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."
"Easy to implement with a high level of automation."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"The part I liked about Archer was the risk assessment for deficiencies and being able to use it there."
"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."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"The most valuable part of the product is the ease-of-use and the opportunity to create custom security applications easily."
"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."
"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."
"Performance could be improved."
"RSA Archer's best features are advanced workflow, reports, dashboards, and notifications."
"Some areas are not truly automated but are only scheduled."
"I would like to see real-time data, from vulnerabilities, and threats."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"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."
"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."
"The technology's a little outdated."
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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