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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What do you like best about the product?
Its pretty simple and straightforward to use and setup.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really to dislike about the application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives us the advantage to have automated processes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a great product to use. It makes it easy to monitor whatever purposeful job you would like automated and provides great support for any issue at hand.
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GoAnyWhere MFT Review
What do you like best about the product?
Securely send files in/out of the organizations without worries of them being compromised. Support is always there if we have an issue and more than willing to assist to get us back up and running.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far we have had no issues, thus cannot put anything down about any dislikes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securely sending files that are encrypted is the major feature that we use to send sensitive information. The benefits received are the fact we have no worries the file can be decrypted unless the receiving end has the key to unlock it.
The product is easy to implement and it works very well
What do you like best about the product?
The knowledgeable support and on-line publications.
What do you dislike about the product?
GUI product administration. Although it is very intuitive, there are so many options on so many screens. It is not always easy to find something specific.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Encrypted/secure FTP automated.
GoAnywhere MFT makes file transfers easy
What do you like best about the product?
Simple to use interface, easy to setup new connections, and rather problem free experience. We were even able to interface it with our old AS400 systems we've been using for years.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't really a lot to not like, maybe that it wasn't free? We initially tried rolling our own free in house solution but it was just way too painful thus we bought MFT.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GoAnywhere MFT handles dozens of vendor file transfers that happen in our network practically 24/7 and it has never let us down. I'd guesstimate the uptime of this product has been 99.99% over the past many years of use.
GA MFT Offers Outstanding Features and Usability
What do you like best about the product?
The product is comprehensive, easy to manage and very easy to implement.
What do you dislike about the product?
The upgrade process for clustered MFTs could be smoother.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure file transfer via SFTP and HTTPS. It has greatly improved the workflow in this area and has been simple to support.
Easy, Efficient and Powerful
What do you like best about the product?
The product is very easy to use and configure for our systems, where I can send the end users for my organization to a single point and they simply upload and files automatically are ingested into our product.
What I have further found is the powerful workflow (project) capabilities of GoAnywhere MFT where we can add logic to the files, users, REST Endpoints, and this is making this product far more powerful than I originally thought it could be.
Our use of this product is currently for moving files from our MFT server to various servers using some logic and applying those files to the correct locations.
Other usages that we have are to pull files from various locations, and also now we are able to manipulate users and perform other logical events using the Projects functionality.
What we have been able to implement user manipulation using separate coding through Python to leverage the APIs which are provided by GoAnywhere. We have also been using the Apis for uploading files.
What I have further found is the powerful workflow (project) capabilities of GoAnywhere MFT where we can add logic to the files, users, REST Endpoints, and this is making this product far more powerful than I originally thought it could be.
Our use of this product is currently for moving files from our MFT server to various servers using some logic and applying those files to the correct locations.
Other usages that we have are to pull files from various locations, and also now we are able to manipulate users and perform other logical events using the Projects functionality.
What we have been able to implement user manipulation using separate coding through Python to leverage the APIs which are provided by GoAnywhere. We have also been using the Apis for uploading files.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think one thing which end users are sometimes complaining about is the speed of uploads from the web UI, from the FTP client uploads are much quicker but our end users aren't always savvy to use the FTP clients.
The end users have suggested that a more user friendly UI could be of benefit because they would expect the upload location to be something like under a /ftp folder or a /root folder, but the UI only shows their main folder, which then we have to manually add a false folder called FTP or root.
The end users have suggested that a more user friendly UI could be of benefit because they would expect the upload location to be something like under a /ftp folder or a /root folder, but the UI only shows their main folder, which then we have to manually add a false folder called FTP or root.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The product will ingest files into a system from a given location. End users are business users and not always technical so what this product has allowed us to do is provide the end users with a single point for file uploads and the files are then quickly and easily ingested into our product.
Users who previously would have had difficulties or required assistance to ingest files into the system, have now been able to upload and ingest files much faster, and it has also allowed us to expand the end user base so that more people are able to use the system.
Users who previously would have had difficulties or required assistance to ingest files into the system, have now been able to upload and ingest files much faster, and it has also allowed us to expand the end user base so that more people are able to use the system.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ask about all of the possibilities and additional functionality of the product. You may find that the product might be able to do more than you expected and be able to solve other needs for you which you weren't aware of.
