Axway Managed File Transfer
Securely exchange files, integrate systems, and automate business processes. Axway MFT reduces manual effort, lightening the load on your teams so they can focus more on business growth.
6,500,000 new vehicles
Over 70 automotive manufacturers rely on our solutions to help build 6.5 million vehicles every year.
80% of global flight bookings
We support 80% of airline ticket purchases and around 47,000 flights every day.
$700 trillion in payments
We help more than 35 tier-1 banks and financial organizations transfer over $700 trillion in payments annually.
The world runs on Axway Managed File Transfer
Axway’s heritage of security, reliability, and scalability spans over half a century. Every day, we enable over 2,500 organizations to transfer trillions of files successfully, supporting the daily lives of one third of the global population.
You have file transfer needs. Axway MFT meets them.
With a portfolio of solutions well suited for different requirements, our managed file transfer solutions cover everything from inbound gateway, to internal file movements, to cloud object storage integration.
SecureTransport
A secure and scalable MFT gateway used by thousands of organizations to receive and send files between internal servers, external parties, applications, and the cloud.
Transfer CFT
Decentralized peer-to-peer transfers for large networks, where disparate segments, servers, applications, and cloud elements require reliable connectivity.
Workbench
Visibility and observability into the health of all Axway MFT instances and every file transfer outcome, plus automated notifications workflows and self-service MFT operations.
Financial Integration
Extend existing MFT functionality with both an EBICS client and gateway for sending payment messages, and/or a SWIFT client for communication with the SWIFTNet.
Secure Client
A simple and secure file exchange client-side application that empowers users to connect to supplier, customer, and partner file transfer servers.
MFT Cloud Services
All of the Axway MFT capabilities available in the cloud. MFT Cloud Services is offered as a customer managed instance, or as our managed service.
Transfer high-value files and data, worry-free
We understand that managed file transfer powers some of your most important business processes and is critical to daily operations. That’s why Axway MFT is built on three core tenets of security, reliability, and scalability.
Answer every security team question with a confident yes
Strong security shouldn’t have to be requested — but too often, it is. We provide industry-leading and purpose-built solutions with security embedded as standard, allowing you to confidently answer all questions from your security team in the affirmative.
- Proxy connections to and from the internet.
- Protect files at-rest and in-transit with FIPS validated algorithms.
- Manage identities centrally through federation.
- Track individual files end-to-end in their journeys.
- Audit all and any actions made by user accounts.
- Rely on robust and modern application testing methodologies.
A solution you don’t have to constantly check
Managed file transfer solutions power critical business operations, keeping the organization functioning and the business active. Because any interruption is disruption, our solutions have been built to be your most reliable team member.
- Update and upgrade without downtime or interruption.
- Be notified of late, missing, or unexpected files via multiple channels.
- Perform corrective actions from a central console.
- Retry failed transfers automatically.
- Create self-service routines to replace time-consuming workflows.
Support business growth, don't hold it back
Outgrowing a solution is painful and can limit the growth aspirations of your business. No one wants to be the person holding back progress because a solution they invested in years ago has scalability issues.
- Pay for consumption, not for packages and features you don’t need.
- Install on an array of operating systems and containers.
- Support hybrid environments and cloud-to-ground operations.
- Reduce team burden with automated management and self-service.
- Support increased throughput with high-availability options.
- Comfortably handle millions of files without breaking a sweat.
Compliant file exchanges
Transferring files is the easy part. Ensuring you meet the local legislative and industry requirements isn’t. With our security-first approach, we have helped countless customers with GDPR, ISO27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and other regulatory mandates.
Business process automation
The aim of managed file transfers is to empower business growth through automation of business processes. Whether it's order processing, stock management, logistics or manufacturing, our MFT solutions can help you automate.
Empower continuous AI learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) require huge quantities of information to be effective. Managed file transfer can be used to not only move files for initial training, but also ensure LLMs receive the latest information available from the business.
Integrate with SWIFT and EBICS
The global economy moves trillions of dollars every day, utilizing both SwiftNET and EBICS. Axway MFT can be extended to automate financial processes and make sure everyone gets paid on time.
Ground-to-cloud activities
Today’s networks are hybrid and disparate and ensuring they're connected and synchronized can be challenging. With several deployment options, including cloud and containers, Axway MFT is the glue that keeps all network zones working as one.
Move forward with self-service
Automation alone doesn’t solve all problems; human factors must be accounted for. Whether it's through REST API or operational management capabilities, Axway MFT champions self-service for both adoption and cost-efficiency.
Why Axway MFT is the market leader
Axway is the only vendor with a dedicated focus on data exchange technology that provides both critical reliability and support for high-volume throughputs. Others move files; we enhance business processes.
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In 2024, Axway was the fastest growing MFT vendor when compared with its peers in the managed file transfer suites marketplace.
Host Axway MFT on your preferred hyperscaler
Axway MFT is ready to be deployed from the AWS and Microsoft Azure marketplaces. It's perfect for businesses who are strategically aligned with either of these platforms and who already have in-house cloud expertise and infrastructure investments.
