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Automic Automation vs GoAnywhere MFT comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.0
Automic Automation boosts efficiency by automating workflows, reducing human interaction, cutting costs, and improving compliance and task alignment.
Sentiment score
7.8
GoAnywhere MFT enhances efficiency and cost savings by automating tasks, quickly returning investment and supporting revenue streams.
Automic Automation has helped reduce workload failure rates by fifty percent.
GoAnywhere can perform the work of three people, leading to a decrease in manpower needs for automation and file transfer.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Automic Automation's support is knowledgeable but inconsistent; transition to Broadcom affected availability, despite positive user feedback on improvements.
Sentiment score
7.3
GoAnywhere MFT support is highly rated for knowledge and responsiveness, but documentation and response time improvements are suggested.
They react quickly when it is urgent.
They are highly knowledgeable in their product area and very easy to work with.
If you put the tickets in for which you need help right away, they get back to you right away.
They have their number on their website to call, and they are fast and available all the time.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Automic Automation excels in scalability, efficiently managing diverse workloads and environments, with high user satisfaction in performance and flexibility.
Sentiment score
7.7
GoAnywhere MFT excels in scalability, platform compatibility, and seamless integration, enabling effective vertical and horizontal expansion without capacity concerns.
We have small clients running a thousand tasks per day and big enterprises running one million or two million tasks per day.
The solution effectively supports our existing user base and is equipped to scale further.
It does not perform real-time scalability in our environment, but because of the way we have built it, it can scale well past any thresholds with no issues.
We have clients with over 600,000 users.
With the scaling of the company, it was absolutely capable of handling all the data and databases.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Automic Automation provides reliable stability with minimal disruptions, high user ratings, and quick resolution of issues in well-tuned environments.
Sentiment score
8.1
GoAnywhere MFT is stable and reliable, with minor disruptions mainly due to external factors and occasional server restarts.
The stability of the solution is excellent.
In a well-tuned environment, it runs very smoothly.
So far, I have not encountered any issues related to instability such as lagging, crashing, or downtime.
It was very stable compared to other solutions we have used.
 

Room For Improvement

Users seek improved reporting, stability, UI, compatibility, and documentation in Automic Automation, citing complexity and integration challenges.
Users recommend improvements for GoAnywhere MFT in support, interface, costs, compatibility, training, performance, cloud integration, security, and accessibility.
It does not work as well for activities that require real-time input/output, but it works very well for batch, ETL, or similar cases.
Pricing is a major issue for some clients due to changes in Broadcom's pricing model, causing some to seek alternative solutions.
A feature that provides a dependency chart or tree diagram would be very helpful.
A drawback is that it is not as feature-rich compared to its competitor Sterling, which we used before.
 

Setup Cost

Automic Automation's pricing flexibility is praised, yet Broadcom's licensing model and rising costs prompt consideration of alternatives.
Enterprise users appreciate GoAnywhere MFT's value, citing robust features and flexibility, despite occasional higher costs from additional features.
Broadcom decided to change the way of licensing by moving to the number of jobs runs and then they say that clients have to pay three million because they run one million jobs per day.
Due to the increased pricing, some of them are thinking of reducing tasks in Automic to have fewer executions.
The pricing has been increasing significantly over the years, raising operational costs instead of reducing them.
The pricing is decent for mid-sized and small-sized companies.
 

Valuable Features

Automic Automation offers a user-friendly interface, cross-platform integration, robust scalability, and flexible workflow automation with real-time notifications.
GoAnywhere MFT simplifies secure file transfers with advanced workflows, automation, and integration, enhancing efficiency and user experience.
A standout feature is the comprehensive versioning, allowing easy rollback to previous states.
Designing workflows is made easier by the graphical user interface, simplifying complex tasks.
It supports high availability by operating multiple servers concurrently, which means users do not experience outages or the need to log in again, even if some servers are updated.
It provides multiple cipher options for HTTPS and SFTP protocols, utilizing AES-based algorithms for secure communication and data transfer.
The encryption feature is very impressive in GoAnywhere MFT, and the encryption provided by the company is much stronger than other file transferring software.
 

