Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer vs Thru comparison

Axway and Thru are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. Axway is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.8, while Thru is ranked #31. Axway holds a 4.0% mindshare in MFT, compared to Thru’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Axway users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Thru users who would recommend it.

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Aspera Managed File Transfer is 3.4%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer is 4.0%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Thru is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Michele Illiano

Head of Division at Innovery

Mar 23, 2022

Beneficial quick protocol, powerful, but limited use cases

Aspera Managed File Transfer should be packaged into another solution. Explaining to customers you need to have multiple solutions from multiple vendors for their use cases can get complicated for them to understand. The best way to propose a suite is to have an integrated suite where the customer could choose to license part of it. This solution could be one solution not two choices between 10 or 12 different solutions. The main feature of Aspera Managed File Transfer is the communication protocol, which is fast. There are a lot of different clients that are offering features related to these fast protocols. It's possible to create one unique suite that can handle this base protocol. It will be quite easy to propose to the customers.

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PradeepSingh1

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

Jul 19, 2023

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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reviewer1090674

Business Analyst at a media company with 1-10 employees

Sep 28, 2022

Scalable, reliable, and excellent support

I have been using Thru for approximately two years The stability of Thru is very good. Thru is a scalable solution. We have approximately 50 people using this solution. The technical support from Thru is great. I rate the support of Thru a five out of five. Positive The initial setup of Thru…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The main feature of Aspera Managed File Transfer is that it's an incredibly fast protocol, you can use all the bandwidth available. If I need to send large amounts of data this is the fastest protocol on the market. I have been using it for some minor projects and it is very powerful."

"Good user interface and ability to set up multiple file transfer jobs."

"Aspera Managed File Transfer is an optimal solution for customers who want to transfer large files to remote sites with lower bandwidth and in less time."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"The stability of Thru is very good."

Cons

"Aspera Managed File Transfer should be packaged into another solution. Explaining to customers you need to have multiple solutions from multiple vendors for their use cases can get complicated for them to understand."

"The solution's pricing is high and should be reduced."

"Deployment is complex and it was difficult to get support."

"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."

"The initial setup was quite complex."

"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."

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

"One area of improvement is troubleshooting. When a transfer fails, they provide little information about the login, which makes troubleshooting difficult. Also, file transfer scheduling is primitive. By that, I mean you can't define a complex schedule, like scheduling a job to run at particular hours multiple times in a day."

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

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

"The initial setup of Thru needed an engineer to be involved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Aspera Managed File Transfer is not an inexpensive solution. I am not aware of many competitors to determine how affordable the price is overall."

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

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

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

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

"Overall, the price of the solution is good for what it does, but when you want to add some features it can get expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Aspera Managed File Transfer?

Aspera Managed File Transfer is an optimal solution for customers who want to transfer large files to remote sites wi...

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What needs improvement with Aspera Managed File Transfer?

The solution's pricing calculation needs revision to be more competitive

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What advice do you have for others considering Aspera Managed File Transfer?

Aspera Managed File Transfer has superior technology. Overall, I rate Aspera Managed File Transfer a nine out of ten.

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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?

The platform's price aligns with the market.

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

When it comes to the tool's scalability, I cannot say that everything can be done in the best version. There is alway...

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

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Overview

IBM Aspera takes a different approach to tackling the challenges of big data movement over global WANs. Rather than optimize or accelerate data transfer, Aspera eliminates underlying bottlenecks by using its proprietary fasp technology that fully utilizes available network bandwidth to maximize speed and quickly scale up with no theoretical limit. Using fasp, transfers are secure end-to-end and are largely unaffected by file size, transfer distance, or network conditions, making transfer times up to 100Xs faster than TCP-based protocols.

IBM Aspera offers SaaS, on-prem, and hybrid solutions to meet the needs of modernizing infrastructures. All solutions offer robust security and compliance, intuitive file sharing, workflow automation, central administration, and real-time visibility. Quickly and easily initiate transfers across hybrid infrastructures, including support for cloud-to-cloud transfers. IBM Aspera offers unmatched transfer speeds, end-to-end security, reliability, and exceptional bandwidth control.

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.

Thru’s enterprise-class managed file transfer as a service (MFTaaS) started in the cloud in 2002 and continues to provide cloud-based automated file transfer and ad hoc file sharing capabilities to some of the world’s largest corporations. Our cloud-native architecture continually delivers tangible, escalating returns on investment by uniquely addressing the most challenging secure file transfer requirements.

Meet governance and compliance standards with the help of Thru: Every layer of our service has antivirus scanning, end-to-end encryption and a full audit trail.

Significantly reduce IT overhead and costs from on-premises servers: Migrate to our cloud to hand off deployment, maintenance, scaling and more to Thru’s award-winning team of file transfer experts.

Our out-of-the-box MFT connectors and APIs extend integration platform (iPaaS) capabilities, adding persistence and guaranteed delivery to file transfers.

Execute internal or external file transfers with Thru's distributed hybrid architecture: The Thru Node (an MFT agent) is installed on-premises for internal transfers with orchestration by the cloud.

Contact Thru to discuss your managed file transfer options.

Sample Customers

Gwinnett County Public Schools, Evonik, Voith, BITMARCK, Oracle

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

Dell EMC, Plus 500, Manhattan Associates, NetworkRail, Blackbaud, AB InBev, Blackwoods, Sage, Crocs

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