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Stonebranch pros and cons

Vendor: Stonebranch
4.4 out of 5

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PROS

Stonebranch Universal Agent is highly valued for its ability to work across multiple technology stacks and reducing dependency gaps between workflow steps.
Stonebranch is credited with saving money and man-hours while ensuring timely support and maintenance.
Security is a standout feature with SFTP for secured file transfers along with encryption and antivirus scanning.
Stonebranch offers excellent support, providing quick responses and good customer service over the years.
Stonebranch has simplified integration and centralized automation across platforms, improving workflow efficiency and speed.

CONS

Stonebranch is more expensive compared to GoAnywhere MFT due to its wide range of services and protocols.
FTP tasks have been problematic, especially after UAC switched to cURL, causing issues.
REST API needs improvement by exposing more information about running instances.
Occasionally, agents do not come back up after OS patching, often requiring a restart.
Stonebranch lacks cloud availability, impacting safety, security, and scalability.
 

Stonebranch Pros review quotes

Saktheeswaran Ravichandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 8, 2026
In every way, Stonebranch is a very much improved product in the industry.
Sam Obula - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at Infosys
Feb 17, 2026
Stonebranch's security stands out to me because I use SFTP for secured file transfers, which includes encryptions and antivirus scanning to block any files containing viruses from transferring.
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Associate Engineer Emerging Technology at Progression Infonet Pvt Ltd
Apr 2, 2026
For support, as compared with GoAnywhere, Stonebranch is more supportive because they respond quickly.
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Siddharth Matalia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 27, 2023
We like that it has GUI and is not just a command line.
Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate
Sep 15, 2022
The support is good from Stonebranch Universal Automation Center.
Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate
May 26, 2022
Stonebranch performs well, and the graphical representation is excellent. Overall, it requires more technical effort from our teams, but the solution is intuitive, so anybody can use it.
Sushil-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at Mphasis
Nov 30, 2023
The features are upgraded, and every six months they're releasing patches.
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Application and Database Administrator at Blue Bird Corp
Apr 22, 2020
The tasks are incredibly capable, and as long as you name them with a nice, uniform naming convention, they are very useful. You can create some interesting workflows through various machines, or you can just have it kick off single tasks. All in all, I really like the Universal Task. You can do some mutually exclusive stuff, such as an "A not B" kind of thing. It has a lot of capabilities behind the scenes.
Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services
Aug 22, 2019
The Universal Agent is the most valuable feature. Being agent-based and being able to go across multiple technology stacks, which is what our workflows do, Stonebranch gives us the ability to bridge those disparate technologies. It enables us to remove the dependency-gap with the agent so we know the status of the workflow at each step.
MB
Systems Programmer II at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
May 28, 2019
The ability to monitor tasks that are on the open-system side as well as our mainframe side gives us a one-window view of all our processes.
 

Stonebranch Cons review quotes

Saktheeswaran Ravichandran - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 8, 2026
I feel that Stonebranch can be improved in certain areas.
Sam Obula - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at Infosys
Feb 17, 2026
Stonebranch is not stable as it has its flaws.
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Associate Engineer Emerging Technology at Progression Infonet Pvt Ltd
Apr 2, 2026
Stonebranch is more expensive compared with GoAnywhere MFT because they provide many types of services, protocols, and broader features in their product.
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Siddharth Matalia - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 27, 2023
It can be hard to manage the task monitor.
Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate
Sep 15, 2022
Stonebranch Universal Automation Center could improve the analytics.
Atul Pednekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Colgate
May 26, 2022
I would rate Stonebranch somewhere in the middle for ease of setup. It wasn't too straightforward for us because our infrastructure is complex.
Sushil-Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Software Engineer at Mphasis
Nov 30, 2023
It's not available on the cloud, so they should take that due to safety, security, and scalability.
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Application and Database Administrator at Blue Bird Corp
Apr 22, 2020
There is room for improvement with its connectivity with the Microsoft SRS system. It is very weak. They keep telling us it works with it, and technically it does, but it does not provide a lot of visibility. We have lost a lot of visibility migrating to Stonebranch, compared with just running tasks on the SRS server. That's really about the only thing that is a sore point for us.
Earl Diem - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager - Performance and Automation Engineering at PSCU Financial Services
Aug 22, 2019
Occasionally, we have an agent that doesn't come back up after patching. That doesn't happen very often... It's really just a restart of the agent and it comes back up. But that might be one thing that could be improved.
MB
Systems Programmer II at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
May 28, 2019
I have a request regarding our agent on the mainframe. It may time out when communicating to the Universal Controller, when the mainframe is extremely busy. That can cause a task which is running at that time to not see the results of the job that ran on the mainframe. It happens sporadically during times of really busy CPU usage. We're expecting that enhancement from them in the fourth quarter.