Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT for Linux (BYOL)
Fortra | 7.8.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux Amazon Linux 2023 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Excellent MFT
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to write custom file handling tasks without being overly complicated.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have no major complaints with this product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of moving files with external clients and across internal departments.
GDPR File Transfer Saviour
What do you like best about the product?
The data encryption at rest was the primary reason for purchase of a new product over our old one but we found this product did so much more and was modular enough to pick and choose what we required.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can take some time to configure as it is quite a powerful product and unfortunately there aren't wizards to follow, but once you get used to it, it does become quite intuitive to set up. We did the configuration in house but would recommend configuration from a third party if your team is short of research time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Meets GDPR requirements + has many many features
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you know what each module of the product does and get advice on what you are trying to achieve
So much more than just SFTP
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to see quickly what file transfer workflows have completed with their status with a link to detailed log for any run.
What do you dislike about the product?
Folder monitors are really just scheduled polling instead of hook in a listener to the underlying file system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GOA replaced a simple SFTP package that could only kick off a single script for all file upload events. So that script had a huge if-then-elsif block that looked at the user that had sent the file and a function to handle details based on user account. As such, logging for all those accounts was in one huge file that rotated daily. Finding what had been UL'd/DL'd each day was a total pain.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Unknown to either side, our primary trading partner was undergoing their own eval to migrate from homebrew scripts and chron jobs to run bash scripts for SFTP. They also chose GoAnywhere as "best bang for the buck". Save yourself time and just install the 30-day demo to see how good it is.
Expidite Your Scripting
What do you like best about the product?
It allows a person that has limited scripting capabilities to automate their data transfers.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve, but this was easily overcome with assistance from technical support and documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated transfer of encrypted data files between business partners.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a scripting software to assist in automating data transfers, then you should consider purchasing this.
Great Product and Highly Scalable
What do you like best about the product?
I like how scalable it is with projects! You can adopt anything you like in an easy to use interface and you can literally meet any business requirement thrown at you. Auditing makes it really easy to troubleshoot and gives a clear picture of all the activity being done by our clients. It also implements good security features such as IP whitelisting per user account which makes it much more secure and puts our mind at ease especially for sensitive projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Graphical User Interface for the admin could be more modern and flashy but nothing too bad. The client portal has a mich better design
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have one solution for all our file transfer needs. We purchased this product for one project but quickly realised its benefits and started using it on all our projects
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Know your business requirements and only implement the modules that you need. It is greatly distributed in modules to meet any budget and requirements
MFT made easy and functional!
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and intuitive interface lessens the administrative burden and allows rapid on-boarding of new admins. Of the all the MFT products we tested (and it was many), the GoAnywhere interface was by far the most efficient and intuitive. Additionally, the ease of installation, implementation, and administration is an absolute blessing. We have rolled out environments in just a couple of days and had users trained in the administration of the product in less than an hour. It just works!
What do you dislike about the product?
Like any GUI, there are some annoyances. When auditing large logs, the GUI can freeze and it makes auditing through the interface difficult until you can work in some sideways audit to free it up. Additionally, autocompletion of inputs will not fill in correctly (doesn't matter if you use FF or Chrome) and will accept the clicking of the choice as the input rather than allow autocomplete to fill in. Frustrating first world problems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We replaced our homegrown hand written file transfer architecture with GoAnywhere MFT. It immediately decreased admin overhead, performed better, and was more resilient than our scripts laying on top of SFTP processes. That alone made it a HUGE win.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for an all encompassing EDI/B2B/Do Everything suite with a large budget, little agility, and copious amounts of excess staff you can throw at a problem, then something from Axway or Cleo might be up your alley. If you want something to handle file transfers and actually decreases the administrative overhead burden already sitting on your admin's shoulders, then go with GoAnywhere. It works. Well. VERY Well.
Excellent managed file transfer system
What do you like best about the product?
Flexible, excellent scripting language. Great integration with key management.
What do you dislike about the product?
1600 page manual is hard to find what you’re looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure file transfers and workflow scheduling. Easy to add additional partners.
GoAnywhere is extremely feature rich and is capable of management above our expectations
What do you like best about the product?
GoAnywhere is very intuitive and has taken very little cross training for our I.T. team to become proficient.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish GoAnywhere had a method to set paths based upon the initial project in order to call subsequent projects. This would facilitate development, test, qa, production hierarchies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use GoAnywhere to manage our FTP transfers, ERP reporting via MS-Excel reports, and file uploads/downloads from our ERP.
Extremely versatile and reliable.
What do you like best about the product?
The support for multiple transfer methods and encryption standards, and that it runs on the IBM iSeries. The iSeries is the core platform for all our business systems, but the ability to move data to other applications on other platforms (Windows, AIX/Linux) has made GoAnywhere a critical application in our business processes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting up some types of communications and security accesses are not intuitive nor covered in enough detail in he user documentation, such as traditional EDI. However, the support people for he GoAnywhere products are extremely knowledgeable and helpful. They resolved all our issues in the early days of package usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
EDI communications, XML transfers, SFTP/FTPS transfers, AS2 communications. Managing the various types of data exchanges we have through one package is extremely efficient as well as convenient..
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The GoAnywhere MFT product and the Gateway are worth the investment.
GoAnywhere, the perfect solution for file delivery
What do you like best about the product?
GoAnywhere is a powerful, "super-suite" of file delivery and data manipulation processes. For us it is the ease of using their powerful SFTP solution with their fantastic key management system.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not really dislike anything here, but perhaps if I had to mention something it would be the wish for a better "built-in" database option than Derby. This is insignificant really though since you can change it to anything else you want.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure and reliable data delivery to our customers. Manipulation of raw data into it's file deliverable format. With the ability of GoAnywhere to monitor for file changes, we have easily begun to completely automate file transfers to customers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider your needs, SFTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS or any combination. GoAnywhere does it better than the rest.
Data manipulation and storage. Security. GoAnywhere takes all of this into consideration.
Data manipulation and storage. Security. GoAnywhere takes all of this into consideration.
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