Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Barnsley supports slicker, smarter decisions with FME
Barnsley Council was already an established user of geospatial information but many of its geographic information systems existed in separate siloes and the processes that supported GIS were often manual and laborious.
With 1Spatial training and consultancy, the council used FME to develop over 100 new, automated processes that replaced repetitive manual tasks. The council also used FME to improve data sharing, dissolving the boundaries between departments and driving greater collaboration and insight. FME has enabled Barnsley’s GIS experts to spend more time developing new solutions and less on fixing old problems. What once took a day, can now be delivered in half an hour.
Barnsley supports slicker, smarter decisions with FME
“FME is fantastic for the transformation of spatial data. A lot of our data is unstructured and we had data in many different formats, so FME was ideal for us.”
IT Systems Manager, Barnsley MetropolitanBarnsley Council driving efficiency with 1Spatial and FME
Barnsley needed to migrate more than five million documents from its legacy document management system (DMS) to Microsoft SharePoint and avoid the need for a costly renewal of the DMS licence. Barnsley needed a versatile solution that could handle the council’s large number of document scenarios.
Drawing on in-house skills and experience – supported by 1Spatial – the team used Safe Software’s FME to migrate documents and properties to SharePoint. Barnsley estimates it has saved at least £50,000 in the migration and ended up with a more user-friendly, more customised solution as a result. FME has also enabled Barnsley to provide staff with greater functionality and more actionable information within SharePoint.
Barnsley Council driving efficiency with 1Spatial and FME
“As well as making our day to day operations easier, FME has contributed to some of the biggest projects our department has undertaken in recent years,”
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