Mark Stoakes, Safe Software

1. Spinning
Web and Business Data
into Gold

2. The good news:
It’s easier than ever to
collect and store data.
• Smartphones
• Web & mobile apps
• POS systems
• CRMs
• SCM
• Etc.

3. The bad news:
This data must be tamed!

4. Turning Frogs
into Princes

5. Step 1: Connect to the data
Transformers
● HTTPCaller
● HTMLExtractor
● S3 Transformers
● DropboxConnector
● OneDriveConnector
● BoxConnector
● GoogleDriveConnector
● AutodeskA360Connector
● DatabaseJoiner
Database Formats
● Oracle
● MS SQL Server
● PostgreSQL
● IBM Cloudant
● Teradata
● PostGIS
● SQLite
● Netezza
Web Formats
● ArcGISOnline
● Salesforce
● Socrata
● Google Sheets
● MongoDB
● Amazon DynamoDB
● HTML Table Reader
● IBM dashDB

6. Step 2: Clean it up
Keep the good. Filter out the bad. Clean up the ugly.

7. Step 3: Make it
presentable

8. Build HTML & PDF Visualizations
StatisticsCalculator
RCaller
AttributePivoter
AttributeManager
Geocoder (new)
ChartGenerator
HTMLReportGenerator
PDFPageFormatter

9. Story: Mapping Eye Health
University of Oxford
Jasleen Kaur Jolly, MSc
BSc(Hons) MCOptom
On the blog: fme.ly/eyes

10. Visualization Created with FME

11. Data Analysis with FME

12. Visualizing trial results as 3D PDF
Change in visual area over time
Comparing treated/untreated eyes

13. Visualization
Sorcery

14. Leaders in
Visualization
 QlikMaps (new in FME
2017)
 Tableau
 Microsoft Power BI and
others: Write to a
format supported by
that application Source: Gartner

15. Built-in Visualization Apps

16. Business Intelligence:
Making decisions by turning data
into meaningful information.

17. Business Intelligence:
Making decisions by turning data
into meaningful information.

18. QlikMaps
● By Analytics8, a big data & analytics consulting firm
specializing in business intelligence.
○ Qlik: business intelligence.
○ QlikMaps: geospatial business intelligence.
● Adds the value of location, spatial features, web map
services, and search functionality to Qlik.

19. 3 Common QlikMaps Use Cases
● Visualizing and managing sales performance.
● SLA (service level agreements) compliance.
● Movement of goods, services, and people.

20. Challenge: Passenger Flow at
the Airport
● Track and improve passenger flow.
● Increase passenger satisfaction.
● Gain insight into commercial opportunities for
retailers.

21. QlikMaps for Indoor Mapping

22. QlikMaps for Indoor Mapping

23. Story: Dashboards for
Infrastructure Asset
Management
Henri Veldhuis
Jurgen van Tiggelen

24. Data Preparation

25. Dashboard to help prioritize road work

26. Tableau Writer
FME Server
for Automation
+
Get the whole story at the

27. Questions?
● Tableau resources
safe.com/tableau
● HTML transformers blog
fme.ly/html
● FME + web blog
fme.ly/web
● Data quality checklist
fme.ly/quality
● FME + QlikMaps tutorial
fme.ly/qlikmaps