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Safe Software and WeoGeo Partnership

By Paul Bissett

The facts of this partnership are well covered by the press release and Directions Magazine’s coverage (see Adena Schutzberg’s article and podcast). I thought I would give a bit more of the why.

1) ETL is fundamental to the needs of our customer base.
2) Safe is the best at spatial ETL.
3) People trust Safe for ETL.
4) If you use CAD or GIS software, there is a good chance you use Safe Software.

For a marketplace to be successful, its players have to trust their interactions and delivery mechanisms. Safe operates on over 200 different file formats across multiple platforms. Bringing this type of technology to our users is critical to our success; bringing Safe to our customers is just good sense.

What does Safe get out of this? We give them the cloud for FME Server and provide their users with the path to the future of web infrastructure.

Together, we get to focus on our strengths and bring new tools to bear on our respective businesses.

I am excited about our opportunities and the impacts I believe we will have on the spatial industry.

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3 Responses to “Safe Software and WeoGeo Partnership”

  1. WeoGeo Helps Safe Software into the Cloud Says:
    July 18, 2008 at 8:17 am

    [...] Paul Bissett has some great news on Safe Software entering a partnership with WeoGeo.  This is great for users who have looked at the superb FME Server and wondered how the heck could they actually use it.  WeoGeo gets that into the cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and users benefit.  Details in the press release. [...]

  2. WeoGeo outlook cloudy… and that’s a good thing » Silicon Florist Says:
    July 18, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    [...] For more information, see the press release, WeoGeo’s insight on the partnership, and Directions Magazine. [...]

  3. Sharing the File Geodatabase Says:
    November 5, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    [...] WeoGeo partnered with Safe Software to bring this kind of datasharing (among other features of FME Server) to the cloud web so there might be solutions that are cheaper than outright licensing FME Server to bring translate capability to Web 2.0 services.  If that can be coupled with Amazon Web Services pricing (pay for what you use rather than a traditional license) there could be something that many people take advantage of. [...]

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