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Reduce IT Overhead With Managed AS2
Reduce IT costs with managed AS2 services. Discover how MFT Gateway simplifies secure file transfers affordably. Read our blog.
Akila Ishani
Published: 17 Jun 2025
Table of Contents
- The Reality of AS2-Driven Businesses 🔄
- Essential Yet Expensive: In-House AS2 Infrastructure Increases IT Burden 🏗️💸
- Managed File Transfer: A Cost-Efficient Alternative 💻📤
- Are Managed File Transfer Vendors Truly as Cost-Effective as Claimed? 🤔
- Don’t Overpay for MFT. Go Cloud. Go Smart with MFT Gateway ☁️✅
- Now is the time to switch 🔄
One of the biggest culprits for small and growing businesses is overhead. By mastering the art of managing business overhead costs and using practical cost-saving strategies, you can boost your bottom line and create financial stability.
The Reality of AS2-Driven Businesses 🔄
In today’s fast-paced digital economy, the seamless and secure exchange of business documents is more critical than ever. Many industries—especially retail, manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare—rely on AS2 (Applicability Statement 2) to transmit sensitive data like purchase orders, invoices, and shipping notices.
While AS2 is a proven protocol for secure EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), managing an in-house AS2 infrastructure can impose significant IT overhead.
Essential Yet Expensive: In-House AS2 Infrastructure Increases IT Burden 🏗️💸
In a business landscape where agility, compliance, and efficiency are paramount, maintaining in-house AS2 infrastructure is often more liability than asset.
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🔧 Infrastructure Maintenance: Servers, network configurations, firewalls, backups, and updates require ongoing attention.
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👩💻 Human Resources: Skilled personnel must be hired or trained to manage AS2 software, troubleshoot issues, and ensure 24/7 availability.
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⚖️ Compliance Risks: Failure to meet SLAs or security compliance (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) can result in penalties or lost partnerships.
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🕒 Downtime and SLA Breaches: Internal teams may not be able to respond to failures quickly, especially outside business hours.
Managed File Transfer: A Cost-Efficient Alternative 💻📤
Managed AS2 services offer a compelling alternative by offloading the operational responsibilities to a specialized provider. Here’s how it reduces IT overhead and delivers business value:
Features to expect from a MFT Platform →
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💰 Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
With managed services, you avoid upfront infrastructure costs and pay a predictable monthly fee. This shifts capital expenditure (CapEx) to operating expenditure (OpEx), improving cash flow and budgeting. -
🧩 Eliminate Complexity
You no longer need to manage certificates, patches, monitoring systems, or trading partner configurations. Providers handle the complexity, freeing your IT team to focus on strategic projects. -
⚡ Faster Partner Onboarding
Managed AS2 providers often have pre-configured connections with major trading hubs, reducing onboarding time from weeks to days—or even hours. -
🔐 Built-In Compliance and Security
Reputable providers design their services to meet industry standards, including encryption, authentication, audit trails, and data retention policies. They often undergo regular audits to maintain compliance with certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA. -
📞 24/7 Support and Monitoring
Round-the-clock monitoring ensures that issues are resolved proactively, with minimal disruption. This is especially important for global supply chains that operate across time zones. -
📈 Scalability
As your business grows, a managed service can scale to support increased message volumes and more trading partners—without needing to overhaul your infrastructure.
Are Managed File Transfer Vendors Truly as Cost-Effective as Claimed? 🤔
MFT vendors frequently highlight cost savings and streamlined operations—but in practice, pricing often becomes a significant financial burden, especially for small to mid-sized organizations.
- 🔍 Pricing Transparency
Most enterprise‑grade MFT solutions don’t publish their prices upfront—forcing buyers to request custom quotes. This ambiguity makes it hard to understand true costs until deep into the sales process.
- 💵 High Starting Costs
Most MFT vendors License fees begin around $2k for basic modules, escalating to roughly $4k/year for more robust capabilities, excluding support and add-ons.
- 📊 Recurring and Escalating Fees
MFT pricing often combines multiple variables—per-user, per-endpoint, data volume, modules, and support tiers—pushing total cost well beyond initial estimates.
Don’t Overpay for MFT. Go Cloud. Go Smart with MFT Gateway ☁️✅
While partnering with well-known MFT vendors backed by extensive reviews can be a strategic move, lesser-known providers like MFT Gateway often deliver exceptional value at a significantly lower cost. Built on AWS serverless architecture, MFT Gateway minimizes infrastructure and operational overhead—allowing customers to benefit from enterprise-grade performance at one of the most competitive prices in the market.
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Every subscription plan comes with no commitments and no hidden fees—pay only based on the volume of messages you exchange. You can exchange that volume with any number of trading partners within the partner limit of the package, and there are additional fees for trading with multiple partners.
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Users have full control over their payments, choosing between monthly, quarterly or annual billing, with the flexibility to cancel anytime.
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No one-time fees. If you encounter any issues during the EDI or AS2 communication setup, you can reach our support team via email, and we will assist you at no additional cost.
Now is the time to switch 🔄
Managed AS2 services offer a more efficient and low-maintenance way to handle secure file transfers—cutting down IT overhead, reducing compliance risks, and letting your team focus on scaling the business.
If you’re seeking a reliable and affordable solution, MFT Gateway is a smart choice. It’s cloud-native, cost-effective, and built to simplify your AS2 operations. Try it yourself with our 30-day free trial—no credit card needed, no risk involved. See if it’s the right fit for your business today.
Akila is the Lead UI/UX Engineer at Aayu Technologies producing innovative solutions that bring ultimate user experience to the end-user. She is passionate about Software product design and development, Graphics and Data Visualization. Over 8 years of industry experience she is leading teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences.
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