5 Must-Know Use Cases for FME Flow Hosted
- 1. 5 Must-Know Use Cases for FME Flow Hosted
- 2. Nick Ison Product Manager, Flow Hosted Don Murray Co-Founder and CEO Meet the Team
- 3. Welcome to Livestorm. A few ways to engage with us during the webinar: Audio issues? Click this for 4 simple troubleshooting steps.
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- 5. Agenda 1 Introduction 2 Must-Know Use Cases 3 Conclusion 4 Resources 5 Next Steps 6 Q&A Agenda
- 6. Poll: What is your experience with FME Flow Hosted?
- 8. Tap into the powerful features of FME Flow, with no need for infrastructure. Introduction
- 9. FME Flow Hosted and FME Flow FME Flow Hosted is part of our industry leading FME Flow deployment options ● Infrastructure Management ● Easier Scalability ● Flexibility ● Separate Infrastructure ● Compatibility Introduction
- 10. Que FME Flow Hosted. A cloud-based platform that, provides a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solution for managing your data workflows. Introduction
- 11. One platform, two technologies FME Form FME Flow Data Movement and transformations (“ETL”) workflows are built here. Brings life to FME Form workflows FME Flow Hosted Safe Software managed FME Flow fme.safe.com/platform FME Enterprise Integration Platform Introduction
- 12. The cloud-based version of FME Flow. FME Flow Hosted: What is it? Introduction
- 13. Key Benefits of FME Flow Hosted ● No Infrastructure Management: Focus on your data workflows while we handle the infrastructure. ● Scalability: Seamlessly scale your operations to meet growing demands. ● Flexible Deployment: Access your workflows from anywhere, anytime. ● Secure & Reliable: Enterprise-grade security and reliability. Introduction
- 15. #1: INNOVATE FASTER • Deploy in minutes • Get best technology
- 16. Innovate Faster Deploy FME Flow in minutes
- 17. Use FME Flow Hosted 1. Build Integration workflow 2. Signup to FME Flow Hosted 3. Click “Launch Instance” and make your configuration choices. 4. Grab a coffee & wait a few minutes ☕ 5. Publish integration workflow. Steps to Initialize FME Flow
- 20. • We’ve hired the best who tune, optimize, and configure your FME Flow deployment. • Stack has the latest versions of all components. TECHNOLOGY GET THE BEST
- 21. Customer Story Planview Utility Services Project Creation of a platform to coordinate and expedite broadband delivery across Ontario and leveraging FME for other projects. Solution When a permit is submitted to the platform, FME is used to pinpoint location information and send critical notifications to stakeholders. Results ● Data-sharing turnaround time is reduced to seconds or minutes from 15-20 days ● 1040 hours saved annually on pre-engineering requests ● 95% automated Ontario One Call process “In the GIS department, we use FME Flow Hosted so much that other departments are coming to us and asking for recommendations. They’re also starting to take advantage of FME and its power.” - Melissa Buske, GIS Services & Support Manager, Planview USL
- 22. #2: FOCUS RESOURCES Eliminate the overhead associated with managing traditional IT infrastructure.
- 23. Configuration • Resize your disks • Change the size of your instance • Automate through the API Click, Click Focus Resources
- 24. Upgrade Made Easy Upgrade to the latest FME Flow with fast and easy upgrades Focus Resources
- 25. Focus Resources Spend less time on Administration and Ops.
- 26. Customer Story Cochranville Ag Project Enable users to generate Excel reports of crop rotation data directly in Salesforce. Solution Integrate Salesforce and FME Flow Hosted using the FME Flow REST API. Results ● Users can get a formatted Excel report that contains crop rotation data processed from Salesforce. ● The workspace is triggered by clicking a button directly in the Salesforce interface. ● The report is delivered via email. “FME has become a great Enterprise Integration Platform for us.” - John Glick, Cochranville Ag
- 27. #3: MAXIMIZE UPTIME Disaster recovery tools Extended monitoring tools
- 28. SHARED RESPONSIBILITYMODEL Safe manages the hardware and network. Maximize Uptime
- 29. FME Flow Hosted Alerts Monitor your infrastructure as well as FME Flow.
- 32. • Automated backups • One-click rollback Disaster Recovery
- 33. #4: STRENGTHEN SECURITY Run a secure deployment of FME Flow without lifting a finger.
