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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Archer

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AArcher offers a platform for holistic integrated risk management solutions that empower enterprise organizations to more effectively manage risk, ensure compliance, and address emerging challenges.N/A

    Atlassian Jira

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAtlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.

    $9

    per month per user

    Pricing
    ArcherAtlassian Jira
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $9
    per month per user
    Premium
    $17
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ArcherAtlassian Jira
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Higher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.
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    Community Pulse
    ArcherAtlassian Jira
    Considered Both Products
    Archer Technologies LLC
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    Atlassian
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    101 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    89 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    98 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    70 Answers
    Features
    ArcherAtlassian Jira
    Governance, Risk & Compliance
    Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Atlassian Jira
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    9.5
    13 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Atlassian Jira
    -
    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
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Atlassian Jira
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Atlassian Jira
    9.5
    3 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.73 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform and Atlassian Jira
    Feature
    Archer Integrated Risk Management Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Atlassian Jira
    9.9
    2 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings9.72 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings9.72 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ArcherAtlassian Jira
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.7
    (190 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.4
    (31 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.3
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ArcherAtlassian Jira
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Archer Technologies LLC
    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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    Atlassian
    Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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    Pros
    Archer Technologies LLC
    • 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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    Atlassian
    • Integration of tools like Bitbucket, Github, etc., has made it easier to track the code changes, pull requests, and branches linked to the respective ticket.
    • The detailed tracking system in JIRA has helped the teams prioritize and understand the project tasks and issues.
    • JIRA's project tracking board helps you keep track of the project, its flow, and expectations in a structured format.
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    Cons
    Archer Technologies LLC
    • 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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    Atlassian
    • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
    • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
    • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
    • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    This is because Jira Software generates a huge profit for an affordable price. Having a tool that makes team management transparent and effective is very valuable.
    In addition, the renewal of Jira Software and all Atlassian tools is predictable and clear, as the prices are published on the Atlassian website and there is no pyramid of intermediaries.
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    Usability
    Archer Technologies LLC
    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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    Atlassian
    The interface is simple and easy to use if you have some experience with it. Configuration is also logical most of the time. However, less experienced users tend to find themselves lost in some tasks - usually complex project configuration- but sometimes simple things, such as seeing why a user can't move issues in a workflow. Jira configuration requires a good amount of experience - and even experienced users often resort to documentation. It's a tool that's easy to use if you know what you're doing and where to find the proper documentation, but novice users tend to find it challenging.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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    Performance
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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    Support Rating
    Archer Technologies LLC
    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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    Atlassian
    I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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    In-Person Training
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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    Online Training
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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    Implementation Rating
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Archer Technologies LLC
    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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    Atlassian
    monday.com cannot be integrated with CI/CD tools, whereas Atlassian Jira integrates with CI/CD tools seamlessly. Atlassian Jira has strong Agile and Scrum support. Coming to monday.com, it has basic agile functionality. But Atlassian Jira has a complex UI, and monday.com has an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Overall, Atlassian Jira provides features like Agile project management, DevOps integration, and customizable workflows.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Product is rellay good but pricing part I am not aware
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    Scalability
    Archer Technologies LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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    Return on Investment
    Archer Technologies LLC
    • 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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    Atlassian
    • Atlassian Jira's robust workflow automation has boosted team efficiency, shortening delivery cycles and driving a positive ROI through improved project management.
    • Its advanced reporting and integration capabilities have enabled data-driven decisions, aligning operations with key business objectives.
    • However, the steep learning curve can delay adoption, potentially hindering short-term ROI.
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