We performed a comparison between Methodware Kairos and RSA Archer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two GRC solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Good dashboards and reporting features; it's easy to gather reports quickly."
"From my perspective, because I've always done it as a consultant, I do like the way it is configured. They've gone into changing the application builder interface, so it is even easier. When you're working with users, it is really easy to show them how to do things quickly and how to configure, change, and design stuff quickly."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"RSA Archer is a good tool and I have found performing the application, ISMS, and TPRM assessments beneficial."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"First of all, its access control feature where it provides application level access, solution level access, and even recall access, as well."
"RSA Archer has reduced the time and effort required for meetings."
"The most valuable feature is the enterprise module, which provides the capability of having all of the information stored and linked with everything else."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"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."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"The financial area of RSA Archer has room for improvement."
"The solution can be a little slow due to the Silverlight feature."
"I would like to see real-time data, from vulnerabilities, and threats."
"Slow turnaround time from support team."
"Some of the error reporting isn't very clear. When you're looking for information on error codes, you got to do a lot of digging."
"There are some issues with the interface for version 6.5 but these may already be repaired and simplified in the new versions that have been released."
Methodware Kairos is ranked 16th 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, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Workiva Wdesk. See our Methodware Kairos vs. RSA Archer report.
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