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."
"RSA Archer has reduced the time and effort required for meetings."
"Archer seamlessly integrates data systems without requiring additional software."
"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."
"Good dashboards and reporting features; it's easy to gather reports quickly."
"The product is very flexible."
"Easy to implement with a high level of automation."
"The most valuable part of the product is the ease-of-use and the opportunity to create custom security applications easily."
"Flexible record permissions and data import features."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"GUI could be improved."
"There are certain restrictions on API integrations, and it is not simple or straightforward."
"RSA Archer's best features are advanced workflow, reports, dashboards, and notifications."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In a future release, there should be an option to upload the main data."
"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."
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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