We performed a comparison between Methodware Kairos and RSA Archer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about RSA, AuditBoard, Trend Micro and others in GRC."The most valuable feature is the ability to import and export using industry standards like XMI and XML metadata interchange managing the data in and data out."
"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 have found all the features to be valuable, including those involving reporting, the dashboard, notifications, email modules, the database and data input."
"Integration is another great aspect of RSA Archer. From the beginning, integration has been a central focus for RSA, and Archer has always integrated well with most tools on the market today."
"With RSA Archer, an admin can set permissions for a normal user to go directly to the tool they need to input some data. Admins can then go through that and approve some requests. Also, they can log in based on these kinds of permissions, including ticketing, service patches, or upgrades."
"RSA Archer is a good tool and I have found performing the application, ISMS, and TPRM assessments beneficial."
"Even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"RSA is a very rich application. I like its adaptive suggestion, where based on your users and the class of data, it can actually recommend you the proper control to choose. For example, we have been using PCI DSS as an NIST. So based on application feedback, it will provide you with a suggestion on which control objective needs to be set. Based on that, you can make a decision—you don't need to take the suggestion, but you can customize that particular provided suggestion. RSA Archer's workflow is also good, in terms of process automation."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"Slow turnaround time from support team."
"I would like to have the ability to build and maintain an inventory of personal data processing activities and assets utilizing a purpose-built taxonomy and data structure."
"I find the tech support to be inadequately knowledgeable."
"Recently, we made a suggestion for cross references, like for one application to another. There were limitations there, so we're hoping that will be included in the next upgrade."
"It would be nice if RSA Archer featured more customization. When customers are updating, they should be notified whether certain updates are optional. The install screen should not proceed to the next page unless we make some selections about which updates we want to install."
"There should be a way to export and get data from the system in PDF or PowerPoint presentation format. This would be a great addition."
"Performance could be improved."
"There are certain restrictions on API integrations, and it is not simple or straightforward."
Methodware Kairos is ranked 15th in GRC with 2 reviews while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in GRC with 38 reviews. Methodware Kairos is rated 9.0, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Methodware Kairos writes "Meeting industry standards now and for the future, straightforward setup, with reliability ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". Methodware Kairos is most compared with , whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Workiva Wdesk and AuditBoard.
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