Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT Primary Use Case

Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services

We use it for trading files with partners over the internet, partners with whom we don't have a VPN connection. And we use it for internal file movement and workflows.

We are using GoAnywhere for enterprise. We have two gateway nodes in both data centers.

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Stephen Whigham - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior PBM Systems Administrator at FairosRx

I'm using it for automated exports of reports, where we're running scripts and exporting data in various formats, as well as for sending notifications to clients, for FTP uploads and downloads. We have patient enrollment files that get posted to our FTP and I'm using monitors to determine when a file gets downloaded and processed, and then results posted back.

I use GoAnywhereMFT to kick off other applications which will then do most of my file conversions and transformations. I'm reading data back in, either from queries or file sets that get created, in order to handle other functions of the jobs.

We do use the API functions a little bit, although I'm doing most of that through other applications, kicked off by MFT.

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Prashant Fauzdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We are mostly using it for ETL-related workloads. In our organization we have a lot of different systems that need to talk to each other. Files have to be transferred from one system to another. We use GoAnywhere to automate the file transfer processes, whether it involves an SFTP system or a Windows network shared drive.

We also use it for data translation and data load, when we want to extract the data from a database system and create a CSV file and send it to a downstream system.

And we have recently started using Cloud Connectors for things like Microsoft Azure Data Lake and blob storage. Most organizations are moving to the cloud and we have a lot of cloud-related integrations now coming into the picture. GoAnywhere MFT helps to accomplish them.

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VG
Application Development Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

We use GoAnywhere for the basic Secure File Transfer Protocols (SFTPs). We transfer between various operating systems, and most of our servers are Unix, such as Linux and AIX.

Regarding security, we don't store data on the GoAnywhere servers, and access is limited. Our information security is essential as we're a public safety agency.

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PD
Project Assistant at a government with 10,001+ employees

Batch jobs are defined in GoAnywhere, which interacts with multiple agencies across public safety applications. The files are transferred securely from an IBM  middleware environment like WebSphere Application Server to GoAnywhere. From there, they go to the vendors or the file consumers.

We are not dependent on any operating system. We've always worked with all flavors of OS, including AUX, Linux, and Windows. The product is multi-platform and we tend to use enterprise Linux OS, like Red Hat and OpenShift. 

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Alejandro Parro Jr. - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Bridgeway Communication System, Inc.

We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT to facilitate our data exchanges.

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Joshua Rule - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Integration Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT as an SFTP server for file transfer.

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JT
Lead Developer at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We acquired GoAnywhere MFT to help us with our connection to Oracle. We then had a request from our company to put data onto Azure. It was perfect timing. We started creating the connection and the configuration for Azure using GoAnywhere, and we are now exporting close to 2 million transactions per day into Azure. Any activity happening in our core application is being forwarded to the Azure platform, into a data lake.

We have another project in the pipe to connect Hyphen Solutions BuildPro, which is another cloud service, one that helps us in our field of business, which is construction. We are exploring transferring data to BuildPro using GoAnywhere, and that is going to be XML, mostly.

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FR
System Administration at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case is basically to push data, SFTP, and FTP to other vendors offsite. So, it is all secured. We like it because of the security features in it.

In terms of deployment, it is a local standalone system.

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JT
Senior Developer/Analyst at Lamps Plus

Our business is, as far as corporate computing goes, is IBM i-centric. Because of that, some of the main use cases for the GoAnywhere product are for uploading data into the IBM i, from our finance department and other departments, and downloading data from the IBM i to a user or to our FTP server to be sent to a business partner. And when it comes to downloading data for users, it's typically in the form of Excel reports.

At this point, we are only accessing resources within our organization. We don't reach outside of our organization, even though the solution enables interaction with many things, such as Amazon and Google. The exceptions to that are one or two processes that do reach out to a business partner by way of SFTP.

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HB
Software Analyst II at City of Modesto

Here at the police department, we do a lot of file moving between systems. We have a citation system and we need that data moved over to an RMS (Reports Management System). Those systems don't communicate with each other. So we use it to pick up those files, move them over to that system, and then consume those files and data. We do a lot of that stuff. We also do exports to SFTP sites and automatic emails with warnings of server maintenance.

We do mostly automatic reports but also some manual reports. These can be daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.  We use GoAnywhere to complete manual processes- like things that we don't need to do very often. We'll go in and just click a button and it runs a bunch of things that we normally would have to do manually. It speeds up the process quite a bit. The great thing about it is that we have a central station to manage basically all of our tasks. Instead of running task schedulers on every server, we can just go here and know exactly what's running where. It's much easier to manage.

