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We performed a comparison between OneTrust GRC 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.
To learn more, read our detailed OneTrust GRC vs. RSA Archer Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Vendors can be assessed and rated out of the tool, and assessments can be scheduled for updates at certain intervals.""The product helps us streamline audit and incident management processes.""One of the valuable features of this solution is it has the ability to review fourth and fifth parties to the nth degree.""It does help in the automation of our privacy impact assessments.""As a solution for IT risks, it is a very good product.""We receive notifications or cases and prioritize them accordingly, which helps us address issues promptly.""OneTrust GRC is stable."

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"RSA Archer has reduced the time and effort required for meetings.""Integration is another great aspect of RSA Archer. From the beginning, integration has been a central focus for RSA, and Archer has always integrated well with most tools on the market today.""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.""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 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.""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.""Even non-technical people can be masters of the product.""Solution is scalable."

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Cons
"I haven't seen any return on investment using the solution. If I had the opportunity, I would use a different solution.""They could improve by offering free help. A solution, a lot of times, is not just the use of the solution. For example, it is the overall engagement, how well do they support the system, what is their SLA, and how long their response time is to an issue. It would be beneficial if they had some type of professional services where they offer the first five hours of professional services a year for free. That would be a substantial benefit rather than having to buy professional services or professional services packages.""There are limitations to customized workflow automation, and they need to increase both the available automation and the customized workflow.""The Vendor Risk dashboard is quite basic today and not interactive, but improvements are in coming the next releases.""We encounter difficulties creating multiple platforms or interfaces and manual processes for changing certain settings.""OneTrust GRC's workflows aren't automated and need to be manually driven.""The product is not that easy to set up."

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"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.""Solution could use more inbuilt applications.""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.""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.""The product is expensive.""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 bullet chart is the best graph for my purposes, and it should be available for inclusion in the dashboards.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I found the pricing and setup cost very reasonable."
  • "OneTrust GRC's licensing costs about $15,000 per module."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is too expensive, I rate the solution a seven since it falls under the pricey side."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "The platform is expensive."
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  • "The price of RSA Archer is good. The price isn't too high considering it is a leading tool in the market."
  • "As I am a developer and responsible for providing production support, I do not have personal knowledge of the pricing. However, my colleagues claim that it is very expensive in comparison with other tools."
  • "It is not expensive. It is reasonable. We only pay for the licensing."
  • "I am not 100% familiar with that, especially with their new model. I just know that the way they've licensed per user to scale is good."
  • "At the higher end of the price scale, but provides better, more accessible functionality and customization than cheaper products."
  • "Fairly highly-priced, especially for smaller companies."
  • "RSA Archer's price is justifiable and not as expensive, compared to ServiceNow. I have heard that the licensing for ServiceNow is much more expensive. I'm unaware whether there are any additional costs after licensing fees."
  • "The solution is not at all a cheap product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product helps us streamline audit and incident management processes.
    Top Answer:The product is not that easy to set up. It is also not easy to get used to the naming convention. It requires in-depth training.
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:We primarily use the system control module and specific IT control models for ongoing risk assessment activities. We use it on a day-to-day basis.
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    Rating
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    Also Known As
    OneTrust Vendor Risk Management
    Archer
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    Overview

    OneTrust is the largest and most widely used technology platform to operationalize privacy, security and third-party risk management. More than 2,500 customers, both big and small and across 100 countries, use OneTrust to demonstrate compliance with privacy regulations including the GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act, Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world's privacy laws.

    OneTrust's size and scale allows it to offer the easiest-to-use and most affordable solution for implementing use cases including: Privacy Maturity Benchmarking, Data Protection by Design and Default (PbD), Data Protection Impact Assessments (PIA/DPIA), Third-Party Vendor Risk Management, Incident and Breach Response, Data Mapping (Records of Processing), Customer Preference Management, Consent Management, Website Scanning & Cookie Compliance, Mobile App Scanning, Data Subject/Consumer Rights Management and Policy & Notice Management.

    The platform's intelligence comes from DataGuidance by OneTrust, an in-depth and up-to-date source of privacy and security regulatory summaries, guidance, templates, case law, and analysis. The database is updated daily by over 20 in-house privacy researchers, along with a network of 500 lawyers across over 300 jurisdictions.

