Increase Reliability with IBM WebSphere File Transfer Edition (FTE)

After your people, your business information is probably your most valuable resource. But in your organisation, how much critical and valuable business information is being exchanged internally and between you and your trading partners in an unreliable, virtually untraceable, and vulnerable way? Many enterprises and analysts estimate that as much as 80% of business information is shared within and between organisations using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) technology. You may be surprised by how much of your valuable business information is exposed to risk that it could be lost or unknowingly corrupted. This can cause applications and data to become un-reconciled, business processes to cease or work less effectively, and financial reports to be inaccurate. Perhaps worst of all - because the transfers are far from transparent - you may not even know when this has happened. Analyst Software Strategies indicated how widespread this behaviour might be: "Our staggering and somewhat shocking research finding is that custom-built, in-house, hard-coded integration solutions (the majority using free FTP software) are much the most widely-used approach. These often take 2 to 4 times the time and effort to build as Enterprise Integration middleware-supported integration projects, require a similar multiple of ongoing maintenance and support effort, and are insecure, fragile and vulnerable to several serious risks."