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Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer pros and cons

Vendor: Axway
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer establishes a logical link between inbound and outbound transfers, enhancing visibility and troubleshooting.
It consolidates communications into one platform, simplifying network and port management, and enhancing security by requiring only a single port.
Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer features SFTP, improving security over traditional FTP.
It offers a straightforward initial setup and provides good storage capacity for a reasonable price with a wide range of connectors.
Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer effectively manages file transfer, ensuring compatibility with external systems while maintaining security standards internally.

CONS

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer requires improvements in monitoring and cut-off management, necessitating either purchasing the Sentinel suite or integrating it into an existing monitoring system.
Data Encoding improvements are needed, particularly in handling ASCII-EBCDIC and ASCII-ASCII transformations.
Transfer failure troubleshooting is complex due to insufficient information logging, and file transfer scheduling lacks the ability to set complex, multi-time daily schedules.
The initial setup is notably complex, often resulting in challenges during deployment.
Embedded databases underperform when handling high data volumes, impacting overall efficiency and performance.
 

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer Pros review quotes

it_user840219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed File Transfer Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2018
It makes a logical link between the inbound/outbound transfer, and makes it clearly visible. This is a very important feature for managing transfer with different environments, and it's very helpful in case of troubleshooting.
SG
Application Development Senior Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 10, 2022
Axway consolidated all of our communications into one platform, simplifying network and port management. Now, all we have to do is open one port to this application, and we can remove all the firewall rules on that port. It's much more straightforward to manage from a security perspective. We used to rely on an archaic FTP solution, but Axway features SFTP, so it was an improvement security-wise.
Eddy Koers - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT - Operations Employee (Senior) at Menzis
Jul 18, 2022
It’s very flexible.
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president of the company at DARAN IT
May 31, 2023
It is an easy-to-use and stable product.
PradeepSingh1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Operations at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 19, 2023
AMPLIFY has all the essential features for managing file transfer.
GC
Principal Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Jan 24, 2024
The product is simple for encrypting data transfer of all the assets in our system.
Sayantan Sarkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at HCL Technologies
Sep 6, 2024
The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward.
RK
Integration Analyst at Toyota Australia
Nov 22, 2024
It provides a good amount of storage capacity for a reasonable price and has a good range of connectors.
SN
Tech lead at BNP Paribas
Dec 2, 2025
Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer has positively impacted my organization because it has effectively provided us with all of the work logs and made us very compatible with the outside world while enforcing security standards inside the company.
 

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer Cons review quotes

it_user840219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managed File Transfer Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 19, 2018
The areas in need of improvement are the monitoring and the cut-off management, when needed. Today you have at least two solutions: Buy the other Axway suite, Sentinel, or integrate it into your monitoring system.
SG
Application Development Senior Analyst at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 10, 2022
One area of improvement is troubleshooting. When a transfer fails, they provide little information about the login, which makes troubleshooting difficult. Also, file transfer scheduling is primitive. By that, I mean you can't define a complex schedule, like scheduling a job to run at particular hours multiple times in a day.
Eddy Koers - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT - Operations Employee (Senior) at Menzis
Jul 18, 2022
We only hope that they continue to keep updating the solution and improving the offering. They could always do more updates and releases.
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president of the company at DARAN IT
May 31, 2023
The initial setup was quite complex.
PradeepSingh1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Operations at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 19, 2023
Sometimes, the application's embedded databases couldn't perform well for a higher volume of data.
GC
Principal Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Jan 24, 2024
It is complicated to manage multi-operations, particularly in handling file name changes within file transcripts.
Sayantan Sarkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at HCL Technologies
Sep 6, 2024
The tool can try to make it a little bit more flexible so that we can easily invoke the APIs, and in such a way, it can be made a little bit better.
RK
Integration Analyst at Toyota Australia
Nov 22, 2024
Their monitoring is not up to the mark and needs improvement.
SN
Tech lead at BNP Paribas
Dec 2, 2025
Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer can be improved with more logging or easier onboarding.