It’s Faster, Sharper and More Connected
Hot on the heels of the major FME 2025.0 release, Safe Software has launched FME 2025.1. This update is all about refinement, performance, and responding to user feedback. Safe has focused on stabilising the new features, speeding up core processes and adding new transformers.
Data Virtualization Takes Centre Stage
The headline feature of FME 2025.1 is Data Virtualization. This powerful new functionality allows users to create and expose data from any FME-supported source as a secure, OpenAPI-compliant REST API. This means you can now build and manage APIs directly within the FME platform without the need for custom coding or additional infrastructure.
This feature enables real-time access to your data, allowing for more dynamic and integrated systems. Whether you’re looking to share curated datasets with internal teams, connect to business intelligence dashboards or integrate with other web applications, data virtualization in FME 2025.1 provides a streamlined and secure solution.
Crafting Professional Documents with the DocumentPDFWriter
Creating PDF documents has been possible with FME for quite some time but in this latest release Safe have refined the offering, allowing for creation of more complex PDF documents.
While the DocumentPDFWriter is the component that writes the final file, the real star of the show is the DocumentPDFStyler transformer. This transformer acts as your digital layout artist inside a workspace.
With the DocumentPDFStyler, you can create and style various components of your document, page by page:
- Headers and Footers: Add page numbers, dates, or company logos
- Text and Paragraphs: Write descriptions or summaries using your data, with full control over fonts, colours and alignment
- Tables: Convert your features into formatted tables, styling the borders, headers and cell contents
- Images and Maps: Place logos, site photos, or map views generated by FME directly onto the page with precise positioning
You feed these styled “snippets” into the DocumentPDFWriter, which then intelligently assembles everything into a polished, multi-page PDF document.
Stepping into a New Dimension with the ARWriter
What if you could take your digital representation of underground services out of the screen and place them in the real world? The ARWriter makes this possible, converting your GIS utilities layers into 3D data that can be viewed on mobile devices using FME Realize, Safe’s Software’s Augmented Reality (AR) app.
FME Realize is a new opportunity for users to speed up their working practices out in the field by allowing users to ‘see’ their underground services and integrate into back end work management software.
Image Credit: Safe Software Feature Highlights FME2025.1
FME 2025.1 is now available for download. Use the quick links below to download this release or discover more about FME.
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