Categories and Ranking

Automic Automation
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
103
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (2nd)
GoAnywhere MFT
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
Managed File Transfer (MFT) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Infrastructure Software Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Automic Automation is designed for Workload Automation and holds a mindshare of 7.1%, up 6.0% compared to last year.
GoAnywhere MFT, on the other hand, focuses on Managed File Transfer (MFT), holds 8.6% mindshare, up 5.8% since last year.
Workload Automation
Managed File Transfer (MFT)
 

Featured Reviews

Peter Grundler - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps to move away from manual tasks and offers wide platform support and web-based interface
Customers want to move away from manual monitoring and checking processes. Automating these processes helps in time-saving and reduces human error. When you automate business processes, it reduces mistakes. It eliminates the risk of manual errors such as typos. There is a 20% to 30% reduction in human error. It fulfills all the needs when it comes to visibility and control across various operating platforms. It is the perfect product for managing processes that span multiple operating platforms. Automic Automation has the widest platform support compared to other products, such as Control-M, Tivoli from IBM, or Stonebranch. It definitely helps with compliance processes. We have had a lot of customers for two years with a focus on compliance, and it works. They were successful. Due to the fact that our customers can automate a lot of things, it reduces operating costs. It is hard to give a number because the savings are different for each customer. If a customer never had any automation, there could be about 80% savings after implementing Automic Automation, whereas for a customer who already has automated tasks, the difference will be less by adding Automic Automation. They might see 5% to 10% more savings. Automic Automation helps improve our ability to meet SLAs. In the recent versions, SLA management has been integrated, which previously was an external component. Because a lot of customers used it and asked Broadcom to implement SLA management into the workload engine, Broadcom included it. We see more and more customers running their SLA management via the Automic Automation product.
Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
Key to our workflow and our workload automation strategy, helping us trade and consume files
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. The solution helps centralize the exchange of data between systems, employees, customers, and trading partners. It's very central and that's pretty important. We generally move about 3,000 files a day, between our partners and internal workflows. My team really likes the intuitiveness of GoAnywhere's user interface. For example, my automation team has a file coming in from a bank, a file that needs to be unzipped, reformatted, re-zipped up, and then put into another folder where another team is going to consume it. Because of all the progressive elaboration—the project started a year ago—the format of the file is not the same. We addressed it with GoAnywhere instead of having the producer of the file change the format. That's how flexible it is for us. And looking at the comprehensiveness of GoAnywhere's workflow features, we use it pretty extensively for working with files. Stonebranch is our enterprise automation platform, but we don't really do any file work with Stonebranch. We chose to use GoAnywhere, our MFT tool, to move and manipulate files. The solution also connects to popular ICAP servers and that's pretty important to our security guys when it comes to preventing malware and other malicious content from entering our organization. The connection to popular ICAP servers, so that content is inspected for sensitive information like credit cards, is pretty important. We're a financial institution and a lot of the data we work with has PAN data and card numbers in it, coming in from partners.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Insurance Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Automic Workload Automation?
It is easy to manage complex workloads and use electronic workflow automation.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Automic Workload Automation?
The pricing was client-wise, but they are changing it to execution-wise pricing. So, we are in negotiation.
What needs improvement with Automic Workload Automation?
They could improve by providing more control features for schedules. For example, we can hold a job, and then it could stop the job in the actual end application. They could improve such capabilities.
What do you like most about Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?
GoDrive eliminates the need to use the exchange server for file sharing.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?
The pricing is decent for mid-sized and small-sized companies. It is good for startups or mid-scale companies.
What needs improvement with Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?
A drawback is that it is not as feature-rich compared to its competitor Sterling, which we used before. It has fewer features, though it is more intuitive. This was the compromise we had to make du...
 

Also Known As

Automic Dollar Universe
HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT, GoAnywhere MFT, GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer,
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

ING, Adidas, 84.51, ESB
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