Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform vs. Ideagen Internal Audit

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.

Incentivized

Easy to use and can be customized at certain level[s] based on the organizational requirements. Availability of customized report[s] and metadata to be included in the report generation. Comprehensive risk assessment module and questionnaire tracking for the audit feedback. Centralized directory to store the data and share across the audit department or with specific auditor.

Incentivized

• 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

• Centralized database.
• 24x7 availability to business and audit.
• Risk assessment.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Dashboard Reports.
• Reports to be tagged with audit plan instead of audit dates.
• Alert notification.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Easy to use and reliable, and audit and business users are extensively using the system.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

Pentana Audit team is very much supporting and have centralized ticketing system with trail of correspondence for the resolution of the issue. Follow-up emails, WebEx session to understand the real issue and provide the appropriate solution timely.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Ease of tracking.
• Availability of historic data anytime.
• Audit trail of the whole audit.

Incentivized