Staging Environments for FME Flow
With a staging environment, you can test changes to your FME workspaces or automations risk-free before transferring them to the production environment. This ensures the reliability of your business-critical processes.
The continuous use of all available data sources is essential for informed decision-making and effective management in a company or organization. The FME platform plays a central role in automating the integration, verification, and distribution of data within companies. FME Flow processes are often business-critical and deeply integrated in business operations. They must therefore be both reliable and permanently available.
When working with FME Flow, a staging environment is essential for:
- safe and efficient development,
- smooth operation, and
- effective maintenance of data processes
Staging environments, also known as test environments, enable you to make risk-free updates and changes to FME workspaces and automations before transferring them to the production environment.
Below, we outline the key reasons why this is essential and the common issues that can arise without such an environment.
Staging – Highlights
5 Reasons to Use a Test Environment
Ensuring the Availability of the Production Environment
Business-critical production processes must be stable and error-free. A staging environment allows you to test workflows and automations in advance, ensuring that only quality-tested processes are deployed to the production environment. This reduces the risk of potential downtimes.
Ensuring the Full Performance of the Production Environment
Test and development processes can cause a high workload due to resource-intensive processing steps. With a separate staging environment, you can prevent tests from impairing the performance of the production environment or blocking important resources.
Protection of Company Data
A clear separation between production and test environments also ensures a clear distinction between test scenarios and production systems and data. This prevents the unintended corruption of important company data and applications due to accidental use of test processes.
Structured Debugging and Further Development
A test environment plays a key role in the further development of a solution. Sufficient error analysis and debugging are much easier to implement in a test environment. Here, you can work on problem solutions and further developments without pressure and without affecting existing production workflows.
No Downtime during Version Updates
FME Flow version-updates can lead to unexpected issues. A staging environment allows you to test new versions and functions before applying them to the production environment. Bugs and compatibility issues can be identified and fixed in advance, before affecting the production environment.
Seamless Access with FME Platform Subscriptions: Test and development environments can be seamlessly deployed through FME platform subscriptions or licensed separately at an affordable cost.
Staging Environments: Learn More Today!
A dedicated staging environment saves time, reduces stress, minimizes downtime, and ensures that your production environment remains stable and efficient. Structured test scenarios and clean development processes can be optimally implemented - for smooth development and efficient quality control of your business-critical processes.
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