FME Reviews

Name: FME
Brand: Safe Software
Rating: 4.3 (5 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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What is FME?

FME is the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data. Run workflows on the desktop or deploy them in a server or cloud environment.

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FME is the #26 ranked solution in top Data Integration Tools. PeerSpot users give FME an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. FME is most commonly compared to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC): FME vs Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). FME is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 61% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a government, accounting for 29% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Alan Bloor

Geographic Information System Developer at Public Sector

When I do coding, I think about every single function. Some of these functions can be very elementary, like doing a substring or some capitalization. But FME removes all that coding because it's a transformer, so the time to develop an application to get to a point where you're producing results is decreased massively. It used to take weeks and months to develop software, and now I can use something like FME, and within one day, we get results. We can look at and validate data. We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else.

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reviewer2626457

Consultant FME - Beschikbaar at Ordina

Improvements could be made to mapping presentations. Though there are functions available for this, it is a complex and broad area that is not covered to the fullest extent. There is a presentation module, however, it is in no way a real GIS. For now, there is the FME Forms product to enter detailed data mapping setups, which is a great tool. However, having an online medium for this would be great. In a future version, it would be great to have a website where you can log in and create your workspace to do the detailed data processing and publish it to the FME Flow environment where it can be used to participate in the general data processing setups.

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reviewer1381977

Special Adviser at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

FME can improve the geographical transformation. I've had some problems with the geographical transformations, but it's probably mostly because I'm not the most skilled geographer in-house. The solution requires some in-depth knowledge to perform some functions. In the next release, it would be useful to have recommendations on how and how not to use the different functions. It would be helpful because this is a tool we only use once in a while and you have to wrap your mind around this tool quickly it can be difficult.

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FME mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of FME in the Data Integration category stands at 2.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else."
"All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable."
"It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources."

Room for Improvement

"The one thing that always appears in the community is the ability to make really easy loops to loop through data efficiently. That needs to be added at some point."
"Improvements could be made to mapping presentations."
"FME's price needs improvement for the African market."

Pricing

"FME Server used to cost £10,000; now it can cost over £100,000."
"The product's price is reasonable."
"We used the standard licensing for our use of FME. The cost was approximately €15,000 annually. We always welcome less expensive solutions, if the solution could be less expensive it would be helpful."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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