MOVEit Reviews

Name: MOVEit
Brand: Progress Software
Rating: 4 (11 reviews)

Vendor: Progress Software

4.1 out of 5

11 reviews
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Ipswitch Managed File Transfer is an automated file transfer system to manage, view, and control all file transfer services. You will always know where your files are with predictable and secure delivery, extensive reporting, and easy integration with existing systems.

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MOVEit is the #1 ranked solution in top Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions. PeerSpot users give MOVEit an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. MOVEit is most commonly compared to Control-M: MOVEit vs Control-M. MOVEit is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 17% of all views.

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Gijish Vikraman

Sr. Consulting Integration Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 16, 2022

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. In addition, because it is a Java product, there seems to be a memory leak that causes system slowness and unresponsiveness at times. We had to introduce a weekly restart to flush out some memory. The restart process is still going on because we know that without that, we can't have a responsive system. These are the two things for MOVEit Transfer. Coming to MOVEit Automation, usually, when a file arrives, a job kicks in. We have jobs that look for a file, match the file, and move it to the destination. However, if a file doesn't come through at the expected time, such as on a Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM, because the job failed or somebody forgot to place that file, people want visibility into it. For this, currently, there are limited capabilities in MOVEit Automation. We can look for that error code, where it basically says that I didn't find any file to transfer. We are leveraging that capability and building some email system around it so that if that happens, we get to know, but when it comes to multiple jobs running on a particular day, such as on the 10th of every month, you get into complex scheduling. That's when this email system becomes ambiguous. Sometimes, it throws false alerts. MOVEit is not a notification system, but we expect more and better notifications. That would really add value. I would like to see connectivity to Google Cloud. At some point, it will come. They have been creating connectors for more products. Earlier, they had only Azure, and then they added AWS. Google Cloud Platform connectors are not there yet. I would like to see that capability. I would also like to see a capability where it can interact with message brokers. Currently, it can do file transfers, and it can do HTTP calls. That means you can invoke an API or download a file over HTTP or HTTPS protocol, but I would like to see it supporting the MQ protocol or AMQP. Those are some messaging protocols that will help it to become more feature-rich. We have some integrations where we have to connect to a queue, pull a message, and create a file. That capability is there in the IBM product, but I would like to see that capability built. If that capability comes to MOVEit, it would be fantastic.

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Srujan Panuganti

Scientist - Instrument II at AbbVie

Oct 11, 2022

Using MOVEit takes time to learn and to understand how it functions. I have a background in robotics, so I have some knowledge and hands-on use and training. Unless you have really good training and guidance, you won't be able to learn it. Even our lead software engineers who have years of experience and understand the architecture, find it very cumbersome to use. I think that's where there's a lot of scope for improvement. It could be more user-friendly. I struggled in areas where I needed multiple robot path planning where multiple robots are involved. It's very, very hard for multiple robots to work and collaborate together. I would want to see more features and more advances in the area of multi-robot motion planning.

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Janelle Willis

Sr. Software Configuration Administrator at Fiserv

Oct 4, 2022

I know the only thing I don't know about MOVEit is that we don't use it to its full potential. My business unit, our business unit, is a small one. We only use it to upload software to clients both externally and internally so they can download it. I am not familiar with many of the features it offers, and neither are many of the administrators. We were not really trained on it. We were given this tool and left to figure it out, and that is what we did. I am not sure if there is a feature where you can hide the software instead of having to delete it, because sometimes I need to put out a release and if I want to do it the day before, I could hide it and then just flip a switch and turn it on. That's something I used to be able to do with my previous solution. That was the only thing I couldn't hide the software because I couldn't figure out how to and no one else could either. I spoke with the two admins who were dealing with it, and they, too, couldn't figure out where to hide it. If I put something out there and put it out there too soon and a client sees it, I have to quickly go in and delete it and then re-upload it instead of having a feature that lets me just check this box and hide it, that would be a good thing to have. It would be beneficial to include a feature that allows you to hide items and not be locked out if someone has made too many password attempts.

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MOVEit market share

As of March 2024, the market share of MOVEit in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category stands at 9.2%, marking an increase of 58.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"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."
"Offers a large collection of very good path planning algorithms."
"Especially at the time of monitoring, it's a nice way to take a look at the script and take a look at run time, which gives enough information for the files that are getting picked or not."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"It takes some time to learn and understand how the solution functions."
"Since I have to monitor two times a day, it would be nice if they have script templates."

Pricing

"It's cost-effective."
"Technical support is only available with a paid license."
"When compared to other products I've used, I believe MoveIt is worth the money someone might pay to use it."

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