Managed File Transfer

Seamless, reliable and secure data delivery to improve business performance

Provide assured data delivery while securing, accelerating and managing all critical data moving inside or outside the organization. IBM MFT enables companies to address governance, complexity and growth issues that are challenging their file exchanges today.

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IBM Sterling Managed File Transfer enables enterprises to manage and control the critical information flows that run their dynamic business networks. Through seamless, reliable and secure data delivery you can improve business performance, reduce IT complexity, support growth and reduce your risk.

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Featured Products

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct

Point-to-point file transfer software optimized for high-volume, assured data delivery of files within and between enterprises.

IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition

Reliable, enterprise wide file transfer software using messaging that leverages MQ.

IBM Sterling File Gateway

An SOA based solution which allows you to incorporate your file transfer communities into all your business processes and incorporates Web-based interfaces for customer self-services and rapid onboarding.

IBM Sterling Control Center

A management solution for all your file transfer activity and associated Service Level Agreements.

IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

An application proxy for securing file transfers across your organization’s demilitarized zone (DMZ).

IBM Sterling File Transfer Service

A cloud service for file based business interactions with trading partners.

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Analyst Report

FTP Replacement: Where MFT Makes Sense, 2010, Gartner

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Redbook for Managed File Transfer

IBM Sterling Managed File Transfer Integration with WebSphere Connectivity for a Multi-Enterprise Solution

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File transfer security

Security cannot be an afterthought

Overview

With the growth in data security breaches, and the increased amount of sensitive customer data travelling in files, security is a critical concern for all organisations. Recent survey data shows that companies are turning to “on-the-wire” encryption as a first line of defence. This includes technologies like SFTP and FTPS. While an important first step, transfer encryption does not address the protection of “data-at-rest” on the file transfer server. And since this is an add-on to standard FTP, it means implementing and maintaining it is more difficult.

Managed File Transfer offers advanced security
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ provides a comprehensive solution to all your data movement security requirements. It goes beyond basic transfer encryption to provide you with:

  • Perimeter security security through advanced proxy support
  • Defense in depth by employing techniques like multifactor authentication
  • Protocol inspection to defeat buffer overrun type attacks
  • Centralised visibility and monitoring to meet compliance and policy enforcement

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Huge transfers clogging your network?

Increase in files size means longer transmission timeframes

Overview

Digitisation, globalisation and outsourcing have all contributed to larger file sizes. As file sizes have ballooned, so has the time to transmit them between systems. If you are like most organisations this means some critical business processes are delayed waiting for the data to arrive.

Break the transfer speed barrier
It is not your network speed that is holding up your large file transfers. The problem lies in the TCP/IP protocol that is transporting the file. Sterling Managed File Transfer™ offers you new capabilities to speed your large file transmissions including:

  • New stateless protocol that can speed transfers up to 400%
  • Parallel delivery that can speed transfers over WebSphere MQ
  • Checkpoint/restart that can make sure that if a problem occurs the retransmit starts right where it was interrupted, not from the beginning
  • Transparent compression that can make large files smaller

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Reduce partner onboarding timeframes

Security cannot be an afterthought

Overview

Across all industries, organisations are experiencing rapid growth in their trading partner networks. Companies are expanding their businesses, both organically and through mergers and acquisitions, which compounds already slow onboarding timeframes. Complicated and time-consuming onboarding hurts revenue and customer satisfaction, whereas rapid onboarding capabilities can act as a competitive advantage. Now more than ever, leaders want to save time and engage new partners quickly.

Managed File Transfer automates the process
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ can reduce the time and effort required to onboard your trading partners. Its capabilities provide you with:

  • Automated file transfer setup with reusable templates for common file transfer patterns
  • Partner Management from one central location
  • Group-based control and administration of partners
  • Industry Standard connectivity and security options

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Visibility for better control of data movement

It is hard to fix problems you don’t know about

Overview

Where is the file? With industry error rates running at an average of eight percent, you probably get this question more than you want. This is further complicated by the fact that some transfers are tied to SLA transmission problems before you got the call from your internal or external customer.

Managed File Transfer delivers actionable information
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ provides centralised visibility and monitoring to show you where critical problems are before your customer calls. This goes beyond server level monitoring to individual file transfer events that are passed through a rules engine to let you see just the actionable information you need. It provides you with:

  • Central visibility and tracking for all data movement activities
  • Proactive SLA management with alerts and notifications
  • Exception management through retry, reprocess, and resend capabilities

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File Transfer Security

Security cannot be an afterthought

Overview

You know the drill, “Can you set this one little transfer up to feed this application?” and “Oh, and can you also send an email when it finishes?” You probably have hundreds or thousands of these little scripts that were not too hard to implement, but are hard to maintain, monitor and manage. And now a new requirement comes along like, “All internal transfers must be encrypted.” How are you going to update all those scripts? How do you document all of those transfers for compliance reporting?

