We performed a comparison between Netwrix Auditor and RSA Archer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two GRC solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Netwrix provides features that no other solution on the market does."
"I have found user behavior analysis and the ability to run risk assessments important features. Additionally, the interface and online documentation are very good."
"The most valuable features of Netwrix Auditor are its affordability compared to similar products and its comprehensive monitoring of admin activities."
"The most valuable feature is the real-time monitoring."
"What I find the most valuable about Netwrix Auditor is the way it shows risk. The reports are very clear."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting feature and notifications."
"It maintains audit logs for the duration of time that you wish, as long as you have the storage capacity to do so."
"From my perspective, because I've always done it as a consultant, I do like the way it is configured. They've gone into changing the application builder interface, so it is even easier. When you're working with users, it is really easy to show them how to do things quickly and how to configure, change, and design stuff quickly."
"Even non-technical people can be masters of the product."
"Easy to implement with a high level of automation."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"One of the useful features is the ability to connect to various systems in order to accommodate data."
"First of all, its access control feature where it provides application level access, solution level access, and even recall access, as well."
"The solution has helped our organization manage our internal and external activities."
"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."
"When there are issues I would like remediation to be in one place."
"There is room for improvement with the introduction of AI functionality."
"An improvement would be if there was an another way to manage the logs besides email because it's not so practical."
"If you buy direct, there is a minimum of 150 licenses that must be procured. The price point and barrier of entry is a little bit higher than it would be if you purchased the solution from an authorized reseller partner, rather than buying it and managing yourself."
"The solution lacks self-service on password reset. It also needs to improve its scalability."
"There is room for improvements when it comes to the licensing."
"I expect usability features to become more refined over time. I'm interested to see how it evolves and continues to improve."
"The Linux compatibility of this solution could be improved."
"Some areas are not truly automated but are only scheduled."
"The ticket handling process could be improved."
"Performance could be improved."
"It's resource-hungry, that's the best way of putting it."
"Archer could be improved by having more customization. I'm not sure if the backend processes have API calls and those kinds of seamless integrations, but from the front, some of the solutions are very out-of-the-box. It's not customizable, so that could be a little problematic since you have to use their features. In terms of the backend structure, I'm not too sure because I'm not a developer—I was an end user and product owner of Archer—and I don't quite know the backend and developmental features. But since it's an out-of-the-box solution, sometimes customization was challenging and support was a little problematic because we had to reach out to them all the time."
"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."
"The bullet chart is the best graph for my purposes, and it should be available for inclusion in the dashboards."
"It would be nice if RSA Archer featured more customization. When customers are updating, they should be notified whether certain updates are optional. The install screen should not proceed to the next page unless we make some selections about which updates we want to install."
Netwrix Auditor is ranked 11th in GRC with 7 reviews while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in GRC with 38 reviews. Netwrix Auditor is rated 9.2, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Netwrix Auditor writes "Can track every admin action in large environments and includes AI modules to detect and prevent unauthorized changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". Netwrix Auditor is most compared with Quest Change Auditor for Active Directory, Lepide, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager and Imanami GroupID, whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Workiva Wdesk and AuditBoard. See our Netwrix Auditor vs. RSA Archer report.
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