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Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT mindshare

As of February 2025, the mindshare of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category stands at 7.8%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
Government
7%
Insurance Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Retailer
5%
Construction Company
5%
Energy/Utilities Company
4%
Comms Service Provider
4%
Real Estate/Law Firm
3%
University
2%
Logistics Company
2%
Educational Organization
2%
Media Company
2%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Hospitality Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Non Profit
1%
Newspaper
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Transportation Company
1%

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Earl Diem - PeerSpot user
Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Jan 26, 2022
Key to our workflow and our workload automation strategy, helping us trade and consume files

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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."
CY
Tech Consultant at BTPL
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Jan 23, 2025
Has good compliance features, automation capabilities, workflows, and security measures

Pros

"Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT offers robust security as its most valuable feature."

Cons

"The technical support response time has room for improvement."
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Prashant Fauzdar - PeerSpot user
Senior Solution Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
May 23, 2022
Product version discussed: 6.7
Enables us to develop template workflows and call them from other workflows, saving development time

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the ability to call a workflow from another workflow. That really gives you an edge by increasing reusability and speeding up development time. You can create a workflow which is a type of template and then call that workflow from any other workflow... It has sped up development time by 80 to 90 percent."

Cons

"There are a number of built-in tasks in GoAnywhere. One, in particular, the write to CSV task, is slow. If you have, say, 100,000 records in your row set and you want to write them to a CSV file, it takes a long time. That definitely requires performance improvement."
Joel Vinas - PeerSpot user
Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Nov 24, 2024
Created a much better working relationship with our partners and saved a lot of time

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"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."
PeerSpot user
Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Oct 30, 2024
Good pricing model and efficient data transfers with very few resources

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"On the platform side, I would like to see some improvements in the dashboarding and telemetry data. "
Alejandro Parro Jr. - PeerSpot user
Presales Engineer at Bridgeway Communication System, Inc.
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Mar 6, 2024
Helps improve our data exchange processes and centralizes the exchange of data between our systems

Pros

"The most valuable feature of MFT is the security it provides for our data. MFT allows us to add additional authorization and passwords to any file attachments we send via email, and also to limit the number of times the recipient can download the file."

Cons

"I want to be able to use GoAnywhere to create customizable reports that I can share with the MSP containing any information related to file transfers."
JT
Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Oct 11, 2021
Product version discussed: 6.4.2
Simplifies the movement of data to and from our IBM i system, saving us time and increasing productivity

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"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."
Stephen Whigham - PeerSpot user
Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx
Verified user of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
Jun 9, 2022
Great tool for automating file transfers, encryption, SFTP, and executing internal applications

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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."