- 34. Shared Responsibility Customer, Safe, and Infrastructure provider all play a role. IaaS Provider PaaS Provider Customer ● Virtualization layer ● Network security: DDOS, spoofing, and port scanning mitigation ● Physical and environmental security ● Operating system security ● Database security ● Network security: ports + protocols ● Vulnerability management, including patching and testing ● Support access ● Access Control ● FME Flow security configuration
- 35. AWS provides a very secure data center!
- 36. • All data encrypted at rest • Automated system backups • SSL-encrypted login • Single tenancy model Secure By Design
- 37. Operations • Security first design mentality • Continuous vulnerability testing • Annual risk assessments Secure
- 39. Security Patching Automated You are in control of how your instance is patched. 1. No patching (not recommended) 2. Many updates are fully automated 3. Most are applied on restart/pause
- 40. Customer Story Tesera Systems Project Create an app to analyse the risk of sewer backup to municipal infrastructure. Solution Use FME Flow Hosted to process data from AWS S3 and SQS, perform QA, generate model indicators, and apply machine learning. Results ● Insurance claims and infrastructure data are integrated for risk analysis. ● Municipalities can take action in areas identified as high risk. ● Cost savings for the Insurance Bureau of Canada. “Everybody should be using FME Flow Hosted – its integration was seamless.” - Michael Kieser, Tesera Systems
- 41. #5: SAVE MONEY Choose pay-as-you-go pricing for flexibility or lock in the savings with an annual rate.
- 42. Excess Capacity MINIMIZE Monitor usage and then scale up or down to optimize the hardware for your needs.
- 43. Schedules Bring the instance online exactly when you need it.
- 44. On-Demand Harnessing • FME Flow Hosted API
- 45. Powerful API All management is available through the API
- 46. Customer Story Arkansas GIS Office Project Migrate their open data portal to the cloud. Solution Use FME to migrate 7+ terabytes of data to Amazon and FME Flow Hosted, and automate user request workflows in the cloud. Results ● Created a robust, secure, and scalable system by eliminating in-house infrastructure. ● Projected an elimination of $220,000, saving 73.4% in 3-year cost by moving to the cloud. “When you combined our old rack space costs ($3,200 per month) with our 3-5yr hardware costs ($170k), migrating to Amazon and FME Flow Hosted became an easy decision.” - Seth LeMaster, GIS Lead, Arkansas GIS Office
- 47. Flexible Pricing makes FME Flow Hosted a great option for many use cases.
- 48. FME Flow Hosted is Available as… ● Pay-by-the-Hour ● Annual Flow Hosted Plan - significant savings over Pay-by-the-Hour ● Part of FME Enterprise Subscription ● Also available through our extensive MSP Partner Network
- 49. 3 Conclusion
- 50. Summary
- 51. 29+ 27K+ 128 190 20K+ years of solving data challenges FME Community members countries with FME customers organizations worldwide global partners with FME services 30+ 29K+ 128 140+ 25K+ years of solving data challenges FME Community members countries with FME customers organizations worldwide global partners with FME services 200K+ users worldwide Safe & FME
- 52. Safe Software is recognized as Customers’ Choice again in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Data Integration Tools report. We are now recognized as Customers’ Choice in North America and Midsize Enterprise segments. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark, and PEER INSIGHTS is a registered trademark, of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Read Full Report
- 53. 4 Resources
- 54. Get our Ebook Spatial Data for the Enterprise fme.ly/gzc Guided learning experiences at your fingertips academy.safe.com FME Academy Resources Check out how-to’s & demos in the knowledge base support.safe.com Knowledge Base Webinars Upcoming & on-demand webinars safe.com/webinars
- 55. Check out our podcasts on-demand. featuring special guest speakers over at EM360 Resources
- 56. 5 Next Steps
- 57. Peak of Data Integration 2025 Seattle, WA | May 6–8 ● Abstracts due Nov 29th, 2024 ○ All levels FME proficiency welcome ○ 15 & 25 min options (incl. Q&A) ○ Special speaker rate for accepted talks ● Registration opens Sept 17th! peakofdataintegration.com/Call-For-Presentations
- 58. We’d love to help you get started. Get in touch with us at [email protected] Contact Us Next Steps
- 59. ● See the FME Flow Hosted documentation ● FME Flow Hosted Support landing page: FAQs, tips, and troubleshooting. ● FME Flow Hosted Pricing and Sizing ● FME Flow Hosted Support Policy Getting started: FME Flow Hosted
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- 61. 6 Q&A
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