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GoAnywhere MFT pros and cons

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PROS

GoAnywhere MFT significantly speeds up data integrations, reducing processes that took months to a matter of days.
Security features of GoAnywhere MFT, including audit traces for each workflow step, enhance the confidence in automating business workflows.
Advanced Workflows and ease in scheduling tasks allow for efficient resource allocation, saving time for other critical duties.
GoAnywhere MFT enables centralized data exchange and streamlines file transfers among systems, employees, and customers.
The encryption and security functionalities of GoAnywhere MFT provide strong data protection, offering advanced authorization for data transfers.

CONS

Support response time needs improvement, especially for critical issues where a response within one business day is insufficient.
API functionality was problematic shortly after implementation when attempting API transactions with vendors.
The process of adding vendors is easy, but the documentation could be more straightforward for those unfamiliar with the procedure.
GoAnywhere MFT's scheduling capabilities are limited and need more flexibility and options.
File transfer issues exist with cloud-based applications and there is a need for enhanced compatibility with AWS and similar services.
 

GoAnywhere MFT Pros review quotes

Joel Vinas - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 4, 2024
When we first started using it, SecureMail, or the ability to securely send mail to end users, as a single file or as a package of files, was very helpful for sending large packets of files. We could not send that through traditional email.
JT
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.
JT
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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AF
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.
reviewer2575005 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Stephen Whigham - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
BD
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,
reviewer1692231 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
HB
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.
 

GoAnywhere MFT Cons review quotes

Joel Vinas - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 4, 2024
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.
JT
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.
JT
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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AF
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.
reviewer2575005 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 8, 2024
On the platform side, I would like to see some improvements in the dashboarding and telemetry data.
Stephen Whigham - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
BD
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.
reviewer1692231 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
HB
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.