FME vs WhereScape RED comparison

Safe Software and WhereScape are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Safe Software is ranked #23 with an average rating of 7.5, while WhereScape is ranked #46. Safe Software holds a 1.6% mindshare in DI, compared to WhereScape’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Safe Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of WhereScape users who would recommend it.

FME

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

WhereScape RED and FME are competing products in the data integration and management category. FME seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, particularly in data transformation, which justifies its cost.

Features: WhereScape RED offers strong end-to-end automation, simplifying workflow management and speeding up data warehouse development. It provides automatic code generation, metadata-driven architecture, and automation of data warehouse tasks, such as automated documentation. FME is known for extensive data transformation capabilities, supporting a wide variety of data types. It features a powerful graphical interface, supports numerous connectors, and integrates well with scripting languages like Python.

Room for Improvement: WhereScape RED could improve in areas such as expanding support for additional data transformation features, enhancing integration flexibility with more external tools, and providing a more user-friendly interface. FME can focus on improving automation capabilities beyond data transformation, adding more robust scheduling functionalities, and reducing reliance on manual optimization for complex dataflows.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: WhereScape RED provides a straightforward deployment model with efficient processes and attentive customer service. FME offers a user-friendly deployment experience and is distinguished by its extensive support resources, including strong community forums, which may provide a slight edge in overall support experiences.

Pricing and ROI: WhereScape RED may require a higher initial setup cost, but rapid ROI is achieved through increased productivity and reduced project timelines. FME presents a comparable upfront investment, with its broad feature set offering potential for enhanced long-term value. Its pricing is considered worthwhile, providing a more evident ROI, especially in complex data environments.

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Categories and Ranking

FME

Ranking in Data Integration

23rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WhereScape RED

Ranking in Data Integration

46th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of FME is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WhereScape RED is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
FME	1.6%
WhereScape RED	1.0%
Other	97.4%

Data Integration

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Alan Bloor

Geographic Information System Developer at Public Sector

Great for handling large volumes of data, but it is priced a bit high

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.

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reviewer1618884

BI Analyst DW Architect at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

Quick to set up, flexible, and stable

The scheduling part I don't like due to the fact that it allows you to schedule as a parent and child and other things, however, the error trackability has to be a little more user-friendly. It's also not user-friendly in the sense that it loads all the jobs and there are not enough filters so that it doesn't need to load everything. If the job fails, you don't get any type of alert or email. It would be ideal if there was some sort of automated alert message. Technical support isn't the best. It would be ideal if we understood how to do it in a card exception regarding exclusion, where the card is captured separately rather than filling the whole process on the data inbound side. Certain workloads like this are organized in such a way where you seem to be doubling the work as opposed to streamlining the process.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"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."

"From my reseller perspective, the best features in FME are the ease of operation and the fact that it works."

"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 about 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."

"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."

"FME is spatially aware and understands how to deal with the conversion of spatial objects and their attributes."

"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."

"It has standard plug-ins available for different data sources."

"RED has provided us the ability to integrate, stage, and transform data from diverse sources into an enterprise-grade data warehouse which meets the needs of my organization, but it also enables us to easily and quickly make ETL or DW changes."

"Naturally produces a way to easily debug your DW data solutions."

"The most valuable feature is the metadata generated code."

"WhereScape RED has improved our business's ability to generate needed reporting without requiring a large team of developers to manually code all of the necessary plumbing."

"WhereScape is really helpful in terms of architecture data. Everything is one of automation. Two people can do thousands of tables in one day or two. It saves a lot of time."

"Quickly develops a data warehouse for our organization with documentation and can track back/forward features."

"WhereScape's deployment package is a fantastic feature. The application allows for selecting specific objects that you would like to deploy from one environment to another rather than deploying the entire database."

"RED generates comprehensive documentation and regenerates it as quickly as things changes, but it also provides impact documentation."

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Cons

"FME's price needs improvement for the African market."

"FME can improve the geographical transformation. I've had some problems with the geographical transformations, but it's probably mostly because I'm not the most skilled geographer in-house. The solution requires some in-depth knowledge to perform some functions."

"The one thing that always appears in the community is the ability to make really easy loops to loop through data efficiently. That needs to be added at some point."

"Improvements could be made to mapping presentations."

"To get a higher rating, it would have to improve the price and the associated scalability. These are the main issues."

"We are looking at the possibility of using Glue instead of FME, using the native AWS product."

"The scheduled jobs which are run by the WhereScape scheduler seem to be a strangely separate animal. Unlike all other WhereScape objects, jobs cannot be added to WhereScape projects. Also, unlike all other objects, jobs also cannot be deleted using a WhereScape deployment application."

"Project-based searching of data objects in the data warehouse browser needs to be improved."

"The solution can be a little more user-friendly on enterprise-level where people use it."

"Jobs cannot be deleted via the deployment package. When deploying from dev to QA or production, a job has to be retired. The job has to be manually removed from the target environment."

"They need a more robust support center. It has been a bit difficult to find solutions to problems that are out-of-the-box."

"Technical support isn't the best."

"Improve the object renaming ability (it works, but it could be more automated)."

"It could use a tool to diagnose what is missing from the environment for WhereScape to install successfully."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We used the standard licensing for our use of FME. The cost was approximately €15,000 annually. We always welcome less expensive solutions, if the solution could be less expensive it would be helpful."

"The product's price is reasonable."

"FME Server used to cost £10,000; now it can cost over £100,000."

"ROI is at least 10 times."

"Speed to market of a warehouse solution at a relatively inexpensive price point."

"Factor in the price of specialized consulting who know this product. They're hard to find and expensive."

"Our company purchased a corporate unlimited license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

33%

Energy/Utilities Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about FME?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FME?

The pricing is really bad. Last year, they rebranded the whole pricing structure. It used to be moderately priced at about £400 per user per year. Now they've changed the whole thing, and it's expe...

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What needs improvement with FME?

I haven't had any input or requirements from any customers that are not currently covered, so I don't have any additional needs that were identified or raised to me. Regarding pricing, with the mod...

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Overview

FME is the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data. Run workflows on the desktop or deploy them in a server or cloud environment.

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WhereScape is data warehouse software that automates the Data Warehouse lifecycle. From implementation to maintenance, WhereScape will ensure your data warehouse projects are completed up to 5x faster than manual coding.

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