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  • "The cost is basically $100 a job, give or take."
  • "This is an area where it is a little difficult to work with BMC. They want to do licenses by job, which is what we have. For example, the simplest is to license by job, but they can also license by nodes. While the licensing is simple to use, it might not be the correct licensing model for the customer. It is okay because we want to license by job, which is something measurable. At the end of the day, licensing by job is the most important."
  • "The cost of the hardware is high. Because you need to license each job, it is costly."
  • "You're going to spend a lot of money upfront, but the benefits you're going to get out of it are going to quickly pay for it."
  • "Initially, our licensing model was based on the number of jobs per day. That caused some issues because we were restricted to a number. So at our renewal time we said, 'We want to convert from number of jobs to number of endpoints.' That cost us extra money but it gave us additional capabilities, without worrying about the number of jobs."
  • "BMC's price is based on the number of jobs."
  • "You must accept that BMC licensing can be very confusing. No one can easily understand how they calculate things, whether it is user-based, job-based, or server-based. The calculation is quite tough. How BMC calculates licensing is not easily available anywhere."
  • "There are human costs in addition to the standard pricing and licensing of this solution."

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  • "There are two types of customer licenses, an annual preview license, and an ELA-based license. I have found the solution is priced well. However, they need to review the pricing model because if you look at any other competitors, such as GlobalSCAPE, they do pricing based on the components and what you select. With this solution you have a monolithic application which you need to buy, there is no component level price discount."

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    What do you like most about IBM Sterling File Gateway?
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    I have found almost all the features valuable.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Sterling File Gateway?
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    There are two types of customer licenses, an annual preview license, and an ELA-based license. I have found the solution… more »
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    What needs improvement with IBM Sterling File Gateway?
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    IBM is advising not to use the IT translate anymore but this is going to be an extra cost to the customer to use the… more »
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    Overview

    Control-M simplifies application and data workflow orchestration on premises or as a service. It makes it easy to build, define, schedule, manage, and monitor production workflows, ensuring visibility, reliability, and improving SLAs.

    • Accelerate new business applications into production—by embedding workflow orchestration into your CI/CD pipeline
    • Scale Dev and Ops collaboration, with a Jobs-as-Code approach
    • Simplify workflows across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform integrations
    • Deliver data-driven outcomes faster, managing big data workflows in a scalable way
    • Take control of your file transfer operations with integrated, intelligent file movement and visibility

    Aspera On Demand is a product offering from Aspera that provides access to Aspera’s patented FASP high-speed transfer software and solutions, as part of an online usage-based subscription service. Unlike on-premise deployments where you, the customer, must provision the underlying infrastructure, Aspera On Demand runs on cloud-based infrastructure provided by a cloud computing provider. You gain the benefits of Aspera high-speed transfer without large upfront infrastructure costs to support it. This offering is available today on the Amazon Web Services, IBM Softlayer Cloud, Google Cloud and on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud platforms. Support for other cloud platforms and types of services will be available in the future.

    Securely manage transfer files with authentication, encryption and audit trails while you retain administrative control of data using a library of templates.

    Sterling File Gateway can help you increase secure and dependable file transfer with your trading partners. It consolidates disparate centers of file transfer activity and facilitates the security-rich exchange of file-based data over the Internet. It helps companies avoid the risk and operational issues that can result from using loosely controlled file-transfer servers.

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    Sample Customers
    CARFAX, Tampa General Hospital, Navistar, Amadeus, Raymond James, Railinc
    Deluxe Digital Studios, BT, The European Space Agency, GigaScience, Groupe AB
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm35%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Retailer8%
    Transportation Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company34%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Media Company17%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Insurance Company9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise81%
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    Aspera On Demand is ranked 16th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) while IBM Sterling File Gateway is ranked 11th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 3 reviews. Aspera On Demand is rated 0.0, while IBM Sterling File Gateway is rated 7.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Sterling File Gateway writes "The industry leader in secure file transfer, broadly adopted for its excellent capabilities". Aspera On Demand is most compared with AWS Transfer for SFTP, Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite, whereas IBM Sterling File Gateway is most compared with AWS Transfer for SFTP, Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct, Aspera Managed File Transfer, MOVEit and HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT.

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