I mostly use SFTP and FTPS connectors with GoAnywhere MFT to establish secure connections and integrate them into the workforce for automatic transfers.
As a Service Delivery Manager, my main use case for GoAnywhere MFT is to securely automate file transfer between internal systems and external partners, ensuring that the compliance of both the internal organization and the customer organization is met. I also use this for encrypted transfer of files and for end-to-end visibility of all data movements. One key workflow I automated with GoAnywhere MFT is the daily SFTP transfer of large financial reports from my internal data warehouse to a client's secure endpoint. The workflow includes PGP encryption, automatic retry logic, email alerts on failure, and audit logging, which has reduced my manual intervention and improved both security and the reliability of my team. Apart from this, I also use GoAnywhere MFT to automate scheduled data feeds between my internal application and third-party vendors using secure protocols as well as APIs, which include validation steps, error handling, and audit tracking.
IT Infrastructure & Cloud Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited
Real User
Nov 27, 2025
I have been working with GoAnywhere MFT for approximately 1.9 years, approaching two years.Our company operates as system integrators, and we need to transfer confidential files, quotations, and purchase orders that are highly sensitive to our organization. If quotations and other sensitive materials are shared with another person within our organization, they require significant confidentiality protections. We use GoAnywhere MFT to share materials on a secured platform. We can share anything encrypted, which allows us to securely share files within our network as well as outside our network to partners and customers. We feel confident that files are going into safe hands.We don't provide services for GoAnywhere MFT, but our line of business is different; we're using this product for our own operations.We purchased GoAnywhere MFT from partners. I don't have detailed information on that because it comes through the sales side, but I know we purchased from a partner rather than from the Marketplace.
I have used GoAnywhere MFT for secure file transfer automation. The primary use for this product is scheduling automated file transfers, managing SFTP and FTPS connections, and creating workflows for system-to-system file movement, as well as secure data exchange between internal and external systems.
Cloud Engineer II at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 5
Oct 31, 2025
I work as a cyber security analyst, and I use GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers. When there is any event, or when we require any logs from users, or when we need to send log files to users, I use this FTP for transferring the files. This is the basic use case for what we use GoAnywhere MFT for.
My use case is for secure file transfer between internal systems and external partners in a financial service environment. We rely on it for automated nightly batches of jobs.
Cloud Engineer - ll at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 5
Oct 29, 2025
I work as a SOC analyst in my organization, and we usually use GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files from one premises or cloud environment to our systems for analysis. We install the GoAnywhere agent on the cloud environment to transfer files from that system to our local machine for analysis. In our case, we usually obtain user logs or system logs for analysis or to review the system logs for any compromises at the endpoint. The data is not much in the GB range; we can say it probably stays in the MB range. We do not use the GoFast feature, but there are a few cases in the past where my team used that feature, though I do not have details about it now. For the deployment process of GoAnywhere MFT, we have a specific team dedicated to deploying this software and all the agents that we require. We are the core users in our organization that use this application to transfer files between organizations in a secure manner, protecting data at rest and data in transit. We use the encryption protocol provided by the software to secure our data and use GoAnywhere MFT to conduct our SFTP work. Approximately, my team has 37 members total, including three teams: the main SOC team, the FR (first response team), and the cloud security supporting team. We are 12 members in the CSS team, and I am sure that 12 members use GoAnywhere MFT. The FR team also uses it, with approximately 15 to 16 members in that team. The total is around 28 to 30 members that use this. I do not know about the upper management and what they use, but if they purchased GoAnywhere MFT, they probably use it as well.
FI Technical Lead at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Oct 2, 2025
My use cases for GoAnywhere MFT involve interfacing with both banks and outside vendors since it's the university. We do a lot of interfaces, and many of them come through for the banks using our GoAnywhere MFT product, and we process into our SAP system. It's not just banks; we also do outside vendors and outside providers. We handle both ways—into our SAP system through GoAnywhere MFT and out to outside vendors, banks, and hospitals. You name it, we do it.
We manipulate data in XML format. We parse the XML file and make modifications using shell scripting in the GoAnywhere MFT tool itself. After that, we place the files using FTP and SFTP protocols.
Observability & Monitoring Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
Aug 1, 2025
We had the enterprise version of GoAnywhere MFT. We had the business-to-business and in-house versions. We were sending and receiving files from vendors, which were banks, Nike, and all sorts of different purveyors, and then also from server to server within our own business. We were using it quite extensively. I think we were averaging maybe 500 transmissions a day.
