Safe Software Grants FME Certification to Forte Consultants

August 22, 2011 - Forte Consulting is pleased to announce that consultants Patricia Kneen and Bart Mooney have achieved Certified FME^® Professional status.  Designed for consultants and integrators, the Certified FME Professional accreditation recognizes individuals with a proven ability to provide knowledgeable FME support and consulting services.  Building on the foundation laid by Forte co-founder and widely recognized FME expert David van Blankenstein, Forte’s entire Victoria-based team are now accredited as Certified FME Professionals.

“These certifications further formalize our position as specialists in the ETL marketplace, and specifically reaffirm our deep skills and experience with Safe Software’s suite of FME tools.” said Forte’s Mr. van Blankenstein.  “It also represents our ongoing commitment to developing our data integration practice by delivering solutions based on proven technology supported by technical expertise that is second to none.”

About Forte Consulting

Founded in 2003, Forte Consulting Limited provides specialized consulting services in geospatial information management, data warehousing and GIS systems integration to help our clients find solutions to meet their business challenges and work more effectively.

For more information please visit www.forteconsulting.ca.

About Safe Software and FME

Established in 1993, Safe Software is the maker of FME, the only true spatial ETL (extract, transform and load) platform that enables organizations to use and leverage spatial data in any format or application. Today, FME is used by thousands of customers in over 116 countries in a wide variety of industries.

FME provides the most extensive format support and powerful transformations to help organizations efficiently address the complete spectrum of spatial ETL tasks - from data translation and transformation to federation and distribution. Used by most GIS, CAD, ETL, and DB vendors, FME has emerged as the de facto integrated spatial ETL solution. FME is available in desktop and server solutions, and is also easily integrated into third-party CAD and GIS solutions, as well as most IT environments. Visit www.safe.com for more information.

FME is a registered trademark of Safe Software Inc. All other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.