Feature Details

With more than a decade in the market, MassTransit was created from the ground up to treat file transfers as part of larger business processes.

All features and capabilities in MassTransit are designed to satisfy what organizations require today:

• Focus on ease of use, reliability, service provisioning, visibility and automation
• "Industrial" foundation. Support for large files, thousands of files, thousands of users and multiple sites
• Performance
• Advanced transfer protocols for every need
• Macintosh files handling
• User isolation model for maximum security
• Universal server model. Consolidate all your separate solutions and FTP servers in a single Managed File Transfer service
• Security
• Visibility, tracking, compliance.

To learn more about the capabilities and features we provide in any area of our product, click the link below. If you still have questions or are looking for a feature you don't see described in the following sections please don't hesitate to call us at 1.800.476.8781 / +1.703.528.1555 or email us at sales@grouplogic.com.
 

• End-User Features
• Protocols
• Transfers
• Tracking and Compliance
• Administration

 

End-User Features

MassTransit provides the best end-user experience. Simple and intuitive user interfaces designed to get the job done. No need to learn how to use complex functions. The tools you need are in front of you.

Features

• Web-based portal for file transfers

  Users simply navigate to the file transfer portal using their preferred web browser, select the files they want to send, choose the recipient and click "send". Transferring files couldn't be easier!

• Ad hoc file transfers

  Just as easy as sending an email. Enter an email address, select the files to send and click the Send button.

• Web Browser plug-in for power users

  Do you need to transfer 100 GB files or hundreds of files at once? No problem. The MassTransit Web Client Plug-in supports Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox on Mac and Windows. It also enables advanced features and protocols, including UDP acceleration and MTAP protocol with compression, encryption and support for Mac file integrity. Plus many features for enhanced user experience.

• Supports FTP and SFTP

  MassTransit supports your company's existing FTP clients and FTP servers ensuring compatibility with vendor and customer systems. No need to manage several file transfer systems. Use MassTransit for all your transfer needs.

• "Hot Folder" driven connections

  MassTransit can monitor special "Hot folders" on a file server. Whenever new files are placed in these folders, they are automatically transferred to the appropriate recipient's "Hot folder" on the MassTransit server

• Sends email and SMS notifications

  MassTransit sends email notifications and text messages with every file transfer alerting the recipient that the file is available for download and confirming transfer success for the sender. If a transfer or other error occurs, the sender, recipient and system administrator are automatically alerted.

• Hot email links for easy file retrieval

  Email notifications can include automatically created hot links. When a file is ready for download, MassTransit will send an email which includes a clickable, secure link. The user just clicks the link to begin downloading the file as no login is required with that secure link.

• Branded file transfer web portal

  Brand your file transfer web portal with your organization's logos and colors to increase customer awareness and satisfaction.

Protocols

MassTransit supports many file delivery protocols, each suited to satisfy different requirements.

The currently included protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, MTAP, MTAPS, FTP, SFTP and UDT. The encrypted HTTPS protocol is ideal for most business purposes that require the transfer of small and medium size files (up to 2 GB). Both HTTP and HTTPS protocols support nearly any Internet connection and connect through firewalls and proxy servers. HTTPS provides industry standard encryption via SSL and uses SSL certificates to ensure file transfers are as secure as online banking.

MTAP and MTAPS, the MassTransit Advanced Protocols, provides a number of important enhancements over HTTPS and FTP. MTAP can handle file sizes larger than 100 GB, offers additional encryption options, and handles and preserves folders/directories, compression and cross platform compatibility without the extra step of zipping and unzipping. To support transfers to and from partners who don't have MassTransit, the product includes the FTP and SFTP protocols to allow connections with standard FTP clients and legacy FTP servers.

Features

• Scales to multi Gigabyte file transfers

  MassTransit has been designed to handle even the largest, most complex file transfers. MassTransit can easily handle file transfers of over 100GB made up of thousands of files.

• Seamless support for complex folder structures and Macintosh files

  MassTransit handles complex folder structures with hundreds of sub-folders and thousands of files effortlessly. MassTransit also automatically handles Macintosh file properties. This means that users don't have to worry about zipping files before sending them to preserve these forks. FTP solutions can't handle these situations and critical data can be lost or corrupted and require that these files and folders be zipped before transferring them.

• Lossless inline data compression

  MassTransit ensures fast file transfers by automatically compressing files while being transferred. MTAP's compression technology is lossless, ensuring that no degradation in data quality occurs during transfer.

• Built-in encryption

  MTAP incorporates on-the-fly encryption of files being transferred using AES-128, AES-256, and TripleDES ciphers. This ensures that all file transfers are fully protected and that only the intended recipient will have access to the data.

• Digital certificates

  Authentication via X.509 certificates ensures that file exchanges are made only with intended sites and users. This means that only the intended recipients can access the transferred data files.

Transfers

The use cases for file transfer solutions range from simple person-to-person transfers up to complex business processes that span many users, companies and systems. MassTransit elegantly supports both simple and complex use cases with powerful workflow tools that allow administrators to set up routing and processing rules without scripting and optionally supports scripting to handle more complex situations.

