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Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT pros and cons

Vendor: Fortra

4.6 out of 5

35 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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Pros & Cons summary

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT enhances efficiency by centralizing data exchanges and eliminating redundancies. Advanced workflows and automation cut integration time, boosting agility. Security features include robust protocols like SFTP and encryption, with audit trails. Operations are streamlined by automating tasks and scheduling transfers. File monitoring enhances data handling performance. However, support needs improvement, and connection limits and timeout issues present challenges.

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PROS

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT enhances organizational efficiency by centralizing data exchange and improving the speed of integrations from months to days.

Security features are robust, providing audit trails for each workflow step which enhances confidence in automated business processes.

File transfer capabilities, especially through SFTP and encryption, are highly effective and secure for managing extensive data exchanges.

Resource organization and scheduling features in Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT streamline operations and improve job handling efficiencies.

Automated file processing and scheduling capabilities significantly reduce manual effort and increase operational productivity.

CONS

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT struggles with support responsiveness, including unresolved tickets.

Issues arise when hostname contains a dash, causing malfunctions.

Documentation could be more straightforward, particularly regarding adding a new vendor.

The maximum number of open connections is limited to 200, which can cause concerns for users.

Users face slow performance when writing large CSV files, requiring improvement.

Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Pros review quotes

JT

Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus

Sep 29, 2021

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.

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JT

Lead Developer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 25, 2021

Transactions transfer in close to real time. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time because of the volume that we have, but the transactions transfer in seconds to the external platform.

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Angie Finnell-French

Business Intelligence Developer at Food distribution company

Nov 22, 2021

When we were doing the demo, we took one project from the old system and got it running in GoAnywhere in less than 30 minutes. That says a lot. I've written queries and understand code, so I'm not a novice. Still, I think that's pretty impressive for a software product to be able to deliver a functional use case in half an hour.

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reviewer2575005

Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 8, 2024

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.

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Stephen Whigham

Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx

Jun 9, 2022

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.

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

Jan 16, 2022

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.

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BD

VP/Core System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Oct 19, 2021

Another nice feature is that you can invoke a native program from GoAnywhere. That helps you because you don't have to get fancy with agents. If a native program runs on the server that GoAnywhere is running on, like sed or perl, you can use it,

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reviewer1692231

Senior Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 13, 2021

We also use the Secure Folders module and the Web Client a lot. For example, we set up external vendors to come in and review files or folders in a Secure Folder. That way they can go in and review whatever information or data they need to do.

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HB

Software Analyst II at City of Modesto

Sep 13, 2021

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.

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FR

System Administration at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 14, 2021

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.

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Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Cons review quotes

JT

Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus

Sep 29, 2021

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.

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JT

Lead Developer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 25, 2021

We are a little concerned because the maximum number of open connections allowed is 200, and we are pretty much maxed out... if they expanded the number of open connections allowed, we would be better off.

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Angie Finnell-French

Business Intelligence Developer at Food distribution company

Nov 22, 2021

API functionality wasn't part of our initial unit testing because it wasn't necessary then. However, shortly after implementing GoAnywhere, two different vendors approached us to do API transactions. We checked to see if GoAnywhere could do this and found that it was supposed to have that capability, but it broke down.

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reviewer2575005

Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 8, 2024

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

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Stephen Whigham

Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx

Jun 9, 2022

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.

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

Jan 16, 2022

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.

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BD

VP/Core System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Oct 19, 2021

When a monitor invokes a project to accomplish something, that gets logged as a job. I've had a little difficulty figuring out where to look to see the monitor's activities itself, to see if the monitor is having a problem. For instance, if an account on a secure FTP server has expired, the monitor that uses that account doesn't announce to us that it's having a problem. I want to work with them on this to get it fixed.

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reviewer1692231

Senior Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 13, 2021

The support could be enhanced a little bit... If the first echelon of support could say, 'Okay, you are trying to create a variable,' and could tell you what you have to do, that would be good.

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HB

Software Analyst II at City of Modesto

Sep 13, 2021

There's not a lot of improvement I can think of. Maybe in the tools section, they have an SQL Wizard and a URL Wizard, which are really good. I think that the SQL Wizard might need some improvement. I don't know how to improve it, but it's just a little slow here and there.

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FR

System Administration at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 14, 2021

The process of adding a vendor is very easy. You just point and click. You create your job, schedule, and project, and off you go. You just need to know what the processes do when you add in a new job that runs daily and so on. For us, it is not a problem, but maybe the documentation on that could be a little more straightforward. We, however, have no problems figuring that out. It is pretty straightforward for us.

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