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LH
Director, HIM at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to release medical records to other healthcare facilities, attorneys, and insurance companies.

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JB
Managed File transfer (MFT) Administrator at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are in the healthcare industry and we use GoAnywhere for file transfers in our finance, HR, clinical and logistical processes

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CW
Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for SFTP and HTTPS.

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WJ
Senior Application Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for SFTP and for hosted software that connects to it through the cloud. We also use the AS2 piece, although that is still in test mode. We move about 10,000 files a day.

We're a hospital and we use it for payroll, the pharmacy, and the cafeteria. And on the admin side, it extracts reports from a third-party location. We also have trading partners and we pass on public and private keys.

GoAnywhere connects to our Azure server. We also have some in-house servers that it connects to. We move files to the Isilon, which is a repository where we store a lot of files.

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AF
Business Intelligence Developer at Food distribution company

We selected GoAnywhere to replace an on-prem custom-built C# ASP.net solution that we had inherited as a part of an acquisition of another company. We didn't want to maintain that solution in-house, so we searched for third-party providers that might offer some MFT solutions with EDI as a bonus. GoAnywhere checked all of our boxes. It was an easy choice in terms of costs, features, and support. 

Right now, I have three teams working with it: analytics developers, data engineers, and software developers. We're a pretty small house. There are four people in software development. The analytics team is supposed to have six, but we're currently at four. We should have two data engineers, but we now have one.

We have not yet implemented their FTP server. We own it but haven't installed it yet. We purchased the FTP portion of the software about six months ago because we were looking to replace our internal FTP solution. It was a project that we put on the back burner. After seeing the MFT product and how it performed, we felt pretty confident that we could migrate to their FTP platform as well. We were pleased with their support and performance on MFT, so it made sense for us to consolidate FTP into GoAnywhere.

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IM
Technical Engineer

We use Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT solution to achieve file standardization through automated workflows. In this process, when a file is sent, it's first routed to an ICAP server. Think of a file transfer as simply moving a file from one location to another. However, in this case, instead of transferring the file directly, we connect it to the ICAP server first. This intermediary step allows the file to be scanned and sanitized before it's delivered to its final destination.

We implemented Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT to securely transfer and share files, as well as automate file transfers and processes.

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BD
VP/Core System Support Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We have a lot of different files that we need to move from in-house to a vendor. While our online banking configuration is real-time, we upload files every morning to cover some aspects of that online banking. Customers also send us files and we pull them off of our secure servers and push them on to our core application vendor. In summary, our use case is almost entirely secure file movement: making sure a file gets from here to there.

We're running this as a cluster with four Linux platforms, two at our on-site and two at our co-location site. Always live. 

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PP
Data Backup and Recovery Admin at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network

Our primary use case is file transfer between trading partners and internally to different applications on Windows, Linux, AIX, and iSeries machines.

We are running on Windows. 

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GB
General Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are using it for Managed File Transfer and secure FTP and BGP processes for incoming and outgoing files. We also move data inside of the network using the GoAnywhere agent between servers, and we have also used the scripting capabilities of GoAnywhere for the change in a file's name and other things.

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reviewer1328352 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator II at Serco

This is used in a virtual environment where a number of customers establish a requirement to send or receive files. The files are sent using SFTP and Zip with projects providing details to customers on when and what was sent. We send these files internally or externally. Other things the solution is used for is cleaning up data from sent or received files for projects and customers. The environment consists of Windows and Linux systems to which each customer presents the data to send or import.

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BD
CISO at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

We are a healthcare company, and large employers and health plans will hire us to provide our services to their employees and members. They then have to send us files as to who their employees are, and we have to process them under the guidance of HIPAA. GoAnywhere is our file transfer platform for securely sharing health information.

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Prakhar Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

It is a file transfer solution. We have different scenarios for different sectors, like banking and financial sectors. Customers want to move from traditional SMTP servers to enterprise solutions with logs and monitoring features.

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LP
Systems Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We're using GoAnywhere mostly for file transfers to different sites. Normally, we allow any incoming transfer. We go out and grab the files and bring them in through the GoAnywhere system.

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HE
IT consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The primary use for GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer) is to provide control for file transfers.  

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OB
Solutions Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are a partner of HelpSystems. They have a branch office in Argentina for all Latin American countries, and we work with them.

We use this solution to connect internet applications that traditionally are isolated. Instead of trying to build very costly interfaces or things like that, we send information from one app to the other app in the easiest but the most secure way possible. We just use MFT, and it does the work for us, but recently, we are being asked to connect not just internal applications but also external web services for government or other regulatory companies. With this type of solution, we are able to integrate not just the internal apps but also the external services. This is pretty much what we do with this solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.