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Axway Managed File Transfer Solutions
Secure, Auditable, and Easy-to-Manage
Axway MFT solutions transform
network file transfer from a specialty
application into an infrastructure pillar,
complete with visibility, governance,
and community management.
On average, 80 percent of an organization’s information is contained in files and
messages, many of which are frequently on the move between people, systems,
and applications both inside and beyond the enterprise firewall. To facilitate this
movement of data, many organizations rely on expensive dedicated networks and
proprietary software, or may reluctantly be living with a ticking time bomb made
up of countless unsecured and unmonitored FTP, homegrown and point-to-point
connections.
Either way, the situation isn’t good. Not only are both scenarios difficult to manage,
they are also potentially dangerous. Because if you can’t monitor and track how
files move throughout your trading community—from start to finish—the risks and
repercussions can be serious and far-reaching, including:
Data losses and breaches
Regulatory violations and fines
Missed business opportunities and unmet SLAs
Damaged brands and customer/partner relationships
To mitigate these risks and gain more agility and value from your existing IT assets,
you need to be able to secure and manage all types of file transfer, and provide
information about file transfer events in the right context, to the right people,
at the right time.
Axway Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions provide start-to-finish visibility, policy-
based governance, and robust community management for secure, auditable, and
easy-to-manage Business-to-Business (B2B), Application-to-Application (A2A), and
ad hoc file exchange within existing infrastructures.
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Transforming network file transfer
From specialty application to infrastructure pillar
“We saw this as a great opportunity to
not only look at how we were handling file When you need to exchange purchase orders, invoices, CAD/CAM files, employee/
transfer but also to reduce our expenses HR records, protected health information, logistical data, or any other kind of critical
information across applications, platforms, and protocols that don’t naturally talk
by automating the process.”
to each other, it’s only a matter of time before disjointed connections start to exert
Steve Hester extreme pressure on your infrastructure, budget and staff.
Director of Network and Automation,
Experian Throw in a complex merger or acquisition that creates an even more heterogeneous
IT environment; partners and customers with varying security requirements and
technical capabilities; and a growing regulatory burden and, before you know it,
your entire file transfer environment is spiraling out of control. Transactions fail.
Messages get lost. Documents get corrupted, and data doesn’t match up.
All of this disruption can lead to lost revenue and escalating costs, both in terms of
manpower and resources. And it can open up security holes that put your data and
your company at risk.
Turn your data transmission cost center
Into a productive, cost-reducing business unit
Axway MFT can give you complete control over all types of file transfer—inside your
enterprise, along your supply/value chain, and throughout your trading community.
You can consolidate your ad-hoc, A2A, and B2B file-transfer mechanisms (including
costly VAN/VPN connections and unsecured FTP sites) with a single platform that
supports:
Extremely tight SLAs with the ability to automatically detect, move, and
process files and trigger, manage, and query file transfers as a service
Different customer/partner protocol and format requirements, encryption
policies, and processes for adopting file transfer products
Existing SOA services, including ESB and messaging implementations
Positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
For Managed File Transfer
Axway MFT solutions offer:
Visibility and analytics tools that deliver real-time views into business processes.
Full process encryption, detailed audit trails, logical naming of files across platforms,
and an adaptable architecture that can support new security standards and multi-domain,
multi-network trust models.
Automated provisioning of communication endpoints for partners and customers.
Policy-based content filtering and encryption for systematic and ad-hoc file transfers to
ensure that human error does not cause a breach of confidential data.
Digital certificate management, validation, and authorization checking for security-intensive
PKI-based transaction networks.
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Axway MFT solutions establish the pillars of IT governance—visibility, policy, and community—that enable you to secure,
monitor, and track the information that keeps business processes flowing smoothly throughout your company and your
trading community.
Visibility Policy Community
End-to-end monitoring and tracking of file Policy-driven governance and security measures Rapid, automated on-boarding through secure
movement delivers the granular visibility your protect against data loss and lower the cost last-mile connections simplifies how you
IT staff, business managers, and trading of compliance with a wide range of industry provision, manage, and interact with your trading
partners need to better manage and predict and government regulations, as well as with community, helping to drive core revenue and
cash flows, improve quality of service, and your organization’s internal security and privacy improve customer satisfaction.
reduce costs throughout your data exchange policies.
infrastructure.