We mainly use GoAnywhere MFT to transfer our files over the cloud in a more secure manner. That is our primary purpose with GoAnywhere MFT. The best advantage of GoAnywhere MFT is that the files we transfer or share are encrypted, so data safety is also one of the main factors that we depend on GoAnywhere MFT for.
Procurement Specialist at Cleanshelf Supermarkets Limited
Real User
Top 5
Jul 11, 2025
Currently, we use GoAnywhere MFT for data to automate sharing big or large data and secure information. I can say it handles large loads of data which allows the organization to connect to internal and external systems. I also exchange and write data using the standard protocols.
GoAnywhere MFT is used for file transfer within our organization. It's a secure platform that helps with secure file transfer, organizes and automates data transfer, and helps to centralize file locations. If any user wants to search for a particular file, they can search and retrieve it.
My use case involves transferring databases into AWS using GoAnywhere MFT, which provides encryption and collaboration with other teammates to see the process and transfer files and related data.
I am a pre-sales consultant for my organization, distributing Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT software and services across India. We have completed 25 implementations, with 20 on-premises and five cloud-based.
Senior Analyst at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
Nov 4, 2024
We primarily used GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files. Our organization had third-party source vendors who needed to submit files that had to get to us or our third-party end vendors securely. Files were fairly large in size, and we needed to track who was delivering the files and when, whether it was the right type of file, and whether it was delivered to the vendor partner at the right time. We also wanted to run it through a project management tool. The automated processes, which I think were called project workflows, allowed us to do this a lot more seamlessly than we were able to do before.
Director of Enterprise Architecture and Integration Engineering at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Oct 8, 2024
We use it for data transfer with certain software vendors and partners. We also use it for back-and-forth customer data transfers for deposits. We also send data back to our customers for statements and reconciliation. We use it for system-to-system integration internally and we also use their secure upload feature for secure file sharing between teams and customers. We use it for just about every use case available. It has been a couple of years since we started doing data transfer directly with our customers. We started with system integration, so we were just moving data back and forth between us and our software vendors. We stepped into the customer side of it in the last six years or so.
IT & Security Manager at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
Sep 9, 2024
We are using it for all our file-transferring needs. We mostly use it for confidential files and larger files. We want to securely send the files that are on the confidential side. We feel it is very secure for sending a file over.
Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Reseller
Top 5
Aug 12, 2024
The most common use case is secure file transfer. Fortra's web client provides that. SecureMail also helps them send emails with large file attachments.
Consultant at Bridgeway Communication System, Inc.
Reseller
Top 20
Jul 2, 2024
We use GoAnywhere to filter files for our clients and set up SOP connections. Our clients are primarily large corporations, and we have around 10 specialists working with GoAnywhere.
Project Lead at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Real User
Top 5
May 28, 2024
I deploy Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT for our clients and provide presentations to prospects. Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT allows our clients to securely share confidential files and create a web portal for external partners. This portal enables partners to search, upload, and download files, integrating with services like Google Drive. Additionally, GoAnywhere offers a secure mail feature for sending large attachments.
Network Infrastructure Security Architect at Knox Community Hospital
Real User
Top 10
May 3, 2024
While Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT offers features like secure email and file sharing, we primarily use it for its core functionality: secure file transfers. Our focus is on building automated jobs to manipulate and securely transfer files, and GoAnywhere effectively meets that need.
We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT solution to achieve file standardization through automated workflows. In this process, when a file is sent, it's first routed to an ICAP server. Think of a file transfer as simply moving a file from one location to another. However, in this case, instead of transferring the file directly, we connect it to the ICAP server first. This intermediary step allows the file to be scanned and sanitized before it's delivered to its final destination. We implemented Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT to securely transfer and share files, as well as automate file transfers and processes.
General Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 10
Mar 28, 2024
We are using it for Managed File Transfer and secure FTP and BGP processes for incoming and outgoing files. We also move data inside of the network using the GoAnywhere agent between servers, and we have also used the scripting capabilities of GoAnywhere for the change in a file's name and other things.
Cloud Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Nov 7, 2023
It is a file transfer solution. We have different scenarios for different sectors, like banking and financial sectors. Customers want to move from traditional SMTP servers to enterprise solutions with logs and monitoring features.
Project Assistant at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 12, 2023
Batch jobs are defined in GoAnywhere, which interacts with multiple agencies across public safety applications. The files are transferred securely from an IBM middleware environment like WebSphere Application Server to GoAnywhere. From there, they go to the vendors or the file consumers. We are not dependent on any operating system. We've always worked with all flavors of OS, including AUX, Linux, and Windows. The product is multi-platform and we tend to use enterprise Linux OS, like Red Hat and OpenShift.
