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Move your data anywhere with Go Anywhere!
June 29, 2021

Move your data anywhere with Go Anywhere!

Stewart Locklear | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with GoAnywhere MFT

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Database access
  • FTP integration
  • Email integration
  • Data transformation
  • 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.
GoAnywhere versus SSIS was an easy decision. SSIS works great for SQL Server and that's about it. Our primary database is DB2 and it is a real pain to use SSIS for this. Go Anywhere versus Datastage is tougher. DataStage is a far more comprehensive package. However, GA is far less expensive and far easier to use.

Do you think Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT's feature set?

Yes

Did Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT again?

Yes

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.