SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood: Bringing Native MFT to SAP Integration Suite

When you buy a home, you spend a lot of time thinking about the rooms: how they’re laid out, how much light comes through the windows and where the furniture will go. You don’t spend much time thinking about the pipes behind those walls. They’re just supposed to work, quietly in the background, no matter what renovations happen in the rooms around them. Enterprise file transfer tends to get the same treatment. It’s easy to assume this part of the architecture will just keep running in the background, no matter what else changes around it.

The problem is, “it still works” isn’t the same as being ready for “what’s next,” especially as more of that landscape moves to RISE with SAP and SAP Cloud ERP. In fact, your RISE transformation is the right time to look at the pipes behind the walls, and not after the walls have already been painted.

SAP Integration Suite is the modern foundation for extending SAP to other solutions

Connecting diverse tools and systems across an enterprise has always been complex. SAP Integration Suite started as an API powerhouse for system-to-system connectivity, but it has grown into something much bigger than that. Today, it’s the core integration platform helping businesses move from traditional on-premises setups into dynamic, hybrid cloud and AI-based technology landscapes.

But enterprises don’t communicate or connect entirely on APIs. Consider: Retail store inventory. Utility meter-to-cash. Manufacturing production data. Banking payment processing. These industry-specific, daily workflows still depend heavily on robust managed file transfer (MFT) capabilities, not real-time API calls, to move the high volume of files that enterprises actually generate.

That reality is colliding with a deadline. For those using SAP PI/PO for managed file transfer, its end of mainstream maintenance is approaching in December 2027, and thousands of SAP customers are bringing their environments to the cloud at the same time. Both are pushing SAP customers to seek a validated managed file transfer solution that supports these critical workflows without disrupting their architecture or delaying their cloud transformation timeline.

Introducing SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood

SAP has added SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood as a part of its overall SAP Integration Suite strategy to solve file transfer challenges natively for customers. This isn’t a case of SAP simply validating our technology and putting a badge on it. SAP is actively co-innovating with us, shaping and developing this solution together. We’re proud to officially announce SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood, offered directly by SAP as a Solution Extension: a true joint effort to deliver a reliable, high-performing enterprise-grade file transfer to the entire SAP ecosystem.

More than a badge

The Solution Extension, or SolEx, status is not a standard certification or a simple partner logo. It means SAP has extensively audited, vetted and co-innovated this technology before offering it exclusively and directly to its customers. That represents a materially higher bar than a basic “our product connects to SAP” claim. That’s why a vendor can’t simply pay for SolEx status; SAP is incredibly selective about which solutions it trusts enough to offer as part of its own solution portfolio.

For enterprise IT leaders, that distinction has real consequences. It removes procurement friction, since the solution is bought and supported through the same SAP relationship as the rest of the stack. It guarantees roadmap alignment, since Redwood Software and SAP are building this together rather than reacting to SAP’s changes after the fact. And it delivers SAP-backed institutional trust for the external B2B file exchanges your business depends on every day.

Why SAP chose Redwood: built for real-world reliability

SAP didn’t select this technology because it checks a box. SAP selected it because it’s engineered for the complex realities of modern enterprise landscapes, supporting customers through their immediate SAP PI/PO migrations today and their ongoing managed file transfer and file processing workflows in RISE with SAP.

That matters more than ever, given the security climate in which MFT has operated. Since 2020, the broader managed file transfer space has dealt with serious security issues, including critical vulnerabilities and high-profile ransomware events targeting third-party file transfer tools. It’s a big reason many IT leaders quietly worry that their legacy MFT stack is adding risk to their perimeter rather than reducing it.

SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood has not experienced the same ransomware events or critical vulnerabilities that have plagued the wider MFT space over that same period. Built on a zero-trust architecture with granular least-privilege permissions, it brings a strong, zero-breach history into the SAP ecosystem, while still securely processing and moving large files as an addition to SAP Integration Suite, with no added operational friction.

Factory-installed, or aftermarket wiring?

When organizations move to RISE with SAP or SAP Cloud ERP, the default instinct is often to lift and shift the old OS-level scripts or spin up an SFTP server to keep file transfer running the way it always has. It’s a common approach, but it comes at a real cost: it drags legacy technical debt into a modern cloud environment and creates new points of failure that threaten the stability of the architecture you just finished building.

Think of it like buying an aftermarket engine part and hiring a mechanic to custom-wire it into a luxury car. Sure, it might run fine for a while, but it voids the warranty, and every time the system gets an update, you’re taking on operational risk that a factory-installed part never would have.

SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood is the factory-installed, warranty-backed option. It’s built to enhance and extend the world-class integration capabilities of SAP Integration Suite, which means your file transfer processes stay upgrade-safe instead of becoming the thing that breaks the next time SAP ships a platform update.

Three pillars of enterprise value

Enterprise-scale performance. SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood handles uncapped file size processing, from smaller files all the way up to multi-gigabyte AI datasets, and scales and sustains throughout during workload spikes without triggering concurrent file traffic fees.

Security and compliance, proven. Proactive security controls and a built-in key management system alongside long-term audit logging that extends well beyond standard retention limits mean SOX, GDPR, PCI DSS and GLBA requirements are supported without bolting on a separate logging tool.

Operational freedom. As a vendor-agnostic MFT solution, it routes files across even complex multi-cloud environments, like AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, as well as on-premises systems, without vendor lock-in or the infrastructure sprawl that comes from managing point solutions one at a time.

You no longer have to rely on workarounds

Whether you need support migrating legacy SAP PI/PO file transfers to RISE with SAP, running RISE with SAP on AWS or if you’re simply looking for a more reliable, higher-performing and more secure managed file transfer solution for your SAP ecosystem, the “workaround era” doesn’t have to continue.

Trust the SAP-validated solution built to secure your enterprise file sharing, scale with your business and keep your file transfer processes upgrade-safe.

SAP Managed File Transfer by Redwood is now available as an SAP Solution Extension. Explore it on the SAP Store today.