Three game changing shifts we’re seeing in our early Advanced Technology Labs

Last week we launched our Advanced Technology Labs (ATLs), and we’ve started running some early workshops with our enterprise customers.

Our Labs are free half day sessions that bring FME specialists, network teams and IT together for a deeper look at the new advanced capabilities of the FME platform. The focus is on showing what FME can do beyond day-to-day workflows.

Following these sessions, three key themes are emerging…

1. Even FME specialists were surprised by the scale of the new capabilities

It’s clear that most FME specialists focus on FME’s well known data transformation capabilities. This meant that many hadn’t been made aware of how much FME had invested in enterprise level data management.

By the end of the session, it was clear the software could do far more than they expected.

2. Architects didn’t know FME fits seamlessly into enterprise data flows

Mistakenly, most architects came into the sessions assuming FME was a specialist endpoint and not part of overall data flow management also assuming that  it needed to be manually turned on and off. 

 However, at the end of the session, Network Architects and IT Leads started to understand that FME can be fully orchestrated within a Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment and saw it integrating into wider data strategies across their organisations.

3. The impact was so significant, some active projects have been paused to review how FME could now be integrated

One of the biggest shocks is that all of FME’s capability is included. No extra modules, no per-user fees, and no feature-gating.

For a few teams, this changed everything. They realised FME could solve substantial data challenges without buying in new technology. Several paused active work to reassess their approach. Under-used capability, faster delivery, immediate cost savings, all sitting in the software they already have.

Book an Advanced Technology Lab

We’re seeing a familiar pattern in our Labs. Most teams are only using a fraction of what FME can already do, and very few have connected it properly into their wider architecture.

Our ATLs give specialists, architects and IT a shared understanding of the FME platform and that alignment is already shaping live project decisions.

If you want that team-wide clarity around FME, book a free Advanced Technology Lab here.