2020-04-12T15:55:00Z

What needs improvement with Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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Alejandro Parro Jr. - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2024-02-29T08:10:00Z
Feb 29, 2024

I want to be able to use GoAnywhere to create customizable reports that I can share with the MSP containing any information related to file transfers.

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Joshua Rule - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-11-09T17:45:27Z
Nov 9, 2023

The solution's support for the Unix platform and AS2 should be improved. The solution's scalability needs to be improved as it has very limited scalability. The solution could include some multi-factor authentication (MFA), one-time password, or secondary authentication.

Prakhar Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-11-07T08:18:53Z
Nov 7, 2023

The security features must be updated regularly. The newer versions must be released sooner. The solution must add new features at least every year. The solution must provide integration with SSO.

PD
Real User
Top 20
2023-02-12T18:14:00Z
Feb 12, 2023

The security could be upgraded to address novel cyberattacks. I'm not sure whether the product's security is being updated periodically.

LH
Real User
Top 20
2022-07-30T19:53:00Z
Jul 30, 2022

I'm on the admin side of it, and one of the complaints is that it times out too quickly for the people who are using the internet-based part of it. It could be that there is a way to do it, but I just don't know how. 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.

Stephen Whigham - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-06-01T09:16:00Z
Jun 1, 2022

Pretty much everything we've needed to connect to has been done fairly seamlessly. The only issue I've had with connectivity, database or otherwise, revolved around an SSH key. I tried to create a key, but it was incompatible with a vendor's SFTP. And when that vendor has tried to create a key and share it with me, I have not been unable to import it into GoAnywhere. I had to use a third-party app to create the key and find something that was mutually compatible. I've submitted tickets on that to GAMFT for consideration. They could possibly improve the error handling on jobs. Whenever it generates error logs, sometimes the error is very generic. It takes a little work to diagnose what's really going on. It may just say "IO Exception" and that doesn't really tell you much.

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Prashant Fauzdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-05-16T16:43:00Z
May 16, 2022

They need to increase the number of Cloud Connectors and speed up their development of them. Also, there are a number of built-in tasks in GoAnywhere. One, in particular, the write to CSV task, is slow. If you have, say, 100,000 records in your row set and you want to write them to a CSV file, it takes a long time. That definitely requires performance improvement.

Emir Pelister - PeerSpot reviewer
User
2022-01-28T10:07:30Z
Jan 28, 2022

Apart from ICAP, it will be more efficient in terms of marketing if a native integration opportunity can be provided with DLP solutions currently used by customers.

Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-01-16T08:20:00Z
Jan 16, 2022

There's one persnickety issue about NAS permissions. That is a problem we have run into with GoAnywhere. I would like to see more focus on compatibility with/enforcement of user roles and access permissions across NAS, among other things. We have filed a couple of tickets on that in the past.

LP
Real User
2021-11-08T20:24:00Z
Nov 8, 2021

GoAnywhere's interface could be a little more intuitive. It can be hard to grasp at first, but once you have a decent understanding, it's pretty straightforward.

BD
Real User
2021-10-19T19:59:00Z
Oct 19, 2021

When it comes to GoAnywhere's workflow features, there are a couple of areas where I'd like to get a little more consistency. The two aspects of scheduling that we use are scheduled jobs and monitors. And there's cross-capability between the two. We've done some philosophical thinking about when a function should be handled by a monitor and when it should be handled by a scheduled job. 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. Another aspect would be greater visibility into exactly what's happening. But part of that is because we haven't learned how to look at it. I still need to establish some training for my people who support this. We've learned a lot and done a lot with the documentation, which is pretty good, but some formal training would really help tie together a lot of the little tidbits of knowledge in our heads.

JT
Real User
2021-09-29T20:32:00Z
Sep 29, 2021

It doesn't need much improvement, other than tiny idiosyncrasies. I've run into one or two things for which I've put in change requests to the software developers at GoAnywhere, but they are very minor things, the types of things that don't come up much. We've created in the neighborhood of 80 to 90 projects in GoAnywhere and, out of all of those, there have only been a couple where we've run into something and that made us say, "I wish they could improve this little thing here." For example, when it comes to interacting with files, 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. If I don't want double quotes, please don't put them in. It should have the option, on certain write CSV operations, of not inferring anything.

HB
Real User
2021-08-24T22:25:00Z
Aug 24, 2021

There's not a lot of improvement I can think of. Maybe in the tools section, there is a SQL Wizard which works really well. I think that the SQL Wizard could use some improvement- it's little slow when moving from page to page.

OB
Real User
2020-12-18T23:59:39Z
Dec 18, 2020

Its user interface can be improved. The current user interface is a little basic for some of the use cases. We have to use an external component to enhance it. When we need a more appealing user interface, we use an additional component, and that works okay.

HE
Consultant
2020-09-15T11:13:36Z
Sep 15, 2020

Until now, I think the solution very good for me and my clients. If I had to name one thing that I think should be improved, I think it is that there are quite a lot of features and we do not use all of them. So a thing that could be done to improve this situation is maybe for HelpSystems to offer a lite version that also costs a bit less.

PP
Real User
2020-08-21T12:01:00Z
Aug 21, 2020

I think that this product has most of the features we require, although the license is expensive. DNS support needs attention. If the hostname has a dash in it then it does not work. Without a dash being included, it works fine. This is something that needs to updated in the next release. The shared mailbox support for OWA in the cloud needs to be improved. The shared mailbox does not have a password, and we cannot use it. If there is a password for it then it works well. if you have host name with example aaa-fgju than in web user ip filter list the name aaa-fgju will not work. If you have host name fghhg1 then it will work. The agent is good feature but license is bit expensive.

reviewer1328352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2020-04-12T15:55:00Z
Apr 12, 2020

In using this product, I have not found many areas of the product or service that need to be completely improved. However, with any product, improvement of a service or product can always be reviewed. If one were to look to improve it: * Continue to look forward and listen to its customers. * Improvement in support or product relies on being ingenious, supportive, and listening to its customer base.

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