GoAnywhere MFT Reviews

We are using GoAnywhere MFT primarily for transferring files. These are reports from banks and from our vendors who conduct research for us, such as food counts in stores and other data. We transfer it for our Finance Department and BI team so they can generate additional reports for our management. 

We don't have many projects compared to other customers, however, it amounts to approximately 50 different jobs running during the day.

The product has a lot of benefits. For example, it allows us to automate a lot of processes.

We use GoAnywhere MFT for managed file transfer, secure mail feature, and SFTP. It serves as our SFTP system.

We utilize the GoAnywhere Agent, which allows us to connect internally to our network. It functions similarly to a VPN tunnel. With the cloud version, there is minimal maintenance involved, including no need to worry about security certificate updates.

Overall, it's been a good product for us, and I'm very happy with the support. There is also the ease of administration. You don't have to be a coding expert or anything like that to be able to create complex managed file transfer jobs.

I use GoAnywhere MFT mainly to manage file transfers and to move data around the business. We have various teams and we use it to move data around. 

We use it for encryption, we use it to send bank files to the bank through an encrypted channel, we use it to send data to the DMV, and we use it to send data to law firms. 

We grant access to law firms to download their data whenever they need it, and basically, we use it to share information across various networks.

Previously, data transfers used to be manual, where somebody grabbed a file, encrypted it, and shared it. Now we create a project, tell it where the files are located, where they need to go, what the file name should be, and we schedule that on our third-party application called IBM Tivoli, which takes care of the process. That's pretty neat.

We primarily use GoAnywhere MFT to facilitate secure file transfers via SFTP and HTTP protocols. Our most important usecase is for the files uploaded for any support cases created by customer. Customers can upload/download files for their respective cases either via SFTP or HTTP. Project workflows has been great to buid automation for this usecase. We have an integration of GoAnywhere MFT internally with Oracle Service Cloud and the automation plays a vital role for to and from communication between these systems.

GoAnywhere MFT has significantly improved our operational efficiency by enabling the automation of complex file transfer tasks through its project workflow feature. These workflows allow us to design, schedule, and execute multi-step processes.As a result, we’ve reduced errors, saved time. Since, the project workflows can be created with low code no code it significantly simplified the process of building and testing new workflows. As a result our development cycles are shorter and we are able to add more value.

My use case involves transferring databases into AWS using GoAnywhere MFT, which provides encryption and collaboration with other teammates to see the process and transfer files and related data.

The documentation provided is sufficient to understand and integrate the solution. 

The GoAnywhere MFT agents are deployed locally, and they provide a browser-based interface that makes it easy to configure and schedule file transfers, which is beneficial for automation and workflow management. 

Over time, we discovered that the scheduling feature and integration aspects work very effectively. 

It has saved considerable time because we didn't need to write extensive custom code to integrate it. Most features were drag and drop, and with its browser-based software interface, it proved to be excellent overall and saved us significant time.

We have used the security features only once or twice, but the security it provides is excellent. The GoFast feature is being used by our tech teams, and they found it very fast and efficient while transferring files and data related to code. It reduces the need for custom code significantly. The VMware virtual environment was capable of connecting with the virtual servers.

I am a pre-sales consultant for my organization, distributing Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT software and services across India.

We have completed 25 implementations, with 20 on-premises and five cloud-based.

Some of our clients make use of GoAnywhere MFT's connectors.

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is our primary product, distributed to most of our clients. Our dedicated GoAnywhere team has been deploying and providing Level One and Level Two support for the product for many years. Since 2017, we have distributed GoAnywhere to numerous clients in India who consistently renew their subscriptions. While they may evaluate other products, they ultimately return to GoAnywhere due to its compliance features, automation capabilities, workflows, and security measures.

One of our clients has implemented GoAnywhere MFT's Secure Forms for initial registration. This solution enhances user and server security while allowing end-users to self-register.

One of our clients uses the GoFast feature to transfer large files.

GoAnywhere MFT facilitates efficient connectivity with third parties, provided the firewall policies are open.

