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LogicManager vs MetricStream vs RSA Archer comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the GRC category, the mindshare of LogicManager is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MetricStream is 3.1%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RSA Archer is 5.6%, down from 16.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
GRC Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RSA Archer5.6%
MetricStream3.1%
LogicManager1.1%
Other90.2%
GRC
 

Featured Reviews

DmitryKerov - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineering Team Lead at Northern Light
Out of the box and ready to go with excellent support available
LogicMonitor offers great support, they helped us a lot and responded very quickly. It's out of the box so once we deployed it was ready to go without requiring any special setup. I really appreciate that the whole solution feels like it's made by engineers, for engineers. I like that I can dive deep on my own and don't need support for that.
JQ
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Centralized risk libraries have streamlined audits and now highlight clunky workflows and upgrades
MetricStream can be improved in several areas. Sometimes the overall flow of the application can seem a bit clunky, based on feedback from clients. From my understanding and what I have heard from developers within MetricStream during my deeper use of the application, the application seems to have been developed within silos, and the interaction of certain applications internally could definitely be improved in terms of the overall coding that exists between applications within the solution. The only improvement I suggest for MetricStream is to gather a collaborative think tank from several of the largest clients and compile feedback to prioritize suggested enhancements from multiple organizations.
CJ
Information Security Specialist at Dubai Health Authority
Centralized management strengthens compliance with good look and feel
From my perspective as a customer and end user, Archer has an impressive look and feel, but the most adaptive feature is its ease of configuration which helps to enhance our process according to our maturity. It's more about our organization getting centralized with an integrated approach that focuses on risk governance and compliance. When can provide a detailed dashboards to management with the details of risks from top-down or bottom-up prioritizing actions based on its criticality or necessity. This allows us to show end users and management where the issues lie and effectively demonstrate accountability and visibility in compliance.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The technical support is superb; it's the best support I've ever worked with."
"Out of the box solution that doesn't require any special setup."
"It has good features and good functionality, and our customers feel there is a lot of merit in that."
"Key features are usability and ease of configuration, and it allows us to have all the information in a single place and provide real-time indicators and information for our executives."
"The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers."
"Since implementing MetricStream, audit teams have shaved about two weeks off of annual planning across various teams, allowing audit departments of about 140 auditors across maybe 10 teams to squeeze in 10 extra audits, one audit per each team, if not additional testing."
"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."
"Among the most valuable features of this solution is the easy implementation and the degree of automation that it offers."
"Easy to implement with a high level of automation."
"I have found all the features to be valuable, including those involving reporting, the dashboard, notifications, email modules, the database and data input."
"RSA Archer's best features are advanced workflow, reports, dashboards, and notifications."
"Its ROI is quite high when you look at how long it takes for people to input stuff for compliance risk, vulnerability management, and threat management."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"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."
"Previously, they were purely on Excel files and getting data from the applications inside Excel or Word format, and I think this is the first solution they went to, and this is the best tool for GRC, governance, risk, and compliance."
 

Cons

"The solution should be less expensive."
"A little too expensive."
"We would like to have more dashboards and reports, such as geographical and trend reports in the next version."
"I would like to see out-of-the-box integration with more security, it would be helpful."
"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."
"MetricStream's scalability is adaptable, though the biggest issue I have encountered with clients has been around upgrades that require re-implementing customizations to the out-of-box solutions after significant upgrades."
"Archer has some performance issues when working on a single server."
"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."
"When we have to do formulas or some other type of calculation in Archer, it sometimes doesn't work correctly."
"There were so many problems that we had found. One time, the search index was not working."
"I would like to see real-time data, from vulnerabilities, and threats."
"There should be an in-built feature that allows live data from vulnerabilities and threats from reliable sources to be streamed directly through their data field."
"The product is expensive."
"If I were to rate RSA technical support on a scale from one to ten, I would give it about four, as there is definitely room for improvement, but support is available."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They are flexible in terms of customers' needs."
"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."
"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."
"The price of RSA Archer is good. The price isn't too high considering it is a leading tool in the market."
"The initial purchase is cheap. You pay a nominal price to start then renew the license annually. You also must buy a license for each module. I'm not too fond of that aspect of the licensing model. You buy the elephant and then spend more money to feed the elephant."
"It is not expensive. It is reasonable. We only pay for the licensing."
"I am not sure about other companies, but it's quite expensive."
"The license is costly for the solution, but the remaining set up and maintenance is quite cheaper."
"Fairly highly-priced, especially for smaller companies."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Insurance Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
5%
 

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Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise25
 

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