I'm using it for automated exports of reports, where we're running scripts and exporting data in various formats, as well as for sending notifications to clients, for FTP uploads and downloads. We have patient enrollment files that get posted to our FTP and I'm using monitors to determine when a file gets downloaded and processed, and then results posted back. I use GoAnywhereMFT to kick off other applications which will then do most of my file conversions and transformations. I'm reading data back in, either from queries or file sets that get created, in order to handle other functions of the jobs. We do use the API functions a little bit, although I'm doing most of that through other applications, kicked off by MFT.
Senior Solution Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
May 16, 2022
We are mostly using it for ETL-related workloads. In our organization we have a lot of different systems that need to talk to each other. Files have to be transferred from one system to another. We use GoAnywhere to automate the file transfer processes, whether it involves an SFTP system or a Windows network shared drive. We also use it for data translation and data load, when we want to extract the data from a database system and create a CSV file and send it to a downstream system. And we have recently started using Cloud Connectors for things like Microsoft Azure Data Lake and blob storage. Most organizations are moving to the cloud and we have a lot of cloud-related integrations now coming into the picture. GoAnywhere MFT helps to accomplish them.
Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services
Real User
Jan 16, 2022
We use it for trading files with partners over the internet, partners with whom we don't have a VPN connection. And we use it for internal file movement and workflows. We are using GoAnywhere for enterprise. We have two gateway nodes in both data centers.
Systems Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 8, 2021
We're using GoAnywhere mostly for file transfers to different sites. Normally, we allow any incoming transfer. We go out and grab the files and bring them in through the GoAnywhere system.
VP/Core System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Oct 19, 2021
We have a lot of different files that we need to move from in-house to a vendor. While our online banking configuration is real-time, we upload files every morning to cover some aspects of that online banking. Customers also send us files and we pull them off of our secure servers and push them on to our core application vendor. In summary, our use case is almost entirely secure file movement: making sure a file gets from here to there. We're running this as a cluster with four Linux platforms, two at our on-site and two at our co-location site. Always live.
Our business is, as far as corporate computing goes, is IBM i-centric. Because of that, some of the main use cases for the GoAnywhere product are for uploading data into the IBM i, from our finance department and other departments, and downloading data from the IBM i to a user or to our FTP server to be sent to a business partner. And when it comes to downloading data for users, it's typically in the form of Excel reports. At this point, we are only accessing resources within our organization. We don't reach outside of our organization, even though the solution enables interaction with many things, such as Amazon and Google. The exceptions to that are one or two processes that do reach out to a business partner by way of SFTP.
Here at the police department, we do a lot of file moving between systems. We have a citation system and we need that data moved over to an RMS (Reports Management System). Those systems don't communicate with each other. So we use it to pick up those files, move them over to that system, and then consume those files and data. We do a lot of that stuff. We also do exports to SFTP sites and automatic emails with warnings of server maintenance. We do mostly automatic reports but also some manual reports. These can be daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. We use GoAnywhere to complete manual processes- like things that we don't need to do very often. We'll go in and just click a button and it runs a bunch of things that we normally would have to do manually. It speeds up the process quite a bit. The great thing about it is that we have a central station to manage basically all of our tasks. Instead of running task schedulers on every server, we can just go here and know exactly what's running where. It's much easier to manage.
Solutions Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 18, 2020
We are a partner of HelpSystems. They have a branch office in Argentina for all Latin American countries, and we work with them. We use this solution to connect internet applications that traditionally are isolated. Instead of trying to build very costly interfaces or things like that, we send information from one app to the other app in the easiest but the most secure way possible. We just use MFT, and it does the work for us, but recently, we are being asked to connect not just internal applications but also external web services for government or other regulatory companies. With this type of solution, we are able to integrate not just the internal apps but also the external services. This is pretty much what we do with this solution.
Data Backup and Recovery Admin at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
Real User
Aug 21, 2020
Our primary use case is file transfer between trading partners and internally to different applications on Windows, Linux, AIX, and iSeries machines. We are running on Windows.
This is used in a virtual environment where a number of customers establish a requirement to send or receive files. The files are sent using SFTP and Zip with projects providing details to customers on when and what was sent. We send these files internally or externally. Other things the solution is used for is cleaning up data from sent or received files for projects and customers. The environment consists of Windows and Linux systems to which each customer presents the data to send or import.
