We performed a comparison between Qualys Policy Compliance and RSA Archer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of QualysGuard Policy Compliance is the automation that can detect real-time threats and decrease risks."
"It's a simple product."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"The last project was for an investment group that was using Excel. Shifting their records from one position to another took approximately 15 minutes. In Archer, we created a workflow for them to leverage it, and they could send the single record with one click to one person within seconds. The whole process went from 15 minutes to two minutes to get the approval for the records. The main purpose of Archer is to just make it easy."
"Its user interface is pretty neat, and there is flexibility in generating the data. You can customize reports at any level. You can directly get reports in Tableau format. If you want to generate statistical data, you can create reports with graphs. There is an adequate amount of flexibility for changing the format, the type of graphs, etc."
"This solution helped us with the centralization of our governance data, so we could house all of our controls in one place. We could use that central repository of all our controls to build our risk management strategy and our policy and governance. So we could use controls as a central library and build policy, and then build risk management around it."
"I like how Archer requires very little programming ability. A person with minimum coding experience can configure the necessary fields in Archer. It's more of a drag-and-drop solution."
"First of all, its access control feature where it provides application level access, solution level access, and even recall access, as well."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"Even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"It would be good if the solution’s technical support could be faster."
"In a future release, there should be an option to upload the main data."
"The technology's a little outdated."
"There is no inbuilt alert in Archer to let us know that a data feed has failed or did not run for different reasons. So, we don't even get to know that a feed has not run until somebody reports it to us. This has been a problem all the time. Data feeds have always been a big headache for us because there is no feature to let us know if a feed has not run or has failed. If Archer had a feature to send us an email notification when a feed has failed, it would've been very helpful. This is the reason why our users are slowly moving away to another platform. Some of the modules that I have been managing are being moved to ServiceNow. Next year, a lot of our modules will be moved from RSA Archer to ServiceNow, and the data feed issue has been one of the main reasons."
"The first improvement I would suggest for RSA Archer is a better search feature. The search criteria needs to be improved. Sometimes I do a search and the search doesn't return the exact item I'm looking for. RSA Archer could also be improved by being more user-friendly. Maybe I have been using a limited version of RSA Archer, but I'm not sure whether it has ESG, environmental and social governance. In the next couple of years, ESG is the next feature that will be integrated into GRC tools. I would recommend RSA Archer adds ESG."
"The bullet chart is the best graph for my purposes, and it should be available for inclusion in the dashboards."
"The design and advanced workflow need to be improved."
"There were so many problems that we had found. One time, the search index was not working. We also faced slowness in Archer, but I resolved this issue."
"Its customization features could be better."
Qualys Policy Compliance is ranked 6th in IT Governance with 3 reviews while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in IT Governance with 38 reviews. Qualys Policy Compliance is rated 8.0, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Qualys Policy Compliance writes "Easy to use, fast, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". Qualys Policy Compliance is most compared with , whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Workiva Wdesk. See our Qualys Policy Compliance vs. RSA Archer report.
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