MassTransit
Feature Details
With nearly 15 years in the market, MassTransit has accumulated an extensive feature list. 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 below please don't hesitate to call us at 1.800.476.8781 / +1.703.528.1555 or email us at sales@grouplogic.com.
- File Sending Made Easy - End-User Features
- A Protocol for Every Purpose
- Automated Business Processes - Supporting Every Use Case
- Full Visibility and Control - Logging and Reporting
- Simple, Powerful Administration
File Sending Made Easy - End-User Features
Group Logic is dedicated to providing the best end-user experience with all of our products. This means providing a simple and intuitive user interface that supports several ways of accessing the system based on the users' needs.
Features
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- Web Browser plug-in for power users
- Supports Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox. Enables advanced features, including the MTAP protocol with compression and encryption and an enhanced user experience.
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- Branded file transfer web portal
- Brand your file transfer web portal with your organization's logos and colors to increase customer awareness and satisfaction.
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- Supports FTP
- MassTransit supports your company's existing FTP clients and FTP servers ensuring compatibility with vendor and customer systems.
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- "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
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- Sends email and SMS notifications
MassTransit sends optional 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 error occurs, the sender, recipient and system administrator are automatically alerted.
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- Live email links for easy file retrieval
When recipients are notified by email that a file is ready for download, the email includes a clickable, secure link that automatically starts the file download. The user just clicks the link to begin downloading the file as no login is required with that secure link.
A Protocol for Every Purpose
MassTransit supports several protocols, each ideal for different requirements. The protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, MTAP and FTP. The encrypted HTTPS protocol is ideal for most business purposes that require the transfer of files up to 100MB each. Both HTTP and HTTPS 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, the MassTransit Advanced Protocol, provides a number of important enhancements over HTTPS and FTP. MTAP can handle file sizes up to 50GB, offers additional encryption options, and handles folders/directories, compression and cross platform compatibility without the extra step of zipping and unzipping. To support transfers to partners who don't have MassTransit, the product includes the FTP protocol that allows connections from standard FTP clients and legacy FTP servers.
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- 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 50GB made up of thousands of files.
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- Seamless support for complex folder structures and Mac files
- MassTransit handles complex folder structures with hundreds of sub-folders and thousands of files effortlessly. MassTransit also automatically handles Mac resource forks. 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.
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- Lossless inline data compression
- MTAP ensures fast file transfers by automatically compressing files before transfer. MTAP's compression technology is lossless, ensuring that no degradation in data quality occurs during transfer.
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- 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.
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- 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.
Automated Business Processes - Supporting Every Use Case
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 rules without scripting and optionally supports scripting to handle more complex situations.
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- 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.
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- Server-to-server transfers
- Companies can setup "hot folders" on file servers at multiple sites or companies. With this approach, 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.
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- Mixed client and server file transfers
- In this scenario, 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.
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- 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.
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- Secure, DMZ-to-internal network workflow
- Placing an additional MassTransit server inside the DMZ allows files to be sent securely between locations without compromising firewalls. 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.
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- 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.
Full Visibility and Control - Logging and Reporting
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. 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Web-based access to log
- Many FTP tools include logs, but accessing them is very cumbersome. MassTransit provides an easy to use web interface where all log data can be accessed and where trends in system performance and security can be analyzed.
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- Ability to search/query log
- MassTransit's web user interface also provides the ability to search logs for any text and to filter the information by user, type of file or key events.
Simple, Powerful Administration
FTP server administration is typically an IT administrator's night job, which is fine if usage of the FTP server is limited. However, as usage increases, an IT administrator's job becomes much more complex with more user provisioning, system monitoring and server maintenance required. MassTransit streamlines all of this, requiring a fraction of the time that would have otherwise been required to support dozens or hundreds of users.
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- Remote administration client
- All aspects of the MassTransit system can be managed remotely.
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- 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 according to rules set by the administrator.
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- Bandwidth throttling
- MassTransit supports file transfers of 50GB 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.
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- Multiple streams
- 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.
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- 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.
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- Active Directory automated client provisioning
- MassTransit can be tightly integrated with Microsoft's Active Directory to automate user provisioning and enforce user access rights. Simply assigning a user to a MassTransit group within Active Directory triggers a user to be provisioned within MassTransit with role-based access rights.
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- Rich monitoring interfaces
- MassTransit provides monitoring interfaces to Microsoft Perfmon or other compatible system monitoring tool.
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- APIs for integration/automation
- MassTransit provides an extensive set of SOAP based APIs to allow customers to tightly integrate MassTransit with content management and workflow management applications.