Managed File Transfer simplifies automation
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ offers you simplified automation patterns that will greatly reduce the number of scripts that you have to write and maintain. It will also reduce the time it takes to build a new connection, while giving you central management and monitoring. Simplified automation is achieved through:

  • A template library that has pre-built processes like rename, unzip, and notify
  • APIs that support direct interfaces for transfer
  • Process tools including modelling and execution
  • Mailboxing for secure collection and distribution of transfers

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Meet compliance requirements for data movement

Regulations are only getting tougher

Overview

Do you find yourself dealing with compensating controls, certifications, regulatory reporting, and security audits? The level of industry and government oversight for the security of consumer identity information is growing exponentially, and having a direct impact on data movement. All of this comes at a time when acquisitions, outsourcing, and globalisation are requiring even more data be sent outside the four walls.

Managed File Transfer makes compliance easier
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ has central visibility and monitoring capabilities that provide a central database of all file transfer events against which reports can be generated. This means every failure and success can be documented and validated. Additionally, compliance is simplified through:

  • Access control with central management of user roles and responsibilities
  • Audit trails with central reporting for all file transfer activity and proof of transaction
  • Policy enforcement with central configuration management
  • License key management, including the ability to import keys from email

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Assured data movement

Overview

Depending on where you sit in your organization, the way you think about file transfer is probably different. If you sit in data transmissions, you might think of batch transfer, and define it as system-to-system automated transfer. Those in B2B integration tend to think of it as related to EDI. The average knowledge worker just sees it as something they have to figure out when the email server says the file they have tried to attach to an email is too large. The reality is, all of these are facets of the data movement challenge.

Managed File Transfer handles all types of data movement
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ addresses all types of data movement whether batch, B2B or unmanaged. It provides a common framework that handles all of these different scenarios while providing:

  • Assured delivery with built-in automation and checkpoint restart
  • Simplified integration patterns with support for templates, plug-ins, APIs and mailboxing
  • Enterprise scale capacity designed to handle tens of thousands of trading partners, terabyte size files, and hundreds of thousands of payloads per day
  • Interoperation with your environment, including high availability and clustering, load balancing and native support for IBM System z Sysplex

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Centralized Control

It is hard to fix problems you don’t know about

Overview

Where is the file? With industry error rates running at an average of eight percent, you probably get this question more than you want. This is further complicated by the fact that some transfers are tied to SLA transmission problems before you got the call from your internal or external customer.

Managed File Transfer delivers actionable information
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ provides centralized visibility and monitoring to show you where critical problems are before your customer calls. This goes beyond server level monitoring to individual file transfer events that are passed through a rules engine to let you see just the actionable information you need. It provides you with:

  • Central visibility and tracking for all data movement activities
  • Proactive SLA management with alerts and notifications
  • Exception management through retry, reprocess, and resend capabilities

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Accelerated transport

Increase in files size means longer transmission timeframes

Overview

Digitization, globalization and outsourcing have all contributed to larger file sizes. As file sizes have ballooned, so has the time to transmit them between systems. If you are like most organizations this means some critical business processes are delayed waiting for the data to arrive.

Break the transfer speed barrier
It is not your network speed that is holding up your large file transfers. The problem lies in the TCP/IP protocol that is transporting the file. Sterling Managed File Transfer™ offers you new capabilities to speed your large file transmissions including:

  • New stateless protocol that can speed transfers up to 400%
  • Parallel delivery that can speed transfers over WebSphere MQ
  • Checkpoint/restart that can make sure that if a problem occurs the retransmit starts right where it was interrupted, not from the beginning
  • Transparent compression that can make large files smaller

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Advanced security

Security cannot be an afterthought

Overview

With the growth in data security breaches, and the increased amount of sensitive customer data traveling in files, security is a critical concern for all organizations. Recent survey data shows that companies are turning to “on-the-wire” encryption as a first line of defense. This includes technologies like SFTP and FTPS. While an important first step, transfer encryption does not address the protection of “data-at-rest” on the file transfer server. And since this is an add-on to standard FTP, it means implementing and maintaining it is more difficult

Managed File Transfer offers advanced security
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ provides a comprehensive solution to all your data movement security requirements. It goes beyond basic transfer encryption to provide you with:

  • Perimeter security security through advanced proxy support
  • Defence in depth by employing techniques like multifactor authentication
  • Protocol inspection to defeat buffer overrun type attacks
  • Centralized visibility and monitoring to meet compliance and policy enforcement

Close [x]

Regulatory Audit

Regulations are only getting tougher

Overview

Do you find yourself dealing with compensating controls, certifications, regulatory reporting, and security audits? The level of industry and government oversight for the security of consumer identity information is growing exponentially, and having a direct impact on data movement. All of this comes at a time when acquisitions, outsourcing, and globalization are requiring even more data be sent outside the four walls.

Managed File Transfer makes compliance easier
Sterling Managed File Transfer™ has central visibility and monitoring capabilities that provide a central database of all file transfer events against which reports can be generated. This means every failure and success can be documented and validated. Additionally, compliance is simplified through:

  • Access control with central management of user roles and responsibilities
  • Audit trails with central reporting for all file transfer activity and proof of transaction
  • Policy enforcement with central configuration management
  • License key management, including the ability to import keys from email

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