Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT vs. Signiant

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.

Incentivized

Quick workflow and data swapping, we use it extensively to get large data volumes out to users work from home and then back in.

• 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.

• Quick easy transfer
• Easy to set up
• Easy management

• 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.

Incentivized

• Improvements are being made all the time.

Since using it and having time to work with it, its process and actions are growing on me and once a project is created one can implement across numerous location or platforms

Very easy to admin and allow non experienced users control their portals, lots of stats and helpful info on usage and users accessing the portals

They would help us to identify the problem and provide a solution every time. Support also will answer questions about what the application can do and how, and it would allow you to submit enhancements requests for consideration to be included in future versions.

Implementation was straight forward. We paid for 50 hours of professional service in case, we need help. We end using only 10 hours. I have only 1 month to convert over 120 scripts from FTP voyager to goanywhere. Old script was had written using bat files. Some of the batch file were written by some other person, who passed away. Documents for old script was not in details. With the professional service, I was able to convert all script within windows

At the time we were evaluating a managed file transfer system, we initially looked at Ipswitch. It did not have a web based interface and the overall price was extremely higher than GA MFT. The solutions offered by GA MFT were significantly more attractive for our needs as an organization.

Incentivized

Signiant Media shuttle in particular allows us to easily manage changing workflows, we also heavily use it's portal service to allow many companies to download and upload large data files extensively who have no way of delivering or downloading themselves

• GA has made life easier for our employees. Many processes that used to take a lot of time are now automated or semi-automated using GA.
• GA has helped our IT team be far more productive. It would take weeks to put together code that we can do in GA in a day or less.

Incentivized

• With our current workflows we couldn't do this with Media shuttle
• It has been hugely impactful in allowing a lot of workflow changes to happen during covid and allowing us to easily accomplish them