Safe Software today announced that they have added support for statistics formats in FME, the leading spatial ETL solution. This new support enables GIS professionals to easily move spatial data into statistics applications for analysis. Now organizations can gain an even more complete view of business information for improved planning, analysis and decision making.

GIS professionals can also use FME to quickly bring geo-referenced statistical results back into their geographic information systems so they can visualize this information. This will equip decision makers with new intelligence that combines the power of GIS and statistics.

Introduced in response to customer requests and market feedback, FME’s new support for popular statistics formats such as SPSS, R and SAS was developed in partnership with Circle Systems, the makers of Stat/Transfer, the industry-standard statistical data conversion product.

FME enables users to translate data between a wide variety of data types, including GIS, CAD, database, 3D/BIM, raster, web and now statistics. Users can also manipulate and integrate their data as required, providing end users with spatially-enabled data they need to use.

For more information please visit http://www.safe.com/