Operational Intelligence for MFT

Time to bridge MFT & Content Collaboration Platforms

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The majority are adopting Content Collaboration Platforms

Gartner has stated in its recent Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms (read the full report here) that 80% of large and midsize organizations in mature regions will have deployed one or more content collaboration platform (CCP) products.

Gartner defines CCP as a range of content-centric platforms enabling secure file productivity and content collaboration for individuals and teams as well as supporting the creation of a modern digital workplace. It is the evolution of the EFSS (Enterprise File Sharing and Synchronization) products.

Now, this is not meant to be a lesson on CCP and MFT but let’s step back and take a look at both and why there is a value in bridging the two.

CCP solutions address the use cases of people sharing and collaborating very well with other people be it within an organization and with customers, partners, and suppliers.

Time to Bridge MFT and Content Collaboration platforms

The focus is placed on ease of use and universal access from any device, anytime, anywhere in order to optimize collaboration with other individuals.

On the other hand, with Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions, the use cases are driven by business processes typically between systems of record which are event and schedule-driven. Premiums are placed on automation, monitoring, and security. Think “locked down back-office processes.”

Time to Bridge MFT and Content Collaboration platforms

 

There is definitely a “better together” scenario if we can bridge MFT with CCP we could open up many new use cases that we have not been able to support before.

Time to Bridge MFT and Content Collaboration platforms

 

Been there, done that but failed

In particular, MFT vendors tried to include file sharing and human-based file transfer use cases into their offer. They delivered Frankenstein-like products that end-users basically refused to use. Also, patterns and use cases are so different that it was also creating performance issues on the MFT site. But the intention is still valid. To achieve maximum efficiency and address hybrid patterns within the organization, IT needs to deliver MFT and CCP. They also need to expose them as a consumer-like service to end-users.

The solution is not replacing one with the other

Whatever solution that tried to replace other — MFT by EFSS or EFSS by MFT was just doomed to fail. Both serve a vital purpose and bridging the two properly opens the door to many new possibilities. This is the approach we have taken here at Axway. We have created a bridge between our leading Axway Syncplicity CCP solution and our leading Axway SecureTransport MFT Gateway solution.

The two solutions are governed solutions and managed and controlled by IT. This permits new use cases such as an application delivering files to a person or a team. As well as a person or team sending a file to an application. This provides the familiar user interface, the end-users are already using with the benefits of secure anytime, anywhere, any device access.

Time to Bridge MFT and Content Collaboration platforms

Take advantage of bridging CCP and MFT

Axway SecureTransport and Syncplicity customers can download the Syncplicity Connector for SecureTransport for free from the Axway AMPLIFY marketplace. You can start transforming the way their organization collaborates and innovates.

Learn more about Axway AMPLIFY marketplace here.