Safe Software Announces Immediate Availability of FME 2006 GB
Written by Safe Software
29 June 2006
Vancouver, B.C. - June 28, 2006 - Safe Software Inc.- the world's leading provider of spatial data translation and data transformation solutions - today announced the release of FME® 2006 GB, the latest version of the company's Feature Manipulation Engine technology.
Among the hundreds of user-requested enhancements included in this release, FME 2006 GB offers important customization options to enhance security, increase work efficiency, and assist with processing ever-increasing data volumes.
New security options in FME 2006 GB allow users to password protect workspaces, custom formats, custom transformers and mapping files. Within the Workbench application for designing data transformations, users can now customize the interface for faster performance by placing frequently used tools and transformers on the toolbar for quick access. Authoring workflows and debugging has also been made easier with the inclusion of optional counters in the Workbench canvas that show the number of features passing through each link between transformers and feature types.
Users running FME 2006 GB on selected 32-bit versions of the Microsoft® WindowsT operating system can now process large datasets by setting the /3GB switch via a simple edit to a system file. The /3GB switch "borrows" one gigabyte of memory from kernel processes and makes it available to the application, for a total of 3 gigabytes of application addressable memory. When run on 64-bit versions of Windows, FME 2006 GB automatically has 4GB of user application addressable memory available.
MRFCleaner, a new transformer which is useful for repairing the geometry of data, is available as an extra-cost item for FME 2006 GB. This new data cleaning capability was developed and made available by MRF Geosystems Corporation of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
New format support in FME 2006 GB includes a TOP10NL writer, an Additional Military Layers (AML) reader, support for the Open Geospatial Consortium's GML Simple Features Profile, and optimized access to Microsoft® ExcelT, SQL ServerT, and AccessT databases through Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects. Read and write support for Pervasive PSQLT databases has also been added, and a Vector Product Format writer is available as an extra cost plug-in.
The Universal Viewer application has been significantly enhanced to now display raster data. This new functionality underscores Safe Software's commitment to lead the industry in providing spatial Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) support for raster as well as vector formats.
"With this release, we continue to push the reaches of our technology," said Don Murray, President of Safe Software. "We have added and improved support for many formats such as GML and KML. We have also enabled FME to take advantage of advanced memory usage features of the Windows operating system to assist our users who process large datasets."
For more information about the many new features included with www.safe.com/2006GB.
More About FME FME is an integrated collection of Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tools for the distribution and transformation of location-based data. FME manages database loading, data extraction from legacy systems, merging multiple data sources, coordinate system conversion, and format to format translation for the exchange of map data. FME consists of four major components: a translation engine (FME Universal Translator), a graphical authoring environment (FME Workbench), a data inspection tool (FME Viewer), and application extenders that directly integrate into a variety of spatial applications. Visit www.safe.com for more information.
More about Safe Software Safe Software Inc. is the industry leader in Spatial ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) technologies, providing both spatial data transformation solutions and professional services. Since 1993, Safe Software has focused on helping organizations enhance access to spatial data by providing software solutions that deliver seamless translation of nearly 200 GIS, CAD, and database formats.
FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) is a registered trademark of Safe Software Inc. All other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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