GoAnywhere MFT Reviews

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?Ease of use and is logically organized. Also, we have had very little downtime since going live. Very stable.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?Support, when needed can be challenging at times.What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?We use GoAnywhere mostly for external file transfers which it does well, but we also use it to purge internal directories and to monitor file creations from other applications. The file directory check has saved us a lot of manual time.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?One of the biggest benefits has been the ability to automate file transfer processes that would otherwise require manual effort and ongoing monitoring. The platform's drag-and-drop interface is key in its ease-of-use and has proven to be instrumental in our ability to quickly and easily create workflows. And from a security standpoint, GoAnywhere provides the controls we need to confidently exchange sensitive information.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?It can be a bit tricky sometimes to know exactly what each available action does and how to configure them, however, Fortra's documentation has assisted us with this, as well as their support teams. More examples, however, always come in handy and would definitely be appreciated!What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?Thanks to the platform's ease-of-use, we are able to quickly respond to department workflow requests, which allows us to deliver solutions to our end users in a timely manner.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?External partners can drop an item directly into the user's file share without IT intervention.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?Nothing I don't like about this product.What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?No insecure transfers or manual file transfers are required, which limits human error.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?I appreciate how GoAnywhere MFT eliminates the need for SFTP clients on individual desktops, which reduces vulnerabilities. The setup of security is well thought out, with the server not needing to be exposed publicly and instead using a gateway with minimal information. Setting up monitors for jobs is intuitive, especially with some training from the Fortra staff. The ease of scheduling file transfers is a great feature, and the initial setup was very easy. Additionally, I valued how GoAnywhere MFT met our requirement for SSO, which other solutions at the time didn't offer.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?I would like to see a high-level dashboard with the daily jobs listed, with a green/yellow/red status. This would be more of a NOC view. Right now, we are monitoring for alerts coming through our email and Teams site as more reactive. It would be nice to have this view to be more proactive about seeing where we are, easily throughout the day. We have jobs that run at all hours. We're also using some batch scripts in GA to call applications via an agent on other servers. It's not ideal, but we are limited with some of the other software.What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?GoAnywhere MFT eliminated the need for individual SFTP clients, reducing vulnerabilities and providing enterprise-level credentials. It simplifies scheduling and logs transfers, enhancing security by not exposing servers directly. It supports SSO and monitors job intuitively, making our operations smoother and more secure.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?The easy-to-use interface makes it straightforward to configure, update, and secure. The administration guides are comprehensive and provide detailed, step-by-step instructions for everything you need to do. There is also follow-the-sun support coverage from an international support team.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?I ran into an issue when I needed to verify which encryption ciphers were being used by TLS, because one of our business partners started restricting the cipher suites they supported for encrypted connections. The GoAnywhere support documentation didn’t include steps for how to check this, and it also wasn’t abundantly clear from the interface how to configure it. Fortunately, GoAnywhere’s follow the sun support strategy connected me with a support representative in Sydney, Australia who knew exactly what to do, and the issue was resolved.What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?We needed an automated way to process incoming and outgoing data transfers. Before GoAnywhere, we had a manual, time-consuming process that relied on having a human in the loop. Thankfully, with GoAnywhere’s MFT automation features, we’ve freed up our employees’ time (1 hour per day) for more important work.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?The Knowledge base and support i get for building projectsWhat do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?some of the add on's are paid and some don't have trial periodWhat problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?Secure file transfer with encryption is what is most beneficial for us.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?Good toolWhat do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?Nothing as suchWhat problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?I find GoAnywhere MFT to be a better tool for transferring files between systems with high business requirements. I use its user interactive console for controlling file transfers, scheduling tasks, and monitoring processes.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?We use GoAnywhere MFT for process and job automation, moving files, and job scheduling. It has drastically improved efficiency and surprised us with how versatile and useful it is. I love that it integrates with many different platforms and is really user-friendly. I like the job logging, which makes it easy to audit file-level actions, and the change management/change tracking features that help us see when or who made changes. The platform generally has good reliability. The initial setup was extremely easy, and I appreciate being able to set up resources once and reference them by name in GoAnywhere jobs.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?The software comes out of the box with a Derby database, which is powerful, but has limitations for growth and performance. We are at the point where we have outgrown the Derby database, and have experienced a few reliability issues because of it. For example, the database recently became corrupted for no apparent reason, but thankfully GoAnywhere MFT's built-in DB backup allowed us to quickly recover a backup copy.What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?GoAnywhere MFT drastically improved our efficiency by automating and scheduling jobs. It's versatile and useful for process automation, job scheduling, and managing file transfers with trading partners.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?Go Anywhere is best solutions for sharing the data with external partners with highly secure and managed way. This solution is the best product with compliance and auditability. What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?monitoring and governance also became very easy with this tool.Recommendations to others considering GoAnywhere MFT?Till my business use case this is a good productWhat problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?before using Go Anywhere we were facing a big challenge for sharing and getting data with external user in secure and limited access. More after once we not allowed for sharing via OneDrive for external user, Fater Go anywhere MFT we are very good and easy to manage for sharing and access data with eternal partner and customer.

What do you like best about GoAnywhere MFT?What I like best about GoAnywhere MFT is the XML backend - it makes it a lot easier to understand and build out job logic compared to a pure GUI-only tool, since you can actually see and control the task flow directly. I also like how flexible it is across protocols, being able to handle SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB transfers all within the same platform makes it easy to standardize jobs even when the vendor or destination changes.What do you dislike about GoAnywhere MFT?What I dislike about GoAnywhere is that some of the built-in functions and attributes aren't well documented or don't behave the way you'd expect - things like CurrentDateTime() not actually existing, or sizeFilter being unreliable enough that you have to work around it with FileInfo() checks instead. It leads to a lot of trial and error that shouldn't be necessary. I also find the error handling setup to be a gap - just having a notifysysadmin module in the XML doesn't mean it actually fires, you have to explicitly wire it with onError on every task, and it's easy to miss that during job builds or reviews.What problems is GoAnywhere MFT solving and how is that benefiting you?GoAnywhere MFT solves the problem of having a centralized, automated way to move files between us and all our vendors and partners without relying on manual transfers or one-off scripts scattered across servers. It benefits me by giving a single platform to build, monitor, and troubleshoot jobs across SFTP, Azure Blob, S3, and SMB, so when something fails I'm not chasing it down across different systems, I can go to one place and trace it through the job history and logs. It also makes onboarding new vendors more consistent, since I can reuse validated job templates instead of building transfer logic from scratch every time.