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5 new FME 2025.1 features we think are brilliant

FME 2025.1 has landed, and as usual, it’s packed with updates. We’ve had a look through the release notes and picked out the five features we think are brilliant. 

How ready are you for the OS NGD transition? Start with these 3 questions.

At miso, we’re working with teams across sectors to assess and prepare for the transition from MasterMap to OS NGD. It's complex work that needs a clear starting point, which in our experience, begins with three fundamental questions.

NUAR is becoming law – How does this affect you?

The National Underground Asset Registry (NUAR) got its legislative footing today as the Data Use and Access Bill passed through Parliament and will soon become law. This is a significant moment for the UK infrastructure sector, especially if you're an asset owner. You have new responsibilities and fees you need to prepare for.

The OS NGD switchover creates new opportunities: How do you take advantage?

The NGD fundamentally improves what organisations can do with geospatial data.  

The OS NGD switchover will disrupt everything: Are you ready?

NGD is a major step forward but only for those who are prepared. Systems may need reconfiguration. Teams may need upskilling. Procurement and data management practices may need a complete rethink.

OS NGD is transforming how you work with geospatial data.

If your organisation uses OS data, now is the time to assess the impact NGD could have on your operations. You can start by reviewing your current workflows and systems internally or speak to an OS partner like miso.

FME project processing power for less than the price of a laptop

FME’s CPU-based licensing flips the old model on its head. Rather than investing in perpetual licences you barely use, you can now pay for just the data processing power you actually need. Short-term projects—like an on-premises to cloud migration—can be completed under £500 a month, saving you time, money, and resources.

Stop Your Grid from Overloading: Predict Future Energy Demand with Customer Profiling

Without thorough customer profiling, planning for network capacity risk is impossible. Although personal data may not always be accessible, there is an abundance of aggregated, property-based, and spatial data available. When integrated effectively using tools like FME, this data provides a holistic view of your customers and their behaviours. By adopting a forward-thinking approach to customer profiling, you can proactively manage emerging network risks.

Navigating the new FME era: Why your setup could be costing you

As FME evolves with enhanced desktop tools, cloud-based capabilities, and more flexible licensing options it's essential to adapt your setup to remain effective and cost efficient.

Wait, when did FME become a cloud first platform?

If you still think of FME as a desktop tool, you’re already behind. The cloud-first features make deployment, scaling, and cost management easier, smarter, and more efficient.

Rethinking FME as Workspaces and Engines: Supported by Form and Flow

With these evolved versions of FME Form and FME Flow, supporting Workspaces and Engines, we have a unified ecosystem that makes data transformation possible anywhere. Whether you’re integrating data from a local server, a cloud application, or a hybrid system, FME can now adapt to your needs, delivering results efficiently and effectively.

Too much of a good thing: Tackling data overload in DNO asset risk assessments.

Tools like FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) help address this by integrating and transforming disparate datasets into unified risk profiles. By combining data such as weather patterns, community behaviours, and crime statistics, FME enables DNOs to break down silos, gain actionable insights, and make data-driven decisions to enhance operational reliability.

How have Workspaces and Engines changed our view of FME?

Reframing FME around Workspaces and Engines focuses attention on its core functionality: data transformation that can happen anywhere. With this idea, FME emerges as a powerful, adaptable tool capable of supporting complex, multi-cloud, and hybrid data environments—far from its origins as just desktop software.

5 reasons FME Remote Engine Services are our top choice

FME Remote Engines are thoughtfully designed with the user in mind, to simplify complex deployments and allow us to do what we do best: solve our clients’ toughest data challenges whether that’s on premises or in the cloud.

Double your processing speed and save cloud costs with FME

Watch to discover how you can optimise your data processing, save on cloud costs, and boost your speed with FME.

Why should we be trapped by a single vendor’s cloud data tools?

Relying on a single cloud vendor's tools, like Azure, may seem convenient but can limit your options and flexibility. Different tools excel in different areas, and sticking to one provider can restrict your ability to manage data across multiple environments, especially on-premises. FME offers a solution by enabling seamless data integration across various cloud services and on-premises setups. It frees you from vendor lock-in, allowing you to choose the best tools and environments to suit your specific needs, ultimately giving you more control and capability in managing your data.

Why Aren’t We Putting Our Processing Power Next to Our Data?

In the physical world, industries strategically set up processing centres close to their core resources to cut down on costs and risks associated with transporting large volumes of materials. Think about car making, shipbuilding, or chip manufacturing – they’re placed to minimise logistical hassles. So why should data processing be any different?

Why do we have to pay for cloud flexibility we don’t need?

So, why can’t purchasing cloud services be more like buying a train ticket? Instead of cloud tools that force you to pay for high flexibility, there should be ways to match the desired flexibility level with an appropriate cost. 

Making sense from chaos: Understand your operational data with FME and AI

By leveraging AI in conjunction with FME for data integration, water utilities can optimise their operations, balancing cost and readiness while ensuring compliance and service quality.

Stop your data lying to you: How to get your operational data to tell you what’s really going on

By aligning geospatial data with operational metrics and external conditions, FME allows water utility companies to fully assess and normalise the performance of their field teams. This approach ensures that performance evaluations are fair and accurate, leading to better management decisions and fairer compensation for field teams.

If you want shorter journey times, you may need bigger field team boundaries.