Improve business flexibility and boost productivity
With file-based application integration and multi-site file transfer
Even if your data isn’t traveling beyond your company’s firewall, you still need to manage its movement between applications and sites
within your organization.
Axway MFT solutions allow you to securely transfer and track files internally between disparate hardware and software platforms—without
application rewrites. Service orientation means that platforms and applications remain independent of one another, providing a simple
way to leverage SOA for files and ensure maximum business flexibility for future growth.
Consolidated real-time file transfer information from your mainframe, AS/400, ERP, and other internal systems gives you the visibility
you need to gain critical insight into business processes and protect data against accidental leakage and loss.
You can also integrate your Axway MFT Solution with third-party products to create a solution tailor-made for your specific environment
and business requirements.
Architect your file transfer service your way, whether it’s peer-to-peer, hub-and-spoke, or utilizing a File Bus.
Support event-driven, scheduled, store-and-forward, and push or pull file transfer.
Protect business relationships and reduce costs over your entire data exchange environment by detecting and correcting malfunctions
in real time, before they become critical.
Use smoothly triggered processing—on time, every time—to maintain consistent data for all interacting mission-critical applications
and processes.
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Integrate your business with your trading and customer community Axway MFT solutions support all standard
Leveraging secure B2B communications channels messaging protocols, including:
EDI-INT* (AS1/AS2/AS3)
Axway MFT solutions make it easy to create manageable, secure, and auditable two- OFTP (V1 and V2) over X.25,
way communications channels over the Internet and private IP networks—with any TCP/IP, and ISDN
business partner. No matter what applications, systems, or platforms you or your
ebXML*
trading community have in place, you can:
RosettaNet (V1.1 and V2.0)
Automate the flow of information with customers, suppliers, distributors, Web services
and partners—without the high cost of VANs, additional infrastructure, or HTTP/S, FTP/S
proprietary software. X.400 over X.25 and TCP/IP
Use naming conventions that dramatically reduce customization workloads (X.420 and X.435)
when implementing new data flows and onboarding new partners. * Certified by the Drummond Group
Manage and audit file transfers in the context of your business, such as tracking
KPIs in real time and providing self-service capabilities to your customers.
Scale your solution to support increasing data volumes, expansion across
multiple business units, and growing trading communities.
Secure data in transit, in the DMZ, and at rest on the server, regardless of
the underlying transport network.
Speed time to market
Through robust community management
“The majority of New York Life’s critical
Axway MFT solutions speed time to market by closing the gap between business applications depend on Axway, but it
relationship management and technical connectivity. isn’t obvious. And that’s what you want:
an MFT solution that is seamless,
Fast, easy, and secure on-boarding of customers and partners allows you to rapidly
super-resilient and utterly transparent.”
grow your business. You can automate enrollment processes like subscription,
registration, provisioning, testing, and operations, and segment your partners and Matt Foley
customers into distinct communities with access to branded, tailored services. Assistant Vice President Systems Services,
New York Life
Robust business process management capabilities help your line-of-business
managers define interactions, and project and quickly respond to changing
business conditions.
Multi-channel consistency enables you to maintain the same levels of
service over the different networks and protocols, and formats your partners
and customers require.
Axway also offers managed services for customer and partner enrollment,
provisioning of communication endpoints, and more.
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Manage and secure ad hoc file exchange
With user-friendly email and portal-based MFT
“Transferring large files with enhanced
By definition, ad-hoc file exchange between people is less structured than security rules often used to take two days.
other transaction patterns, but that doesn’t make managing and securing
it any less important. Now it is done in half an hour.
It is an entirely worry-free procedure for
Still, smart people sometimes do careless things—like sharing files via CD or flash
drive, standard email, or FTP because it’s faster and easier than using a protected, everyone involved.”
auditable channel.
Torsten Kynast
Head of IT,
The unintended consequence is that sensitive data can end up traveling over the Knott
Internet “in the clear,” or getting lost altogether, putting your company at risk for the
kind of data breaches and compliance violations that can land you in the news.
