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."
"Archer seamlessly integrates data systems without requiring additional software."
"Makes auditing much more convenient."
"It is a very friendly tool. We can easily understand what is going on inside the tool. I like this tool. We can work with the tool for the ERP platform. We can create automated applications based on the requirements."
"Flexible record permissions and data import features."
"First of all, its access control feature where it provides application level access, solution level access, and even recall access, as well."
"Its user interface is pretty neat, and there is flexibility in generating the data. You can customize reports at any level. You can directly get reports in Tableau format. If you want to generate statistical data, you can create reports with graphs. There is an adequate amount of flexibility for changing the format, the type of graphs, etc."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"The part I liked about Archer was the risk assessment for deficiencies and being able to use it there."
"We are currently working on making Essence one hundred percent compliant and we are not there yet."
"I would like to see real-time data, from vulnerabilities, and threats."
"The technology's a little outdated."
"When we have to do formulas or some other type of calculation in Archer, it sometimes doesn't work correctly. The fields don't display right, and we have to contact RSA Archer support to fix things. I think the calculation components are a bit complicated."
"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."
"Solution could use more inbuilt applications."
"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."
"The ticket handling process could be improved."
"It would be useful for customers if COBIT 2019 could be translated into different languages."
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, Workiva Wdesk and AuditBoard.
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