Product overview
What is Archways?
Archways is an AI platform for enterprise software decisions. It is designed for IT, procurement, and finance teams that need to evaluate a vendor, prepare a renewal, or understand whether an existing product should be retained, renegotiated, or replaced. The platform organizes requirements, vendor capabilities, pricing, security signals, financial information, contracts, spend, and usage into a reviewable decision record.
Archways works above existing systems such as ServiceNow, Coupa, Workday, SAP, and spreadsheets rather than requiring teams to replace them. It can use public vendor documentation, APIs, release notes, security disclosures, licensed datasets, vendor submissions, and a customer's private contract or usage data.
How to Use Archways
- Bring existing contracts, spend, and usage data, or define the requirements for a new software evaluation.
- Let Archways score vendors against those requirements and organize capability, pricing, security, and financial signals.
- Review alternatives and capability fit in an audit-ready decision page for the renewal, evaluation, or portfolio choice.
Core Features
- Vendor market maps: Organizes relevant suppliers and alternatives for a software category.
- Requirement-based scoring: Evaluates vendor capabilities against the buying team's stated needs.
- Contract and usage context: Incorporates private agreements, spend, and utilization into renewal decisions.
- Multi-source evidence: Combines public vendor materials, licensed data, submissions, and internal records.
- Decision records: Presents capability fit and alternatives in a format intended for review and audit.
- Existing-system compatibility: Works alongside established procurement, finance, and IT systems.
Use Cases
- Software evaluation: Buying teams can compare vendors against explicit operational and technical requirements.
- Contract renewal: Procurement and finance can assess usage, terms, alternatives, and commercial signals before negotiation.
- Vendor replacement: IT teams can identify capability gaps and review feasible alternatives.
- Application portfolio review: Enterprises can examine overlapping products and document portfolio decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which teams use Archways?
The product is designed for IT, procurement, and finance teams involved in enterprise software decisions.
Does Archways replace procurement or IT systems?
The official site says it works above tools such as ServiceNow, Coupa, Workday, SAP, and spreadsheets.
