Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT

Score9.6 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Data Extraction Flexibility: Users have expressed appreciation for the tool's data extraction feature, noting its versatility in extracting data from a diverse array of databases and facilitating the transfer of information in multiple formats, enhancing their workflow efficiency. They value the seamless process of pulling data from various sources and transforming it according to their needs.

Data Transformation Capabilities: Reviewers consistently highlight the tool's efficacy in manipulating and converting data into various formats such as XML, text, spreadsheets, and more, streamlining their data processing tasks effectively. The ability to easily transform raw data into structured formats has been particularly beneficial for users dealing with complex datasets.

Data Integration Functionality: Customers find the data integration functionality highly valuable for seamlessly transferring data between disparate systems like Oracle, Netezza, DB2, SQL Server, and Interbase, enabling smooth coordination across platforms. This feature has enabled users to integrate data from different sources without encountering compatibility issues or disruptions in their processes.

Reviews

11 Reviews

Move your data anywhere with Go Anywhere!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Go Anywhere for a variety of things across the entire organization. We use it as an ETL tool for loading data into the system. We use it to extract data and email spreadsheets to users within the company. We use it to find potential problems in the system and notify users to correct the problem. We also use it to send data to trading partners. It is an extremely versatile product.

Pros

Data extraction: You can pull data from nearly any database and send it to users/partners in a variety of formats.
Data transformation: Great for massaging data and transforming it to XML, text, spreadsheets, etc.
Data Integration: An extremely useful tool for moving data between different systems. I have used it to integrate data from Oracle, Netezza, DB2, SQL Server, and even Interbase.

Cons

There's no real drag and drop functionality as seen in Datastage or SSIS.
There's no way to track data lineage.
The scheduler is a kind of hard to use.

Likelihood to Recommend

Go Anywhere is perfect for moving data between systems. It is great for pulling data and emailing it or sending it to another server. However, Go Anywhere is limited as an ETL tool. It is not good for large datasets. When we had to move millions of rows from one server to another, it totally choked.

Stewart Locklear

Senior Information Technology Project Manager in Information Technology at Harriss and Covington Hosiery (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

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Powerful secure file transfer automation

Rating: 10 out of 10

June 15, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GoAnywhere MFT to automate inbound and outbound secure file transfers with external partners. Partners connect using FTP/FTPS/SFTP/AS2/HTTPS protocols and files are transferred to and from multiple internal destinations (network shares, MQ, FTPS, SFTP). We also use it internally to automate file transfers that require protocol translation, and for basic content transformation.

Pros

Comprehensive security configuration.
Powerful project designer.
File transfer automation.
Command line interface and web services support.

Cons

Reviewing support cases on support web site.
Testing remote resources is limited without creating a project.
With so many features, it can take awhile to master it.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoAnywhere MFT is well suited for:

Automated batch processing.
Implementing secure file transfer servers (FTP, SFTP, FTPS, HTTPS), with the ability to tune the security options you want to use (ciphers suite, certificates, etcetera) and to manage the permissions for the users (individually or by assigning user to groups).
Managing encryption keys, SSL certificates and SSH keys easily.
Protocol translation.
Build frameworks for file transfer and automatic reprocess.

Although MFT have useful file transformation tools, we chose to do them in our Enterprise Service Broker (IIB).

Hernan Gomila

Middleware Specialist in Information Technology at CN (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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GoAnywhere MFT rocks

Rating: 9 out of 10

May 14, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used by the organization to upload and download files from our trading partners. We have Vendors logon our sftp server also upload and download files. We even use internally to Linux, AIX and Windows servers. It turns lots of manual processes into automated. It is working very well with the features in the software.

Pros

Advance workflow.
Enhanced auditing.
Web user.
Admin roll and security roll.
PGP key.

Cons

The product is difficult to learn initially, but once you get a grip on it, it is not that difficult.
Sometimes simple tasks require more logic.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are getting a file from our trading partners. I connect to their Mainframe (IBM Z) and download file. Before I send the file to final destination to our Lawson server, I need to find and replace trailing spaces. Since Mainframe print character and Windows are different, I use GoAnywhere automated task to replace and it works really great. I saw over 5,000 entries completed in 4 secs.

Sometimes renaming a simple file name can be difficult.

Parul Patel

Network Analyst in Information Technology at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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GoAnywhere MFT Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using GoAnywhere MFT as an automated file transfer tool. We primarily use it to move files to and from remote SFTP servers. Before we were using GoAnywhere, we were having to devote numerous man hours every week to the process of moving files to and from our clients but in having this tool available, it has allowed us to significantly improve our performance and efficiency.

Pros

Automated workflows
Customer service
Ease of use
Simplicity of development

Likelihood to Recommend

GoAnywhere is well suited for a number of scenarios. It is wonderful at automating jobs to run and for file movement capabilities. That is primarily what we use it for and it has saved us a lot of time and effort. I have not used this piece of the software, but I hear that it is also very good at doing parsing and interpretation of different data types such as X12.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

GoAnywhere MFT is a great asset to have in your software or process inventory

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 10, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is being used by many departments within my organization to send and receive files on a monitor, trigger, or scheduled basis. It solves problems in sending the files manually to automatic and on a time, monitor basis to help in making SLA's being met. Also used to organize and reduce space of file usage in certain areas by removing files older then a certain date or time frame.

Pros

Timeliness of sending files whether monitored, scheduled, or trigger type.
Informing customers on either side, receiving or sending, of the process for projects.
Ease of use in the process in creating projects.

Cons

Reports are PDF based and would be good to have exportable file types.
Ability to choose what to show in reports.

