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ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager vs MetricStream comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

ARIS Risk and Compliance Ma...
Ranking in GRC
26th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MetricStream
Ranking in GRC
2nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Continuous Controls Monitoring (2nd), IT Governance (2nd), IT Vendor Risk Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the GRC category, the mindshare of ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager is 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MetricStream is 3.2%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
GRC Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MetricStream3.2%
ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager1.4%
Other95.4%
GRC
 

Featured Reviews

BPMexp67 - PeerSpot reviewer
BPM Expert at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Covers the entire risk management cycle, from identification and evaluation to control, mitigation, and monitoring
The most effective features are the basic ones to evaluate and control risk. We have many specific small models inside of ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager, like issue management. These are smaller add-ons depending on the needs. You are including specific models as well. The basic ones do exactly what is required for risk management: identification, evaluation, control, mitigation, and modification. And, we have dashboards with the possibility to configure compliance policies and risk limits based on which we can create alarms. If there are maximum limits, we create alarms attached to the responsible people. Normally, there is someone that identifies the risk, and then you have the risk owner. These people [normal users] can send notifications to the risk owner, who will evaluate the risk and decide whether it's important to control it or not. I remember a project where the customer wanted to control all risks and assigned many people to identify them. They started identifying risks everywhere. After a few years, the customer realized that it didn't make sense to control all of them. So, they created limits—levels of risk the company was willing to accept because it was more expensive to implement controls than to manage the risk. So, regarding ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager, you can implement all the risks and policies you can imagine because it's very customizable. You can customize a lot of things.
CP
Senior GRC Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Automated workflows have reduced manual follow-ups and improve third-party risk oversight
MetricStream's best features include its ease of use, compliance program, TPRM, audit management, and implementation effort. It effectively handles large data volumes and provides good workflow capabilities with decent reporting flexibility and a better user interface. MetricStream impacts the organization by reducing follow-ups through reminder settings during questionnaire assignments. It automatically sends reminders based on set reminders, fostering trust when configured with the organization's email domain. Metrics improvements like operational efficiency, centralized GRC management, enhanced risk visibility, streamlined compliance, reduced manual efforts, enhanced third-party risk monitoring, improved decision-making with real-time dashboards, and risk analytics follow from automated workflows and issue tracking.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We can set it so that for a specific risk, or for all risks if we want, people will receive automatic notifications to do the evaluation and implement or test the control at a set interval, like every six months or every year."
"The most valuable feature is the risk testing, where you can attach your processes to the risk, and automatically generate all of the tests."
"MetricStream positively impacts our organization significantly by saving costs and enhancing our risk and compliance maturity."
"For our client, MetricStream made the audits incredibly efficient, and in real time, I could provide the status of the audit to stakeholders, indicating which controls had deviations, which control was pending, and who it was pending on."
"MetricStream is something like an all-in-one solution where I do not need to write scripts or conduct audits."
"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."
"The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers."
"It has good features and good functionality, and our customers feel there is a lot of merit in that."
"MetricStream has impacted my organization positively as it helps implement the main QMS modules through this platform only: change control, deviation, and CAPA implementation, as I explained earlier."
"MetricStream definitely impacts my organization positively because it is very useful and offers low-code utilities to configure all components, allowing team members to complete tasks quickly."
 

Cons

"In future releases, I would like to see more features around AI (artificial intelligence)."
"I would like to see the modeling less strict so that connectors can be more flexible."
"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."
"MetricStream is a very costly application; we cannot save money."
"MetricStream at that point did not have a template, and I had to build the entire SOX 404 IT general controls testing framework myself."
"I would like to see out-of-the-box integration with more security, it would be helpful."
"The support part is terrible, rating about one out of ten."
"Since I have used MetricStream for the last three years, one of the top improvements that comes to my mind is enhanced user experience and UX/UI."
"Currently, I believe MetricStream has sufficient functionality, but for the Indian banking sector, the UI and overall complexity could be improved, as many Indian banks require a simplified UI."
"From my standpoint, MetricStream is a bit costly. We spend a significant amount of money for the product, and I cannot disclose specifics due to confidentiality."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
16%
Healthcare Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager?
I recommend it to my customers. Sometimes, we follow the normal cycle: risk identification, then evaluation, then mitigation, and lastly, monitoring. In other processes, we use the software to anal...
What advice do you have for others considering ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager?
At this moment, I would recommend this tool. This is the tool I know more than the others. I know a little bit about BWise and other tools like Spark. But ARIS is the one I know best because I've b...
What needs improvement with MetricStream?
MetricStream at that point did not have a template, and I had to build the entire SOX 404 IT general controls testing framework myself. It depended on how knowledgeable the person using it was. If ...
What is your primary use case for MetricStream?
My main use case for MetricStream is the automation of the IT audit process, governance, risk, and compliance. I was working for a specific third-party client who was implementing MetricStream, and...
What advice do you have for others considering MetricStream?
Overall, the API integrations of MetricStream were very good, and I did not face any issues, so it was good. I did not face any major challenges when customizing MetricStream to fit my organization...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Alicorp, Tesco, Dubai Municipality, Emirates NBD, Suva - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as being in the market of business process management for more than 30 years, serving users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, ACCO Brands Corporation, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, AIB International, Associated Banc-Corp, BAE Systems, Barclaycard, Dell Inc, DIRECTV, Energizer, Fresenius Kabi, Hasbro, Goodyear, HudsonCity Savings Bank, Infigen Energy, Kaydon, Leroy Merlin, Mountry Financial Corp., Nicholas Piramal, Pepco, Pfizer, Societe Generale, Whitney Bank
Find out what your peers are saying about ARIS Risk and Compliance Manager vs. MetricStream and other solutions. Updated: August 2026.
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