MFT has undergone some significant changes over the past years, and the truth is, older MFT solutions just won’t cut it in today’s fast-paced market. With our legacy Axway XFB Gateway reaching its end of life, it’s time to modernize your MFT infrastructure if you have not started yet.
In retrospect, it’s important to realize why legacy MFT solutions became both so pervasive and so critical for business continuity. XFB Gateway is a communication gateway used to exchange files with external business partners connected via public networks.
External interactions are growing every day, and over the last decades this gateway has become a critical asset for enterprises who trusted the technology enough to essentially run their most business-critical data flows.
But with tougher security requirements, expanding ecosystems, and exploding file volumes, enterprises are facing new challenges every day in exchanging data, and they needed better technology. That’s why we built a more complete solution over the years in parallel with our continuing commitment to support XFB Gateway.
Enter Axway Managed File Transfer.
As new and more stringent requirements demand greater sophistication, this isn’t just a refactoring of XFB Gateway, or another tool that “just” has MFT capabilities.
Here’s a summary of how Axway MFT improves on workflows through automation, strengthens security and compliance, leverages cloud and clustering for always-on availability, and lets you scale with maximum confidence.
See also: Why MFT matters for enterprise compliance
Simplify your work with automation
Axway MFT introduces governance tools so you can manage all your file transfers from a single place – whether it’s with external partners or between internal applications.
With features like self-service through a Flow as code approach, Axway MFT simplifies flow deployment and allows non-technical or business users to automatically deploy flows within an approval process managed by the IT teams.
The greatest improvement is the ability to create and publish pre-populated templates for various file transfer flows, empowering business or IT Application users with easy-to-use self-service capabilities to create new file transfers with customers and partners.
Here’s why self-service is so important:
- it drastically reduces interaction between teams
- it significantly speeds up the process: deploying a new file transfer can take up to 90% less time with Axway MFT
- it significantly drives down the complexity and expense of running MFT operations.
Our MFT solution is fully compliant with a Flow as code approach, so we provide a full set of REST APIs that can be used to automate the tasks and easily integrate them into third-party or custom applications.
See also: Automate 90% of your file transfer operations with Axway’s self-service MFT
Be prepared to scale when it’s time
Managed File Transfer continues to be a technical imperative to sustain existing workflows across a large and complex ecosystem or internal apps, external systems outside of the DMZ, and more generally a heritage of business partners that require secure file exchange on a daily basis.
That’s why Axway MFT now offers native scalability and high availability architecture to address larger volumes and critical flows. Scalability authorizes an increase or decrease in the number of nodes as the workload fluctuates. High availability of Axway MFT is ensured by design thanks to clustering capabilities that can handle almost unlimited workloads and scale as the business demands.
Cloud adoption is a reality for everyone, and we all know that a move to the cloud is a long journey and doesn’t happen overnight.
Axway MFT fully supports a hybrid deployment model, meaning you can deploy some components in your cloud, some in your datacenter, and use the Governance tool in the Axway managed cloud service. Our solution is highly modular when it comes to deployment, so you can have it your way and scale when you’re ready.
Leverage clustering and the latest encryption methods to secure your file transfers
Security is an inherent value of Axway’s MFT solution, with advanced capabilities to support (among many things) both online/offline encryption as well as security architectures with high availability.
We have introduced many improvements such as zero downtime update capabilities that help secure even more the file transfers.
Many legacy systems can’t keep up with securing data at rest or in transit in a hybrid cloud context: our MFT solution can securely support any deployment and also provides audit trails for better data protection every step of the way.
See also: Decoding shared responsibility for MFT security
Transition with ease and rely on the best expertise you can get
To accelerate the adoption of our MFT solution for XFB Gateway customers and secure their transition, we offer many options and a field-proven methodology.
We encourage you to hear from our customers who successfully completed their transition. In this recent video testimonial, Teddy Goral, IT Program Manager at TotalEnergies, explains how the energy giant worked with Axway to consolidate MFT across a vast global enterprise.
Our experts can provide a free assessment to XFB Gateway customers to help analyze their existing flows and classify them. Based on monitoring data shared by customers, this allows organizations to identify the optimized path to move to the Axway MFT solution.
A predefined dedicated service package is offered, with a fixed price, to implement the target solution and transition the first set of flows up to the production environment. We would also do the appropriate knowledge transfer to help the customer be autonomous early on in the migration process.
Of course, we put R&D effort into this model as well, with Transition Portal being a key tool provided by PSO free of charge to help secure and accelerate these transitions.
In our day and age, you just don’t have the time – nor can you afford the risk – to continue to transfer files with obsolete and depreciated solutions. Risks are simply too high for your business continuity.
Axway MFT gives you the opportunity to embrace new MFT paradigms, much as we have gone through those changes ourselves over the last four decades, by engaging and defining the MFT software industry with our solutions. It’s time to change, for good.
Learn how Axway can lower the costs and mitigate the risks of upgrading your MFT operations to the cloud by delivering greater security, resiliency, and flexibility.