5 Must-Know Use Cases for FME Flow Hosted

Looking to leverage automation and handle large datasets without the hassle of setting up infrastructure? FME Flow Hosted allows you to tap into the powerful features of FME Flow, with no need for complex infrastructure. It offers the best of both worlds: FME Flow’s versatility, coupled with the flexibility of the cloud environment.

Join this webinar to learn five key use cases that showcase the expansive power of FME Flow Hosted. Learn how it can streamline your workflows, optimize your resources, and future-proof your operations—all without the hassle of complex coding.

With FME Flow Hosted, you can quickly establish a robust IT architecture tailored to your needs. This webinar will provide the essential insights to help you make an informed upgrade, or learn new capabilities. Don’t miss this chance to see how FME Flow Hosted can enhance your data management capabilities.

1. 5 Must-Know Use Cases
for FME Flow Hosted

2. Nick
Ison

Product Manager, Flow Hosted
Don
Murray

Co-Founder and CEO
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5. Agenda
1Introduction
2Must-Know Use Cases
3Conclusion
4Resources
5Next Steps
6Q&A
Agenda

6. Poll:
What is your experience
with FME Flow Hosted?

7. 1
Introduction

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

14. 2
Must-Know
Use Cases

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

18. LAUNCH
INSTANCE
DEMO

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 RESPONSIBILITY MODEL
Safe manages the hardware and network.
Maximize Uptime

29. FME Flow Hosted Alerts
Monitor your infrastructure as well as FME Flow.

30. CREATE
LOAD
ALERT
DEMO

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

38. Security
Configurable Instance

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.
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56. 5
Next Steps

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