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 integrated data model of a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship is quite useful."
"Even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"Easy to implement with a high level of automation."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"It has the best workload management features."
"The most valuable feature is the enterprise module, which provides the capability of having all of the information stored and linked with everything else."
"It has various valuable features. For example, showing us if a control aligns with specific standards or frameworks helps us understand it better and verify its compliance."
"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."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"Slow turnaround time from support team."
"When we have to do formulas or some other type of calculation in Archer, it sometimes doesn't work correctly. The fields don't display right, and we have to contact RSA Archer support to fix things. I think the calculation components are a bit complicated."
"The financial area of RSA Archer has room for improvement."
"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 ticket handling process could be improved."
"GUI could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface. They could also offer more on-demand applications free of cost."
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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