Case Study: Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) achieves centralized job scheduling, streamlined processing, and secure managed file transfers with Fortra

Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency Feels at Home with Fortra Centralized job scheduling and managed file transfers streamline processing at PHFA

The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA) provides capital for affordable homes and rental housing programs across Pennsylvania and runs a heterogeneous IT environment with hundreds of in‑house IBM i and Windows applications. As their use of advanced scheduling grew, Windows Task Scheduler proved inadequate and PHFA needed a more robust, auditable, cross‑platform automation solution.

PHFA standardized on HelpSystems’ Robot Schedule Enterprise (integrated with GoAnywhere MFT), converting about 280 Windows jobs in two days and centralizing job control on a single scheduler. The deployment streamlined daily processing, enabled secure transfer of 30+ encrypted documents per day, improved auditability with comprehensive reporting, and eliminated the need for multiple schedulers.

Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA)

Kevin Wike

Manager of Application Development