    OneTrust's 700 employees are located across co-headquarters in Atlanta and in London with additional locations in Bangalore, Melbourne, San Francisco, New York, Munich and Hong Kong. To learn more, visit OneTrust.com.

    RSA Archer is a solution designed to help your organization manage policies, controls, risks, assessments, and deficiencies across your lines of business. RSA helps you manage your digital risk with a range of capabilities and expertise including integrated risk management, threat detection and response, identity and access management, as well as fraud prevention.

    The solution also allows you to adapt a broad range of solutions to your requirements and is a good option for both big and small companies.

    RSA Archer Features

    RSA Archer has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Application builder
    • Advanced business workflow
    • System integration
    • Search, reports, and dashboards
    • Access control
    • Globalization
    • Audit management
    • Privacy program management
    • Security incident management

    RSA Archer Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing RSA Archer. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Taxonomy and data structure: With RSA Archer, you can build and maintain an inventory of personal data processing activities and assets, utilizing a purpose-built taxonomy and data structure.
    • Easy tracking: RSA Archer enables you to track data retention schedules and execute a checklist as it relates to processing activities.
    • Smooth management: By using RSA Archer, you can manage activities related to notifications and consents linked to the processing activity inventory.
    • Improve information assurance programs: RSA Archer enables agencies to improve information assurance programs for continuous monitoring and assessment and authorization.
    • Compliance: By providing compliance management, RSA Archer allows you to consolidate information from multiple regulatory bodies and establish a sustainable, repeatable, and auditable regulatory compliance program.
    • Business continuity: With RSA Archer, you can automate business continuity and disaster recovery planning to protect your organization in the event of a crisis.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the RSA Archer solution.

    A Specialist, RSA Archer at a tech services company, says, “RSA Archer is a valuable tool because it can manage the end-to-end functioning of any enterprise GRC module, such as compliance and risk management or business continuity plans and the entire BCM module. RSA Archer also provides many out-of-the-box solutions, which are use cases derived from the standards for GRC or risk management, governance, and compliance. It provides an end-to-end mechanism for business users on a single platform. That includes reporting, managing workflow, creating documentation, or tracking a process where you need to get approval from the various levels within the organization's hierarchy.”

    PeerSpot user Krishnendu S., Vice President at a financial services firm, mentions, "It is enterprise-wide accessible. So, it is very helpful for all the employees in our bank. They can log in and do their risk management activities. It has a few inbuilt modules that are helpful for doing risk management activities, such as issue management, risk identification, risk assessment, and policy exception management. It also has some inbuilt workflows inside these modules. They are also helpful."

    A Sr. Internal Auditor at an energy/utilities company comments, "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."

    Another PeerSpot user, Manash B., Technology Manager at a tech services company, explains, "RSA is a very rich application. I like its adaptive suggestion, where based on your users and the class of data, it can actually recommend you the proper control to choose. For example, we have been using PCI DSS as an NIST. So based on application feedback, it will provide you with a suggestion on which control objective needs to be set. Based on that, you can make a decision—you don't need to take the suggestion, but you can customize that particular provided suggestion. RSA Archer's workflow is also good, in terms of process automation."

    Sample Customers
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    T-Systems, Bridge Point, Equifax, First Data, Global Imaging Company, Manulife Financial
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm35%
    Insurance Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company10%
    Retailer10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization45%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company6%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise90%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise62%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise49%
    Large Enterprise42%
    Buyer's Guide
    OneTrust GRC vs. RSA Archer
    March 2024
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    OneTrust GRC is ranked 5th in GRC with 7 reviews while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in GRC with 38 reviews. OneTrust GRC is rated 7.6, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OneTrust GRC writes "Costly solution that may not guarantee ROI, but remains effective in IT risk management ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". OneTrust GRC is most compared with ProcessUnity, AuditBoard, Workiva Wdesk, LogicGate and Bitsight Third-Party Risk Management, whereas RSA Archer is most compared with IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Workiva Wdesk, AuditBoard and Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance. See our OneTrust GRC vs. RSA Archer report.

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