Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer vs Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT comparison

Axway and Fortra are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. Axway is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.8, while Fortra is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.9. Axway holds a 4.3% mindshare in MFT, compared to Fortra’s 7.8% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of Axway users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fortra users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer and Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT are competing solutions in the managed file transfer market. Axway AMPLIFY has an edge due to its strong support and effective pricing model, while GoAnywhere's comprehensive feature set justifies its higher cost.

Features: Axway AMPLIFY offers advanced security protocols, seamless platform integration, and a robust pricing model. GoAnywhere provides automation features like scheduled workflows, extensive customization options, and integration with various cloud services, allowing businesses greater operational flexibility.

Room for Improvement: Axway AMPLIFY could enhance user interface intuitiveness and expand its automation features to compete with more flexible tools. Additionally, increasing its integration with popular cloud solutions would be beneficial. GoAnywhere's complexity during setup can be streamlined and offering more competitive pricing could attract budget-conscious users. Enhancing user-friendliness for non-technical users would also improve its appeal.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Axway AMPLIFY is praised for its straightforward implementation and effective customer service, ensuring rapid deployment. Fortra's GoAnywhere, though slightly more complex to deploy, benefits from a dedicated and responsive customer service team, facilitating post-deployment support.

Pricing and ROI: Axway AMPLIFY presents a competitive pricing structure appealing to budget-focused businesses with a reasonable ROI. Fortra's GoAnywhere is at a higher price point, aiming for businesses that prioritize extensive capabilities, providing substantial long-term ROI, reflecting their strategic market positions.

To learn more, read our detailed Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer vs. Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File ...

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

2nd

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer is 4.3%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is 7.8%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Featured Reviews

PradeepSingh1

Director Of Operations at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Secure application with efficient features for file transfer management

We use the application to transfer and exchange data files between customers and vendors AMPLIFY has all the essential features for managing file transfer. Sometimes, the application's embedded databases couldn't perform well for a higher volume of data. Thus, legacy licensing for these…

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Earl Diem

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

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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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"It provides a good amount of storage capacity for a reasonable price and has a good range of connectors."

"The product is simple for encrypting data transfer of all the assets in our system."

"Axway consolidated all of our communications into one platform, simplifying network and port management. Now, all we have to do is open one port to this application, and we can remove all the firewall rules on that port. It's much more straightforward to manage from a security perspective. We used to rely on an archaic FTP solution, but Axway features SFTP, so it was an improvement security-wise."

"It’s very flexible."

"It makes a logical link between the inbound/outbound transfer, and makes it clearly visible. This is a very important feature for managing transfer with different environments, and it's very helpful in case of troubleshooting."

"The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward."

"It is an easy-to-use and stable product."

"AMPLIFY has all the essential features for managing file transfer."

"I like the versatility GoAnywhere provides, allowing transfers through HTTPS and different protocols. It can also transfer through a server and a client."

"If I have a job that I need to run on the system and I want the data transferred, I can use GoAnywhere and schedule it on a daily basis, a weekly basis, or whatever, and it does the job for me to transfer the files over to the other systems, or back and forth."

"This is a very good product for managing file transfers."

"The usability is valuable because I am self-taught and have not had any formal training in the product. The help feature is quite handy."

"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."

"The user interface is simple."

"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."

"The solution is easy to use, easy to set up, and the support is good."

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Cons

"It is complicated to manage multi-operations, particularly in handling file name changes within file transcripts."

"Sometimes, the application's embedded databases couldn't perform well for a higher volume of data."

"We only hope that they continue to keep updating the solution and improving the offering. They could always do more updates and releases."

"Improvement in Data Encoding would be very appreciated (I'm thinking of ASCII-EBCDIC, ASCII-ASCII, etc.)."

"The areas in need of improvement are the monitoring and the cut-off management, when needed. Today you have at least two solutions: Buy the other Axway suite, Sentinel, or integrate it into your monitoring system."

"The initial setup was quite complex."

"The tool can try to make it a little bit more flexible so that we can easily invoke the APIs, and in such a way, it can be made a little bit better."

"Their monitoring is not up to the mark and needs improvement."

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"Improvement in support or product relies on being ingenious, supportive, and listening to its customer base."

"Fortra needs to offer more use cases for GoAnywhere MFT during training."

"Its user interface can be improved. The current user interface is a little basic for some of the use cases. We have to use an external component to enhance it. When we need a more appealing user interface, we use an additional component, and that works okay."

"The product could be improved by being modular. There are more features in the core product than any client needs."

"The support desk has room for improvement. I keep opening tickets and they keep telling me that they're closed, but they're not resolved."

