Thursday, April 7th
was the 2017 FME World Tour in Houston. Safe Software’s yearly road trip aims to
promote and educate on the FME platform. We’ve been looking forward to the 2017
edition since last year’s FME WT! In addition to the LOGICians there (thanks
Lisa), it was great to see so many local energy firms in attendance.
Here are some of
our observations from the 2017 FME World Tour Houston.
Safe Software is
continuing to invest in FME
FME is such a
powerful tool for ETL (Extract > Transform > Load), data enrichment and
data conflation for oil and gas companies, so I was happy to hear Safe Software
is continuing to invest in their tool by growing the number of out-of-the-box
connectors. They are also updating their already solid user interfaces,
including the FME Server experience.
FME fosters a
collaborative community
Safe Software
continues to build upon the community aspect of FME through interactive and fun
learning opportunities. This year, they asked folks to huddle into teams
to answer technical questions in the hope of winning swag – something all
conference attendees (including myself) love. This activity definitely got everyone engaged
and thinking about FME. The LOGIC team came home with a few topics to
brainstorm.
LOGIC and FME in
2017
This week we’ll be presenting a
paper at the 2017 Esri Petroleum GIS Conference, focusing on an FME
implementation with our client, EnerVest. The Green Field Enterprise
Web GIS Implementation at EnerVest allowed the GIS team to automate data
downloading, cleanup, conflation, spatialization and loading into ArcSDE.
This type of FME engagement helps oil and gas companies focus on finding or
producing oil and gas instead of manual data massaging or script writing.
To further our FME knowledge, two of our team members will be
attending the FME User Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, May 24-26th. The
FME UC, is focused on technical “how-tos”, learning tips for your data, and
getting answers to your trickiest integration questions. Let us know if
you have any technical questions you want answered and we’ll do our best to get
the info for you at the UC. Submit your questions to Todd. (todd.buehlman[at]logicsolutionsgroup.com)
If you haven’t been
to an FME World Tour, make plans to join us next year, the event and
accompanying community are awesome. Going forward, we have plans to continue
utilizing and promoting FME as a powerful (and cost effective) ETL
platform. Please let us know if you have any related FME questions.