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April 2006v Spatial ETLBringing the Power of Location to Applications

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Mission Statement

We are committed to becoming the predominant global

supplier of innovative spatial data interoperability solutions

by continuing to deliver excellent service, excellent products

and excellent value to our customers and partners.

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Data is a headache. We help people move, access, restructure, integrate,

make use of, … data!

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Location is ubiquitous: Google Maps, Google Earth, MapPoint, Yahoo

Maps, MapQuest, GlobeXplorer…

Everything has a location: Clients, stores, offices, employees, trucks,

roads, wires, pipes, schools, hospitals, …

Events happen somewhere: Storms, crimes, accidents, …

Business Intelligence with Location is more Intelligent.

The Power of Location

Data is the fuel that is needed for all these applications

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What is Location Data?

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What is Spatial ETL?

Multiple sources in one operation

Multiple targets in one operation

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Powerful Data Remodeling Capabilities. FME Currently has over 215 transformers!

Fully internationalized engine currently supporting over 160 formats from all over

the globe.

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Value of Spatial ETL

Decisions rely on users getting useful data in a timely fashion.

Data is scattered all over the world in a myriad of formats, projections, and a variable state of health.

Historically Decision Support has not worked with Location Data. location data was collected primarily for map production. location data now collected for analysis and other intelligent

applications. Map production is not the most exciting thing you can do with your

data.

Spatial ETL is about getting the data from where it is to where it needs to be. It is not a data creation tool (GIS is for this) It is not a reporting tool.

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What is Safe’s Role

Major GIS vendors currently license our Spatial ETL technology. Autodesk, ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo, …. Safe is the leading vendor in the Spatial ETL market.

Traditional ETL vendors are now wanting Spatial capabilities.• Leading Edge databases now support spatial natively.

IBM DB2/Informix, Oracle, MySQL, PostGIS, …

• Spatial ETL is complimentary and a natural extension to ETL as spatial data was to databases.

• IBM, Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, … are more powerful with spatial capabilities in their ETL offerings.

Business/Location Intelligence Decision-making benefits from incorporation of location information.

Safe Software is the company that focuses on bringing spatial data to all applications.

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What does Safe Software Do?

Quick Translation Move data easily from one system to another.

Data Transformation Complete control of data restructuring. Graphical Environment for data restructuring.

Data Integration Share data across boundaries without translation.

1. Software boundaries2. Departmental boundaries3. Across the MIS and GIS divide.4. With Other Organizations

All Safe products provide the ability above in different forms.

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Spatial ETL Server

FME Spatial ETL ServerFME Spatial ETL Server

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FME Spatial ETL Server

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Each User sees data the way they need it

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Safe and Microsoft SSIS

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Safe and Informatica PowerCenter

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Conclusions

Decisions rely on getting the Right Data to the Right People in the Right View at the Right Time. Historically only a few had access to information. Now as many as possible need access to information.

Historically Decision Support has not worked with Location Data.

Databases now support Location Data. Over the last decade the Spatial community has worked and continues

to work to move data into databases.

Spatial ETL Technology enables organizations to easily share location data within and accross organizations. Regardless of format or schema Without data reengineering costs.

Safe’s technology is about making location data accessible to all applications.

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Thank You

Thank you for the opportunity to give an overview of our technology.

For more information see our website at www.safe.com or contact me via email at dcm@safe.com or Visit us at our booth in the exhibit area.