GoAnywhere MFT offers user-friendly workflow features, advanced security, and seamless integrations. Its intuitive interface supports streamlined operations and rapid project creation, making it suitable for managing secure file transfers.GoAnywhere MFT provides sophisticated automation through Advanced Workflows, enabling reduced manual tasks and improved efficiency. With centralized data exchange, file monitoring, and comprehensive security protocols, it supports scalability, encryption,...
I mostly use SFTP and FTPS connectors with GoAnywhere MFT to establish secure connections and integrate them into the workforce for automatic transfers.
As a Service Delivery Manager, my main use case for GoAnywhere MFT is to securely automate file transfer between internal systems and external partners, ensuring that the compliance of both the internal organization and the customer organization is met. I also use this for encrypted transfer of files and for end-to-end visibility of all data movements. One key workflow I automated with GoAnywhere MFT is the daily SFTP transfer of large financial reports from my internal data warehouse to a client's secure endpoint. The workflow includes PGP encryption, automatic retry logic, email alerts on failure, and audit logging, which has reduced my manual intervention and improved both security and the reliability of my team. Apart from this, I also use GoAnywhere MFT to automate scheduled data feeds between my internal application and third-party vendors using secure protocols as well as APIs, which include validation steps, error handling, and audit tracking.
I have been working with GoAnywhere MFT for approximately 1.9 years, approaching two years.Our company operates as system integrators, and we need to transfer confidential files, quotations, and purchase orders that are highly sensitive to our organization. If quotations and other sensitive materials are shared with another person within our organization, they require significant confidentiality protections. We use GoAnywhere MFT to share materials on a secured platform. We can share anything encrypted, which allows us to securely share files within our network as well as outside our network to partners and customers. We feel confident that files are going into safe hands.We don't provide services for GoAnywhere MFT, but our line of business is different; we're using this product for our own operations.We purchased GoAnywhere MFT from partners. I don't have detailed information on that because it comes through the sales side, but I know we purchased from a partner rather than from the Marketplace.
I have used GoAnywhere MFT for secure file transfer automation. The primary use for this product is scheduling automated file transfers, managing SFTP and FTPS connections, and creating workflows for system-to-system file movement, as well as secure data exchange between internal and external systems.
I work as a cyber security analyst, and I use GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers. When there is any event, or when we require any logs from users, or when we need to send log files to users, I use this FTP for transferring the files. This is the basic use case for what we use GoAnywhere MFT for.
My use case is for secure file transfer between internal systems and external partners in a financial service environment. We rely on it for automated nightly batches of jobs.
I work as a SOC analyst in my organization, and we usually use GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files from one premises or cloud environment to our systems for analysis. We install the GoAnywhere agent on the cloud environment to transfer files from that system to our local machine for analysis. In our case, we usually obtain user logs or system logs for analysis or to review the system logs for any compromises at the endpoint. The data is not much in the GB range; we can say it probably stays in the MB range. We do not use the GoFast feature, but there are a few cases in the past where my team used that feature, though I do not have details about it now. For the deployment process of GoAnywhere MFT, we have a specific team dedicated to deploying this software and all the agents that we require. We are the core users in our organization that use this application to transfer files between organizations in a secure manner, protecting data at rest and data in transit. We use the encryption protocol provided by the software to secure our data and use GoAnywhere MFT to conduct our SFTP work. Approximately, my team has 37 members total, including three teams: the main SOC team, the FR (first response team), and the cloud security supporting team. We are 12 members in the CSS team, and I am sure that 12 members use GoAnywhere MFT. The FR team also uses it, with approximately 15 to 16 members in that team. The total is around 28 to 30 members that use this. I do not know about the upper management and what they use, but if they purchased GoAnywhere MFT, they probably use it as well.
Our use case for GoAnywhere MFT is automating secure file transfers between internal systems and client applications.
My use cases for GoAnywhere MFT involve interfacing with both banks and outside vendors since it's the university. We do a lot of interfaces, and many of them come through for the banks using our GoAnywhere MFT product, and we process into our SAP system. It's not just banks; we also do outside vendors and outside providers. We handle both ways—into our SAP system through GoAnywhere MFT and out to outside vendors, banks, and hospitals. You name it, we do it.
I use GoAnywhere MFT for files and transfer management.
We mainly use GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files.
We manipulate data in XML format. We parse the XML file and make modifications using shell scripting in the GoAnywhere MFT tool itself. After that, we place the files using FTP and SFTP protocols.
