Managed File Transfer Gartner Magic Quadrant 2017 Axway
The majority are adopting Content Collaboration Platforms
Gartner has stated in its recent Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platforms (read the full report here) that 80% of large and midsize organizations in mature regions will have deployed one or more content collaboration platform (CCP) products.
Gartner defines CCP as a range of content-centric platforms enabling secure file productivity and content collaboration for individuals and teams as well as supporting the creation of a modern digital workplace. It is the evolution of the EFSS (Enterprise File Sharing and Synchronization) products.
Now that Gartner has marked the “Managed File Transfer” magic quadrant as. Where I guided the development of managed file capabilities and. Axway, Biscom.
Now, this is not meant to be a lesson on CCP and MFT but let’s step back and take a look at both and why there is a value in bridging the two.
CCP solutions address the use cases of people sharing and collaborating very well with other people be it within an organization and with customers, partners and suppliers.
The focused is placed on ease of use and universal access from any device, anytime, anywhere in order to optimize collaboration with other individuals.
On the other hand, with Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions, the use cases are driven by business processes typically between systems of record which are an event and schedule driven. Premiums are placed on automation, monitoring and security. Think “locked down back-office processes.”
There is definitely a “better together” scenario if we can bridge MFT with CCP we could open up many new use cases that we have not been able to support before.
Been there, done that but failed
In particular, MFT vendors tried to include file sharing and human-based file transfer use cases into their offer. They delivered Frankenstein-like products that end users basically refused to use. Also, patterns and use cases are so different that it was also creating performance issues on the MFT side. But the intention is still valid. To achieve maximum efficiency and address hybrid patterns within the organization, IT needs to deliver MFT and CCP. They also need to expose them as a consumer like services to end-users.
The solution is not replacing one with the other
Whatever solution that tried to replace other–MFT by EFSS or EFSS by MFT was just doomed to fail. Both serve a vital purpose and bridging the two properly opens the door to many new possibilities. This is the approach we have taken here at Axway. We have created a bridge between our leading Axway Syncplicity CCP solution and our leading Axway SecureTransport MFT Gateway solution.
The two solutions are governed solutions and managed and controlled by IT. This permits new use cases such as an application delivering files to a person or a team. As well as a person or team sending a file to an application. This provides the familiar user interface, the end users are already using with the benefits of secure anytime, anywhere, any device access.
Take advantage of bridging CCP and MFT
Axway SecureTransport and Syncplicity customers can download the Syncplicity Connector for SecureTransport for free from the Axway AMPLIFY marketplace. You can start transforming the way their organization collaborates and innovates.
French-registered, US-based software developer Axway has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Syncplicty.
The acquisition is the latest chapter for the enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) vendor, which the company then known as EMC acquired in 2012 and sold to global investment firm Skyview Capital in 2015.
Founded in 2007, Syncplicity counts more than 25,000 business and individual customers across a variety of verticals.
Axway, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., is a former unit of French company Sopra Steria. The Paris-based information technology services group spun off Axway in 2011 but retains a 33.52 percent interest in the company, which has more than 11,000 customers worldwide.
Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed.
Last year, Axway acquired Appcelerator, a Mountain View, Calif.-based mobile app development platform startup founded in 2006.
'Winning Combination'
In a statement on the company website, officials described Syncplicity and Axway as a 'winning combination.' The acquisition advances Axway’s commitment to the digital workplace by enabling workers 'to securely share, synchronize and collaborate on files anywhere, anytime, from any device,' they continued.
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Axway CEO Jean-Marc Lazzari said Syncplicty compliments Axway AMPLIFY, the data integration and engagement platform the company introduced last November. AMPLIFY provides a unified, secure environment in the cloud and on-premises where digital teams can create, run and scale API-enabled services.
With Syncplicity, Axway now offers enterprises a hybrid cloud service where EFSS and Managed File Transfer (MFT) interactions can be 'leveraged seamlessly together to get more business value from their data,' he said.
Syncplicity not only strengthens the AMPLIFY platform but provides an API that will developer communities to embed EFSS services within their apps and processes, he said.
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Last November, Gartner named Axway a Leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management. It was the third consecutive year it made the leaders quadrant in the report, previously known as the Application Services Governance Magic Quadrant.
Death of EFSS?
The acquisition confirms a prediction Gartner analysts Monica Basso, Karen A. Hobert and Jeffrey Mann made in the EFSS Magic Quadrant they wrote last summer. They estimated 70 percent of existing EFSS vendors will cease to exist by 2018.
Many EFSS companies with either be acquired or go out of business, they predicted. Surviving firms will offer one of two kinds of solutions: either empowering the digital workplace or modernizing corporate infrastructures.
When asked about the prediction, Syncplicity CEO Jon Huberman told CMSWire, 'We're in the digital transformation business. Voice trap vst. We are not trying to be ECM 3.0.' Based on the company's new ownership, that appears to be true.