"I tried to copy a file from an S3 bucket to another storage class. I don't know if it is a limitation from AWS, not the MFT. If I copy a file from the AWS S3 bucket to that storage class, it can't be transferred. It says that I can't remember the exact error, but it cannot be processed. I want MFT to be more compatible with cloud-based applications or services like AWS."

"For training, there should be some sites or resources on YouTube or Udemy. They do not have that currently."

"The reporting could be more customizable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is quite expensive, and because of that, we get good service from them in return for the price paid."

"Pricing and licensing is related to the protocols you choose to support."

"AMPLIFY's license is a one-time investment."

"The platform's price aligns with the market."

"The cost of GoAnywhere versus the value it brings to our data transfer operations is reasonable... The cost is relatively expensive but, back to the car analogy, that's to be expected with a Ferrari."

"The cost was definitely within reason and it has definitely been worth the cost, based on how much we can automate. It has exceeded my expectations."

"HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT is very reasonably priced for the value it brings."

"GoAnywhere's price is justified by its features and the time it saves me."

"It would be good for the company to explore a modular approach to selling the product so it could be cheaper and more attractive to users."

"Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is an inexpensive solution."

"GoAnywhere was the most attractively priced product that met our needs. In our PoC it really came down to MOVEit and GoAnywhere, and GoAnywhere's pricing was about 30 percent less."

"Its pricing is fair. It is not the most expensive, and it is not the cheapest. For what we get in our environment, the pricing model works pretty well."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

The product is simple for encrypting data transfer of all the assets in our system.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

There's infinite pricing available on their portal, however, it's typically accompanied by a discount. However, detailed pricing information is confidential and was not shared in this call.

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

Their monitoring is not up to the mark and needs improvement. They should have enhanced auto-reconnection capabilities for interrupted file transfers and implement features allowing chunk movement ...

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What do you like most about Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?

GoDrive eliminates the need to use the exchange server for file sharing.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?

If anyone feels that the price for this product is too high, I would like to know what else they are using. When it comes to secure systems that we have used, the price point can get a whole lot hi...

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What needs improvement with Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?

While I was happy with the training and support, more of it could be beneficial. We had some basic training and support. I talked with Fortra recently, and they said that they revamped and changed ...

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Also Known As

SecureTransport, Axway SecureTransport, AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer, AMPLIFY MFT

HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT, GoAnywhere MFT, GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer,

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Overview

As a multi-protocol MFT gateway, Axway SecureTransport provides the flexibility you need to support virtually any MFT use case. Secure, manage, and track file flows among people and applications inside your enterprise, and beyond your firewall to your user communities, mobile devices, and the cloud. Perform high-volume automated file transfers between systems, sites, lines of business and external partners, to user-driven communications and mobile, folder- and portal-based file sharing.

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT facilitates secure file transfers across platforms like Windows, Linux, and cloud environments, automating movements and supporting SFTP, FTP, and HTTPS protocols.

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT manages secure file transfers between trading partners and internal systems, enhancing data exchanges in financial, healthcare, and regulatory sectors. It automates batch jobs, report exports, and maintains security and compliance. The platform integrates with external services, reducing reliance on custom scripts and enabling efficient handling of complex processes. Features such as advanced workflow management, encryption, IP filtering, and real-time notifications are highly valued.

What are the key features of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?

Advanced workflow management: Streamlines processes with automated workflows
Robust security: Ensures data protection with encryption and IP filtering
Ease of integration: Seamlessly connects with external applications and services
Intuitive interface: User-friendly design for simplified operation
Comprehensive auditing: Tracks and logs all file transfer activities

What benefits or ROI should users look for in the reviews?

Automated file transfers: Reduces manual intervention and errors
Efficient process handling: Manages complex operations with ease
Reduced custom scripting: Lowers development and maintenance effort
Real-time notifications: Keeps users informed of transfer statuses
Data centralization: Consolidates file transfer operations for better control

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is widely used in industries such as finance, healthcare, and regulation to securely handle sensitive data. It automates batch job processing, exports critical reports, and ensures compliance with stringent security standards. While it excels in data centralization and protocol support, areas like DNS support, user interface, and integration with antivirus solutions require improvement. Enhancing JSON parsing, CSV writing performance, and documentation for cluster environments can further elevate its utility across sectors.

Sample Customers

BNP Paribas Securities Services, Bollor_, E.ON AG Group, BMW Group, IdenTrust, Gassco, International Post Corporation, SNCF, DB Schenker Logistics, Logius, CSCA, La Poste

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