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."
"First of all, its access control feature where it provides application level access, solution level access, and even recall access, as well."
"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."
"Archer seamlessly integrates data systems without requiring additional software."
"The integrated data model of a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship is quite useful."
"The most valuable features of RSA Archer are the asset management, risk management, and vendor management."
"The Advance Workflow feature simplifies things."
"The most valuable features are the advanced workflow and the dashboards. This tool can present data wonderfully to management, and it is easy for them to manage the risk plans."
"RSA Archer is a good tool and I have found performing the application, ISMS, and TPRM assessments beneficial."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"It would be useful for customers if COBIT 2019 could be translated into different languages."
"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."
"The financial area of RSA Archer has room for improvement."
"Solution could use more inbuilt applications."
"Archer could be improved by having more customization. I'm not sure if the backend processes have API calls and those kinds of seamless integrations, but from the front, some of the solutions are very out-of-the-box. It's not customizable, so that could be a little problematic since you have to use their features. In terms of the backend structure, I'm not too sure because I'm not a developer—I was an end user and product owner of Archer—and I don't quite know the backend and developmental features. But since it's an out-of-the-box solution, sometimes customization was challenging and support was a little problematic because we had to reach out to them all the time."
"There are certain restrictions on API integrations, and it is not simple or straightforward."
"The design and advanced workflow need to be improved."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
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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