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GoAnywhere MFT pros and cons

Vendor: Fortra

4.4 out of 5

67 reviews
98% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

GoAnywhere MFT offers automation that reduces manual processes and boosts efficiency. Security features include encryption and audit trails for strong data protection. It supports various protocols like SFTP for secure exchanges. Advanced Workflows improve reusability and speed development. Usability is a strength, but support response is slow. Connectivity issues with AWS and Azure, high pricing, API limitations, and memory-related problems affect performance.

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PROS

GoAnywhere MFT significantly improves file transfer speed, reducing integration time from months to days.

Security is a key feature; each workflow step has an audit trace, providing confidence in automation and compliance with audits.

The versatility of GoAnywhere MFT supports various protocols, including SFTP and HTTPS, and allows file transfers with minimal maintenance.

Automation capabilities reduce manual tasks, facilitate efficient file handling, and ensure compliance with encryption standards.

GoAnywhere MFT centralizes file exchange, enhancing data management between systems, employees, and customers.

CONS

Security updates need to address novel cyberattacks.

Technical support response time requires improvement, especially for urgent issues.

GoAnywhere MFT could enhance integration with third-party tools and cloud-based services like AWS.

Pricing is sometimes unfavorable, and additional licenses do not come with discounts.

Memory usage varies significantly, indicating a need for improvement in memory management.

GoAnywhere MFT Pros review quotes

Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Nov 4, 2024

When we first started using it, SecureMail, or the ability to securely send mail to end users, as a single file or as a package of files, was very helpful for sending large packets of files. We could not send that through traditional email.

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JT

Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus

Sep 29, 2021

When users say, 'I'm building spreadsheets that I would like to be uploaded on a regular basis into the IBM i,' we are able to accommodate that request within a matter of hours rather than the days it would take to create programs to do that. That is very useful. It has eliminated several dozens of scripts for us.

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JT

Lead Developer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 25, 2021

Transactions transfer in close to real time. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time because of the volume that we have, but the transactions transfer in seconds to the external platform.

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Angie Finnell-French

Business Intelligence Developer at Food distribution company

Nov 22, 2021

When we were doing the demo, we took one project from the old system and got it running in GoAnywhere in less than 30 minutes. That says a lot. I've written queries and understand code, so I'm not a novice. Still, I think that's pretty impressive for a software product to be able to deliver a functional use case in half an hour.

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reviewer2575005

Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 8, 2024

The most valuable feature is customer data transfers for traditional SFTP. Some of our biggest customers are on the platform, and it works out very well for us as a big selling point.

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Stephen Whigham

Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx

Jun 9, 2022

I like the organization of resources, specifically listing out all of our FTPs and having a name and description to easily organize them. I also like the scheduler. The organization and the scheduling, being able to create the folders and the jobs, have been really helpful.

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Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services

Jan 16, 2022

File monitors are one of the most valuable features. We have about 400 file monitors running in GoAnywhere. They monitor the NAS locations where files arrive, and they kick off workflows. When a file arrives, GoAnywhere will identify that the file is there, move it to a consumption zone, then reach out to our enterprise scheduler through a REST API call.

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BD

VP/Core System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Oct 19, 2021

Another nice feature is that you can invoke a native program from GoAnywhere. That helps you because you don't have to get fancy with agents. If a native program runs on the server that GoAnywhere is running on, like sed or perl, you can use it,

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reviewer1692231

Senior Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 13, 2021

We also use the Secure Folders module and the Web Client a lot. For example, we set up external vendors to come in and review files or folders in a Secure Folder. That way they can go in and review whatever information or data they need to do.

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DM

Enterprise Application Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 9, 2025

The whole application of GoAnywhere MFT is excellent. The user interface is intuitive. The flexibility for creating projects for managed file transfer is quite robust. I

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GoAnywhere MFT Cons review quotes

Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Nov 4, 2024

I like that you can tweak the interface so much, but it would be nice to be able to tweak it some more. The ability to further tweak the interface would be advantageous, as our end users had some questions about modifications that we could not address.

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JT

Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus

Sep 29, 2021

There is a function referred to as write CSV, to write a general text file. In this scenario of creating a simple text file, I ran into a situation where, if the product saw a quote or a double-quote in the data, it started wrapping all the text fields in double-quotes. The request I put in asks them to provide a feature that leaves my data alone and does not interpret anything.

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JT

Lead Developer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 25, 2021

We are a little concerned because the maximum number of open connections allowed is 200, and we are pretty much maxed out... if they expanded the number of open connections allowed, we would be better off.

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Angie Finnell-French

Business Intelligence Developer at Food distribution company

Nov 22, 2021

API functionality wasn't part of our initial unit testing because it wasn't necessary then. However, shortly after implementing GoAnywhere, two different vendors approached us to do API transactions. We checked to see if GoAnywhere could do this and found that it was supposed to have that capability, but it broke down.

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reviewer2575005

Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 8, 2024

On the platform side, I would like to see some improvements in the dashboarding and telemetry data.

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Stephen Whigham

Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx

Jun 9, 2022

It would be helpful to have a way to actually have a job run without notifying the email addresses you have set up and without posting to the actual FTP... when you need to make a small change to a job that is deployed to production, and test that change, you have to go back and reset everything. It's not really a great way to test.

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Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services

Jan 16, 2022

There's one persnickety issue about NAS permissions. That is a problem we have run into with GoAnywhere. I would like to see more focus on compatibility with/enforcement of user roles and access permissions across NAS, among other things. We have filed a couple of tickets on that in the past.

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BD

VP/Core System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Oct 19, 2021

When a monitor invokes a project to accomplish something, that gets logged as a job. I've had a little difficulty figuring out where to look to see the monitor's activities itself, to see if the monitor is having a problem. For instance, if an account on a secure FTP server has expired, the monitor that uses that account doesn't announce to us that it's having a problem. I want to work with them on this to get it fixed.

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reviewer1692231

Senior Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 13, 2021

The support could be enhanced a little bit... If the first echelon of support could say, 'Okay, you are trying to create a variable,' and could tell you what you have to do, that would be good.

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DM

Enterprise Application Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 9, 2025

The application uses resources such as network connections to shared directories or SFTP connections. I would appreciate seeing utilization metrics for these resources.

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