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."
"The solution has helped our organization manage our internal and external activities."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"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."
"The Advance Workflow feature simplifies things."
"The product is very flexible."
"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."
"One of the useful features is the ability to connect to various systems in order to accommodate data."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"The ticket handling process could be improved."
"In terms of what can be improved, our client always says their user experience, IU/UX in RSA Archer. They found it is not as user friendly as other tools."
"I would like to see real-time data, from vulnerabilities, and threats."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"The solution as a whole could be simplified."
"The financial area of RSA Archer has room for improvement."
"Solution could use more inbuilt applications."
"The design and advanced workflow need to be improved."
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 Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance.
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