Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer vs Fortra's Globalscape WAFS comparison

Axway and Fortra are both solutions in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category. Axway is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.6, while Fortra is ranked #20. Axway holds a 4.3% mindshare in MFT, compared to Fortra’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Axway users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer and Fortra's Globalscape WAFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Axway AMPLIFY Managed File ...

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortra's Globalscape WAFS

Ranking in Managed File Transfer (MFT)

20th

Average Rating

4.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) category, the mindshare of Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer is 4.3%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's Globalscape WAFS is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Managed File Transfer (MFT) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer	4.3%
Fortra's Globalscape WAFS	1.3%
Other	94.4%

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Manikanth Reddykistammagari

Senior System Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Centralized monitoring has improved secure file transfers and supports proactive operations

Centralized monitoring and alerting make it easier and quicker to identify failed or delayed transfers. Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer has secure protocol support like SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS, which allow safe data exchange with different partners. These features have positively impacted the organization by improving transfer reliability, strengthening security and compliance, reducing manual effort, and enabling faster issue resolutions. This helps ensure consistent delivery and better partner satisfaction. The automation and scheduling capability is especially valuable as it allows us to standardize recurring transfers, reduce manual interventions, and minimize errors. I also appreciate the retry and recovery mechanism, which helps ensure files are delivered when there are temporary network or partner-side issues. Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer's scalability and centralized management allow us to manage multiple partners and high volume from a single platform while maintaining strong security and visibility. Overall, the feature set helps us keep transfers reliable, secure, and easy to support in a production environment.

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it_user2754

IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees

We dropped the product because of the corruption issue.

Two main issues. 1) It can be a bandwidth resource hog over a small WAN link. We would routinely saturate a 3Mbps link with WAFS. This can be mitigated with tuning what gets replicated. 2) In some cases, it can look like the files get replicated because the files have the correct date, file size, etc. However, the file itself was actually all nulls. In our replication case, we had more than 10,000 files get corrupted this way (out of 1.2 million). GlobalScape support basically said that there were issues with W2K8 R2 but the problem actually dated back to 2008 on a W2K3 server.We dropped the product because of the corruption issue.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In the past, we needed multiple IT personnel to set up the file transfers, but now we have a three-person team handling all file transfer requests for the entire organization, which is a massive return on investment."

"The capability to write for my specific needs, meaning the possibility of easily extending the product features to get what I need, is a very important feature for managing transfers with different environments and is very helpful for troubleshooting."

"Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer has positively impacted our organization by making our work easy to use and saving most of our time."

"Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer has positively impacted my organization because it has effectively provided us with all of the work logs and made us very compatible with the outside world while enforcing security standards inside the company."

"It is an easy-to-use and stable product."

"The product is simple for encrypting data transfer of all the assets in our system."

"AMPLIFY has all the essential features for managing file transfer."

"It provides a good amount of storage capacity for a reasonable price and has a good range of connectors."

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"When it works, WAFS is a good way to keep data synchronized between multiple servers in multiple locations."

Cons

"It is complicated to manage multi-operations, particularly in handling file name changes within file transcripts."

"Sometimes, the application's embedded databases couldn't perform well for a higher volume of data."

"The tool can try to make it a little bit more flexible so that we can easily invoke the APIs, and in such a way, it can be made a little bit better."

"We only hope that they continue to keep updating the solution and improving the offering. They could always do more updates and releases."

"Their monitoring is not up to the mark and needs improvement."

"Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer can be improved with more logging or easier onboarding."

"We only hope that they continue to keep updating the solution and improving the offering."

"The initial setup was quite complex."

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"In some cases, it can look like the files get replicated because the files have the correct date, file size, etc. However, the file itself was actually all nulls."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform's price aligns with the market."

"Pricing and licensing is related to the protocols you choose to support."

"It is quite expensive, and because of that, we get good service from them in return for the price paid."

"AMPLIFY's license is a one-time investment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Retailer

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	9

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer has been very reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

I think Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer can be improved in marketing, and they should also focus on more information about selling their product because such a useful product has not been used ...

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What is your primary use case for Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer?

I use Axway AMPLIFY Managed File Transfer mainly for integration projects. It has been used to pick up files from a source and place them in a destination of our choice and then configure them. In ...

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Also Known As

SecureTransport, Axway SecureTransport, AMPLIFY MFT

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Overview

As a multi-protocol MFT gateway, Axway SecureTransport provides the flexibility you need to support virtually any MFT use case. Secure, manage, and track file flows among people and applications inside your enterprise, and beyond your firewall to your user communities, mobile devices, and the cloud. Perform high-volume automated file transfers between systems, sites, lines of business and external partners, to user-driven communications and mobile, folder- and portal-based file sharing.

Axway

With WAFS you can synchronize files, simplify collaboration, eliminate errors, and decrease bandwidth usage. Files can be located anywhere in the world, even in the cloud, providing remote file access from anywhere. Reduce 95% of network traffic by transparently replicating files between servers or desktops on any scale, while boosting performance. With the WAFS Vault, there's no need for a backup solution in every office. All locations save their documents to the Vault.

Fortra

Sample Customers

BNP Paribas Securities Services, Bollor_, E.ON AG Group, BMW Group, IdenTrust, Gassco, International Post Corporation, SNCF, DB Schenker Logistics, Logius, CSCA, La Poste

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