Many GIS professionals—and others in the geospatial community and beyond—use Safe Software’s FME daily to convert, extract, and analyze data. Yet, few of them know much, if anything, about the Canadian company that created the program and constantly updates it.
Co-founded and co-led by computer scientists Don Murray and Dale Lutz, the company has grown over the past 25 years from that dynamic duo to a staff of about 150 people, mostly young, who speak 15 languages total.