FME 2010

This new release aims to address common data interoperability challenges faced by customers and the geospatial market. Nearly 1,000 of the improvements introduced in FME 2010 are a direct result of customer feedback which identified ways that FME could improve spatial data access.

FME 2010 introduces new support for additional formats, enhanced support for popular formats, and significant improvements in support for 3D formats. Empowering GIS professionals to share information with new user communities, FME 2010 now offers support for over 250 formats. This includes new support for Autodesk Civil 3D and common statistics formats IBM PASW (SPSS), R Statistical Data and SAS (Statistical Analysis System).

The release also offers enhanced support for popular data sharing formats such as OpenGIS KML (Google Earth and Maps), Adobe PDF and XML (including OpenGIS GML and CityGML),  enabling GIS professionals to meet increasing demands for making spatial data more accessible to non-GIS users. The new release also introduces support for 1,850 additional coordinate systems, bringing the new supported total to over 5,300.

FME 2010 also introduces expanded support for 3D formats and vastly enhanced 3D object texture support in response to the growing market need for 3D data access. Enabling users to create even more realistic 3D models that integrate data from a wide variety of data types, FME 2010 now includes support for Autodesk 3ds, COLLADA, Google Sketchup, Presagis OpenFlight.

FME 2010 introduces enhancements to its graphical user interface which improve user productivity. Workflows have also been improved for efficiency and flexibility, and many features have been enhanced for speedy user adoption so that organizations can derive value from their spatial data assets even faster.

FME 2010 delivers on Safe Software's commitment to ensure that every release of FME is faster than the last. FME 2010 improves performance over the previous release by an average of 4% overall, with over 20% speed improvements in targeted areas.

New deployment options in FME 2010 make it even easier for organisations to tightly integrate FME within their current environment. With this new release, organisations can deploy FME technology how they need it - on the desktop, the server and now also in the cloud.  FME 2010 also expands its support for computing platforms, ensuring that organizations can deploy FME in their preferred environment.

FME 2010 introduces new security features, equipping GIS professionals to share their spatial data with authorized users while preventing unauthorized access. The flexible security framework is designed to integrate within an organization's existing infrastructure, and supports LDAP-based Microsoft Active Directory integration and SSL encryption.