DataMotion vs. Fortra's Globalscape Enhanced File Transfer (EFT)

Secure Data Transfer: When researchers need to securely transfer sensitive data, such as PHI and HIPAA data to collaborators or other researchers. Confidential Correspondence: For confidential correspondence, especially in scenarios where legal, financial, or sensitive information needs to be communicated securely, such as between research teams, institutions, or funding bodies.

Incentivized

Globalscape EFT is well suited for file transmissions. It is very intuitive and easy to create file transmission rules. We transmit many files back and forth between vendors and software applications. File transmissions are fast and reliable. Globalscape allows us to specify certain file naming conventions, contain only certain data, format the data to be a specific way, etc.

Incentivized

• Platform is intuitive and very easy to use from both a receiver and sender of the email.
• The "open" and/or "read" notifications serve as great documentation that a client has successfully seen and obtained the information that was being provided.
• The ability to include a simple link within an email signature prevents clients from having to go through a cumbersome portal or process to send a document securely.

Incentivized

• PGP & SSH Key Ring Retainer
• Reporting
• Event Rule Create - No Code development
• Easy account set up for SFTP site directory creation

• The address book interface to add users could be made simpler
• The copy and paste feature could be improved
• When composing an email the system should automatically search address book to provide less typing of Contact names already existing as a send to the person

Incentivized

• Would like to see the ability for a rule in EFT to link the the Advanced Workflow that it is called (rather than having to manually locate the Advanced Workflow)
• Would like the ability to disable just a part of an Event Rule
• Would like to see more template creation functionality

Incentivized

We have more testing to do before we decide if we will make a final decision to use the product as we believe we would also implement datamotion for the acquisitions we have planned for this year

The DataMotion SecureMail's best feature according to me is simply that it performs as promised with an immediate reduction in spam which has led to spam-related queries to the IT department practically non-existent. DataMotion SecureMail is pretty robust and hands off which is great.

Incentivized

Why are you asking me

Responses always seem timely and the support seems to be pretty good. We haven't really had any major issues with the software yet, so I that's the reason I gave only an 8. If something more difficult were to pop up, I'd have a little more to say on the support for the product.

Incentivized

Make sure to break up the implementation in phases

We can not afford Cisco products; in the end, everything we require is on the software side, not the hardware side. Also, we are trying to move away from these bulky appliance-type concepts of secure documentation and communication integrations. This federated easy, fast and multi-disciplinary API systems DataMotion has provided us is precisely what we need.

Globalscape and Automate are similar. However, with Automate, you do not have PGP or SSH keyring functionality within the application. You would need to purchase and install them separately. So as far as organization I like Globalscape for key retainment. Globalscape's transmission reporting is a lot better as well. Although it could be enhanced a little more, I use it to report any transmission issues with the Vendors. But the Event Rule functionality that Globalscape has in building simple action logic is where you save a lot of time instead of coding transmissions. Automate does not have active-active replication within their application. Meaning they do not have the ability to have two servers active for off loading transmission in case of bottlenecks. However, if one server goes down, the secondary server will be active. We have both products and don't mind working in either one of them, but Globalscape seems to be the more comprehensive and scalable application

Ridiculous question. It’s scalable and that is why we would want to use it

• DataMotion has had a positive return on investment due to the fact that we have to post less, avoid postal fees, and ensure security.
• DataMotion has decreased the amount of compliance required when sending out information; when posting documents, we would have previously had to have documents checked by compliance for security, but now we can issue these clients directly.
• Everyone in the company uses DataMotion; this has saved both time and money because of the decreased number of letters being drafted; it has created a more efficient workforce and boosted productivity.

Incentivized

• Globalscape EFT is very reliable
• Allows us to easily transmit files with customers
• Allows us to easily meet file requirements of vendors/other software applications

Incentivized