When I do coding, I think about every single function. Some of these functions can be very elementary, like doing a substring or some capitalization. But FME removes all that coding because it's a transformer, so the time to develop an application to get to a point where you're producing results is decreased massively. It used to take weeks and months to develop software, and now I can use something like FME, and within one day, we get results. We can look at and validate data. We make minor subtle changes to the workbenches to improve it. We can share the workbenches. We don't have to use GitHub or anything else.

All spatial features are unrivaled, and the possibility to execute them based on a scheduled trigger, manual, e-mail, Websocket, tweet, file/directory change or virtually any trigger is most valuable. 

The integration between FME Flow and FME Form is super as is its integration with scripting like Python is superb. 

It is a really intuitive product; just type anything in the canvas and methods for processing pop up. Data is processed intelligently, though for optimal dataflow some human thinking has to be done. 

The most valuable feature of FME is the graphical user interface. There is nothing better. It is very easy to debug because you can see all steps where there are failures. Overall the software is easy to optimize a process. 

There's a map in the graphical user interface that helps in assessing whether you are processing data correctly in the geographical transformations.

FME integrates well with various systems. It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources.

FME's features that I have found most valuable are that it has a very friendly user interface. You don't need to use a lot of code. For us, that's the most important aspect of it. Also, it has a lot of connectors and few forms. It has a strong facial aspect. It can do a lot of facial analysis.