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Our users have ranked these solutions according to their valuable features, and discuss which features they like most and why.
You can read user reviews for the Top Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solutions to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solutions that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 Control-M
Control-M is ranked as PeerSpot’s #1 Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution. Our users give Control-M an average rating of 8 out of 10.
An AVP - Systems Engineer at a financial services firm says, "The File Transfer component is quite valuable. The integration with products such as Informatica and SAP are very valuable to us as well. Rather than having to build our own interface into those products, we can use the ones that come out of the box. The integration with databases is valuable as well. We use database jobs quite a bit."
A Maintenance Manager at a transportation company mentions, “The most valuable feature is definitely the Self Service. Another valuable feature would definitely be the MFT dashboard that is now available in Control-M natively. It is easy to just search for jobs, files, etc. Instead of the customers contacting us to find out what happened, when it happened, and why it happened, they are able to service themselves. This allows us to cut down on operational staff, costs, and time because customers can manage it themselves to a degree.”
PeerSpot user Randy S., Sr. Systems Engineer at a financial services firm, comments, “The capabilities of auditing have been great. It's very easy to use and very easy to pick up. It's got an excellent graphical interface. Its performance is very reliable. It integrates with other applications. The product scales quite well.”
#2 HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT
HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT is ranked as PeerSpot’s #2 Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution. Our users give HelpSystems GoAnywhere MFT an average rating of 10 out of 10.
Jay T., Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus, states, “One of the most valuable features is the ability to reach into our database tables on the IBM i, and other platforms, and extract data. That is most useful for us. It's also easy to use. I was training somebody yesterday on some of the finer points of GoAnywhere, and she found it very easy to interact with and understand. We like the interface. The workflow features are very comprehensive, from our point of view.”
Angie F., Business Intelligence Developer at Harbor Foods, explains, “The user interface is highly intuitive, which has streamlined migration from our old solution. I say that with the caveat that we're a pretty technical house, so we have a reasonably strong skill set. When we were doing the demo, we took one project from the old system and got it running in GoAnywhere in less than 30 minutes. That says a lot. I've written queries and understand code, so I'm not a novice. I still think that's pretty impressive for a software product to be able to deliver a functional use case in half an hour.”
PeerSpot reviewer Earl D., Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services, says, "File monitors are one of the most valuable features. We have about 400 file monitors running in GoAnywhere. They monitor the NAS locations where files arrive, and they kick off workflows. When a file arrives, GoAnywhere will identify that the file is there, move it to a consumption zone, then reach out to our enterprise scheduler through a REST API call."
#3 SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite is ranked as PeerSpot’s #3 Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution. Our users give SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite an average rating of 10 out of 10.
A Software Engineer at a financial services firm expresses, "With SEEBURGER BIS, you can string as many different activities together in your workflows as you want. You can put them in any order, like a piece of code. One leads into the next, which leads into the next. It is just very flexible from that vantage point. This makes it so easy to use and reduces the number of moving parts that you need to have. It is just a lot less frustrating not having to conform to how some other vendor software works."
Jay T., Senior Integration Analyst at Ingram Micro Inc., says, "The entire framework is something that is very easy to use, easy to set up, and extremely straightforward. Once you develop a process and once you get it deployed within the process engine, with the latest 6.52 features, the processing engine is actually smart enough to make a decision as to which process engine has less load, and it can exchange messages with that process engine."
Oliver R., IT Business Integration at OSRAM, comments, "One of the most valuable features is the option to have all integration patterns constantly updated in one platform. That is the main strength I see in using SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS). It means I can use a very old-fashioned pattern, combined with a very modern pattern. There are no limitations in terms of combining components because all the components simply fit together."
#4 ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation is ranked as PeerSpot’s #4 Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution. Our users give ActiveBatch Workload Automation an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Richard B., Systems Architect at an insurance company, says, “We can control the runtime of files, based on timing, by a file showing up. They can be controlled by an email being sent into the system. We get error codes back. Therefore, we have one centralized location where we can see how jobs are running. We have the ability to notify end users when jobs are finished or if there are problems with jobs. It's a very robust system, which allows for a lot of different functionality. The system is very easy to use.”
Jason F., Sr. Technical Engineer at Compeer Financial, mentions, "ActiveBatch's Self-Service Portal allows our business units to run and monitor their own workloads. They can simply run and review the logs, but they can't modify them. It increases their productivity because they are able to take care of things on their own. It saves us time from having to rerun the scripts, because the business units can just go ahead and log in and rerun it themselves."
Peter B., Senior System Analyst at an insurance company, comments, "The most valuable feature is its stability. We've only had very minor issues and generally they have happened because someone has applied a patch on a Windows operating system and it has caused some grief. We've actually been able to resolve those issues quite quickly with ActiveBatch. In all the time that I've had use of ActiveBatch, it hasn't failed completely once. Uptime is almost 100 percent."
#5 VisualCron
VisualCron is ranked as PeerSpot’s #5 Managed File Transfer (MFT) Solution. Our users give VisualCron an average rating of 10 out of 10.
A Director of IT at a recruiting/HR firm says, "The ability to clone jobs to shorten the time it takes to implement a process has been invaluable, but its flexibility also gives us the ability to create a job that can handle a multifaceted process with a complex workflow."
A Sr. IT ERP Specialist at a pharma/biotech company explains that the most valuable aspect of the solution is its “Ability to use job variables within a job. This allows us to make reusable job templates for similar activities and just update the job variables associated with the new instance.”
A Product Owner Insight & Analytics Platform at Otto (GmbH & Co KG) states, “Simplicity is the most valuable feature. You just use the tool. Some preferences and permissions are not quite self-explanatory, but those are rather advanced features. Our internal customers are able to perform their tasks without our assistance.”
