Automating the Enterprise with Event-Driven Workflows
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The document discusses automating enterprise workflows using event-driven systems, highlighting the significance of event data and the challenges associated with enterprise automation. It presents FME Server automations as a solution for integrating applications, databases, and creating reliable workflows with features such as guaranteed delivery and manual triggers. The goal is to streamline operations, enhance data processing efficiency, and allow organizations to respond quickly to real-time events while minimizing failures.
Automating the Enterprise with Event-Driven Workflows
- 1. Automating the Enterprise with Event-Driven Workflows
- 2. Agenda ● What is Event Data? ● Challenges with Enterprise Automation ● FME Server Automations ● Guaranteed Delivery* ● Manual Trigger* ● Job Statistics* ● Q&A *New Feature in FME Server Automations
- 3. What is Event Data? Event data is “real-time” data that is generated and delivered for immediate processing for sources such as sensors, mobile devices, and applications.
- 4. Event Data vs. Stream Data Event Data ● Low velocity “real-time” data ● Generated periodically with each event spaced by seconds, to minutes, or more. Stream Data ● Any velocity “real-time” data ● May be generated at a very high rate. ● Watch our webinar series to learn more. Today’s focus
- 5. Sample Event Based Systems IFTTT – Connect your apps and devices in new and remarkable ways. Make the things you love more powerful. Monday.com – Automate the repetitive work in seconds so you can avoid human error and focus on what matters. Zapier – Connect your apps to automate repetitive tasks, so you can focus on other work. And many other simple systems...
- 6. FME Server Automations FME Server Automations delivers “automation” for the entire enterprise. Integrate with any application and any database. ● On premise applications, databases, and formats ● Cloud based applications and databases ● Legacy systems with no API.
- 7. Our Mission To help you maximize the value of your data.
- 8. FME® Integration Platform Connect. Transform. Automate. FME Desktop FME Server FME Cloud Build & Run Data Workflows Automate Data Workflows (on-premises) Automate Data Workflows (hosted FME Server) Mobile Apps Access the Power of FME Wherever You Are Get a free trial of FME Desktop and FME Server at safe.com
- 9. How would your workday change if even your most complex tasks were automated?
- 10. Automating the Enterprise = More Time for Innovation The time to start is now! There are lots of tools out there to provide you with some means to create automated workflows. The speed of data delivery is increasing with the expectations and demand.
- 11. But don’t automate failure. Computer are great at doing what they are told to do. We need to have the ability to monitor and respond to failures, and understand how to give our automations the best chance of success.
- 12. Design Workflows with Multiple Paths of Success Our customers submit a work order for processing and they expect to get timely, accurate results. They expect a deliverable. What happens when that goes wrong? Failure is an opportunity. When an automated workflow stops, it doesn’t have to end there: ● Generate notifications to investigate. ● Secondary workflows as fallback that can still provide some results. ● If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
- 13. Prevent Long Data Lineups If you don’t have the available resources—computing power—then your data processing might slow to a halt. Demand can be hard to predict. Big and small workflows compete for resources. Scheduled workflows need to continue to process when on-demand workflows peak. Take advantage of the historical information for your workflow.
- 14. FME Server Automations Let’s take a look at the basic components...
- 15. Why we have FME Server Automations Designing event-based workflows have been a core feature of FME Server for years. We needed an easier way to create, visualize, and manage them. FME Server Automations allow you to: ● Design workflows with an intuitive, web based interface. ○ Respond to real-time events or initiate on scheduled/polling intervals. ● Have multiple events drive the same action(s). ● Monitor the health of your workflow.
- 16. What are Automations in FME Server? FME Server Automations (available since FME 2019) provides you with a visual web interface to design your workflows. When an event happens, respond with an action.
- 17. Demo
- 18. Q&A
- 19. Guaranteed Delivery Sometimes complex integrations fail. Your Automations don’t have to.
