Professional Services
MFT Migration Service
Utilizing the latest technologies, our expert migration teams can assist you in migration from your current secure managed file transfer solution to the bTrade solution of your choice in the minimal amount of time possible and least amount of disruption to your business.
bTrade helps organizations replace legacy MFT platforms, competitor products, homegrown SFTP services, custom scripts, and manual file-transfer processes with secure, scalable, and centrally governed TDXchange or TDCloud environments.
Our specialists can manage the complete migration or augment the customer’s internal team. The objective is to preserve critical business processes while improving security, automation, visibility, reliability, and operational control.
Proven MFT Migration Experience
bTrade has successfully completed migrations from Globalscape EFT, GoAnywhere, MOVEit, IBM, Axway, and other commercial and internally developed file-transfer environments.
Our experience also includes replacing homegrown SFTP services built around standalone servers, shell scripts, batch files, cron jobs, schedulers, databases, and custom applications.
These migrations involve more than copying configuration files. Business logic is often distributed across workflows, scripts, certificates, service accounts, network rules, applications, and undocumented operational procedures. bTrade identifies these dependencies before production activity is moved.
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A Structured MFT Migration Methodology
- Legacy environment discovery: Identify platforms, servers, workflows, applications, trading partners, protocols, accounts, certificates, scripts, schedules, integrations, transaction volumes, and operational requirements.
- Workflow and dependency inventory: Document active file exchanges, business owners, endpoints, processing rules, schedules, acknowledgments, downstream dependencies, security controls, and SLA requirements.
- Target architecture and planning: Define the new architecture, security model, capacity, availability, integrations, migration waves, testing requirements, cutover process, and rollback procedures.
- Partner and endpoint migration: Configure trading partners, users, service accounts, addresses, ports, protocols, credentials, certificates, routing rules, and partner-specific policies.
- Protocol and certificate conversion: Replace obsolete protocols, unsupported certificates, outdated authentication methods, and legacy cryptographic settings where appropriate.
- Script and automation replacement: Recreate required business behavior using supported workflows, policies, APIs, schedules, validation, routing, retries, notifications, and integrations.
- Testing and parallel validation: Validate connectivity, security, file delivery, acknowledgments, business processing, performance, monitoring, and downstream results. Existing and new workflows can run in parallel where appropriate.
- Production cutover: Move workflows in controlled phases with defined responsibilities, validation checkpoints, acceptance criteria, communications, escalation, and rollback procedures.
- Legacy platform decommissioning: Preserve required records, disable obsolete services, remove unused access, archive documentation, and prepare the previous platform for controlled retirement after customer approval.
Reducing Migration Risk
bTrade reduces migration risk through:
- Thorough discovery and dependency mapping
- Phased migration waves
- Representative workflow testing
- Parallel operation where appropriate
- Defined acceptance criteria
- Controlled production cutovers
- Documented rollback procedures
- Post-cutover monitoring
- Clear ownership and escalation paths
This approach helps reduce downtime, missed processing deadlines, partner disruption, security gaps, and unexpected production failures.
Flexible Migration Models
bTrade can provide:
- Complete migration management
- Collaborative delivery with customer teams
- Workflow discovery and documentation
- Architecture and engineering assistance
- Testing and production-readiness reviews
- Team augmentation for complex migration programs
The engagement can be adapted to the customer’s internal resources, expertise, timeline, and preferred level of control.
Why Choose bTrade?
Since 1990, bTrade has helped organizations solve complex secure data-exchange challenges.
Customers benefit from:
- Successfully completed migrations from competitor MFT products
- Experience replacing homegrown SFTP services and scripts
- Deep knowledge of protocols, security, automation, and enterprise integration
- Support for on-premises, cloud, hybrid, multicloud, and Kubernetes environments
- Structured discovery, testing, cutover, and rollback planning
- Direct access to experienced MFT architects, engineers, and product specialists
The objective is not simply to move configurations. It is to preserve essential business behavior while delivering a more secure, reliable, observable, and supportable MFT environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can bTrade migrate competitor MFT platforms?
Yes. bTrade has successfully completed migrations involving Globalscape EFT, GoAnywhere, MOVEIt, IBM, Axway, and other commercial MFT and B2B platforms.
Can bTrade replace a homegrown SFTP service?
Yes. bTrade can assess and replace internally developed SFTP servers, scripts, schedules, service accounts, network dependencies, and application integrations.
Can migrations be completed in phases?
Yes. Workflows can be organized into controlled waves based on business priority, complexity, dependencies, partner readiness, and operational risk.
Can the existing and new environments run in parallel?
Yes. Parallel operation can be used where appropriate to compare file delivery, acknowledgments, outputs, and downstream processing before production cutover.
How does bTrade reduce migration risk?
bTrade uses discovery, dependency mapping, phased execution, testing, parallel validation, controlled cutover, rollback planning, and post-cutover monitoring.