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FME Server
The new FME Server technology by Safe Software, the leading Spatial ETL manufacturer, makes FME functionality available via the Web. With FME Server users get access to spatial data at every location, in the desired schema and format or as a web service.
Translation, Schema Mapping and Transformation via the Web
FME Server is an efficient solution that enables efficient spatial data access by users both inside and outside your organization. Built on a scalable, services-oriented architecture, FME Server centralizes spatial data transformation and distribution tasks to reduce dependence on your department and increase end user autonomy.
10 KEY CAPABILITIES
- Enable On-the-Fly Data Transformation via the Web
- Create a Spatial Data Download Service
- Deliver Spatial Data as a Web Streaming Service
- Participate in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Initiatives
- Share Common Spatial ETL Tasks across the Organization
- Experience Scalable, High Throughput Data Conversion
- Load Balance Large Translation Jobs
- Create a Spatial Data Quality Assurance Service
- Integrate FME into your Current Web Environment
FME Server - Licensing Options
FME Server is available in different editions. The licensing is based on so-called FME Server Engines (instances). Every FME Server Edition will be delivered with a single FME Server Engine. The number of the required FME Server Engines depends on the individual requirements regarding the performance of FME Server.
FME Server Editions
- FME Server Standard Edition, including a single FME Server Engine
- FME Server SpatialDirect Edition, including a single FME Server Engine
- FME Server Engine
FME Server licenses do not include a FME-Workbench. Thus they require a FME Desktop Edition in order to generate FME processes to be published.
Notes for users of FME Desktop
FME Desktop is an authoring tool for FME Server. In FME Workbench the generated processes can be uploaded to the server, so that other persons in a company can share these processes via the Web.
Notes for users of SpatialDirect
Users with a valid license for the SpatialDirect technology are automatically authorized to upgrade to the FME Server SpatialDirect Edition.
If you want to change to the new technology, please don't hesitate to contact us.
FME Server - Extensions
FME Server is optionally available as the FME Server SpatialDirect Edition. Furthermore it is possible to purchase SpatialDirect as an extension of FME Server afterwards. SpatialDirect extends FME Server by integrating a format independent download component.
SpatialDirect in brief
SpatialDirect is a web-based software component which provides download and upload capabilities for spatial data in any format and coordinate system which is supported by FME. The figure below illustrates the "Clip-Zip-Ship" principle.
What's great in Spatial Direct?
- Writing of many formats and coordinate systems supported by FME
- Multiple reading from different data sources, formats and coordinate systems
- Simultaneous processing with multiple FME Server installations
- Automatic restart when errors occur
- Auto selection of layers according to the zoom level
- Notification per email about executed processes
- Customizable web pages
- API available for third party applications
FME Server - System Requirements
FME Server is available for Windows. Other platforms will be supported in the future.
Supported Platforms
- Windows Vista (for single-fixed and floating licenses)
- Windows 2003 Server*
- Windows 2008 Server*
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000
* FME 32-bit will run on Windows 2003 Server & 2008 Server 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Windows System Requirements
Hardware
The minimum system requirements necessary to run FME Server on a Windows systems are:
- a Pentium-PC (Windows 2003 Server or XP)
- at least 2 GB of RAM
- a hard disk with at least 400 MB of free space
Software
A database must be available in which to store the FME Server repository. Any standard database may be used, such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.
In order to use the Web Front End component of FME Server the system must have:
- a web server capable of running web-based applications at a Java V1.5 and a JSP V2.0 level or higher.
- if installing any of the included FME Server web services, the web server must be capable of running servlets (either directly or via an integrated servlet engine plugin) at a Java V1.5 level (or higher) and that conform to the Java Servlet 2.3 (or higher) specification.
- access to a web browser, such as Internet Explorer or FireFox, for viewing the webpages of the Web Front End component.
Supported Formats
Any FME supported read formats can be used as an input for FME Server, and any FME supported output formats can be used as output for FME Server in batch and download usage patterns. For online data streaming requirements, the stream download service of FME Server can be used to stream data in these popular formats:
- GeoRSS
- KML (Google Earth)
- GeoJSON
- GML/XML
- HTML
- VRML
Download the latest FME Server Brochure.
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