We performed a comparison between MetricStream 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."Key features are usability and ease of configuration. It allows us to have all the information in a single place and provide real-time indicators and information for our executives."
"The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers."
"I have found all the features to be valuable, including those involving reporting, the dashboard, notifications, email modules, the database and data input."
"Good dashboards and reporting features; it's easy to gather reports quickly."
"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."
"The Advance Workflow feature simplifies things."
"It has the best workload management features."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"The solution has helped our organization manage our internal and external activities."
"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."
"We would like to have more dashboards and reports, such as geographical and trend reports in the next version. Also, an improvement in the mobile version would be helpful."
"I would like to see out-of-the-box integration with more security, it would be helpful."
"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"The technology's a little outdated."
"Slow turnaround time from support team."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"It would be useful for customers if COBIT 2019 could be translated into different languages."
"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 solution as a whole could be simplified."
"Its customization features could be better."
MetricStream is ranked 12th in GRC while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in GRC with 38 reviews. MetricStream is rated 8.6, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MetricStream writes "Reasonably priced, stable, with out of the box deployment, and has good local support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". MetricStream is most compared with IBM OpenPages, OneTrust GRC and Workiva Wdesk, whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, Workiva Wdesk, AuditBoard and Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance.
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