We performed a comparison between RSA Archer and SAP BusinessObjects GRC 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."Makes auditing much more convenient."
"The solution has helped our organization manage our internal and external activities."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a very friendly tool. We can easily understand what is going on inside the tool. I like this tool. We can work with the tool for the ERP platform. We can create automated applications based on the requirements."
"It has the best workload management features."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"The tool helps create reports for projects, including the creation of any ad-hoc reports"
"Initial setup was straightforward. It took maybe one week."
"It is wonderful from the control perspective. The GRC tools help you in knowing what are the risk controls, how to mitigate risks, and how to ensure that there are no conflicts between the roles. From the user perspective, you get to know what are the permission risks and access risks. You get a lot of useful information."
"The best features are the scalability and flexibility to implement applications on top of the BW."
"We have enterprise clients for the product."
"The solution as a whole could be simplified."
"It's resource-hungry, that's the best way of putting it."
"I find the tech support to be inadequately knowledgeable."
"An area for improvement would be the user interface. They could also offer more on-demand applications free of cost."
"Some areas are not truly automated but are only scheduled."
"The ticket handling process could be improved."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"We cannot actively log in to the system. It should also improve support."
"I think the old system is better than the new one. From an improvement perspective, the tool needs to ensure that the new technologies it offers are better than the old ones."
"Technical support could be better and faster."
"BusinessObjects is very dated. It is not that user-friendly. It should be made more user-friendly. In addition, if they could make predictive analytics an embedded part of it where people get to know what is there to offer, it would be great."
"An additional feature I would like to see is the option to add wait time and integrate sources in wait time."
RSA Archer is ranked 1st in GRC with 38 reviews while SAP BusinessObjects GRC is ranked 14th in GRC with 5 reviews. RSA Archer is rated 8.0, while SAP BusinessObjects GRC is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP BusinessObjects GRC writes "Provides a lot of useful information and helps in managing risks and controls". RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Fusion Framework System, whereas SAP BusinessObjects GRC is most compared with Greenlight Continuous Monitoring, ACL, Oracle GRC Controls, IBM OpenPages and Security Weaver. See our RSA Archer vs. SAP BusinessObjects GRC report.
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