Fortra's GoAnywhere Agent for Windows (BYOL)

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?

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.

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.