Spinning Web and Business Data

into Gold

The good news: It’s easier than ever to collect and store data.

•  Smartphones •  Web & mobile apps •  POS systems •  CRMs •  SCM •  Etc.

The bad news: This data must be tamed!

Turning Frogs into Princes

Step 1: Connect to the data Transformers ●  HTTPCaller* ●  HTMLExtractor ●  S3 Transformers ●  DropboxConnector ●  OneDriveConnector ●  BoxConnector ●  GoogleDriveConnector ●  AutodeskA360Connector ●  DatabaseJoiner

Database Formats ●  Oracle ●  MS SQL Server ●  PostgreSQL ●  IBM Cloudant ●  Teradata ●  PostGIS ●  SQLite ●  Netezza

Web Formats ●  ArcGISOnline ●  Salesforce ●  Socrata ●  Google Sheets ●  MongoDB ●  Amazon DynamoDB ●  HTML Table Reader ●  IBM dashDB

●  Amazon Web Services

●  OAuth 2.0 (10,000’s of web services)

●  Good old Token based

●  HTTP Authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM)

Web Connections Connection Support is extensive!

Step 1: Connect to the data

Step 2: Clean it up

Keep the good. Filter out the bad. Clean up the ugly.

Step 3: Make it presentable

Build HTML & PDF Visualizations StatisticsCalculator RCaller AttributePivoter AttributeManager

Geocoder (new) ChartGenerator HTMLReportGenerator PDFPageFormatter

Story: Mapping Eye Health

University of Oxford

Jasleen Kaur Jolly, MSc BSc(Hons) MCOptom

On the blog: fme.ly/eyes

Visualization Created with FME

Data Analysis with FME

Visualizing trial results as 3D PDF Change in visual area over time Comparing treated/untreated eyes

Visualization Sorcery

Business Intelligence:

Making decisions by turning data into meaningful information.

Business Intelligence:

Making decisions by turning data into meaningful information.

Geospatial

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Leaders in Visualization ü  QlikMaps (new in FME 2017)

ü  Tableau

ü  Microsoft Power BI and others: Write to a format supported by that application

Source: Gartner

Built-in Visualization Apps

FME does the Data Preparation

QlikMaps ●  By Analytics8, a big data & analytics consulting firm

specializing in business intelligence. ○  Qlik: business intelligence. ○  QlikMaps: geospatial business intelligence.

●  Adds the value of location, spatial features, web map services, and search functionality to Qlik.

3 Common QlikMaps Use Cases

●  Visualizing and managing sales performance. ●  SLA (service level agreements) compliance. ●  Movement of goods, services, and people.

Challenge: Passenger Flow at the Airport ●  Track and improve passenger flow.

●  Increase passenger satisfaction.

●  Gain insight into commercial opportunities for retailers.

QlikMaps for Indoor Mapping

QlikMaps for Indoor Mapping

Challenge: Visualizing Sales KPIs

●  Visualize by product group + by geographies.

●  Look for regional trends.

●  Cluster by distance.

●  Present location analytics for meaningful insights.

QlikMaps for Sales KPIs

QlikMaps for Sales KPIs

Story: Dashboards for Infrastructure Asset

Management

Henri Veldhuis Jurgen van Tiggelen

Data Preparation

Dashboard to help prioritize road work

Tableau Writer

FME Server for Automation

+ Get the whole story at the

Questions?

●  Tableau resources

safe.com/tableau

●  HTML transformers blog

fme.ly/html

●  FME + web blog

fme.ly/web

●  Data quality checklist

fme.ly/quality

●  FME + QlikMaps tutorial

fme.ly/qlikmaps