Providing a more robust Web Services User Guide with full examples using Java, Python or Node. This would allow end users to implement those with a bit more ease.
Providing a more robust Web Services User Guide with full examples using Java, Python or Node. This would allow end users to implement those with a bit more ease.
One of the top MFT tools
What do you like best about the product?
Fast efficient and mutli platform MFT solution. Combining a very good File transfer server supporting SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS and adds a very powerful scripting engine. This means we have been able to connect the scripts to read CSV files and write data directly into databases, have also hooked GAMFT to monitor fields in Salesforce and can trigger actions if needed.
Our system is very heavily used with in excess of 4000 processes spread accross 150ish customers handleing millions of files movements every month between internal systems.
GAMFT can be hooked into many different end points to either extract information or push data to.
Support is generally very good.
Our system is very heavily used with in excess of 4000 processes spread accross 150ish customers handleing millions of files movements every month between internal systems.
GAMFT can be hooked into many different end points to either extract information or push data to.
Support is generally very good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the reporting is basic, but with SQL connections back to its own DB it gereate any report you need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
helping to move nearly 3m SFTP transfers per month between customers.
Connecting to many internal system including MQ servers, Databases, Saleforce and cloud services
Connecting to many internal system including MQ servers, Databases, Saleforce and cloud services
Easy to use, flexible, and reliable.
What do you like best about the product?
GA MFT is like a visual programming language. Anyone can jump in and start designing transfers. As you learn the ins and outs of GA MFT the user can create increasingly integrated and complicated projects for automating workflow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes auditing a single transfer for successful file movement during a specific time can be a chore. Long load times and often it requires the user to only looks at specific file names or paths that may be used in other projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal file movement automation managed by GA MFT has given back time to end users. Rather than logging into a vendor web portal to upload or download files user needs are met without any intervention. GA has also allowed us to create pseudo api's, moving information from one application to another, enhancing our ability to solve complex data integration problems.
Robust and Versatile Product
What do you like best about the product?
Very user friendly. Support is very Helpful and willing to assist. The product is robust and versatile. It has the ability to give your projects a logical structure.
What do you dislike about the product?
When you have a monitor setup you will have to change a field value in the monitor and in the project or recreate the monitor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Logical data extraction and manipulation. Data encryption. The ability to change file formatting easily in the project.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a very robust and versatile product. It has the ability to write logical programs, create files, manipulate data and formatting in addition to encryption and file transferring.
GoAnywhere MFT Customer Review
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that you can customize the product to your needs, as opposed to an out of the box solution with little to no flexibility. The product is extremely flexible and allows you to create workflows that are specific to your business use case. There is also the security aspect of the application. The product has built in auditing tools to complement our vulnerability management and PEN testing tools to ensure compliance.
What do you dislike about the product?
To be honest the only thing I would improve is the ability to assign more granular security permissions for end user folders and files. We are limited in the ability to enable users to create / delete files and folders in our client directories. For instance our users can create folders for clients to organize documents for uploads, but we cannot also enable them to delete folders for the client without giving them excess permissions in the directory structure above the client folder structure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GoAnywhere was chosen to replace a competitor’s product that was not meeting our needs.
The product is being used to enable our audit clients (mainly healthcare entities) to transfer files to our staff for financial audits. The product is configured to be HIPAA compliant from a data at rest standpoint as well as data in motion.
The tool enables our clients to use a variety of clients for file uploads. We were able to create a customized notification system in the application to enable users who receive files to be notified that files are awaiting pickup.
The product is being used to enable our audit clients (mainly healthcare entities) to transfer files to our staff for financial audits. The product is configured to be HIPAA compliant from a data at rest standpoint as well as data in motion.
The tool enables our clients to use a variety of clients for file uploads. We were able to create a customized notification system in the application to enable users who receive files to be notified that files are awaiting pickup.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend that any customer considering the product go through a POC process with the team at HelpSystems in order to understand all the aspects of the product that can be leveraged for use. We did a POC of the product, and were introduced to a world of functionality that our prior vendor could not provide.
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