Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT for Windows (BYOL)

My usual use cases for GoAnywhere MFT  are for automatic processes with SFTP.

The features and capabilities of GoAnywhere MFT  that I have found most valuable are the projects that allow us to build different templates with extensive customization. We can customize the entire project as needed and create if-else statements in any way we would like to find any pattern or different words inside files, archive them, and unzip them. There is a very flexible and extended way to automate processes exactly the way we are looking for.

A benefit I have seen over the two years that I have been working with GoAnywhere MFT  is that we can use the MFT  as a parameter between our customers and our company, and we can automate all processes with file exchange and sending files through GoAnywhere MFT. It is easy and automating a lot of processes and work. Using it with different customers via PGP allows us to encrypt and unencrypt all the traffic, which is very convenient and helpful.

Regarding the reporting about the logs, sometimes there is too much information. When looking for the exact way to find and troubleshoot different errors, the log can be very difficult to understand because there is a lot of information. When you have a log on a job that has a lot of files that have failed, there is a lot of data on one page, and it becomes more complicated to troubleshoot it and understand exactly the reason why it failed.

An example of an issue I had is that we experienced a problem where the agent service took a lot of time to start after a restart. We had a huge delay on the servers applying. I think that is an area where GoAnywhere MFT can improve itself, particularly regarding how it manages all the paths via the file server on the agent server.

I have been working with GoAnywhere MFT for almost two years.

The reliability and stability aspects of GoAnywhere MFT are very good. The platform is very stable if you maintain the infrastructure in the right way with proper change management and configuration management.

Regarding the level of scalability of GoAnywhere MFT, I do not really see scalability because it depends on the architecture and how many servers are deployed for the platform. About the jobs and the projects within the platform, I do not see a lot of scalability. You are creating a job and transferring files via SFTP, and that is it.

I communicate with the technical support of GoAnywhere MFT sometimes, depending on the issue. We are using BullWall for integration, so they are our support, and I am not speaking directly with GoAnywhere MFT. Their support is excellent. Overall, I would rate the technical support on a scale of one to ten as nine because there is always room for improvement.

Before GoAnywhere MFT, the company used CyberArk, but it was before my time.

GoAnywhere MFT was already integrated when I started working here. I did not participate in the initial setup or deployment.

From my perspective, I have seen tangible benefits, including return on investment, but it depends on the use case. Our company has hundreds of jobs that we are automating and there are a lot of gigabits of files that we are transferring and receiving. The benefit is obvious because doing that via other ways, especially on-premise, would be more difficult. I do not know exactly the price, but the benefit for us is huge.

I do not make use of GoAnywhere MFT's connectors for services such as Salesforce , SharePoint  Online, Dynamics 365 , or other services. The range of connectors that GoAnywhere MFT provides out of the box is probably good, but except for SFTP and a few jobs that we are using via HTTPS, we are not using any other connector. We may use another connector in the future, but only for a CDR platform, such as Opswat.

The importance of GoAnywhere MFT's connectors to my operations is significant as it is a production platform. All the connectors and all the ways we are using SFTP are production systems. If it becomes unavailable, there will be significant consequences for our company.

We have divided the environment between the DMZ for the MFT and the agent. The importance of GoAnywhere MFT's agents in enabling me to extend MFT automation to remote systems is that this is the core component for connecting to all NFS and file servers. Essentially, it is the core component for sending and receiving files into our company and has a huge impact as a core component within our architecture.

I do not use GoAnywhere MFT's secure forms. I do not use the GoFast feature to accelerate data transmission. I do not know if GoAnywhere MFT has saved me time in connecting securely with the third parties I need to collaborate with because there is all the negotiation about IPs, certificates, and usernames. However, it is easy today to set up a basic template to exchange with a third party or a client, and in the world of SFTP, there is not too much configuration to do for the initial connection.

My overall review rating for GoAnywhere MFT is eight.