My current use case is more about secure data or file transfers via the Fortra in our organization.
We had the enterprise version of GoAnywhere MFT. We had the business-to-business and in-house versions. We were sending and receiving files from vendors, which were banks, Nike, and all sorts of different purveyors, and then also from server to server within our own business. We were using it quite extensively. I think we were averaging maybe 500 transmissions a day.
We mainly use GoAnywhere MFT to transfer our files over the cloud in a more secure manner. That is our primary purpose with GoAnywhere MFT. The best advantage of GoAnywhere MFT is that the files we transfer or share are encrypted, so data safety is also one of the main factors that we depend on GoAnywhere MFT for.
Currently, we use GoAnywhere MFT for data to automate sharing big or large data and secure information. I can say it handles large loads of data which allows the organization to connect to internal and external systems. I also exchange and write data using the standard protocols.
We use GoAnywhere MFT for file transfers and loading other files on our FTP.
GoAnywhere MFT is used for file transfer within our organization. It's a secure platform that helps with secure file transfer, organizes and automates data transfer, and helps to centralize file locations. If any user wants to search for a particular file, they can search and retrieve it.
We use GoAnywhere MFT for managed file transfer, secure mail feature, and SFTP. It serves as our SFTP system.
My use case involves transferring databases into AWS using GoAnywhere MFT, which provides encryption and collaboration with other teammates to see the process and transfer files and related data.
I am a pre-sales consultant for my organization, distributing Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT software and services across India. We have completed 25 implementations, with 20 on-premises and five cloud-based.
We primarily used GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files. Our organization had third-party source vendors who needed to submit files that had to get to us or our third-party end vendors securely. Files were fairly large in size, and we needed to track who was delivering the files and when, whether it was the right type of file, and whether it was delivered to the vendor partner at the right time. We also wanted to run it through a project management tool. The automated processes, which I think were called project workflows, allowed us to do this a lot more seamlessly than we were able to do before.
The use cases would be to transfer files and send files of large sizes.
I primarily use it for FTP purposes, sending files in and out within the corporation and through third-party vendors, both inbound and outbound.
We use it for data transfer with certain software vendors and partners. We also use it for back-and-forth customer data transfers for deposits. We also send data back to our customers for statements and reconciliation. We use it for system-to-system integration internally and we also use their secure upload feature for secure file sharing between teams and customers. We use it for just about every use case available. It has been a couple of years since we started doing data transfer directly with our customers. We started with system integration, so we were just moving data back and forth between us and our software vendors. We stepped into the customer side of it in the last six years or so.
We are using it for all our file-transferring needs. We mostly use it for confidential files and larger files. We want to securely send the files that are on the confidential side. We feel it is very secure for sending a file over.
The most common use case is secure file transfer. Fortra's web client provides that. SecureMail also helps them send emails with large file attachments.
We use GoAnywhere to filter files for our clients and set up SOP connections. Our clients are primarily large corporations, and we have around 10 specialists working with GoAnywhere.
I deploy Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT for our clients and provide presentations to prospects. Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT allows our clients to securely share confidential files and create a web portal for external partners. This portal enables partners to search, upload, and download files, integrating with services like Google Drive. Additionally, GoAnywhere offers a secure mail feature for sending large attachments.
While Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT offers features like secure email and file sharing, we primarily use it for its core functionality: secure file transfers. Our focus is on building automated jobs to manipulate and securely transfer files, and GoAnywhere effectively meets that need.
We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT solution to achieve file standardization through automated workflows. In this process, when a file is sent, it's first routed to an ICAP server. Think of a file transfer as simply moving a file from one location to another. However, in this case, instead of transferring the file directly, we connect it to the ICAP server first. This intermediary step allows the file to be scanned and sanitized before it's delivered to its final destination. We implemented Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT to securely transfer and share files, as well as automate file transfers and processes.
We are using it for Managed File Transfer and secure FTP and BGP processes for incoming and outgoing files. We also move data inside of the network using the GoAnywhere agent between servers, and we have also used the scripting capabilities of GoAnywhere for the change in a file's name and other things.
We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT to facilitate our data exchanges.
We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT as an SFTP server for file transfer.
It is a file transfer solution. We have different scenarios for different sectors, like banking and financial sectors. Customers want to move from traditional SMTP servers to enterprise solutions with logs and monitoring features.
