From Event to Action: Accelerate Your Decision Making with Real-Time Automation

Imagine a world where information flows as swiftly as thought itself, making decision-making as fluid as the data driving it. Every moment is critical, and the right tools can significantly boost your organization’s performance. The power of real-time data automation through FME can turn this vision into reality.

Aimed at professionals eager to leverage real-time data for enhanced decision-making and efficiency, this webinar will cover the essentials of real-time data and its significance. We’ll explore:

FME’s role in real-time event processing, from data intake and analysis to transformation and reporting
An overview of leveraging streams vs. automations
FME’s impact across various industries highlighted by real-life case studies
Live demonstrations on setting up FME workflows for real-time data
Practical advice on getting started, best practices, and tips for effective implementation

Join us to enhance your skills in real-time data automation with FME, and take your operational capabilities to the next level.

1. From Event to Action:
Accelerate Your Decision
Making with Real-Time
Automation

2. Matt
Meeboer

Technical Support Specialist,
FME Flow




Stewart
Harper

VP of Product
Development

Don
Murray

Co-Founder &
CEO

Meet our Team

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5. Agenda
1What are Real-Time Events?
2What are sources of Real-Time Events
3Benefits of Automation and Real-Time Events
4Spatial Data and Real-Time Events
5Customer Stories
6Demos
7Conclusion, Resources & Next Steps
8Q&A
Agenda

6. Flash
Demo

7. Poll:
How frequently does your
company currently use
real-time data for
decision-making?

8. 1
What are Real-Time
Events?

9. Batch, Event, and Stream Processing
Batch
Processing
Low High
Event
Processing
Stream
Processing
Data Velocity
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10. Real-Time Events
Application Integration, data integration
and real-time data processing.

11. 2
What are sources of
Real-Time Events?

12. Some Common Event Sources
Application Events
●Database Trigger
(update, insert)
●Record
inserted/updated
(Webhook Trigger)
●Polling of Legacy
Application.
●...
Data Arrival Events

●Email arrives
●Data in Directory
●Data in object store
(AWS, Azure, Google)
●FTP (or variant)
●....

Device/IoT and other
Events
●Scheduled event
●JMS message
●FME Flow Stream
●FME Flow App
●SQS, SNS or Azure
Event Grid
●....

13. 3
Benefits of Automation
and Real-Time Events.

14. Benefits of Real Time Event processing with Automations
●Application Integration: Connect applications so an update in one
application causes an update in other applications.
●Data Integration: Integrate data as it arrives. From IoT event data, to large
data arrivals in the cloud, to immediate QA on data.
●Unrivalled Productivity: No-code interface so your team can create
real-time data flows quickly and easily.
●Save Time & Have a Happier Team: Automate monotonous tasks so your
team is happier doing more valuable work.
●Better Insights: Up to date information for everyone means more informed
decision making.

15. Capabilities of Real Time Event processing
with Automations
Scalable
●Scale processing to move mountains of data quickly.
Flexible
●Large number of triggers to automate your entire enterprise.
Powerful Orchestration
●Use parallel processing, distributed processing or both in the same
automation to specify how,where and when tasks are done.

16. 4
Spatial Data and
Real-Time Events

17. The world we live in
is Spatial.


How many ways have you used spatial today without even
thinking about it?
Yet many organizations do not use spatial in their day to day
decision making.

18. Spatial Data is critical to get from
digital optimization to digital transformation.
●Spatial data reveals new relationships and insights to make
better decisions.
●Without spatial data you miss opportunities, allocate
resources poorly, and fall behind your competitors.
●Spatial Data streams enables you to see when and where
events occur.

19. Unrivalled Data Type support
Spatial Data is
Everywhere

20. One platform, two technologies
FME Form FME Flow
Build Event Processing workflows.
Automation with Event Processing
FME Flow Hosted
Safe Software managed FME Flow
fme.safe.com/platform
FME Enterprise Integration Platform
Safe & FME

21. FME Flow is Automation
Events drive Automations

22. 5
Customer
Stories

23. Customer Stories

●Electra deploys IoT sensors to improve power network outage
response
○Electra
●Powerlink Queensland automates spatial emergency readiness
○Powerlink
●City of Omaha saves 1000+ hours each year with FME
○City of Omaha
Many more can be found here.

