1. Automated Email Services
Robert White – President WhiteStar Corp
Kevin Weller – Software Architect, ASAP iSystems
April 10, 2013

2. Project Background
 Business Environment
 WhiteStar Delivers Vector Data to Customers
 Public Land Survey (polygons).
 Texas Land Survey (polygons).
 Well Data (points).
 Culture (vectors, polygons, points).

3. Project Background
 Old Way.
 Manual Delivery.
 DVD.
 Desktop Installation.
 Stressing Out Jeff and Mike.

4. Project Background
 New Way
 Simple e-mail Interface.
 Customers Self-Serve Data.
 Common Process for Enterprise and Desktop.
 Based on Cloud Technologies.
 FME Server
 PostgreSQL
 ArcGIS Online?
 Mike and Jeff are Happy

5. Benefits
 Automates Internal Manual Tasks.
 Automates Data Quoting.
 Tracks Data Usage.
 Repurposes Resources.
 Entitlements Managed by Google Docs Interface.
 Interfaces to Salesforce.com.
 Eliminates Need for Web.
 Web Tools Development to Hide Complexity.

6. Features
 Leverage Strengths of FME:
 Repeatable, Simple Ordering Process.
 Leverage Predefined Output Formats.
 Use of .JPG and .PDF for Quote Generation
 Geodatabaseetc, for delivery.
 Leverage Power of Workspaces.
 Leverage Built-in Coordinate Systems / Transforms.
 Store Data in Cloud.

7. Basic Data Flow

8. Email Example
From: kweller@asapisoft.com
To: wsdata@fme.whitestar.com
Subject: WhiteStarGrid Order
COUNTY: CO:Jefferson
LAYERS: PLSS
COORDSYS: EPSG:4267
FMT: shapefile

9. Subsystem Decomposition

10. Cloud Deployment

11. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Robert White, rwhite@whitestar.com
 Kevin Weller, kweller@asapisystems.com
 ASAP iSystemsfor WhiteStar Corporation
 Twitter: @doxotter (Kevin) and @k0rcw (Robert)