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I working within my organization to help fellow team members understand the differences between FME Workbench and FME Server.

 

 

Could someone in the community provide an explanation of where FME ETL development occurs?

 

 

Is it in FME Workbench; or, FME Server?
Hi,

 

 

Most of the information you seek is found here:

 

 

http://cdn.safe.com/training/tutorials/FME-Server-Tutorial.pdf

 

 

and

 

 

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Workbench/Default.htm#About_FME_Server.htm

 

 

Basically the development takes place in workbench FME server is more about how to initiate the transformation and how to serve the results.

 

 

Hope this helps,

 

 

Itay
Hi,

 

 

Itay has given some good starting points below.

 

 

In very broad terms, it works like this:

 

 

FME Desktop is an authoring tool. It will allow you to create workspaces that you can run within FME Desktop.

 

 

The workspaces you authored with FME Desktop may also be published on FME Server. The workspaces will then be available in a more distributed fashion. The workspaces can then be run using either the web-based GUI of FME Server, or via the FME Server REST API.

 

 

In both instances, the actual workspace is run using the exact same engine, so the results are the same. It is the way you run the workspace that differs.

 

 

Hope this clarifies it somewhat.

 

 

David

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