FME Flow on Windows
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FME and GIS
What do you like best about the product?
I like that FME can process large workflows and has many options to translate data based on the needs of our company. FME has saved me hundreds of hours of manual labor and has allowed me to speed up data updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the translators have a bit of a learning curve. Sometimes updates seem to change or break things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving the issue of manually doing all of the data processing. The automation of lot of this work is a phenomenal benefit. We have been able to meet strict time requests because of FME.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There's a 60 day free trial. Try it first! Support was a great help for me while I was trying it.
FME rocks
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to connect to almost any web API
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't think of anything I dislike. Maybe the need to install a local client but I think Safe has a plan to make their studio 100% available in the cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analyzing, transforming, storing, and reporting spatial data. Pulling data from various web APIs and integrating it in our reports
Recommendations to others considering the product:
One of the best tools you can find for managing all kinds of data
FME - More powerful than ArcToolbox
What do you like best about the product?
When you build an FME tool, you can set it to run on a spatial database while Arcmap is still open, and the tool will not lock! As if that's not enough, FME is continually adding new transformers to their toolbox. When you want to learn a new FME skill, all the training and chat support is free. They offer beginner training as well as advanced training on FME Server.
What do you dislike about the product?
FME has a lot of transformers, and the names are not the same as Arc Toolbox. For the beginner, you have to get used to this. The good thing is, FME chat is free. You can tell the chat box what you are trying to achieve, and the FME support specialist will give you some ideas. Sometimes you have to request a few times before finding the transformer that works best for your task. The transformers work differently tan Arc Toolbox tools, so you have to think about solving your problem from an FME perspective, not an Arc Toolbox perspective.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use FME to analyze and manipulate data from pipeline databases, particularly PODS relational and spatial. For repetitive tasks, I put these new tools on the FME server.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
FME is a great addition to your toolbox, but not a replacement for ArcMap. It has a graphical interface, similar to ArcToolbox. There is free, instructor-led training available online, from beginner, to advanced to server. The training includes access to remote desktop computers, and the manual.
Awesome product
What do you like best about the product?
Data flexibility and overall usability. Great support
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited to license level based on base product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GIS analyst and big data
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you use arc toolbox often consider the switch
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