Managed File Transfer

File transfer in an enterprise isn't as simple as it sounds. One may go on on about the problems around it, few of the common problems are tracking, monitoring to ensure successful transfer.

Traditionally, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) has been used as a medium for exchanging files between internal and external systems. As the business and security need rises, it is relatively difficult manage such transfers using plain FTP. Nowadays, File transfers are not just limited to FTP but it also happens over FTPS, SSH FTP, OFTP, HTTP and more sophisticated protocols like AS2, Web Services, SOAP, EBXML etc.

The more advanced protocols offers greater security and flexibility in terms of correlation etc. And, this is good for an enterprise/industry to securely transfer files/data over wire. However, the basic problem of tracking, monitoring and error handling remains to be a bottleneck.

We need a system to manage such transfers and that should have capability of auditing, tracking and redelivery mechanism in case of transfer failures. This is the problem "Managed File Transfer" tries to address.