Managing City of Cockburn’s Cloud Migration and ESRI Field Operations with FME

The City of Cockburn, located 20km south of Perth, is home to 130,000 people, expected to grow to 170,000 by 2026. It offers various attractions and services, including wetlands, employment opportunities, and community facilities. The city uses TechnologyOne ERP and ESRI ArcGIS for managing tasks and requests. Facing a November 2024 deadline to migrate TechnologyOne ERP to the cloud, the city needed to update its SQL and Python-based integrations with ArcGIS. The original developers had left, and the new team found the existing integrations difficult to manage. To address this, the city chose Safe Software’s FME for integration, with support from 1Spatial. They developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) for waste management integration and provided tailored FME training to the GIS and Business Systems teams. Initially using sFTP for data exchange, they switched to RESTful Web Services for more robust updates, utilizing FME’s Change Detector for real-time synchronization. The PoC was completed in two months, and all integrations within six months, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud. This modernization allows the city to maintain and develop streamlined data flows between systems, ensuring efficiency and scalability for future need.