Or worse.
Axway can eliminate the temptation for employees to resort to risky file transfer
methods by bringing enterprise-class MFT capabilities to the tools they already use,
without requiring changes to the way they work.
Email — Prevent data loss, protect data in transit, increase employee productivity,
and reduce IT management costs by enabling users to securely send large file
attachments (up to 50GB) to groups or individuals using the email interfaces
or web-based clients they already know. They simply click a button to attach
and send a large file, and automatically and transparently invoke your corporate
security policies, including content filtering and encryption.
Portal — Provide secure file transfer services via a zero-footprint web interface.
Behind the scenes of your familiar service portal, the completely transparent
Axway gateway guarantees delivery and data integrity, secures data streaming
across the DMZ, supports flexible enterprise authentication and repository
encryption, and enables effective and efficient auditing.
Both options support single sign-on and LDAP integration for easy on-boarding of
new users while maintaining the ability to set and enforce global policies beyond
your corporate network.
Axway MFT solutions can meet the specialized process, policy, and compliance requirements of organizations in a wide range
of highly regulated and service-oriented industries and public sectors.
Industry standards & protocols Government & industry regulations Typical Axway MFT applications
Financial Services & Insurance SWIFT, EBICS, PeSIT, AS2, ISO PCI, SEPA, GLBA, SOX, PSD, NACHA Payment consolidation, Data Loss
20022 Protection (DLP), check images,
claims processing
Healthcare B2, NOEMIE, NOE, DRE, HITECH, HIPAA, HL7 Electronic records, DLP
HL7, DADSU, DUCS, DSN
Manufacturing/CPG/Automotive AS2, ODETTE, OFTP2, VDA Order-to-cash
Government and Defense PKI PRESTO, BAS, DoD 8500.1, eGovernment, identity validation
HSPD-12, HIPAA, FISMA, FIPS-201
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More enterprise software solutions Your solution, your way
from Axway With a flexible architecture and deployment options
Business-to Business (B2B) for
automating and integrating supply or Application-to-Application (A2A) MFT
value chain activities—such as order Axway Transfer CFT
processing, delivery, invoicing, EDI A non-intrusive, high-volume file-transfer service that provides a uniform interface to users and
applications throughout the enterprise, on more supported platforms than any other vendor.
and payments—that involve multiple
business partners and customers. Business-to-Business (B2B) MFT
Axway Interchange
Integration for orchestrating end-to- Reliably and securely connect your enterprise with all of your suppliers, partners, distributors,
end enterprise application integration and service providers across private or public marketplaces of any size.
and data exchanges, both within your Axway Gateway
Connect to partners using a wide range of connectivity methods and quickly integrate new
organization and with your trading
partners and technologies as your business evolves.
community of external partners,
Ad hoc MFT
suppliers, and customers.
Axway SecureTransport™
Email Security for defending your A secure, multi–protocol, directory-based Internet file transfer solution that simplifies and
organization against external and secures data transfer across multiple file sites and applications.
internal threats that can jeopardize Axway File Transfer Direct
Brings traditional MFT principles to email attachments with content-based policy management,
information security and regulatory encryption, authentication, and tracking capabilities.
compliance.
Community management
Identity Security for real-time Axway Endpoints
validation of digital certificates within Establish secure and direct last-mile connections with your partners, suppliers, and
PKI environments, ensuring the customers over the Internet—quickly, efficiently, and reliably.
validity and integrity of highly valued End-to-end visibility
and trusted transactions for security- Axway Sentinel
intensive organizations. Intuitive dashboards for monitoring MFT/B2B events and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
in real time.
Every enterprise has unique file transfer requirements. That’s why Axway MFT
solutions are based on a flexible architecture that lets you select the functionality
you need now, while making it easy and straightforward to add new capabilities
in the future.
Learn more today
To learn more about how Axway MFT can give you complete control over all
types of file transfer and turn your data transmission cost center into a
productive, cost-reducing business unit, call your regional office listed below,
email us at
[email protected], or visit www.axway.com.
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