Safe Software
Safe Software's FME uses FDO Data Access Technology
About Product
FME is a spatial ETL platform that helps GIS Professionals efficiently translate, transform and distribute data in over 190 CAD, GIS, raster and database formats. It provides a time-saving alternative to coding scripts for data format conversion.
Customer Benefits
FME implements FDO as both a provider and consumer. As a provider, FME enables FDO consumers such as Map 3D to access over 100 CAD, GIS and database formats. An overview and movie of these capabilities are provided at www.safe.com/autodesk. From an FDO consumer perspective, FME’s graphical authoring environment, Workbench, can now consume FDO formats from virtually any provider, open source or proprietary.
In the future, Safe plans to integrate the FME FDO with MapGuide Enterprise 2008. We also plan to add raster capabilities to the FME FDO and to update FME FDO to support FME’s new rich geometry features.
Value to Safe Software
FDO Data Access Technology was a natural fit for Safe Software’s FME product. FDO allowed Safe to both extend FME’s format reach and make existing FME formats more widely accessible. The return on investment was high due to FDO’s rich and consistent data access model. FME is essentially more “open” thanks to FDO.
"Building this functionality was simple because FDO provides a generic interface to data, allowing Safe to build a single tool that can be leveraged in many ways to meet new market needs.", says Safe Software's Felipe Vera, OEM Product Manager
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