Case Study: UMass Amherst achieves a comprehensive common operating picture and improved campus planning with Safe Software's FME

Umass Amherst - Customer Case Study

UMass Amherst, a major public research university with a 1,450‑acre campus, 200+ buildings and more than 28,000 students, faced fragmented facilities and asset data spread across divisions and formats (CAD, GIS, BIM). The university needed a practical way to combine building, utilities, transportation and outdoor‑space data into a single common operating picture and 3D visualizations, but manual consolidation would have been impractical.

By deploying Safe Software’s FME, UMass automated the ingestion and transformation of disparate datasets into a campus‑wide data warehouse, enabling 2D-to-3D visualizations and analytics in Tableau without disrupting existing workflows. The solution delivers continuous, format‑agnostic integration that improved facilities and campus planning and made a comprehensive, up-to-date operating picture feasible.

UMass Amherst

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UMASS Amherst