My use cases for GoAnywhere MFT  are mainly to transfer our files securely and also to automate our workflows and manage the data exchanges between our internal and external systems.

One of the best features of GoAnywhere MFT  is the automated workflow capability, allowing us to schedule our automated file transfers without any manual intervention. For a project, we can schedule a file, compress it if it's larger, and then at the scheduled event, when we upload it, it can automatically transfer to the SFTP server of our client. This automation reduces our manual intervention and minimizes the time and effort we spend on this task.

GoAnywhere MFT  scales well and can support growing workloads, handling an increasing number of file transfers very well. Sometimes our file transfers are several GBs, and it manages those transfers effectively.

In my experience, GoAnywhere MFT  is very stable. Once the configuration is properly done, it runs reliably and handles file transfers consistently without any issues.

The GoFast feature in GoAnywhere MFT is for high-speed and secure file transfers. Sometimes our files are very large, and using traditional protocols can lead to network latency, making it slow. GoFast optimizes the data movement for us.

The user interface could be more modern and intuitive. The learning curve is easy, but additional built-in templates or any integrations would make deployment even easier and faster.

I have been using GoAnywhere MFT for around the last year.

In my experience, GoAnywhere MFT is very stable. Once the configuration is properly done, it runs reliably and handles file transfers consistently without any issues.

GoAnywhere MFT scales well and can support growing workloads, handling an increasing number of file transfers very well. Sometimes our file transfers are several GBs, and it manages those transfers effectively.

I have not used the support for GoAnywhere MFT.

Before using GoAnywhere MFT, we were using manual SFTP transfer and also WinSCP to transfer the files.

The initial deployment of GoAnywhere MFT is very straightforward as it is a web-based solution for SFTP. Our effort mainly went into the projects, connections, and automating the connections. We are used to connecting to AWS  S3  buckets and Azure  Blob storages, so the setup effort was mainly focused on third-party vendors and cloud storage platforms, and that was very straightforward.

GoAnywhere MFT does not require any significant maintenance on my end, as we only need to maintain ongoing jobs and schedules ourselves. We manage transfer jobs, monitors, partner connectors, and encryption key certificates, but apart from that, we do not need to manage anything.

I am not much aware of the pricing for GoAnywhere MFT, but I would say the ROI and the metrics of ROI would be greater in terms of the time and effort we were using for manual intervention without the automated workflow. It improves our productivity and reduces our operational overhead at a large scale, so the ROI I consider for that is very good.

For connectors and integration capabilities in GoAnywhere MFT, we use connectors for cloud platforms such as AWS  S3  and Azure  Blob storage.

I am not much aware of whether those connectors are custom-made or included when we installed GoAnywhere MFT because I have not done this configuration. One of my colleagues handled it.

I am not much aware of GoAnywhere Agents. From what I know, agents are used to securely execute file transfer tasks on remote systems without exposing them directly to our network. They communicate with the central server to automate processes, mainly for remote servers.

I have not used Secure Forms, but there is some PGP encryption that secures our file transfers.

GoAnywhere MFT has saved us time in connecting securely with third parties. With GoAnywhere MFT, we can securely exchange files with several third-party systems and cloud platforms, reducing both our team's effort and our time to manage these SFTP, FTP, and HTTPS protocols for third-party vendors and systems.

We have multiple automations happening in our company, creating independent workflows we refer to as projects, which we schedule or trigger based on different events. For example, one automation might collect files from an internal server, while another uploads them to AWS S3. Simultaneously, someone would encrypt those files or transfer reports to partner SFTP servers, leading to multiple automations occurring at once.

Generally, we manage these different automations as projects. GoAnywhere MFT supports integration with different APIs, including REST and Web APIs, which we use mainly to interact with third-party applications.

I would give GoAnywhere MFT a rating of nine out of ten as it reduces manual intervention, automates various processes, and saves time, resulting in a better ROI for our company.

As far as I am aware, we are only a customer of GoAnywhere MFT.