Fortra's GoAnywhere Agent for Windows (BYOL)

What do you like best about the product?

It provides very comfortable guidelines. The setup and configuration follow a very commonly used method, so it feels familiar and easy to work with.

What do you dislike about the product?

There’s no AV integration with third-party services or an in-house app.

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

The Secure Form module and the Data Translation and Automation Workflow work very well.

What do you like best about the product?

One of the biggest benefits has been the ability to automate file transfer processes that would otherwise require manual effort and ongoing monitoring. The platform's drag-and-drop interface is key in its ease-of-use and has proven to be instrumental in our ability to quickly and easily create workflows. And from a security standpoint, GoAnywhere provides the controls we need to confidently exchange sensitive information.

What do you dislike about the product?

It can be a bit tricky sometimes to know exactly what each available action does and how to configure them, however, Fortra's documentation has assisted us with this, as well as their support teams. More examples, however, always come in handy and would definitely be appreciated!

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

Thanks to the platform's ease-of-use, we are able to quickly respond to department workflow requests, which allows us to deliver solutions to our end users in a timely manner.

What do you like best about the product?

External partners can drop an item directly into the user's file share without IT intervention.

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing I don't like about this product.

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

No insecure transfers or manual file transfers are required, which limits human error.

What do you like best about the product?

I appreciate how GoAnywhere MFT eliminates the need for SFTP clients on individual desktops, which reduces vulnerabilities. The setup of security is well thought out, with the server not needing to be exposed publicly and instead using a gateway with minimal information. Setting up monitors for jobs is intuitive, especially with some training from the Fortra staff. The ease of scheduling file transfers is a great feature, and the initial setup was very easy. Additionally, I valued how GoAnywhere MFT met our requirement for SSO, which other solutions at the time didn't offer.

What do you dislike about the product?

I would like to see a high-level dashboard with the daily jobs listed, with a green/yellow/red status. This would be more of a NOC view. Right now, we are monitoring for alerts coming through our email and Teams site as more reactive. It would be nice to have this view to be more proactive about seeing where we are, easily throughout the day. We have jobs that run at all hours. We're also using some batch scripts in GA to call applications via an agent on other servers. It's not ideal, but we are limited with some of the other software.

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

GoAnywhere MFT eliminated the need for individual SFTP clients, reducing vulnerabilities and providing enterprise-level credentials. It simplifies scheduling and logs transfers, enhancing security by not exposing servers directly. It supports SSO and monitors job intuitively, making our operations smoother and more secure.

What do you like best about the product?

The easy-to-use interface makes it straightforward to configure, update, and secure. The administration guides are comprehensive and provide detailed, step-by-step instructions for everything you need to do. There is also follow-the-sun support coverage from an international support team.

What do you dislike about the product?

I ran into an issue when I needed to verify which encryption ciphers were being used by TLS, because one of our business partners started restricting the cipher suites they supported for encrypted connections. The GoAnywhere support documentation didn’t include steps for how to check this, and it also wasn’t abundantly clear from the interface how to configure it. Fortunately, GoAnywhere’s follow the sun support strategy connected me with a support representative in Sydney, Australia who knew exactly what to do, and the issue was resolved.

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

We needed an automated way to process incoming and outgoing data transfers. Before GoAnywhere, we had a manual, time-consuming process that relied on having a human in the loop. Thankfully, with GoAnywhere’s MFT automation features, we’ve freed up our employees’ time (1 hour per day) for more important work.

What do you like best about the product?

The Knowledge base and support i get for building projects

What do you dislike about the product?

some of the add on's are paid and some don't have trial period

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

Secure file transfer with encryption is what is most beneficial for us.

What do you like best about the product?

We use GoAnywhere MFT for process and job automation, moving files, and job scheduling. It has drastically improved efficiency and surprised us with how versatile and useful it is. I love that it integrates with many different platforms and is really user-friendly. I like the job logging, which makes it easy to audit file-level actions, and the change management/change tracking features that help us see when or who made changes. The platform generally has good reliability. The initial setup was extremely easy, and I appreciate being able to set up resources once and reference them by name in GoAnywhere jobs.

What do you dislike about the product?

The software comes out of the box with a Derby database, which is powerful, but has limitations for growth and performance. We are at the point where we have outgrown the Derby database, and have experienced a few reliability issues because of it. For example, the database recently became corrupted for no apparent reason, but thankfully GoAnywhere MFT's built-in DB backup allowed us to quickly recover a backup copy.

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

GoAnywhere MFT drastically improved our efficiency by automating and scheduling jobs. It's versatile and useful for process automation, job scheduling, and managing file transfers with trading partners.

What do you like best about the product?

Go Anywhere is best solutions for sharing the data with external partners with highly secure and managed way. This solution is the best product with compliance and auditability.
monitoring and governance also became very easy with this tool.

What do you dislike about the product?

Till my business use case this is a good product

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

before using Go Anywhere we were facing a big challenge for sharing and getting data with external user in secure and limited access. More after once we not allowed for sharing via OneDrive for external user, Fater Go anywhere MFT we are very good and easy to manage for sharing and access data with eternal partner and customer.

What do you like best about the product?

Simplicity, and power that the product uses and has

What do you dislike about the product?

The product isn't always direct in error handling.

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

File transfers

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.