what is fme

FME, or Feature Manipulation Engine, is a geospatial extract, transformation, and load software platform developed and maintained by Safe Software of British Columbia, Canada). It was first released in 1996 and is used for transforming data, converting file formats, or doing both simultaneously. FME is a central engine that supports an array of data types and formats, including Excel, CSV, XML, and databases, as well as various types of mapping formats including GIS, CAD, BIM, and many more. FMEs data transformation workflows typically consist of a combination of readers to input from single or multiple data sources in a variety of formats or databases, transformers to manipulate, transform and analyze the data, and writers to output the data in a number of different formats). FME is widely used in the Information Technology, governmental, utilities, and oil and gas sectors.