May 4 - 14!
Users from around the world will come together to share how
FME has solved their data integration challenges.
Safers will share tips & tricks, the latest updates, and innovative ways to use FME.
FME World Fair 2021
Learn how to maximize the value of your data!
safe.com/world-fair

45. Connect with us for more FME
Thank You!
Download FME 2021.0 today,
safe.com/downloads