Third-party risk management, one program, every role

A third-party risk program everyone can stand behind

From the analyst chasing a questionnaire to the board asking how exposed we are, every role works from one vendor record and gets a straight answer.

1,500+ clients · 48 countries · 25 years in GRC

Third-party governance Software
  • 1,500+

    Clienti in 48 paesi

  • 50%+

    Tra i clienti della classifica Fortune 500

  • 65%

    Delle organizzazioni che dedicano maggiore impegno alla quantificazione

  • 15,000+

    Membri della comunità di rischio Archer

See how it works

Interactive Walkthrough

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One record, four readers

The whole vendor relationship on one record every role can read

The answer sits in three places. One person holds the questionnaire, another the contract, and a slide gets rebuilt when the board asks. Archer keeps the relationship on one record, so nobody argues about whose number is right.

  • Analysts log the work once, not in three places

  • Directors get a current view without the rebuild

  • The board gets an exposure view you can defend

Role-specific payoff

What the analysts, directors, and executives each get out of it

Archer connects third-party findings to the issues, controls, and enterprise risk your team already runs.

Analysts: less busywork

Tiering sets the depth before diligence starts, checklists carry over from the last vendor like this one, and the portal collects the evidence.

Directors: a current view

One view holds every third party, engagement, risk rating, and open task, so you answer the hard question in the meeting instead of chasing it after.

Executives: one platform

Vendor risk lands in the same register, control library, and issue queue your other teams already run, so oversight rises without another tool to buy.

The complete workflow

Archer ties every step of vendor management into the programs and processes your risk team already owns.

Supplier intake

A business user proposes a vendor on a short form that captures the service, the requesting unit, and how sensitive the work is, so you start with context.

Risk tiering

The relationship owner answers across eight areas of risk, from data sensitivity to regulatory exposure, and the score decides how deep the diligence goes.

Reusable checklists

Build the required document list once for an engagement type and apply it every time, and Archer opens a document record for each item the checklist selected.

Vendor responses

Questionnaires and document requests go out as a secure link, vendors bring in their own colleagues to answer, and the responses sync back to the engagement.

Residual risk

Analysts rate how well the vendor’s controls hold up, and that rating pulls inherent risk down to a residual number you can hold against your own tolerance.

Metric thresholds

Set red, amber, and green thresholds on any SLA, KPI, or KRI, name the metric owner, and Archer generates the collection task on the frequency you picked.

Uno sguardo più da vicino

How different roles work in Archer

Coverage

Everything you need, nothing you don’t

Archer carries every record and workflow a third-party program needs to work.

  • Third-party profiles

    Analysts log it once, everyone else sees it

  • Engagement risk register

    Each service you buy, scored on its own risk

  • Vendor response portal

    Vendors answer without an Archer login of their own

  • Documents and expirations

    Evidence with an owner and an expiry date

  • Security risk monitoring

    Outside-in security ratings between reviews

  • Offboarding on the record

    An ended relationship leaves an audit trail

Come si posiziona Archer rispetto agli altri

What each of these roles gains over spreadsheets and point tools

Archer connects vendor risk to the broader programs a point tool cannot reach.

Analyst: one place to do the work

Copertura di base per le squadre alle prime armi.

Ecco cosa riceverai

  • Yes

Director: coverage and open work in one view

Fogli di calcolo, unità di rete condivise e conoscenze non documentate.

Ecco cosa riceverai

  • Yes

Casi di studio

Scopri i nostri casi di studio

Oltre 1.500 organizzazioni utilizzano Archer®, tra cui metà delle aziende della classifica Fortune 500 e 37 delle prime 50 banche mondiali. Scopri quali sfide hanno dovuto affrontare i loro team, cosa hanno realizzato e cosa è cambiato.

Cosa dicono i clienti

Scelto con fiducia dai team che si assumono il rischio

I responsabili dei settori rischio, conformità e audit raccontano cosa è cambiato dopo l’implementazione di Archer Evolv.

Le domande che ci vengono poste più spesso

Straight answers to what third-party risk program leads ask before choosing Archer.

You can edit the questions, adjust the values behind the scoring, and add your own, so the assessment reflects how your program judges risk. Teams with a question bank usually port it over, and adoption follows a workflow analysts recognize.

No. Archer Engage for Vendors sends each contact a secure link to answer questionnaires and upload documents from outside your instance, and they can invite their own colleagues to help. Their answers sync back to the engagement for your review.

Tier them. The inherent risk questionnaire scores each engagement across eight areas, including data access, regulatory exposure, and business criticality. Higher tiers draw deeper diligence and more reassessment, and low-risk work clears fast.

Third-party findings become issues in the same queue your other teams work, engagement risks map to your enterprise risk register, and third parties map to the processes they support. One platform, so vendor risk stops living in a program of its own.

The tier decision, the evidence behind it, the control rating, the open issues, and the termination sit on the engagement with the history attached. The framework aligns to OCC Bulletin 2023-17 and NIST SP 800-161 Rev. 1, which examiners recognize.

Archer Evolv grounds its answers in your own records, roles, and permissions rather than a general model’s average, and it shows the trace behind an answer. A person reviews and approves before anything on the record changes.

Most teams start with the prescriptive framework already in the solution, which covers profiles, engagements, inherent risk, due diligence, and monitoring out of the box. Scope drives the timeline, and your team confirms it during scoping.

Siete pronti a mettere in pratica l’IA regolamentata nei settori del rischio e della conformità?

Oltre 8.000 fonti normative monitorate costantemente

Precisione di estrazione dell'obbligo pari al 95%

Scelta da 37 delle 50 principali banche mondiali

Percorso completo dall’obbligo alla prova

Le decisioni sottoposte a revisione migliorano la successiva decisione simile

IA controllata senza sostituire l'ambiente esistente