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."
"Makes auditing much more convenient."
"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."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"I have found all the features to be valuable, including those involving reporting, the dashboard, notifications, email modules, the database and data input."
"Even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"The solution has helped our organization manage our internal and external activities."
"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."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"There were so many problems that we had found. One time, the search index was not working. We also faced slowness in Archer, but I resolved this issue."
"The bullet chart is the best graph for my purposes, and it should be available for inclusion in the dashboards."
"The solution as a whole could be simplified."
"The user interface needs work. There are many small text boxes, like credit card size's boxes, where we need to input a lot of text. You can't see what you're typing beyond the tiny window, so you have to scroll or type elsewhere and copy-paste it. It's very inconvenient."
"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 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."
"There are certain restrictions on API integrations, and it is not simple or straightforward."
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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