FME vs. Salesforce Maps

I created the FME script to generate the centerline polyline. It works very well and faster than we used the Esri api from the code side.

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This is best suited when there is territory management at the field or rep level. One can easily distribute the area/ locality, balance revenue, and optimize sales/outcome. However, this may be less appropriate for organizations that operate entirely on remote sales or for those where geographic location does not matter.

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• I used that to create the polyline
• Used that to do the reprojection
• Used that to extract spatial data
• Used that to do the intersect
• Used that to do the locate

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• Drilling down from the map point, to account/work order/opportunity.

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• Should allow script to change the database connection
• Should provide more details and user friendly error log information

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• They just restructured their pricing model and we are ending our contract because of it - you have to pay for 10 users.
• The crossover with accounts and contacts are hard to map.
• The window sizes when navigating the maps are difficult to work with.

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It aligns well with business needs. We clearly get productivity gain, and its seamless integration with Salesforce makes things easier. The ability to visualize things and performance geographically helps us to make better decisions. It also saves us lots of time and effort and increases efficiency.

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Support was comical. It was barely available and the few times I did get help the language barrier was extraordinarily problematic

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FME not only be able to do the data transfer and transformation, but also be able to perform the spatial process. Astera cannot do the spatial process at the moment.

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Allows for many more contacts to be loaded into the map.

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• Easy to create and easy to understand when compare to the Esri api code
• Difficult to debug when the error happens

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• For the first time, we were able to see donors on a map which was life-changing.
• Its allowed us to target donors on trips and other email campaigns when we haven’t been able to before.

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