This document summarizes a webinar hosted by various product managers from Safe Software to discuss their FME products. Attendees could ask questions to the panelists about product roadmaps and priorities. Panelists included managers for FME Desktop, Server, Mobile, XML standards, and more. Questions covered topics like mobile app development, server automation improvements, tighter integration between products, and standards support. Polls gathered feedback on priorities and interests around features, community engagement, and software development.

1. Meet the FME Product Managers
and Take Your Data to New Heights

2. Meet the Panelists
Lena Bagh
Product Manager, Mobile
and Product Localization
Annabelle Glass
Product Management
Team Lead, FME Desktop
Rylan Maschak
Product Management
Team Lead, FME Server
Dean Hintz
Product Manager, XML
Team & Open Standards

3. Meet the Panelists
Nathan Hildebrand
Product Manager, Server
Authoring
Jenna Lyons
Product Manager, FME
Desktop
Claire Gallant
Product Manager, FME
Desktop

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7. Company Profile
Safe Software
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10. Question for Lena Bagh, Product Manager, Mobile and Product Localization
Q: “How do you decide what mobile app
functionality to implement next?”

11. Question for Lena Bagh, Product Manager, Mobile and Product Localization
Q: “When will Android FME AR app have
the same features as FME AR on iOS?”

12. Question for Rylan Maschak, Product Management Team Lead, FME Server
Q: “What is the most significant
change since Automations replaced
the Notifications feature?”

13. Question for Rylan Maschak, Product Management Team Lead, FME Server
Q: “Will there be a full, web-based
version of FME Desktop?”

14. Question for Annabelle Glass, Product Management Team Lead, FME Desktop
Q: “Are there plans for tighter integration
between FME Desktop and FME Server?”

15. Poll: What do you consider are the
three core features of FME Server?

16. Question for Dean Hintz, Product Manager XML Team & Open Standards
Q: “Why should FME users care about
open standards and what are some
recent related improvements?”

17. Question for Dean Hintz, Product Manager XML Team & Open Standards
Q: “What are recent trends related to
web services and APIs, and how does that
affect FME?”

18. Question for Dean Hintz, Product Manager XML Team & Open Standards
Q: “Metadata is becoming increasingly
important, how is FME able to meet the
demand?”

19. Poll: What standards are most
relevant to your work?

20. Question for Jenna Lyons, Product Manager, FME Desktop
Q: “Are you looking into a simple Revit
writer?”

21. Question for Jenna Lyons, Product Manager, FME Desktop
Q: “Will you implement writing to cloud
optimized geotiff?”

22. Question for Jenna Lyons & Claire Gallant, Product Managers, FME Desktop
Q: “What happens to an idea once its
posted to the FME Community? How do
PMs look at these?”

23. Poll: We want to serve you better
through the Ideas page community.
What improvements would have the
highest positive impact for you in
making Ideas pages better?

24. Question for Claire Gallant, Product Manager, Python & Desktop APIs
Q: “Is FME planning to add bulk mode to
the Python caller?”

25. Question for Claire Gallant, Product Manager, Python & Desktop APIs
Q: “Are there efforts underway to
support fields of type ʻLookupʼ in
Microsoft SharePoint List Reader?”

26. Question for Claire Gallant, Product Manager, Python & Desktop APIs
Q: “The ArcGIS Online Feature Service
doesnʼt have the ability to write
attachments. Is this planned for a release
soon?”

27. Poll: Are you interested in
creating your own plugins
from an FME software
development kit (SDK)?

28. Question for Dean Hintz, Product Manager XML Team & Open Standards
Q: “ Iʼd like to find a way to standardize
populating metadata in our databases
with FME. Prefer no need for special 3rd
party software for this - just FME and our
SDE databases.”

29. Question for Dean Hintz, Product Manager XML Team & Open Standards
Q: “Why doesnʼt FME support the utility
meter based .HHF file format for
conversion into other more functional
formats?”

30. Question for Dean Hintz, Product Manager XML Team & Open Standards
Q: “Data virtualization is becoming more
and more popular, will FME ever go
towards data virtualization, so ETL
without the L?”

31. Poll: Which of the following
interactions would you want to see
more of from FME PMs?

32. Question for Nathan Hildebrand, Product Manager, Server Authoring
Q: “FME Server has undergone some
big changes – which one have you seen
users benefit from the most?”

33. Question for Nathan Hildebrand, Product Manager, Server Authoring
Q: “My FME Server is getting busy. How
can I understand when to run or schedule
jobs?”

34. Poll: Which FME Server
enhancement would excite you
the most?

35. Question for Annabelle Glass, Product Management Team Lead, FME Desktop
Q: “Are there plans to control the visibility or
available values of a user parameter based on
another (create parameter dependencies)?”

36. Question for Annabelle Glass, Product Management Team Lead, FME Desktop
Q: “What enhancements are in the works for the
Workbench UI? I find myself struggling with
bookmarks and navigating workspaces.”

37. Question for Annabelle Glass, Product Management Team Lead, FME Desktop
Q: “It would be great if you could edit within FME Data
Inspector…The ability to select and delete features
within FME Inspector would be great. Is this on the
agenda for future versions?”

38. Poll: How often do you use
Workbench or Data Inspector?

39. Resources
● Guide to Manage Esri Jobs using Queue Control in FME Server
● Getting Started with FME Server Workspace Apps
● Blog post on our plans for dependent parameters
● How to Create and Explore Augmented Reality Models for City Infrastructure
● How to Consume and Produce XML with the XSD-Driven XML Writer
● Metadata matters: What it is and how to manage it
● The Importance of the OGC & Open Standards

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