Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT vs SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite comparison

Fortra and Seeburger are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. Fortra is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.9, while Seeburger is ranked #14 with an average rating of 9.0. Fortra holds a 7.4% mindshare in MFT, compared to Seeburger’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Seeburger users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite and Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT compete in the enterprise integration and managed file transfer category. SEEBURGER has the upper hand in breadth of integration capabilities, particularly with SAP, while GoAnywhere excels in secure file transfers and user-friendly automation.

Features: SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is known for handling multiple communication protocols, offering extensive integration with SAP, and providing robust EDI features. It allows seamless connections across various platforms, making it a versatile solution for complex enterprise needs. Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is recognized for secure data transfers and its user-friendly interface. Its workflow automation capabilities are valuable for eliminating complex custom scripts, ensuring ease of use across platforms like Azure and SharePoint.

Room for Improvement: SEEBURGER users note complex Java error messages, frequent updates, and a need for enhanced monitoring and simpler protocol adapters. GoAnywhere users highlight the need for improved cloud integrations, a more intuitive interface, and better scalability for heavy file loads and complex transformations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SEEBURGER is mainly deployed on-premises with generally good but sometimes inconsistent technical support, reliance on overseas assistance, and limited customization support. Fortra's GoAnywhere offers flexible deployment options, including hybrid and cloud setups, with efficient support and a responsive ticket system, though there are calls for faster assistance and enhanced global service.

Pricing and ROI: SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is considered expensive, with complex licensing that many find justified by its capabilities. Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, perceived by some as expensive, offers a good return based on licensing flexibility and effectiveness in data transfer. Both solutions report good ROI from process automation and efficiency improvements.

To learn more, read our detailed Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT vs. SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite Report (Updated: December 2024).

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Aspera Managed File Transfer

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Aspera Managed File Transfer is 3.5%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is 7.4%, up from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is 2.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

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Michele Illiano

Head of Division at Innovery

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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Joel Vinas

Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Created a much better working relationship with our partners and saved a lot of time

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 their training support. I have not used it since December. I got support in February and May of last year, and it was not bad. I was just not sure which questions to ask. Trying to learn this stuff on the fly as you are handed a project is always stressful. 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. Other than that, GoAnywhere seemed to fulfill its role as a simple solution for secure file transfer.

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Choon Hwa Khoh

Head of Product Test at ams AG

Easy to configure with no programming skills needed and helpful support

We primarily use the solution for content conversion and file transfers. There are no programming skills needed. It's easy to configure. The features are great. They have a lot of them. The solution can scale. It is stable and reliable. We have not had any issues. Technical support has been…

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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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"It enabled us to allocate staff toward other work. All the time that we would have wasted worrying about this stuff and correcting problems is put into other parts of our job. That's one of the best things about it, is that we don't waste time on these projects. We just don't have to worry about them because it lets us know if there's a problem."

"The most valuable feature is the Advanced Workflows."

"The security and vendor management features are helpful in terms of providing access to data."

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"SEEBURGER BIS can reconcile documentation, like our accounts payable and statements within the system. If you are manually doing it, then it is really time consuming with a lot of errors. Whereas, SEEBURGER BIS allows for a lot of basic level programming within the documentation, filtering, and sorting out VLOOKUP. It lets us get two database tables from two different systems, then merge them based on the logic that we provide. So, it is a very helpful product."

"Another aspect that we employed in the last year-and-a-half has been their CMA platform component, which hooks to the SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) front end. We've been able to set up an automatic testing process for our partners."

"I like that the tool has all the adapters — all the possible protocols that are in the industry. You pay for those adapters but at least it's all in one package. You don't have to get another tool or application to support another partner."

"It's the reliability. And the message tracking is quite good, where we can go in and see if we have an issue."

"We had a requirement for transferring data to Amazon S3 buckets but we did not have a solution in our shop for large data transfers to Amazon S3. We worked with SEEBURGER and created a framework solution and now, using that solution, we can configure the transfer in an hour or two and enable it to go to existing or new S3 buckets."

"With SEEBURGER BIS, you can string as many different activities together in your workflows as you want. You can put them in any order, like a piece of code. One leads into the next, which leads into the next. It is just very flexible from that vantage point. This makes it so easy to use and reduces the number of moving parts that you need to have. It is just a lot less frustrating not having to conform to how some other vendor software works."

"In our landscape, we have a lot of AS/400s or iSeries and SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) has a file service listener that allows data to seamlessly be transferred between the SEEBURGER solution and the AS/400."

"When orders come in they go into our ERP system directly, so there is integration there."

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Cons

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

"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."

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

"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."

"I would like to be able to do MFA and reset the password via email."

"On the platform side, I would like to see some improvements in the dashboarding and telemetry data."

"One of the things that I wish is to not necessarily have to set up a username and password for people with whom we don't frequently share files. For instance, if I want to share files with a patient who is not somebody with whom we share files all the time, I would like them to somehow verify who they are and be able to push the file to them. I shouldn’t have to set them up as a user with a password. It should be almost like Dropbox."

"At present, HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT integrates with an antivirus solution, but it's a bit kludgy."

"For us, it is perfect. It is a good solution that we are using, and we are going to continue to do so. However, it should be advertised more as a solution. I did not see it out there beforehand."

"If the hostname has a dash in it then it does not work."