Boundaries are an essential part of field team management as they determine which team member handles which task - without boundaries your scheduling systems can’t work. So, surely smaller boundaries would reduce travel time since the team has a smaller area to cover. Right?! Well, counterintuitively, our experience working with field teams across multiple sectors has shown that larger boundaries often result in shorter journeys and higher efficiency.

Why it’s time for you to mix, match and hybridise your FME licences

This blended approach puts your organisation in a data-agile position, ready to tackle changing workloads and operational challenges without wasting money or running out of resources.

What’s new with FME Form and Flow 2024?

Safe Software has rolled out the latest version of FME Form and Flow (2024.0), packed with updates designed to enhance your data management experience. Here are the highlights...

Travel Into The Future: Enhancing Infrastructure Planning with Planned Property Data

You don’t need to design a flux capacitor to get a view of the future. With planned property information, you can plan infrastructure investments strategically knowing where new properties are being built.

The Distributed Data Challenge: Unlocking the Power of Remote Engines with FME

FME Remote Engines do exactly what they say on the tin. They’re instances of FME that you can deploy on servers that are part of your network, outside your network on accessible endpoints, or in the Cloud (Azure or Google Cloud Functions). You can control these engines remotely to process data wherever it’s stored.

FME: One tool to tackle all of your transformation challenges!

FME has evolved to become a highly regarded Data Integration Platform. Its power to connect, transform and automate business data means it’s also the perfect solution for digital transformation tasks.

Is there a more efficient way to train your team?

Why should your team spend a day stuck at their desk, when they can train in blocks that work around them? Our modular FME training delivers the same skills as an in-person course, in a way that is both more efficient and convenient.

Increase your data processing capabilities with Dynamic Engines

The volume of data processing jobs coming in to your team is rarely consistent, as is the volume of data involved in each job. Dynamic Engines are alternate way of scaling your FME holding to meet these peaks in demand without the need for additional licences.

Why you should move your Big Data processing to FME

As your organisation consumes more and more data from complex sources such as sensors, data streams and IoT; the challenges facing your data teams are accelerating quickly. With so much information out there to digest, it begs the question: How is your team supposed to get insight out of Big Data as quickly as it comes in? Well, they may already hold a licence to the perfect tool for the job. FME.

Share the power of FME with FME Server Apps!

Data is constantly in demand throughout your organisation. The problem is that parts of your organisation don’t have the knowledge or the skills to access this data in the way they need it. Share your skills in FME with Server Apps.

Data Democratisation – What is it and How can it Benefit Your Organisation?

Many current corporate structures leave one person or the IT Team in charge of business data. the appointed gatekeepers can only handle so many data requests per day. When you throw in multiple departments and stakeholders, requests soon mount up and become unmanageable – and that’s without factoring in day to day duties. In a data democracy, everyone has access to the data they need, in the format that they need it in, exactly when they need it.

Delivering Digital Transformation with FME

We’ve helped deliver digital transformation within a variety of sectors from building and engineering services to local government. The problems faced along the digital transformation road, however, often bear striking similarities to each other.

Rapidly Processing Planning Data with FME

Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) need to check all development proposals sent to them against Natural England's SSSI and IRZ dataset. Preparing and using this dataset doesn't come without challenges. We've found FME can help combat these.

Expand Your Data Processing Capabilities with FME Server

A number of our existing FME Desktop customers have recently approached us to provide them with FME Server to improve their data management capabilities.

Data is the key to the Transport of the Future

Data is going to have a huge role to play in the rapidly changing domain of transportation.

Leverage your Data with Improved Analytical Insight

Companies in the utilities sector need to continue to improve their use of Big Data and analytics, in order to stay ahead of enhanced competition.

A Day in the Life of an FME Consultant

The team asked me, an FME consultant, to write a diary entry recounting my day. Here's my first.

Asset Management Made Easier with Miso & FME

Asset management is a discipline which is full of slow, manual processes. By adopting new technology, automation and process improvements, asset management need not be filled with so many inefficiencies.

Getting the Most out of Local Authority Data

We have 25 years of experience in helping local authorities to solve data challenges. From simple data translations to more complicated process automation and optimisation, our consultants have been on-hand for over 200 organisations in local government.

You’re not a GIS Manager, You’re a Data Scientist

It’s time to stop calling yourself a GIS manager and time to call yourself a Data Scientist.

Go Cloud, so you can go-Prem

Cloud is great, but sometimes you need On-Prem applications because of your environment, and where your data lives.

Why Humans get in the way of ICT

We've got 5 reasons why smaller ICT projects tend to be able to offer broader and more efficient overall solutions, and why this is regularly due to the humans that get in the way.

Big Data: Biting-off what you can Chew

Big Data is a BIG deal - if you can handle it. If you can't handle it, you won't harness the value from it.

Why you Should keep your Developers away from your Data Integration

Data integration is difficult, and it's technical, but this doesn't mean you should let your in-house developers near it.

FME Server – 5 Myths Busted

There's a few misconceptions about FME Server that appear to be floating about among our customers. Here, we break them down for you.

Navigating the Data Quality Minefield

It's difficult to get that great feeling of being totally in control of your data, but there are solutions available.

Dealing with the Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers many great opportunities in regards to how we manage our environment, but as with all things ICT, it can be as much of a challenge as a reward.

Step Away from the Spreadsheet! Why Excel just won’t cut the Mustard for Transparency

The common Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is not the answer for managing transparency in your organisation.