24. Leverage Real-Time Events for
enhanced decision-making
and efficiency.

25. 6
Automations vs
Streams

26. FME Flow Automations FME Flow Streams
●Data Volumes: Low-Medium (<100 per
minute)
●Latency: 1s and up
●Triggered by events
●Complex workflow orchestration

●Data Volumes: High (Millions of records
per minute)
●Latency: Near Real-Time <1s
●‘Always on’ and receiving data from a
stream
●Single, simpler workflow focused on
ingesting a lot of data quickly
Workflows are authored in FME Form,
regardless of how they are run on FME Flow

28. SFTP
Dropbox
System Event
Azure Event
Grid
JMS
UDP
HTTP Request WebSocket
FTP
Logger
SQS/SNS SMTPSQS/SNS
Filter
Merge
S3 Bucket
Network
Event Triggers

29. 7
Demos

30. Real-Time
Data
Integration

31. Data Integration with the FME Platform is easy
●Details of entire process are thru no-code FME Form and FME Flow interfaces.
●FME Flow Automations ensure the data import task happens immediately
●Data Validation is part of the workflow ensuring that only high quality data is
imported.
●Email notifications ensure that appropriate personnel are notified immediately.


Key Takeaways

32. Slide Title
Update data
warehouse with
files submitted
by users
Goal Block Key
Real-Time Data Integration
Result
Access to the
DW and Flow,
Data needs to be
validated

FME Flow
Bucket Watch
Automation

Snowflake
updated in
real-time

33. Integration Architecture
User uploads file
(csv list of food
programs) to
Amazon S3
Bucket
FME Form
Workspace (fmw)
executes on next
available engine
Notify of
Completion
FME Form
Could be Dropbox,
File Share, Flow
Resource Folder

34. Demo

35. Real-Time
Application
Integration

36. Application Integration enables your applications to work together seamlessly
●Webhook capability of FME Flow Automations makes connecting
applications simple and fast.
●We show how easy it is to connect 3 applications. Again: no-code interface
elevates productivity and improve maintainability.


Key Takeaways

37. Slide Title
Create a Service
Request in
CityWorks when
an unsafe tree is
reported via
Survey123

Goal Block Key
Real-Time Application Integration
Result
Survey123 and
CityWorks are
not integrated

FME Flow
Webhook
Automation

CityWorks
updated in
real-time &
AGOL updated
to reference new
Service Request
ID

38. Uni-Directional
Integration Architecture
Linear data flow used to repair, validate, and replicate
data from system A to system B
●Triggers can vary from files being received to
schedules and webhooks.


Dynamic data flow(s) used to integrate multiple
systems by synchronizing changes between 2 (or
more) systems.
●Typically driven by an action being performed in
either system for near real time processing via
webhooks or topics/notifications.

Bi | Multi-Directional

39. FME Flow
Automation Triggered
(Webhook Received
from Survey123)
Integrate AGOL and Cityworks via REST API
User submits Survey
Published FME Workspace (.fmw)

40. Published FME Workspace executes
and synchronizes
changes to features from Cityworks,
Salesforce, and ArcGIS Online
FME Flow
Automation Triggered
Record inserted,
updated, or deleted
Record inserted,
updated, or deleted

41. Demo

42. Real-Time Data
Enrichment

43. Different systems hold different information. You want to want to leverage one system to
“enrich” the data of another system.
●Automations can also connect to external services, like ChatGPT (OpenAI), to enrich your
data
●Automations perform this enrichment as data arrives, providing better data for better
insights.

Automations don’t just save you time, they do things you couldn’t afford to do without them.

Key Takeaways

44. Slide Title
Add additional
details about a
new customer
lead in
Salesforce

Goal Block Key
Real-Time Data Enrichment
Result
Sales doesn’t
have time - too
many leads to
chase

FME Flow
Webhook
Automation with
ChatGPT as our
research
assistant

Salesforce
updated in
real-time

45. FME Flow
Automation Triggered
(Webhook Received
from Salesforce)User enters lead into Salesforce
Published FME Workspace (.fmw)

46. Demo

47. 8
Conclusion

48. FME Flow Automations FME Flow Streams
●Data Volumes: Low-Medium (<100 per
minute)
●Latency: 100s of ms and up
●Triggered by events
●Powerful workflow orchestration

●Data Volumes: Medium-High (Millions of
records per minute or more)
●Latency: Near Real-Time
●‘Always on’ and receiving data from the
stream
●Simple workflow focused on ingesting
data quickly
Workflows are authored in FME Form,
regardless of how they are run on FME Flow
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