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."
"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."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"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."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"The most valuable feature is the enterprise module, which provides the capability of having all of the information stored and linked with everything else."
"The part I liked about Archer was the risk assessment for deficiencies and being able to use it there."
"I like how Archer requires very little programming ability. A person with minimum coding experience can configure the necessary fields in Archer. It's more of a drag-and-drop solution."
"The Advance Workflow feature simplifies things."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"In a future release, there should be an option to upload the main data."
"Its customization features could be better."
"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."
"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."
"It would be useful for customers if COBIT 2019 could be translated into different languages."
"Some areas are not truly automated but are only scheduled."
"The technology's a little outdated."
"I would like to see real-time data, from vulnerabilities, and threats."
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 Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance.
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