Creating an Automated Email Based Data Fulfillment System using FME Server

Automated Email Services

Robert White – President WhiteStar CorpKevin Weller – Software Architect, ASAP iSystems

April 10, 2013

Project Background

Business Environment WhiteStar Delivers Vector Data to Customers

Public Land Survey (polygons). Texas Land Survey (polygons). Well Data (points). Culture (vectors, polygons, points).

Project Background

Old Way. Manual Delivery. DVD. Desktop Installation. Stressing Out Jeff and Mike.

Project Background

New Way Simple e-mail Interface. Customers Self-Serve Data. Common Process for Enterprise and Desktop. Based on Cloud Technologies.

FME Server PostgreSQL ArcGIS Online?

Mike and Jeff are Happy

Benefits

Automates Internal Manual Tasks. Automates Data Quoting. Tracks Data Usage. Repurposes Resources. Entitlements Managed by Google Docs Interface. Interfaces to Salesforce.com. Eliminates Need for Web.

Web Tools Development to Hide Complexity.

Features

Leverage Strengths of FME: Repeatable, Simple Ordering Process. Leverage Predefined Output Formats.

Use of .JPG and .PDF for Quote Generation Geodatabase etc, for delivery.

Leverage Power of Workspaces. Leverage Built-in Coordinate Systems / Transforms. Store Data in Cloud.

Basic Data Flow

Email Example

From: kweller@asapisoft.comTo: wsdata@fme.whitestar.comSubject: WhiteStar Grid Order

COUNTY: CO:JeffersonLAYERS: PLSSCOORDSYS: EPSG:4267FMT: shapefile

Subsystem Decomposition

Cloud Deployment

Thank You!

Questions?

For more information: Robert White, rwhite@whitestar.com Kevin Weller, kweller@asapisystems.com ASAP iSystems for WhiteStar Corporation

Twitter: @doxotter (Kevin) and @k0rcw (Robert)