We performed a comparison between MetricStream 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."The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers."
"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 integrated data model of a one-to-many/many-to-one relationship is quite useful."
"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."
"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."
"This solution helped us with the centralization of our governance data, so we could house all of our controls in one place. We could use that central repository of all our controls to build our risk management strategy and our policy and governance. So we could use controls as a central library and build policy, and then build risk management around it."
"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."
"Enables development of any application, automation of any workflow including the GRC work processes."
"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 improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"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."
"RSA Archer might be a bit expensive for small companies because it's a vast tool."
"There are certain restrictions on API integrations, and it is not simple or straightforward."
"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."
"RSA Archer's best features are advanced workflow, reports, dashboards, and notifications."
"Solution could use more inbuilt applications."
"In a future release, there should be an option to upload the main data."
"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."
"It's resource-hungry, that's the best way of putting it."
MetricStream is ranked 13th 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 and OneTrust GRC, whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance, Workiva Wdesk and Snow Governance & Risk. See our MetricStream vs. RSA Archer report.
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