VertiGIS

““FME also gives us a powerful tool to provide extra functionality for the entire SLR APAC team of 600 people. It is making our processes quicker and more flexible. With FME, they are not locked in stone.””

““One of the benefits of 1Spatial’s solution is that the parameters and inputs can be changed to meet state government requirements and other noise guidelines, as well as being customized for individual projects.””

““Sunwater has taken control of its enterprise application integration. With 1Spatial backing it up, Sunwater can broaden the self-reliance it has already shown with FME to create sustainable data integration practices that are more flexible and cost-effective than other methods.””

““We’ve demonstrated FME’s performance as an enterprise integration tool. It’s not just used for spatial data. It’s also used for non-spatial data, enabling seamless integration across all our applications. It’s part of the discussion we have every single day. “It’s all about better data management. Having FME as a low-code integration solution helps us understand how processes run, even if you don’t understand coding. It gives us control and traceability and builds confidence so people can rely on and trust the information.””

““We now collaborate with 1Spatial for technical support as a routine business-as-usual process,””

““The productivity of operational staff or people in the field has increased enormously,””

““FME allows us to work in a very agile way. Application integrations that might take a month or a year in other environments can be deployed with FME in hours or days. That’s incredibly satisfying, especially when I see how it helps our operational teams work more efficiently””

““When we have questions about the application of VertiGIS ConnectMaster, it’s important for us to receive quick responses to our support requests,””

““For us, it’s essential to have every detail and every redundancy across all network layers under 100% control. It’s also very important that when the airport undergoes expansion, we are well prepared to carry out network extension planning and change management professionally,””

““After using some of the latest features of FME in a spatial context, we can see how to apply them to our non-spatial processes. We have a few things in the pipeline that we plan to present to the organization to automate repetitive or bulk tasks associated with different system integrations.””

““FME workbenches can manage the credentials and connections while the FME Flow server can be used with the Workspace Apps to provide per-user or group privileges. This allows the transfer ofadministrative tasks to other users without the need to share or create additional credentials.””

““We were able to parameterise each workbench for different environments and set conditional values,” said Cartledge.”

““We all have data management tools developed outside of the FME ecosystem. We found that you don’t need to hunt down equivalent FME transformers or rewrite your processes to begin with. The workbenches can be easily designed to utilise the existing tools and enhance them.””

““We subsequently had the security of the PEDS application assessed by a penetration testing company. They were happy that it was secure and they didn’t identify any major issues or flaws.””

““With an automated solution, you get better data integrity. The standardized data model has been fed into FME which performs the validation against submitted data. That is always going to be more reliable than human checks alone, where there is potential for things to be missed.””

““An ethos of our team is to automate tasks and workflows wherever possible and FME is a big part of that. This was a case where we could build something to manage the interface with the environmental consultants, giving us more confidence and better data integrity while reducing the internal workload required to check the data and processes involved.””

““The automated workflows ensure that operational staff always have up-to-date data, which means requests for information are quicker and data quality is maintained across systems,” said Simons. “And because it’s built on FME moving to FME Flow, it will allow even more automation and scheduling across other processes in the future.””

““As soon as we brought in GDV Hub, it was such a pressure valve release,” said Simons. “We knew early on that we would continue with it.””

““GDV Hub has changed the way we work. Our asset data officers now have clear ownership of the process. They run the A-SPEC validations themselves, interpret the reports and communicate directly with consultants, and only escalate when there might be a significant issue.””

““GDV Hub gives us near instant turnaround on A-SPEC validation reports. The results are more transparent and easy to interpret, and that’s improved things not only for our department, but also for our subdivision engineers, landscape architects and project managers.””

““Implementing the entire integration process with Python scripts was not a sustainable option due to maintenance complexity. With FME, you can configure a self-documenting and transparent process so anyone in the team can manage it. We have also used Python scripts to import asset data. With FME, we could automate and publish that process so the Assets team can validate it. There are lots of things we can apply FME to.””

““The sky is the limit. There are so many more opportunities to streamline and automate tasks with FME, such as reducing our staff’s manual handling tasks in the TechOne system and enhancing field data capture. Automating these manual tasks is incredibly satisfying, but we can do much more. We will build on this work and continue to develop it further.””

“The quality of the data we’re collecting now is in a different league. Our field staff can focus on the inspection itself, and the system takes care of the rest. Timestamps, location, syncing, it all happens seamlessly in the background.”

“Our inspectors were spending too much time wrestling with equipment and not enough time doing the work that matters. We needed something that could keep up with the pace and scale of our operation and work reliably even when there’s no signal for miles,”

““The initial investment made by the business to purchase FME Server is now available organisation wide and is being utilized in many other projects. It is great to see the toolset being used in different ways and to get a good return on investment.””