Maintain Business Agility with Axway Transfer (formerly Axway CFT)

Axway Transfer (formerly Axway CFT) is a non-intrusive multi-platform file and message transfer controller designed for growing organizations that need to maintain business agility. Ensuring the same quality of service and a uniform interface to users and applications throughout the enterprise — regardless of the underlying platforms — Axway Transfer reduces the design, implementation, and operations costs associated with increasingly complex and interdependent business processes.

Axway Transfer is more flexible, manageable, and secure than conventional, application-based file transfer approaches.

Meet changing business requirements in any IT environment.

Transfer provides inherent data-conversion capabilities across more than 20 different platforms, from Windows to UNIX and Linux, to mainframes and the AS400.

You can also implement different modes of event-driven data transfer. For example, you can use Transfer as a server to broadcast multiple files from a mainframe to distributed applications, and you can also use it as a client to pull data from branch offices to corporate headquarters.

You can submit new transfer requests from Web Services invocation, Java classes, C/Cobol APIs, a command-line interface, or a Web-based user interface.

Protect sensitive data.

SSL-secured connections ensure the authentication of connected endpoints, as well as the integrity and confidentiality of exchanged data. In addition, Transfer can leverage S/MIME, CMS and/or PGP to encrypt and decrypt data at rest based on security policies you define. That means files are secured from the moment they are created, independent of the data communication method used for file delivery. And Transfer ensures non-repudiation through built-in cryptographic file integrity testing, user authentication, encrypted transfer and storage, and a centralized audit trail.

Improve manageability and visibility.

Transfer does a lot more than move data around securely. Business-oriented monitoring, transfer services, and end-to-end configuration and control are available and adaptable for both business managers and IT staff. Axway Transfer enables you to view the state of transfers, audit transfer histories in compliance with government regulations, receive alerts when a problem occurs (including non-events), and quickly act to remedy transfer issues.

Reduce Cost and Optimize IT resources.

Configurable strategies for connection retries, checkpoint/restart, and backup paths optimize usage of IT resources and infrastructure and help minimize labor-intensive, break-and-fix procedures. Parallel transfer allows you to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Other advanced features include store-and-forward file routing, broadcasting, priority planning, and file compression.

Maximize business responsiveness and fulfill SLAs.

Transfer enables just-in-time file-data processing with either an event-oriented approach to processing or a conventional, schedule-based approach. This means that file data is processed as soon as the event occurs, eliminating all latencies and providing fast, Straight Through Processing (STP).