Likelihood to Recommend

This product is suitable to any aspect where a user may need to look at creating projects to support the organization's need to work. Mostly in my experience it is sending files via SFTP, AWS, or cleaning old data files on a schedule based on time frame.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

GoAnywhere MFT, not exactly what I expected.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 3, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize GoAnywhere MFT to transfer files to and from third-party vendors.
By implementing this platform, your organization can automate the sending and receiving of files.
This solution provides more options than simple file transferring and can get very detailed with the available processes that can occur to the files.

Pros

Transfers files quickly and securely between locations.
It allows the setting of multiple schedules for automation to occur.
Supports encryption and allows changing keys easily.
Reduces the need to write custom scripts for transferring files.

Cons

In the beginning, when implementing, it can take a while to understand how it works thoroughly.
Due to the added abilities learning to configure the software can take some time.
Training for this product will cost extra. The training is also not excellent.
The software seems glitchy at times, sometimes being slow or corrupting jobs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very useful when you need to transfer files on a daily schedule and in repeatable sequence.
Solves the need to use other software to encrypt or decrypt files. It allows the use of executing commands.
The library allows you to input multiple steps in your process as if you were creating a program to execute your specific needs.
If you have the time to deploy, you will not be disappointed, but if you are in a time constraint, the deployment of your system can be challenging to stand up. The platform itself is easy to install, but the projects can take time to create appropriately.

Jesus Covarrubias, CEH

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Shane Co. (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Great Product for all your file needs

Rating: 10 out of 10

April 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GoAnywhere for several different functions. It serves as our public facing FTP server, we have internal only FTP servers to serve as conduits for file transfer and we have hundreds of projects designed to transfer files, inject SQL queries and securely transfer files from point to point. All of these processes can be completed by this one product.

Pros

For an FTP server it is robust but very easy to use and configure.
For a project manager for file transfers, it allows you to do nearly anything, from simple file move to file rename, move, zip, and create a new folder location to drop the file in.
GoAnywhere has a gateway device that allows for securing the traffic coming from outside your network in without exposing too much of your network.

Cons

Ticketing system needs the ability to view the ticket, see status, and what has been done.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoAnywhere is easy to use and easy to learn. Once you get the basics down learning how to do advanced functions becomes even easier. Their support is top notch and is always ready to lend a hand.

Todd Percival

Senior systems administrator in Information Technology at Fanatics, Inc. (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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GoAnywhere MFT Makes Your Automated File Transfers Effortless

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using GoAnywhere MFT across our entire organization. We use it for the automated movement of files across multiple platforms -- Windows, iSeries, Linux, etc. We also use it for sending and receiving files to our external business partners. GoAnywhere provides functionality such as file copies, FTP, e-mail capabilities, file compression, and file encryption.

Pros

GoAnywhere MFT makes the encryption and decryption of files effortless.
GoAnywhere MFT provides great automation capabilities, including automated scheduling and triggers.
GoAnywhere MFT is able to translate data into many different formats, including text files, Excel, XML, .csv, etc.

Cons

I can't think of any functionality that we need, but that is missing in GoAnywhere MFT.

Likelihood to Recommend

GoAnywhere MFT is especially well-suited for automated file movement across platforms, as well as with external business partners.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

GoAnywhere MFT is a tremendous product for our file transfer needs!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 21, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize GoAnywhere MFT for secure file transfers to and from our vendors. We also use it internally for data transfers between internal systems and automated e-mail tasks. The platform is used across our entire organization. Before purchasing GA MFT, we were combining powershell scripts, Windows Task Scheduler and IpSwitch WSFTP to automate file transfers and other tasks. That was an administrative nightmare!

Pros

Automated Task Scheduling - This is a no-brainer. Schedules are easily set up to accomplish anything from basic file transfer tasks to advanced database queries and e-mails.
User Interface - Easy to navigate and organized. A central administration dashboard is available to keep up with processes and users.
Multiple file transfer solutions - GA MFT provides FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, Secure E-Mail as options for secure file transfers. If one method does not suit the needs internally or for a vendor, other options are available.

Cons

Not really a con, but would like to see more robust examples of different tasks. Other than that, this product is top notch.

Likelihood to Recommend

GA MFT is excellent for secure transfers to/from our vendors. We can either connect out to their FTP platform or they can connect to us. File transfers are secure and with the ability to send out Success or Failure notifications internally and/or to the client. Specifically, we can query an in-house SQL database, create a file (txt, xls, etc.) to send the results to our vendor.

Bill Goodwin

Programmer Analyst II in Information Technology at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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The only MFT solution that you will ever need.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 9, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GoAnywhere MFT across multiple departments across our organization. GoAnywhere enables users to log in securely and access their projects for on-demand execution, reducing the burden on the end user to submit a help desk ticket and the time that IT staff would take to assist with the request. Any process that involves downloading or uploading files to outside vendors or the general moving and archiving of files on our internal network is accomplished using GoAnywhere MFT.

Pros

Enables users to log in securely and access their projects for on-demand execution.
It just works, create your project, schedule it, and relax knowing that files will be there when your vendor expects them to be.
Extremely robust feature set, can do complex data translations and transfers.
Excellent support, I haven’t ever had an issue that support could not address.

Cons

Nothing that I can think of.

Likelihood to Recommend

If your organization was similar to ours where you are using CuteFTP, WINSCP, Bat Files, VBScripts, Perl Scripts, Access Database Macros, and Windows scheduled tasks to move files around then you need to get GoAnywhere. GoAnywhere has a robust feature set that can automate the most complex workflows easily. For example you can extract data from a SQL database, export the data to an Excel spreadsheet, save the file with a new file name; adding a time stamp to the end. PGP encrypt the Excel file; [add] SFTP to an outside vendor all in a single executable task.

Kevin Dulaney

Interface Analyst in Information Technology at Memorial Health System (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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