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

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"The initial setup is not the straightforward. It took couple of months for us to set up."

"All the topics we've identified have been placed on the SEEBURGER roadmap already... Among the things we have requested are improvements in the user interface and improvements that would be implemented by completely new modules or improvements in their Cloud Services."

"They have their own private cloud. That's the reason we did not go ahead with managing everything by ourselves or moving into the cloud. They said that they're going to be doing it within the next two years, having access to Azure and AWS. That would be something we would like to see."

"API connectivity needs improvement as well as the GUI. The GUI hasn't changed that much in 10 years, but of course, that's already been updated. I would say I'm excited about the screenshots but that's about it."

"I don't think the scalability of the solution is that great because they have tied the solution to their named nodes and it does not allow scalability like some of the cloud products allow."

"I would like there to be a feature that could handle the limited server."

"We are a little locked in with understanding the errors that we receive. We are working with their support to prevent these issues when they come into the database. We use a SQL database and believe they can do better when it comes working with large databases. We have had few instances where the system is hanging, which are most likely from the database. We are working with their support to find out the problem and fix their system. We have tried to use their notification system to prevent these issues, but they need to improve their monitoring system."

"The speed of development needs improvement. If you acquire any customization, it can be a slightly slow process. I would like to see more flexibility around customizations. The time frame right now depends on the sophistication and customization, but we have to go through a process of getting them to develop, implement, and test it. This might take a couple of weeks. If it was a simpler system to customize, the time could probably be cut by half or down by even 25 percent of what it would normally take."

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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."

"Compared to other tools it's less expensive."

"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."

"It is very attractive. In terms of the capacity of the product and functionality, it is a good price."

"Licensing can be expensive and it depends upon which features you want to buy."

"Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT carries a higher price tag than other MFT solutions."

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive."

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

"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."

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"On an annual basis, our support costs, which are based on the licensing, are about £120,000."

"Pricing, compared to the tool that we had earlier, is cheaper."

"I have had exposure to other big vendors over the years and would have to say the pricing is pretty typical. They all fall into a common pricing range, at least the bigger vendors: Axway, IBM Sterling, Globalscape, and SEEBURGER. They all fall into that mid-tier pricing. So, SEEBURGER is commensurate with other large integration vendors operating in this space. Maybe it is lower than some of the really high-end ones. You can get some of these high-end transactional messaging integration systems, like TIBCO, that tend to be kind of on a higher echelon of pricing. I would say SEEBURGER is more mid-level."

"I've heard that the solution is cheaper when compared to other products in the market."

"We pay for a maximum number of setups, then we pay per customer map, and we pay maintenance on each one of those. BIS provides the flexibility to pay as you grow. The price of each customer map is €200 and the hourly rate for maintenance is fairly reasonable."

"The way they have their licensing structure set up, they have a lot of different modules. For us, we did not really know if we were licensed for certain things or not. We had to reach out to them multiple times to tell them that we were looking for this or that capability. We had to buy licenses for different things at different points in time, not knowing that we could have it bundled initially."

"I did a review of other options out there, as we moved into the future and our SAP implementation, that this would be the right solution. It was very comparable to other manage services out there. Thus, there wasn't any clear-cut reason to go in another direction."

"Sometimes it seems a little pricey, especially when some of the stuff is available through freeware, like SFTP communications... It costs a lot more money to buy this stuff from SEEBURGER but I think it's worth it in the long run."

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

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Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

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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 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 c...

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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 suppo...

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What do you like most about SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite?

SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is a highly stable solution that offers rich features for our B2B integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite?

I've heard that the solution is cheaper when compared to other products in the market.

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What needs improvement with SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite?

The solution's documentation is not up to the mark and needs to be improved.

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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.

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.

With SEEBURGER’s experienced team behind you, and SEEBURGER BIS as the foundation of your hybrid integration strategy, you’re prepared for whatever comes your way – even as your business gains complexity and integration requirements increase.

SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS) is a unified, agile, secure and scalable platform that solves integration challenges across your business and ecosystem, so that you can make valuable connections between clouds, applications and people.

Our platform provides integration across all scenarios, including B2B/EDI, MFT, API and ERP on-premises, in the cloud and hybrid, in addition to expert support that is unmatched in the industry for your simplest to your most complex integrations.

Your APIs are likely multiplying quickly, and if you’re looking for a solution to manage, secure and scale them properly, you get all of the benefits and less of the hassle with our API Management toolkit.

Bring us your toughest B2B/EDI challenges. We help with difficult onboarding and partner connections, and will save you time and effort to complete complex projects. We make B2B easy with pre-packaged, re-usable content and automation capability, so your team can make the connection, and move on to the next mission.

Simplify your workload with our iPaaS solution. SEEBURGER iPaaS enables your team to save man-hours connecting data, applications and systems, by letting us handle all the time-consuming platform operations. We cover maintenance, updates, security, scalability and more.

Did you know that without managed file transfer (MFT), your company is at greater risk for a data breach? It’s as simple, and as dangerous, as that. The security and control you get with our centralized, easy-to-use solution ensures less risk for the company, and more sleep at night for you.

Our customers say it best! Check out our reviews you’ll see that SEEBURGER’s rock-solid, built-from-the-ground-up platform, is combined with an expert team, and stellar service. We power your connections, future-proof your vision and give you a competitive edge.

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