- 20. Reduce failure with Guaranteed Delivery. Your organization’s integrations have a lot of moving pieces. Particularly if they rely on web services or databases - sometimes there can be hiccups. Entire workflows can fail not because the integration is bad, but because of everyday network or demand issues. Accepting failure is hard! The most common sources of intermittent failure are: ● Web service is down ● Network is down ● Database is overloaded
- 21. Guaranteed Delivery Demo The Goal Create an automated process that guarantees data delivery. The Obstacles Integrations are complex and it’s common for data delivery to fail because of networks, systems, and factors outside of your control. The Solution Build workflows with Automated Retries that allows intermittent failures to be gracefully retried. The Result Peace of mind that intermittent failures won’t halt your important integrations. An Automations workflow that still works.
- 22. Demo
- 23. Automations Has Your Back Intermittent failures used to require manual oversight, but now you can relax knowing that FME Server will automatically retry failed processes and save you time. Guaranteed Delivery Article Automations Retries screenshot here.
- 24. Manual Automation Trigger Run an Automation with the click of a button.
- 25. More Flexibility with the Manual Trigger Automations are more than just responsive, reliable workflows that run passively in the background. Directory Watches, Schedules, and Webhooks are great ways to trigger FME workflows, but what if I want to run a powerful Automation on-demand with runtime input? Integrations need to be flexible. The most common use cases for on-demand Automations are: ● Chained or parallel jobs with user parameters ● Sharing the power of Automations ● Authoring and troubleshooting
- 26. Powerlink Project Create a fully automated, data-driven Emergency Management system for natural disasters. Solution Use FME to monitor for events and distribute reports with maps when infrastructure is at risk. Results ● Notifications are sent to stakeholders when emergency criteria are met. ● Reports contain informative, layered maps in accessible formats like PDF. ● Time spent by staff on emergency event handling has been reduced from days to hours. Customer Story
- 27. Manual Automation Trigger Demo The Goal Run multiple, connected jobs with a click of a button. The Obstacles As workspaces become more focused and rely on job chaining or parallel processing, we need on-demand Automation. The Solution Flexibility to trigger an Automation on-demand with the Manual Trigger. The Result You can use Automations to visually build the workflow, pass in data, and run it all with a click of a button.
- 28. Demo
- 29. Automations Give You Flexibility Automations already gives you the power to create event-driven workflows, now you can leverage the same control and visual tools to create on-demand workflows, too. Manual Trigger Article Manual Trigger screenshot/gif here.
- 30. Automations Job Statistics Understand the impact of your Automations.
- 31. Maximize FME Server with the Job Statistics tab. Automations allow you to orchestrate powerful workspaces to run in complex ways. But you need to know the impact of these workflows on the overall health of your FME Server. It’s important to balance the demand on FME Server. The most common issues people have with the FME Server demand are: ● Difficulties maximizing busy and slow times. ● Inefficient job queueing. ● Data-driven insights into job performance. Watch this related webinar
- 32. Automation Job Statistics Demo The Goal Balance the server load of Automations to maximize your FME Server processing capacity. The Obstacles No data-driven insights into job performance or server load. The Solution Job statistics available for Automations Workspace Actions. The Result You can plan your Automations and the rest of your FME Server job load to maximize capacity and performance.
- 33. Demo
- 34. Automations Give You Insight With job statistics built right into Automations, you can grow your enterprise integrations with a clear picture of how they impact your FME Server and your end-users. Manual Trigger screenshot/gif here.
- 35. Save time and resources by automating tasks. Implement enterprise integration for streamlined workflows, guaranteed data deliveries, and control over data demands.
- 36. Use Automations to Automate the Entire Enterprise. Design your workflows in a visual web interface. When an event happens, respond with an action. safe.com/trial
- 37. Get Started Download FME 2021.0 Create an Automations action to respond to your chosen event (trigger). Move on to other tasks as that one is now automated! Free Trial | Upgrade
- 38. Thank you! Download FME Server and start automating today! safe.com/trial Questions? Type them into the panel. Connect with us for more FME