SEEBURGER Managed File Transfer Wins Global Business Excellence Award

ATLANTA, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SEEBURGER announced today that it has received a Global Business Excellence Award for SEEBURGER Managed File Transfer (SEE MFT), a software suite designed to protect large and/or sensitive business files from data loss, regulatory violations and other risks of internal and external file sharing. SEE MFT is an integrated component of the SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite (BIS), which has automated trading partner communications for enterprises around the globe for more than two decades.

SEE MFT was recognized in the competition's Outstanding New Product/Service category for enabling secure, compliant data transfers with full governance, business process management, policy enforcement and data loss prevention (DLP) support; offering seamless integration with SAP; and providing the industry-first ability to consolidate all file transfer activity into a single view. That consolidation – bringing human-to-human, human-to-system, system-to-system and EDI/B2B supply chain messages shared both internally and externally into an integrated log – simplifies IT administration, file traceability and compliance efforts as well as minimizing costs and providing single-vendor accountability.

The Global Business Excellence Awards are an independent awards program administered by Awards Intelligence, the UK's largest provider of business awards and personal honors support services, news and information to progressive organizations and accomplished individuals. They recognize and reward business excellence across all sectors, private, public and charity.

"Conventional file sharing solutions such as FTP, YouSendIt and Dropbox lack critical controls ranging from centralized management and reporting to an inability to enforce corporate and regulatory information security policies controlling who can send what to whom. This puts businesses at risk as well as creating costly administrative inefficiencies," said Rohit Khanna, EVP, Global Strategy and Corporate Development, for SEEBURGER. "This award validates SEE MFT's approach to solving these problems with a single robust platform that safeguards data, maintains a central audit trail of file transfers of all types, and reduces the total cost of ownership."

Commenting on the award, Andrew Areoff,  Chairman of the Judges, said:  "SEEBURGER recouped the costs of developing their new Managed File Transfer software suite within two months as it has been snapped up by many large corporations around the world as a safe and reliable way of transferring massive volumes of data that meets all the regulatory and security requirements.  The product is not only an industry-first but also helps companies and corporations reduce costs and is highly user-friendly."

Comprehensive, Efficient Protection

SEE MFT manages automated file transfers between systems, applications and endpoints (managed integration) as well as controlling manually initiated email transfers, ad hoc transfers and human-initiated transfers to systems (managed collaboration). In addition to providing a single view of all file transfer activity for the first time in any product, the platform offers other exclusive capabilities including:

• Support for unlimited file sizes, overcoming the 2GB limit of other managed file transfer solutions as well as email file limitations.
• Built-in business process management (BPM) support, eliminating the need to use a third-party BPM solution to establish routing and workflow for file transfer issues ranging from authorized senders and recipients to rules-based placement of transmitted files in destination folders. The suite's BPEL support also provides the option to use an already-deployed BPM engine.
• Reliable delivery even over erratic network connections, using a new SEEBURGER-developed Secure Link Management Protocol (SLMP) that routes files directly from endpoint to endpoint - bypassing the MFT server - while still providing governance and policy enforcement to prevent unauthorized file transfers. This facilitates data exchange even with remote and overseas sites, and also eliminates server-related bottlenecks and scalability problems.
• Automated content filtering to block files with sensitive information where policy requires, via ICAP-based integration with leading content-aware data loss protection (DLP) solutions.
• Automated endpoint provisioning and management, reducing deployment time and expense by pre-populating individual PCs and servers with configuration information. SEE MFT can also check the heartbeats of thousands of SEEBURGER endpoints, detect temporary outages, delay file transfers until problems are resolved, and update endpoints and public keys remotely.  
• Built-in end point translation engine, enabling transmitted data to be converted to the appropriate ERP or other format after it has been decrypted and decompressed rather than requiring separate transfer agents that can trigger outside processes. 
• Support for all major platforms, operating systems, and data and communication protocols to ensure use by any enterprise and interoperability with all business and trading partners.

SEE MFT is available in four different deployment options — on-premise software, private cloud, public cloud, or managed services — and offers rapid implementation as well as fast ROI.

More information on SEE MFT is at www.seeburger.com/mft.  More information on the Global Business Excellence Awards is at http://www.gbeawards.com/.

About SEEBURGER
SEEBURGER is a global provider of business integration and secure managed file transfer (MFT) solutions that streamline business processes, reduce operational costs, facilitate governance and compliance, and provide visibility to the farthest edges of the supply chain to maximize ERP effectiveness and drive new efficiencies. All solutions are delivered on a unified, 100% SEEBURGER-engineered platform that lowers the total cost of ownership and reduces implementation time. With more than 25 years in the industry, SEEBURGER today is ranked among the top business integration providers by industry analysts, serves thousands of customers in more than 50 countries and 15 industries, and has offices in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. For more information, visit www.seeburger.com.  

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