We performed a comparison between IBM Sterling File Gateway and MOVEit based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Progress Software, BMC, IBM and others in Managed File Transfer (MFT)."I have found almost all the features valuable."
"It's highly configurable, there is no need for standalone scripting."
"Very high functionality with the ability to plug in your own code."
"It offers easy utilization of resources for smooth transfers."
"The most valuable aspect is that it has good functionality."
"This product has been a leader in the field of secure file exchange."
"From an administration standpoint, it's very easy to manage, and I feel pretty confident in the security of the product. From an end-user standpoint also, it's very easy."
"The convenience of renaming files and using time stamps to segregate them has been very valuable."
"The renaming and timestamp features are great."
"I admire its ability to transfer really large files. One of the files that we transferred was 70 gigs. We didn't try anything larger than that, but so far, whenever somebody came to us to process a really large file, we were able to do it successfully. It can handle large files. That is one thing that I like about Automation."
"The automation is generally very simple that helps with operational efficiency. Since we mainly created interfaces and scheduled transfers, the tool itself handled the file transfer automation."
"MOVEit's best features were the number of options available, like folder creation, and user-friendliness."
"The log findings and troubleshooting on MOVEit are pretty easy. When you go to the logs, it clearly tells you what time a transfer happened, what time it failed, what is the source path, what is the destination path, and what is the failure reason. It's pretty straightforward."
"It satisfies our requirements but they don't do new improvements as per the market."
"IBM is advising not to use the IT translate anymore but this is going to be an extra cost to the customer to use the alternative."
"The API capabilities could be expanded to make integration more versatile."
"Too many features; UI is not good."
"I would like to see auto-deployment without service disruptions."
"Not a ten because it's a bit complex, not so simple. It's one product but there are many screens."
"The admin console needs some work."
"Communication can be improved between the product owners and users."
"Since I have to monitor two times a day, it would be nice if they have script templates."
"With the new other vendors coming up, they come up with certain features, in addition to the file transfer. But MOVEit does not develop their product. That's why we are looking out for other solutions."
"Something that I would like to see is better upgrade support. We had looked at getting help with an upgrade, and to do it after hours, it was going to be $6,000. It only takes 15 minutes to do. It'd be nice if the after-hour support was a little more reasonable."
"The initial setup is a bit difficult."
"If the transfers are more or the file size is big, it takes more time. It doesn't have much capacity to process multiple files at the same time. It can get stuck or take a lot of time to process the files."
"In future releases, MOVEit could add support for some additional protocols. For example, I don't think they supported the SFTP or FTPS protocols at the time."
"We have had some challenges. Earlier when we were setting it up, a component called gateway, which runs in the DMV, was not working as expected. It was going down very often. That means most of our vendors were not able to connect using SFTP because that service was down. We had to put in a lot of monitoring to make sure if that goes down, there is some visibility instantaneously so that our system admins can go and do a restart."
IBM Sterling File Gateway is ranked 3rd in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 6 reviews while MOVEit is ranked 1st in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 12 reviews. IBM Sterling File Gateway is rated 7.4, while MOVEit is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Sterling File Gateway writes "Easy to use with good validation and monitoring of the file transfer". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MOVEit writes "Provides the ability to securely transfer very large files and has great logging capability". IBM Sterling File Gateway is most compared with Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct, Aspera Managed File Transfer, BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer, Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT and Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer, whereas MOVEit is most compared with Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT, WS_FTP Server, BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer, Kiteworks and JSCAPE by Redwood.
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