Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT for Windows (BYOL)

Neutral

What do you like best about the product?

I had the opportunity to evaluate GoAnywhere MFT through a trial license provided by the GoAnywhere sales team after a short call to discuss my use case. The setup was smooth and straightforward, with clear documentation that made implementation easy even for a first-time user. I explored the platform for almost 1 month, including an extended period to complete my evaluation and a short proof of concept (POC) for secure data transfer scenarios.

During my evaluation, I frequently used GoAnywhere for testing various workflows and integrations. I explored several key capabilities — Advanced Workflows, secure file transfers (SFTP/FTPS/HTTPS), user management, encryption, scheduling and detailed audit reporting. The interface felt intuitive, making it simple to build, automate and monitor workflows from a single dashboard.

One thing that really stood out was the Cloud Connector Marketplace. I installed the Salesforce Connector directly from within the platform and it took less than five minutes — no external downloads or complex setup required. Everything is managed within the environment, which makes it extremely convenient. There are also many other connectors available for applications like AWS, Jira, Trello and Google Cloud Storage, expanding integration possibilities significantly.

The customer support experience was excellent. The team was quick to respond whenever I encountered an issue and even extended my trial period to ensure I could complete my testing comfortably.

Overall, GoAnywhere MFT provides an impressive mix of security, automation and integration features. My hands-on experience gave me a clear understanding of its capabilities and how it can support our future requirements for secure and automated data movement across systems.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is nothing I dislike about GoAnywhere MFT. I evaluated the platform for almost a month using a trial license and found its features and functionalities impressive. From Advanced Workflows and secure file transfers to the intuitive Cloud Connector Marketplace, everything worked seamlessly. I look forward to exploring more of its capabilities for future automation and integration needs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

During my trial evaluation of GoAnywhere MFT, I was able to see how it addresses critical challenges in secure and automated file transfers. The platform centralizes workflows, provides robust encryption and offers detailed audit logging, which could significantly reduce errors and ensure compliance. Features like Advanced Workflows, scheduling and the Cloud Connector Marketplace, including Salesforce and other popular integrations demonstrated how easily data can be moved and connected across systems. Even in a trial environment, it was clear that GoAnywhere MFT can streamline operations, simplify integrations and support future requirements for secure and efficient data management.

We have been using GoAnywhere MFT  in my company, Manadomy Integration Private Limited. We are directly connected with college and school candidates, and we are also connected with corporate clients. We take assessments of different college students and provide them a tag of job-ready candidates. After that, we send the candidate reports to our partner corporate clients. This is the overview of our company.

GoAnywhere MFT  performs automation jobs at 7:00 PM daily. It fetches a CSV file from our database server, which is a report of different candidate reports that we have created for job-ready candidates. GoAnywhere MFT  fetches these details from our database server and encrypts the file using PGP encryption. With secure file transfer, it is sent to the corporate designated folder. After the completion of this process, both the corporate and we receive a notification via email. This is the overall flow that we use for GoAnywhere MFT .

GoAnywhere MFT shows us the successful transfers and which files are successfully transferred and which are the failed deliveries at the end when the transfer is completed. It also shows the historical logs for all the compliances such as GDPR compliances. We learned that a few files were failed deliveries, so we needed to send them again. All of this work is done by GoAnywhere MFT through automation process.

I personally appreciate the security purpose with its end-to-end encryption for both our candidates and our clients. We build trust with this software because corporates receive our verified data, which is encrypted candidate data.

With GoAnywhere MFT, we simply submit our data, which is in text form sometimes and sometimes in file form. We upload our resumes, and as we are directly connected with our candidates, the college candidates, we upload the resumes, reports, and invoices of the documents, and we send it securely to our organization and to our CEO. The form simply consists of the name, email, and the messages related to those documents.

The first thing that concerns us most is the security purpose. We have directly used that and we are happy with the security features. It is simple to use for us because we are experienced users, but for new users, it is somewhat complex to use. After using it for a year, it is acceptable for us and we are able to use it well. The security purpose and the sharing of files work well for me.

In GoAnywhere MFT, I have sometimes faced situations where we share a large number of files and encounter more failed deliveries. I need to send them to our clients again and again. The admin console is also somewhat complex for new users because in our training team, there are a few new hirings. They find it somewhat complex for new users, so the interface should be much simpler for new users as well. The workflow which we have created is time-consuming. I believe some drag-and-drop kind of UI should be added to make it smoother. I have faced this kind of situation, so I thought that it would be good if improvements could be made for that.