We primarily used GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files. Our organization had third-party source vendors who needed to submit files that had to get to us or our third-party end vendors securely. Files were fairly large in size, and we needed to track who was delivering the files and when, whether it was the right type of file, and whether it was delivered to the vendor partner at the right time.

We also wanted to run it through a project management tool. The automated processes, which I think were called project workflows, allowed us to do this a lot more seamlessly than we were able to do before.

I am very happy with the usage that we had when I was managing it. I am a fan of the product. It helped save me a lot of time and a lot of headaches.

It took us a little bit of time to get it up and running. It was not a whole lot of time compared to other tools. We had it up and running in no time, and we were able to implement an advanced solution. We had SecureMail working for years and had people logging in. It took us about a week to figure things out and get support from GoAnywhere on how to use that. It took about a month to two months to solidify the MVP use case, get that tested with the end users, and then get it up and running. We were also able to tweak it. After about six months of that tool being in use, we got feedback from our end vendors who were using the tool on both sides of the house. They were able to change the way the teams worked because they did not need to train everyone on how to use the tool. With this drag-and-drop interface that we had set up for them using GoAnywhere's MFT, each process was given a folder, so they just dragged files into the folder, and then from there, the backend handled all of it and moved it over to where it was supposed to go securely. They were able to change the way their teams worked internally. That was a benefit for us. Having efficiency for our partners is not something that necessarily saved us money, but it certainly created a much better working relationship with our partners. They were much happier with that.

The other benefit was time savings because of the simplicity of the tool. Now we have people logging into a complex interface, going in, checking a bunch of dots or a bunch of fields, and filling in some values as they upload each file. With the automation that we had with the process workflows, that was all handled in the backend. We have now got a little bit longer lead time and that is why we are looking at going back and getting this GoAnywhere MFT again because it saved us so much headache.

GoAnywhere MFT saved us time in connecting securely with the third parties we needed to collaborate with. Some of the files that we send are time-sensitive and restricted. We cannot share them with anyone who does not have an NDA with us. It was very important that these files were sent securely and quickly from our source vendors to us so that we could review them and send them over to our end vendors to be delivered to our stores. Having GoAnywhere MFT allowed us to change the way that we did our work.

I was looking into the Box, Salesforce, and SharePoint connectors, but we found that, although the price point was not bad, it was just a lot more than what we needed. We could do most of the capabilities that we wanted with the default API through Box or SharePoint. There was a lot of capability, but we thought that if we were going to use these, we better be doing a whole lot more with it than just the basic simple use case that we had. We were not going to use all the capabilities, so we decided to not use that. We did wind up needing some of the reporting capabilities that GoAnywhere has out of the box. Its advanced reporting made our IT department feel a lot more comfortable about the usage of a tool that had a front-facing website.

We use it for data transfer with certain software vendors and partners. We also use it for back-and-forth customer data transfers for deposits. We also send data back to our customers for statements and reconciliation. We use it for system-to-system integration internally and we also use their secure upload feature for secure file sharing between teams and customers. We use it for just about every use case available.

It has been a couple of years since we started doing data transfer directly with our customers. We started with system integration, so we were just moving data back and forth between us and our software vendors. We stepped into the customer side of it in the last six years or so.

We use SecureForms for things like mortgage closings and secure document uploads from customers who have loans in progress. We also use it for internal operations for data handoffs between teams to securely send files. We do an encryption layer on top of that, so it works very well for us in sending data back and forth all over the company.

GoAnywhere MFT has saved us time in connecting securely with third parties for different resources. We can typically get set up with a new vendor after getting through security protocols in about two days. It works pretty well for us.

It probably saves us anywhere from four to eight hours a month in operations. We onboard new platforms once or twice a quarter. For customers, we upload the data to them versus them downloading from us. It is the same thing. We do five or six of those per month. It works out pretty well. It allows us to set things up, and if we have to make a tweak, it is quick. For example, if a customer makes a change, it is a matter of quick config change rather than us spending hours refactoring code to handle that. It works pretty well. We get four to eight hours per month of time savings as compared to other platforms.