We performed a comparison between Qualys Policy Compliance and RSA Archer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Governance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a simple product."
"The most valuable feature of QualysGuard Policy Compliance is the automation that can detect real-time threats and decrease risks."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable part of the product is the ease-of-use and the opportunity to create custom security applications easily."
"Solution is scalable."
"The solution has improved my organization by having everything combined to a single platform."
"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."
"Good dashboards and reporting features; it's easy to gather reports quickly."
"Archer has simplified our security audits. It's made it easier to raise and trigger questionnaires to customers."
"It would be good if the solution’s technical support could be faster."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"RSA Archer's best features are advanced workflow, reports, dashboards, and notifications."
"The bullet chart is the best graph for my purposes, and it should be available for inclusion in the dashboards."
"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."
"I find the tech support to be inadequately knowledgeable."
"Recently, we made a suggestion for cross references, like for one application to another. There were limitations there, so we're hoping that will be included in the next upgrade."
"I would like to have the ability to build and maintain an inventory of personal data processing activities and assets utilizing a purpose-built taxonomy and data structure."
"The solution as a whole could be simplified."
"GUI could be improved."
Qualys Policy Compliance is ranked 7th in IT Governance with 3 reviews while RSA Archer is ranked 1st in IT Governance with 38 reviews. Qualys Policy Compliance is rated 8.0, while RSA Archer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Qualys Policy Compliance writes "Easy to use, fast, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RSA Archer writes "A rich application with good workflow, but search feature needs improvement". Qualys Policy Compliance is most compared with , whereas RSA Archer is most compared with OneTrust GRC, IBM OpenPages, MetricStream, Workiva Wdesk and AuditBoard. See our Qualys Policy Compliance vs. RSA Archer report.
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