Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform vs. ARIS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Archer
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
RSA Archer, from the security, governance, and risk division of RSA Security is an integrated risk management / GRC platform.N/A
ARIS
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Software AG's Business Process Analysis Platform, ARIS, uses robust architecture and process management / analysis capability to drive integrations with the existing business processes along with information technology and SAP systems.
$100
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Pricing
Archer Integrated Risk Management PlatformARIS
Editions & Modules
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ARIS Elements
$100
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ARIS Advanced
$200
designer
ARIS Enterprise
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ARIS Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ArcherARIS
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Archer Integrated Risk Management PlatformARIS
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
9.5
13 Ratings
22% above category average
ARIS
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Ratings
Common repository of GRC items8.712 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk management10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
GRC policy management9.913 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident management10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
-
Ratings
ARIS
9.1
6 Ratings
11% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.96 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
-
Ratings
ARIS
7.5
6 Ratings
12% below category average
Process designer00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings7.16 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings6.82 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
-
Ratings
ARIS
8.4
6 Ratings
3% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
-
Ratings
ARIS
9.3
6 Ratings
13% above category average
Content management00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
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User Ratings
Archer Integrated Risk Management PlatformARIS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(13 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(2 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Archer Integrated Risk Management PlatformARIS
Likelihood to Recommend
RSA Security
RSA Archer is fantastic at cataloguing, personalizing assessments, raw reporting, and capacity to add custom fields. It is a little clunky around adding contextual information to notifications, peeking into data before attempting to load pages, quick navigation or determining linked (or sub-linked) relationships. These are all concerns that can either be worked around with an appropriate data scheme or with careful administration of the sub-routines.
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Software AG
Well suited for enterprise architecture modeling where the intent to document elements beyond processes as well, such as risks and controls, KPIs, systems, org charts, etc. It also has the excellent capability of creating custom reports, hence if looking for various views right from summary to detailed, this is a great tool. It is less appropriate for implementing the processes as it is not very strong in BPMN.
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Pros
RSA Security
  • Integration capabilities to multiple enterprise systems
  • Control standards and Procedures to address multiple regulatory/authoritative sources, standards and frameworks enabling test once satisfy many requiremnts
  • Rapid application development and User friendly tool with configuration capability to customize easily without user requiring programming or coding skills
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Software AG
  • Query feature is excellent to extract information in a specific manner.
  • Ability to create custom reports.
  • Collaboration feature is very good.
  • Semantic checks to check validation errors.
  • cloud based central repository.
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Cons
RSA Security
  • They release time to time updates, which causes issues in the GUI. However, one has to be careful while installing the update.
  • There is no open and free academy to learn more about the tool.
  • One cannot stay to a particular product version, they have to move to the next version to keep up with the changes.
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Software AG
  • Defining databases, use of entities and relationship diagrams, define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve.
  • Providing more standard reports and improving on access rights and privileges functionality
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Usability
RSA Security
Good tool to get the information communicated, approval workflow, and easy to add new findings/questionnaires. Seems to be compatible with different browsers and little downtime. Only request for improvement is to add an export feature with fewer clicks. Maybe batch export.
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Software AG
I am a BPM and Enterprise Architect Consultant and hence have been using different BPM and EA tools for consulting practice. Until now I have used Opentext Provision EA,Sparx EA, MS Visio and IBM Blueworks. All of the tools used are good and have their own unique features and capabilities. ARIS BPA is widely used by my current organization for different projects.
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Support Rating
RSA Security
Our RSA Archer team is dedicated to finding solutions for our organization. They haven't mentioned any issues with receiving support with deployment or bug fixes, and generally the platform is very dependable. They are always very excited about delivering a version upgrade and presenting any new features that provide more dashboards or chart types.
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Software AG
It has good, even complex functionality that is provided by its library and ability to create relations between items, yet it is not hard to use. Anyone can use it in a short time. It provides reporting abilities and good documentation with the availability of exporting options. The only drawback I have seen was user management/login issues.
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Alternatives Considered
RSA Security
It has been roughly 5 years since I have seen Securevue, so a lot can change, but to me it felt like several products were purchased and an attempt was made to piece them all together into a single solution (and I believe that may have been true). It also required agents on endpoints which did not fit the model I believed customers were looking for. MetricStream appeared to be difficult to install as it took their own engineers some time to get it installed in my lab environment. I did not think their web interface was as intuitive as RSA Archer. Customization to the platform was possible to some degree, but required a lot more work and technical skills than required by Archer. I did like the landing page for MetricStream which called out the important action items for the current user, but Archer v6.X now has this feature.
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Software AG
The Service area, they have been very useful. ARIS suite is covering number of applications. ARIS engine is very powerful and robust. The tool can be configured in many ways which can be beneficial but can be a curse at the same time. As a user, you need to apply this flexibility with care.
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Return on Investment
RSA Security
  • We were able to achieve approx 63% gain in operational efficiency.
  • Reduce the number of findings and exceptions during an Internal audit to almost zero.
  • Get compliance to all client contracts tracked through the tool thus increasing the confidence of clients in our systems and processes.
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Software AG
  • Documentation of processes made it possible for anyone to see who does what, how and using what systems.
  • Dependency on specific people is eliminated.
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ScreenShots

ARIS Screenshots

Screenshot of Start page of ARIS Elements.Screenshot of Modeling a BPMN diagram using the web-based ARIS designer.Screenshot of A process landscape in the ARIS portal.Screenshot of A customer journey landscape in the ARIS portal.Screenshot of The steps view of a process model, automatically generated, enriched with multi-media content. An easier way to get process knowledge to employees.Screenshot of A management dashboard in the ARIS portal.