So the decision is made to acquire a commercial MFT solution and customize it to meet your business needs instead of developing an in-house solution.īy choosing a commercial MFT solution, your company can quickly get access to these necessary features. The study also indicates that it will take years to support required features and your company does not have the expertise to build the solution in-house. You conduct a study to figure out total cost of ownership, time to market, and organizational capabilities for building a solution in-house.The study clearly shows that developing a modern file transfer platform, routinely enhancing it, and maintaining it on an ongoing basis is cost prohibitive. The strategic question you want to answer is whether to build versus buy. The near term and future business objectives require a solution with a higher level of security, file transfer automation, support for modern protocols, visibility of file transfers, reporting and metrics, and scalability. In addition to the medium term needs, you are also looking at the long term road map of your file transfer solution. You have recently been asked to enhance the file transfer solution capabilities to meet one or more business objectives. You manage an adhoc file transfer (FTP) solution your business uses for exchanging files with trading partners. You are an IT manager/director responsible for a number of application systems at your organization. Is your organization realizing the need for MFT? Consider the following: To solve these problems, businesses need Managed File Transfer (MFT). Additionally, the sheer size of the data being moved around creates Big Data challenges. Businesses are using diverse mechanisms for moving data around. Today more than ever businesses need to protect sensitive data from security risks. The more data gets moved around the public internet, the more it is susceptible to theft, forgery, and other illegal uses. Cloud computing, real time processing and supply chain automation are creating increased demand for data sharing among businesses.
In this age of internet, smart phones, faster computers and networks, data sharing is exploding at a rate unfathomable even a few years ago.