- Instant no-code deployment of Axway Managed File Transfer.
- Effortless, high availability with availability zones.
- Complementary and integrated security capabilities.
- Leverage your existing hyperscaler budgets.
- Scale effortlessly with infinite scale-out and elasticity.
- Choose the regions and availability zones which suit you.
Reduce your migration pain
Moving to any managed file transfer solution is not easy -- shifting business processes, re-onboarding partners, and training your teams can make it a difficult project. Axway has developed tools and processes that ease migrations and reduce adoption time.
- Map and convert existing solution exports into an Axway format.
- Easily migrate workflows, logs, permission sets, and customizations.
- Rapidly and automatically re-onboard partner accounts.
- Train with self-paced online courses through Axway University.
- Enjoy tailored instructor-led courses with an expert consultant.
The ability to send and receive data in a timely manner is crucial: we even use MFT to update the app that provides briefing information to our flight crews. Any delays or disruptions to file transfers have the potential to disrupt our customer-facing services, so we need our MFT services online around the clock.
Kat Cooper
Learn more about managed file transfer
If you're still learning about MFT or think MFT could benefit your organization, take a look at our frequently asked questions - or reach out to our team for more information.
What is managed file transfer?
Managed file transfer is a secure, reliable technology for sharing critical business data.
MFT software is designed to meet the compliance and performance requirements necessary to send and receive high-value, high-volume files such as money transfers, sensitive data containing personal information, or proprietary business files.
Because you can manage all your critical data transfers across the enterprise from a single pane of glass, MFT gives you complete visibility and control into where data goes. MFT is more reliable, secure, and easier to manage than protocols like FTP or HTTP, making it the preferred solution for data transfer.
How does MFT work?
Managed file transfer software simplifies data and file transfers by providing a centralized, self-service solution for managing, securing, and monitoring the exchange of large volumes of data. These exchanges can be made by both internal and external applications or users on an automatic or ad-hoc basis.
Once an application or user initiates a data transfer, the MFT solution will encrypt the data to ensure it stays secure in motion and at rest. It may also compress the data to improve delivery speed. Once the data is prepared for delivery, it’s sent to the recipient using your chosen security protocols. The data transfer is completely managed and tracked through the MFT solution, making it simple to create audit trails that ensure regulatory compliance.
MFT software is useful for managing massive amounts of file transfers while ensuring data security. APIs make it simple to easily integrate file transfers into business applications for rapid innovation and delivery of new services. And because the entire MFT ecosystem can be centrally managed and controlled, you can easily monitor performance and correct issues before they impact your business or create missed SLAs.
What are the benefits of MFT?
Secure file transfers are at the core of every business. However, many file transfer protocols are inflexible, complicated, and provide limited ability to adapt to new digital business processes or partner data exchange use cases. In addition, they often require significant IT time and resources, restricting business agility.
With a managed file transfer solution, you can meet the growing demand for secure management that can protect data exchange while ensuring you meet compliance requirements. The benefits of MFT include:
- Improved security and governance with centralized control of the entire MFT ecosystem via a single administration console, ensuring service level agreements and PCI DSS compliance requirements are met.
- Self-service capabilities that empower business users to create file transfer services, subscribe partners, and manage file transfers.
- Centralized administration to reduce complexity and standardize all administration tasks for the entire MFT ecosystem.
- Operational intelligence and predictive analytics to prevent errors and ensure business quality.
- Integration capabilities that ensure IT and business user capabilities are easily integrated programmatically into third-party or custom applications.
- Ability to handle all file transfer use cases regardless of initiator, recipient, protocol, format, or schema.
- Flexible deployment models including on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud.
- Unlimited scalability that allows your organization to meet its current and future data transfer needs.
Who needs MFT?
New ways of working require organizations to evolve and modernize to meet changing business needs. As business data transfer requirements become larger, more frequent, and increasingly complex, it has the potential to create friction between IT and business users in terms of managing resources, creating integrations, and maintaining operational visibility.
Managed file transfer is a requirement for any business or organization that regularly sends or receives massive data volumes that require a high level of security. MFT provides a single, highly scalable solution to meet all the file transfer needs of your organization, allowing you to significantly reduce your operating costs, gain complete visibility into your data transfers, and improve your ability to integrate data transfers into your other business systems or services.
Which capabilities should I look for in MFT?
Not all MFT file transfer solutions are created equal. Many legacy MFT solutions are complex and complicated, which can require a large team of MFT experts to install, run, and maintain. This can increase your file transfer costs while reducing business agility as you wait for the MFT software integration team to create new file transfer flows for partners or customers.
Here’s what to look for when choosing a modern MFT solution:
- Self-service capabilities.
- Operational intelligence.
- Centralized administration.
- Unlimited scalability.
- Support for all file transfer use cases.
- Comprehensive integration capabilities.
- Flexible deployment model.
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