Fortra's GoAnywhere Gateway for Windows (BYOL)

What do you like best about the product?

Very flexible, easy to reuse projects with scheduler overrides,

What do you dislike about the product?

no prebuilt verification of file properties in file movements, you need to code your own verifications of file size or related values.

occasional issues when running processes aren't able to send status updates to the database leaving scheduled jobs and monitors in a running status after completion, requiring our team to develop monitoring and resets via SQL (which GA handles fairly well)

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

Our company was running dos batch jobs with a WS-FTP command line processor. GA helps with monitoring processes, speeding our development cycles, and has built-in functions that replace several home built VB and C++ programs that inspect and revise data files. I't API abilities allowed us to intigrate our paging/ticketing system to set up error notifications.

What do you like best about the product?

GoAnywhere has integrations with many different solutions and offers an ability to move files exactly to where they are needed to be moved. Very helpful for automating back end processes.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are many different vulnerability updates that occur on this solution that make it a bit complex to maintain.

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

Moving files from 1 system to another to kick off automation tasks

What do you like best about the product?

The solution is stable and continues to run reliably for long periods, without service interruptions or other issues.

What do you dislike about the product?

It doesn’t include an editor for editing the file.

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

It made secure, fast file sharing easy at an enterprise scale. In addition, GoDrive eliminated the long-term need to store critical data on NFS media.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about GoAnywhere MFT is the XML backend - it makes it a lot easier to understand and build out job logic compared to a pure GUI-only tool, since you can actually see and control the task flow directly. I also like how flexible it is across protocols, being able to handle SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB transfers all within the same platform makes it easy to standardize jobs even when the vendor or destination changes.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I dislike about GoAnywhere is that some of the built-in functions and attributes aren't well documented or don't behave the way you'd expect - things like CurrentDateTime() not actually existing, or sizeFilter being unreliable enough that you have to work around it with FileInfo() checks instead. It leads to a lot of trial and error that shouldn't be necessary. I also find the error handling setup to be a gap - just having a notifysysadmin module in the XML doesn't mean it actually fires, you have to explicitly wire it with onError on every task, and it's easy to miss that during job builds or reviews.

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

GoAnywhere MFT solves the problem of having a centralized, automated way to move files between us and all our vendors and partners without relying on manual transfers or one-off scripts scattered across servers. It benefits me by giving a single platform to build, monitor, and troubleshoot jobs across SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB, so when something fails I'm not chasing it down across different systems, I can go to one place and trace it through the job history and logs. It also makes onboarding new vendors more consistent, since I can reuse validated job templates instead of building transfer logic from scratch every time.

What do you like best about the product?

The ease of using it. The customization.

What do you dislike about the product?

The support from the vendor is not upto mark. Usually takes longer.

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

Scattered sftp systems in the bank integrated into GA. Various application integrations possible with GA.

What do you like best about the product?

The broad set of tools that help us enable Automation. Flexibility within the application that helps us be creative at times in making sure files are transferred.

What do you dislike about the product?

The tools and automations we love, are also for a new user, not obvious. The obvious methods work, but poorly. Not sure if there needs to be better documentation, or work done in the UI to make it flow more like what the steps would be.

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

Solves the obvious and easy parts, simple SFTP transfers. The complex issues are handled where things needs to move in specific directions, with adjustments to the data and moved again. All if seeming normal stuff, but for sure required.

What do you like best about the product?

I like GoAnywhere MFT's user-friendly console for configuring and handling projects and workflows. It reduces manual effort and makes it straightforward to navigate through settings and understand them. The initial setup was good and simple.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing

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

I use GoAnywhere MFT to automate scripts, set up file transfers, and choose file formats. It reduces manual file transfer efforts, logs details, manages mail communication, and connects with multiple resources. Its user-friendly console simplifies project and workflow management with straightforward settings.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy to use and many uses for it. Good for secure transfers

What do you dislike about the product?

GUI could be nicer. It’s pretty simple and looks raw

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

Sftp transfer

What do you like best about the product?

I love the ease of use of GoAnywhere MFT and how robust the language is. The file transfer engine works really well, which is important for our operations. The product has a lot of uptime with no downtime, which is crucial for us as we rely heavily on it for managing enterprise-wide file transfers. Also, the setup process was fairly simple despite the networking aspect.

What do you dislike about the product?

Oh, I think that the support and support site could use a little help. It was a little more robust, and it seems like it has gotten maybe more difficult to find information when I do need help with something. Most of the limitations that I run across are just developmental type issues because it does attach to so many different platforms like Azure and SharePoint that I understand that some stuff has to be built out before it works flawessly.

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

GoAnywhere MFT helps us manage enterprise-wide file transfers and push and pull files from our EMR with great uptime. I love the ease of use and robust language.

What do you like best about the product?

The user interface is intuitive and easy to use. It integrates well with our other systems. The price is extraordinary given the power of this tool. I have been using it for over 10 years and it just keeps getting better. We have had no performance issues with our transfers.

What do you dislike about the product?

We have had some issues with support being slow.

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

We are using it to manage all of our highly sensitive file data transfers.