Exploring capabilities for greater MFT visibility, observability, and operations management
Managing and monitoring vast file transfer deployments across your MFT ecosystem can be a real challenge, especially where operational health, security, and fulfilling SLAs are crucial.
Do you have the right level of MFT capabilities to achieve this?
Axway does.
With Axway Workbench, Sentinel, and our core MFT gateway and controller, you have access to all the capability options you need for total ecosystem visibility, process observability and insight, and operational control — everything that strengthens the “M” in MFT. Compare the features and decide.
Axway MFT Operations Management Solutions
Visibility, observability, and operational control comparison
Workbench
- Out-of-the-box reports and dashboards, rules and alerts natively integrated with the products.
- In-depth observability into core products health and security.
- Central operation and configuration administration.
- Granular access to data and dashboards/reports.
SecureTransport/Transfer CFT native
- Basic file tracking and troubleshooting.
- Individual operation and configuration administration. Granular access N/A.
Sentinel
Custom DIY monitoring reports and dashboards, alerts and rules for limited visibility. Consistent effort and deep technical knowledge required.
Native MFT operations management in Axway core products
Axway’s core MFT products provide native capabilities for operations monitoring and management. That includes basic file tracking and troubleshooting, along with operational control over individual product instances.
SecureTransport is Axway’s gateway MFT solution, which gives you secure, policy-driven file transfer across internal and external networks. Axway Transfer CFT is our agent-based, point-to-point MFT engine, optimized for internal, large-scale, and high-reliability file flows between endpoints.
Axway Workbench
Axway Workbench takes the operations management capabilities of Axway’s flagship MFT products to a whole new level. Workbench is a central visibility, observability, and control point for all your Transfer CFT and SecureTransport deployments, delivering faster resolution times, better resource usage, and improved operational health.
- Monitor operational health and start/restart processes from a single console with real-time visibility across your MFT environments
- Track files and transfer statuses with a consolidated view across large and complex MFT deployments with multiple product instances — no more switching between systems
- Monitor key metrics against SLAs with out-of-the box, customizable dashboards requiring no special technical expertise to configure and use
- Set up notifications and alerts with out-of-the-box templates for transfer failures, SLA breaches, compliance drift, or other anomalies
- Integrate seamlessly with email, Microsoft Teams, and ServiceNow for real-time alerting
- Empower IT and line-of-business teams with self-service and modern user experiences
Axway Sentinel
This flexible, event-based data modeling toolkit enables you to build your own dashboards, reports and alerts. It gives you the right technical expertise to build an operations management capability spanning both Axway MFT and third-party systems.
- End-to-end tracking and visibility provide real-time, end-to-end tracking of business transactions across systems, giving full visibility into data flows
- Real-time monitoring and alerts respond to transactions as they happen and trigger alerts for failures, anomalies, or SLA breaches to enable fast issue resolution
- Advanced analytics correlate events from multiple sources to reconstruct transaction lifecycles and support trend identification and decision-making
- Custom dashboards and reporting visualize transaction status, KPIs, and operational performance displayed on web and mobile interfaces
Comparing Workbench and Sentinel
| Workbench | Sentinel | |
| Product profile |
New-generation MFT monitoring, visibility, and operations management solution for Axway SecureTransport and Axway Transfer CFT. Simplifies and improves SecureTransport and Transfer CFT management and administration. Not a data modeling tool for building custom dashboards and reports. Empowers IT teams with self-service through modern UX and out-of-the-box dashboards and alerting templates. |
Powerful and flexible event-driven data modeling tool for Axway MFT and other systems. Requires consistent effort and deep technical knowledge to develop features comparable to Workbench. Provides DIY toolkit for building reports, dashboards, and events-based alerting for MFT, B2Bi, Axway Financial Accounting Hub, and third-party systems. |
| What's next? | Lays the foundation for AI automation to boost operational efficiency. | New, easier to use UX/UI now in development. |
Take control of MFT with Axway
Every day, Axway gives over 2,500 organizations the precise capabilities they need to transfer trillions of files successfully, supporting the daily lives of one third of the global population. With Axway Workbench, Axway Sentinel, and our proven MFT core products, you have access to a range of capabilities that let you take full control of your MFT operations, scale as you grow, and truly optimize the “M” in MFT.
Ready to take MFT to new levels of visibility, operational efficiency, and control?
