ActiveTransfer offers a web browser-based user interface that enables administrators to manage file transfers, servers, and users; browse and search audit logs of file transfers; and examine analytics that show metrics, comparisons, and file upload and download activity. The interface also enables you to configure actions that are triggered based on criteria you specify. For example, you could set up an action to execute a specific Trading Networks service if a file transfer is successful. ActiveTransfer also offers a web client for end users who need to upload and download files to and from ActiveTransfer Server.

ActiveTransfer Server resides behind a firewall and performs file transfers. ActiveTransfer Gateway is a reverse proxy server that acts as an intermediary between the Internet and the internal ActiveTransfer Server for secure file transfer and supports virus scanning for file uploads. ActiveTransfer Server supports encryption and decryption of files and downloads. For example, files can be decrypted as they get uploaded, and then can be stored in a file system encrypted using a different set of keys. You can share files with external users through ActiveTransfer Gateway without compromising security. In addition, you can configure more granular access levels for an external user in order to limit the range of actions possible on the files shared, such as upload, upload, download, rename, delete, folder creation, and folder deletion.

ActiveTransfer is tightly integrated with Trading Networks so you can easily manage and monitor files that traverse the two products. You can use ActiveTransfer as the delivery method for Trading Networks and specify the remote end point to which ActiveTransfer should transfer the file. You can monitor documents delivered by ActiveTransfer in the Trading Networks user interface.

ActiveTransfer Support package runs on Integration Server and provides functionality for monitoring file transactions and managing ActiveTransfer Server, ActiveTransfer Gateway, users, post-processing events, scheduled actions, and data files and folders. You invoke this functionality through the ActiveTransfer user interface.

ActiveTransfer uses virtual folders for file transfers. You can organize these virtual folders by partner name, and you can associate ActiveTransfer users with partners. If you are using ActiveTransfer with Trading Networks, ActiveTransfer Server retrieves the list of partners from Trading Networks. If you are not using ActiveTransfer with Trading Networks, you can define your own partners.

You can use virtual folder definitions in scheduled and post-processing events instead of using the direct IP address for remote endpoints involved with file transfers. In this way, you can manage all endpoints centrally through virtual folders. If you change an endpoint address, you need only edit it once in the virtual folder definition and the change will be automatically reflected in all events that access that endpoint.

ActiveTransfer supports Common Internet File System (CIFS), HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS (SSL), Server Message Block (SMB), SFTP (SSH), SCP, WebDAV, and WebDAVs protocols, and offers complete data security and support for the most stringent encryption standards, including SSL and integrated PGP. ActiveTransfer enables accelerated file transfers that use a server’s bandwidth to the maximum capacity regardless of network latency or distance.