Compare IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor vs. SureSync

Shift away from a reactive fire-fighting approach and instead take proactive steps to tackle issues while confidently meeting your SLA commitments. The IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor efficiently oversees critical events in your B2B and managed file transfer (MFT) environment, enhancing operations, customer satisfaction, and B2B governance. It implements specific rules to notify relevant stakeholders whenever a server, process, or transfer encounters a problem. Dashboards designed for various user types provide actionable insights. You can monitor file transfers and B2B procedures while ensuring server views are aligned with operational logic. This system allows for the identification of schedules, processes, file names, user roles, and security features, all of which contribute to comprehensive oversight. It also enables continuous control monitoring and detailed audit reporting, ensuring everything is within compliance. Furthermore, it consolidates event data from all B2B and MFT systems into a unified view, streamlining management and enhancing decision-making capabilities.

SureSync is a file replication and synchronization application that provides one-way and multi-way processing in both scheduled and real-time modes. Processing can be performed via UNC path, FTP, or with our Communications Agent. Features of the Agent include real-time monitors, delta copies, TCP transfers, compression, and encryption. The agent must be installed on a Windows machine. File Locking enables real-time collaboration and is available in SureSync Managed File Transfer (MFT). With file locking a file opened by a user in one office will be read-only for users in other offices until changes have been saved and synchronized. MFT also includes archiving to create versioned file backups, enhanced cloud support and more. SQL Protection simplifies backups of critical SQL databases.