Batch jobs are defined in GoAnywhere, which interacts with multiple agencies across public safety applications. The files are transferred securely from an IBM middleware environment like WebSphere Application Server to GoAnywhere. From there, they go to the vendors or the file consumers. We are not dependent on any operating system. We've always worked with all flavors of OS, including AUX, Linux, and Windows. The product is multi-platform and we tend to use enterprise Linux OS, like Red Hat and OpenShift.
We use it to release medical records to other healthcare facilities, attorneys, and insurance companies.
I'm using it for automated exports of reports, where we're running scripts and exporting data in various formats, as well as for sending notifications to clients, for FTP uploads and downloads. We have patient enrollment files that get posted to our FTP and I'm using monitors to determine when a file gets downloaded and processed, and then results posted back. I use GoAnywhereMFT to kick off other applications which will then do most of my file conversions and transformations. I'm reading data back in, either from queries or file sets that get created, in order to handle other functions of the jobs. We do use the API functions a little bit, although I'm doing most of that through other applications, kicked off by MFT.
We are mostly using it for ETL-related workloads. In our organization we have a lot of different systems that need to talk to each other. Files have to be transferred from one system to another. We use GoAnywhere to automate the file transfer processes, whether it involves an SFTP system or a Windows network shared drive. We also use it for data translation and data load, when we want to extract the data from a database system and create a CSV file and send it to a downstream system. And we have recently started using Cloud Connectors for things like Microsoft Azure Data Lake and blob storage. Most organizations are moving to the cloud and we have a lot of cloud-related integrations now coming into the picture. GoAnywhere MFT helps to accomplish them.
We use it for trading files with partners over the internet, partners with whom we don't have a VPN connection. And we use it for internal file movement and workflows. We are using GoAnywhere for enterprise. We have two gateway nodes in both data centers.
We're using GoAnywhere mostly for file transfers to different sites. Normally, we allow any incoming transfer. We go out and grab the files and bring them in through the GoAnywhere system.
We have a lot of different files that we need to move from in-house to a vendor. While our online banking configuration is real-time, we upload files every morning to cover some aspects of that online banking. Customers also send us files and we pull them off of our secure servers and push them on to our core application vendor. In summary, our use case is almost entirely secure file movement: making sure a file gets from here to there. We're running this as a cluster with four Linux platforms, two at our on-site and two at our co-location site. Always live.
Our business is, as far as corporate computing goes, is IBM i-centric. Because of that, some of the main use cases for the GoAnywhere product are for uploading data into the IBM i, from our finance department and other departments, and downloading data from the IBM i to a user or to our FTP server to be sent to a business partner. And when it comes to downloading data for users, it's typically in the form of Excel reports. At this point, we are only accessing resources within our organization. We don't reach outside of our organization, even though the solution enables interaction with many things, such as Amazon and Google. The exceptions to that are one or two processes that do reach out to a business partner by way of SFTP.
Here at the police department, we do a lot of file moving between systems. We have a citation system and we need that data moved over to an RMS (Reports Management System). Those systems don't communicate with each other. So we use it to pick up those files, move them over to that system, and then consume those files and data. We do a lot of that stuff. We also do exports to SFTP sites and automatic emails with warnings of server maintenance. We do mostly automatic reports but also some manual reports. These can be daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. We use GoAnywhere to complete manual processes- like things that we don't need to do very often. We'll go in and just click a button and it runs a bunch of things that we normally would have to do manually. It speeds up the process quite a bit. The great thing about it is that we have a central station to manage basically all of our tasks. Instead of running task schedulers on every server, we can just go here and know exactly what's running where. It's much easier to manage.
We are a partner of HelpSystems. They have a branch office in Argentina for all Latin American countries, and we work with them. We use this solution to connect internet applications that traditionally are isolated. Instead of trying to build very costly interfaces or things like that, we send information from one app to the other app in the easiest but the most secure way possible. We just use MFT, and it does the work for us, but recently, we are being asked to connect not just internal applications but also external web services for government or other regulatory companies. With this type of solution, we are able to integrate not just the internal apps but also the external services. This is pretty much what we do with this solution.
The primary use for GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer) is to provide control for file transfers.
Our primary use case is file transfer between trading partners and internally to different applications on Windows, Linux, AIX, and iSeries machines. We are running on Windows.
This is used in a virtual environment where a number of customers establish a requirement to send or receive files. The files are sent using SFTP and Zip with projects providing details to customers on when and what was sent. We send these files internally or externally. Other things the solution is used for is cleaning up data from sent or received files for projects and customers. The environment consists of Windows and Linux systems to which each customer presents the data to send or import.