We performed a comparison between BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer and Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is highly stable. It is enterprise-grade software. Doing a job of 10,000 to 20,000 the solution is very stable."
"The scalability of this solution is very good. The current solution is used wide spread in my company, but I don't have any plans to expand."
"This solution has a vast amount of features and with every new release, there are lots of new features introduced. The application has high availability—we have multiple customers and it's highly available. On an application level, if something goes down with the primary, then the application goes over to the secondary, so it's very, very easy to do disaster recovery. From an application integration point of view, it has a lot of APIs, rich APIs. Every month, they are releasing new APIs and new updates, like Java, but more than that. Now they are introducing a couple more APIs, which you can use to integrate your controlling environment with any applications you want."
"There's another feature called Workload Archiving, where the data for all the jobs can be stored for however many days that we want, which is very useful for any historical analytics."
"What I like best about BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is that it makes transfers more secure and faster. It has a recovery feature during failed file transfers."
"It saves a lot of time for maintenance."
"I am a partner and an implementer for Control-M. Once purchased by my clients, I implement this solution and provide daily support for this scheduling tool."
"The most important aspect is the ability to integrate different platforms."
"It is very easy to use. It is easy to create projects in a graphical environment. The configuration and the setup of the environment is very easy"
"The SFTP and encryption functionality works well, and SFTP is the bulk of what we use."
"We like that GoAnywhere helps to centralize the exchange of data among our systems, employees, and customers."
"GoAnywhere centralizes data exchanges, helping to facilitate file transfers between our critical systems."
"GoDrive eliminates the need to use the exchange server for file sharing."
"This is a very good product for managing file transfers."
"If it's dealing with SFTP or any kind of secure transfer, we don't hear about it. It's good. Everything works."
"I like the organization of resources, specifically listing out all of our FTPs and having a name and description to easily organize them. I also like the scheduler. The organization and the scheduling, being able to create the folders and the jobs, have been really helpful."
"The structure between the Control-M/Server and Control-M/Agent could possibly be improved."
"I believe that the API should be upgraded with security control from the DM. There is Currently no security for the app API solution."
"This solution could be improved by making it possible to better control GUI when interfacing with other systems."
"BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer has a scheduler and what they do is capture the steps based on the script, and then they put it into the Control-M job, or task. Any system that has the script behind it the solution can do it."
"Scalability is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution should improve the out-of-the box conversion tool for migrations so the percentage result isn't so low."
"We're only using the functionality that we need to use. However, we've had an opportunity to work with one application owner here who wanted to do some transfers in the cloud and things like that. I know that there were some challenges on that, but they finally got all that set up. There was a learning curve though."
"We'd like it to be easier to maintain the administrative side."
"One of the things that I wish is to not necessarily have to set up a username and password for people with whom we don't frequently share files. For instance, if I want to share files with a patient who is not somebody with whom we share files all the time, I would like them to somehow verify who they are and be able to push the file to them. I shouldn’t have to set them up as a user with a password. It should be almost like Dropbox."
"When a monitor invokes a project to accomplish something, that gets logged as a job. I've had a little difficulty figuring out where to look to see the monitor's activities itself, to see if the monitor is having a problem. For instance, if an account on a secure FTP server has expired, the monitor that uses that account doesn't announce to us that it's having a problem. I want to work with them on this to get it fixed."
"The solution's built-in functions could be better; I want to see easier file transfers and management."
"Fortra needs to offer more use cases for GoAnywhere MFT during training."
"Upgrading was a challenge and I ran into some problems along the way."
"GoAnywhere's interface could be a little more intuitive."
"The solution's support for the Unix platform and AS2 should be improved."
"There is a function referred to as write CSV, to write a general text file. In this scenario of creating a simple text file, I ran into a situation where, if the product saw a quote or a double-quote in the data, it started wrapping all the text fields in double-quotes. The request I put in asks them to provide a feature that leaves my data alone and does not interpret anything."
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BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is ranked 4th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 21 reviews while Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is ranked 7th in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 27 reviews. BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is rated 8.8, while Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer writes "Adaptable, useful file transfer, and has helpful technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT writes "Key to our workflow and our workload automation strategy, helping us trade and consume files". BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer is most compared with IBM Sterling File Gateway, MOVEit, Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer, Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct and CA XCOM Data Transport, whereas Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT is most compared with MOVEit, IBM Sterling File Gateway, JSCAPE by Redwood, Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct and AutoSys Workload Automation. See our BMC Control-M Managed File Transfer vs. Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT report.
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