Features

• Client-to-client transfers

  MassTransit makes it very easy for users to send each other files through a web portal. Senders can upload files directly from their desktop. Recipients receive an email with a link to download the file through the browser.

• Site-to-site transfers

  Push and pull files without user intervention. Companies can setup "hot folders" on file servers at multiple sites or companies. Users can simply drag a file or folder into a hot folder and it will be automatically transferred to a hot folder in another location. This streamlines the file transfer process as neither the sender nor the recipient need to have files move through their desktop before they are placed into a working folder on a file server.

• Mixed client and server file transfers

  Users can send files to remote file servers or receive files that have been copied into folders on remote file servers. This means that companies have tremendous flexibility in how and when files are transferred.

• Automated digital supply chains

  MassTransit can automate even the most complex business processes that connect multiple users and systems. Administrators can set up advanced rules for routing files based on metadata, file types and events. MassTransit can also be tightly integrated with third party content management and business application software systems via web portals, databases and production systems.

• Secure, DMZ-based workflows

  Placing MassTransit server inside the DMZ allows files to be sent securely between locations without compromising security. Instead, files can be sent to the DMZ-based MassTransit server and then a second MassTransit server inside the firewall can poll the DMZ server and then pull the files into your network. This ensures that external servers cannot directly access your internal network.

• Advanced automation tools

  MassTransit includes many features that allow companies to tightly control the flow of data to match their business processes. This includes determining when files will be pushed or pulled from each location, automated retries for failed transfers, copy/move file and folder commands and pre and post-process scripting for more advanced customization and system integration.

Tracking and Compliance

MassTransit's logging and reporting capabilities are critical to ensuring both visibility and control. Many organizations are completely blind when it comes to their FTP server usage and operation. They have no idea who is sending or receiving data or what files are being sent. Nor is anyone aware when file transfers fail, making them much less responsive to process interruptions or system downtime. MassTransit provides all of this visibility and much more.

Features

• Comprehensive, auditable, user-friendly log

  MassTransit audits all aspects of the file transfer process. This includes when files were sent, who sent them, when they were received and if any failures occurred. For files in process, MassTransit tracks "send" progress and updates the log as to where files sit in the queue. Finally, MassTransit tracks extensive system performance data including usage and system uptime metrics.

• Web-based access to log

  Many FTP tools include logs, but accessing them is very cumbersome. MassTransit provides an easy to use, human readable web view where all log data can be accessed.

• Ability to search/query log

  MassTransit's web based log view also provides the ability to search transaction logs for any file or message and to filter the information by user, type of file or key events.

• Web-based reporting tools

  MassTransit provides rich, web-based reporting that significantly increases visibility and control into who is using the system and what information is being sent. This information is very important for driving adoption of the software, capacity planning and enforcing IT governance policies, as well as Federal mandates such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
  
  
  
  

Administration

FTP server administration is typically an IT administrator's night job, which is fine if usage of the FTP server is limited to just a few users and a handful of file transfers per week. However, as usage increases, an IT administrator's job becomes much more complex with increased demands for user provisioning, system monitoring, security and server maintenance required. MassTransit streamlines all of this, requiring a fraction of the cost and time that would have otherwise been required to support hundreds of users.

Features

• Remote administration client application

  All aspects of the MassTransit system can be managed remotely using a standalone, intuitive administration client application.

• Active Directory user authentication

  MassTransit can be tightly integrated with Microsoft's Active Directory to enforce user access rights and compliance with corporate credential policies.

• Active Directory automated client provisioning

  MassTransit can be tightly integrated with Microsoft's Active Directory to automate user provisioning and delivery permissions. Simply assigning a user to a MassTransit group within Active Directory triggers a user to be provisioned within MassTransit with role-based access rights.

• Automated system cleanup and optimization

  Many FTP servers become the digital equivalent of the refrigerator that never gets cleaned out with hundreds or thousands of files that are never removed. This can expose confidential data to loss and can consume all disk space making additional file transfers impossible. MassTransit eliminates this problem by automatically deleting older files and unused accounts according to rules set by the administrator.

• Bandwidth management

  MassTransit supports file transfers of 100GB or more, including complex folder hierarchies with thousands of files. If unmanaged, these types of file transfers can consume all available bandwidth at a particular site and possibly affect other business-critical uses of the network. MassTransit allows administrators to set a maximum amount of bandwidth that can be consumed by file transfers thereby ensuring that other uses of the network can continue to operate efficiently.

• Multiple streams for inter-site transfers

  Multiple streams provide fine grain control over how information is processed between any two locations. One use of this technology is to create standard and priority delivery streams so that important files can take precedence over files that are already in mid-transfer. In complex use cases, a single location or user can be involved in multiple business processes with different file routing rules for each business process.

• Active/passive failover support on Windows Clusters

  For those environments where uptime is critical, MassTransit supports an active/passive clustered environment where a fallback server can immediately step in to manage file transfers if a failure occurs with the primary server.

• Rich monitoring interfaces

  MassTransit provides monitoring interfaces to Microsoft Perfmon or other compatible system monitoring tools.

• APIs for integration/automation

  MassTransit provides an extensive set of SOAP and COM based APIs to allow customers to tightly integrate MassTransit with content management and workflow management.