Regarding the technical support of GoAnywhere MFT, I remember four or five months ago, I was facing some technical issues. I am not directly connected with them over a call, but I wrote an email. The solution given to me was provided between five to six days. I believe it could be done sooner, so that would be better.

GoAnywhere MFT's support response time can be improved.

I have been using GoAnywhere MFT for one year, maybe one and a half years.

Regarding the stability of GoAnywhere MFT, I rate it a seven. It is stable according to my experience.

Regarding scalability, I would rate it a nine. It is scalable. My requirements are met with its scalability.

I do not believe I am the right person to answer regarding cost because this is totally up to our business and our sales team. GoAnywhere MFT saves a lot of time, approximately thirty to forty percent.

I would rate the support of GoAnywhere MFT as six out of ten.

Neutral

GoAnywhere MFT is our first software we have used for the transferring of files because before that we used to do that manually. I cannot compare it with any other software because I have not used any other since now.

Regarding deployment, GoAnywhere MFT takes two to three days.

Approximately four to six users work with GoAnywhere MFT.

Regarding the pricing of GoAnywhere MFT, it is somewhat expensive, I feel. Not that much expensive, but our business team has explored other softwares as well, though I personally have not explored the other softwares. According to our invoices about this software, we have a one-year subscription for it. The price is somewhat high, but it is acceptable. It does our job well, so we do not have any problem with the pricing, but it could be slightly lower.

GoAnywhere MFT was not purchased through the AWS Marketplace . I believe it was directly purchased, though I am not entirely sure about this because it was totally handled by our sales team.

I would recommend GoAnywhere MFT. We have already recommended it to a few colleagues who work elsewhere. The file sharing is very secure, and we have not felt any security hazards and we have not faced any security concerns regarding the same. I have shared this recommendation with a few of my colleagues as well.

GoAnywhere MFT requires some updates in my opinion. It is easy to update GoAnywhere MFT and it is not that much complex.

I would rate the solution overall as six out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services  (AWS )

Neutral

My use case is for secure file transfer between internal systems and external partners in a financial service environment. We rely on it for automated nightly batches of jobs.

The best features I enjoy about GoAnywhere MFT  are its automation and workflow studio. We use its drag and drop interface for building workflows in interpreter and powerful mode, which is the best feature we appreciate about this tool.

GoAnywhere MFT  has improved my organization by making it easy to share files between two or more servers. From one computer, a user can share a file with a different user in an easy and secure way. End-to-end encryption allows data to be transferred between two servers or between two users. It is far more secure and easy for transferring files.

I think GoAnywhere MFT  can improve in UI/UX redesigning and better cloud-native deployments. My environment is mostly built on the cloud, so if it were more compatible with the cloud, deployment would be easier for us.

I have it deployed on the cloud, but it does not provide better features on the cloud. I would appreciate enhancements for Kubernetes  and serverless compute services.

I have been using this solution for one and a half years.

I would rate the stability a seven. I think it is a seven because sometimes it lags.

I would rate the scalability of GoAnywhere MFT  as a nine. It is easy to use and scalable.

I would rate the technical support between eight to nine. They provide great help. I would rate it a nine.

Positive

I do not use any other platforms to compare GoAnywhere MFT. We are compatible with MFT, which is why we are using it on our domain.

The deployment overall was easier to use.

GoAnywhere MFT was purchased earlier by my seniors. We have been using it since then.

I have seen a return on investment of fifty percent.

My thoughts on the pricing are that it is cheap.

I do not use GoAnywhere Connectors for Salesforce , SharePoint  Online, Microsoft Dynamics  365, or any other software.

I have deployed GoAnywhere MFT Agents on remote servers to push and pull files securely. Using the agents is a great way to extend GoAnywhere MFT capability to branch offices and partner systems without exposing the main server.

I use Secure Forms with GoAnywhere MFT for collecting sensitive data from clients, such as KYC documents or onboarding forms. These Secure Forms have helped my business by being customizable and encrypted, which helps us avoid insecure emails and attachments.

I have not yet integrated the GoFast feature to accelerate data transmission with our environment, but I am expecting to in the future.

Between seven to eight people use GoAnywhere MFT. Maintenance such as updates or patching does not fall under our team responsibilities. I can recommend this product to different users and teams as it supports PING, SFTP, and HTTP protocols, which are more secure and easy to use. I gave this product a rating of nine.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services  (AWS )