We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance 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."Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps with extra collaboration and ensures communication is within the framework."
"With RSA Archer, an admin can set permissions for a normal user to go directly to the tool they need to input some data. Admins can then go through that and approve some requests. Also, they can log in based on these kinds of permissions, including ticketing, service patches, or upgrades."
"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 integrated data model of a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship is quite useful."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the advanced workflow and the dashboards. This tool can present data wonderfully to management, and it is easy for them to manage the risk plans."
"First of all, its access control feature where it provides application level access, solution level access, and even recall access, as well."
"RSA Archer's best features are advanced workflow, reports, dashboards, and notifications."
"The product should incorporate more automation with the help of AI."
"In terms of what can be improved, our client always says their user experience, IU/UX in RSA Archer. They found it is not as user friendly as other tools."
"I find the tech support to be inadequately knowledgeable."
"Solution could use more inbuilt applications."
"I would like to have the ability to build and maintain an inventory of personal data processing activities and assets utilizing a purpose-built taxonomy and data structure."
"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."
"The financial area of RSA Archer has room for improvement."
"The ticket handling process could be improved."
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is ranked 13th in GRC with 1 review while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in GRC with 38 reviews. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is rated 9.0, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance writes "Helps with extra collaboration and ensures communication is within the framework". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Barracuda Email Protection, Mine PrivacyOps and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Workiva Wdesk and Snow Governance & Risk.
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