Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers vs PonoAudit

Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers tracks the audit universe, engagements, workpaper documentation, testing, and results. It provides review and approval workflows for engagement and workpaper records, plus a centralized Audit Program Library and workpaper repository. Audit report and planning memo templates support documentation, while teams can manage findings and remediation plans with comment review. The product supports offline audit engagements and shares data with Archer risk and compliance functions, using existing risk and control data to help scope audits. Archer describes its broader Audit Management offering as combining audit planning, engagements, workpapers, and issues in one system. Archer Issues Management is a prerequisite for this product. It is positioned for enterprise audit teams, including heads of internal audit. Archer says its SaaS runs on AWS and has a 99.5% composite SLA; listed SaaS certifications include ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27701, with encryption at rest and in transit. SaaS environments are commonly multi-tenant, while dedicated database infrastructure and single-tenant environments are available at additional cost. Pricing is on request.

PonoAudit is a cloud platform combining audit management, risk tracking, findings remediation and compliance reporting. Teams can plan audits from framework templates, collect evidence with chain of custody, run custom automated tests and manage findings through remediation. Risk tools include a likelihood-by-impact heatmap, key risk indicators, vendor reassessments, adaptive questionnaires and exception management. Compliance features include readiness scores, an external auditor portal, standards crosswalks and AI policy drift detection. Supported frameworks include SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS and NIST AI RMF. Its internal audit workflow covers risk and controls, testing, findings, corrective actions and evidence; named integrations include AWS, Okta and GitHub, with no-code tests over collected data. Plans include every framework and unlimited collaborator seats, with no per-framework or implementation fees. A 14-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. Essentials costs $99 a month and includes five full seats and 10 GB storage; Professional is $399 a month, and Enterprise is $799 a month. PonoAudit lists Android, iOS and web platforms.