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# What Is Archways

**Make defensible AI and software vendor decisions.**

Archways turns business requests and renewals into defensible decisions, with the market, alternatives, contracts and overlap already understood.

Built for IT, procurement and finance teams who need to decide whether to renew, renegotiate, replace or consolidate software, backed by evidence instead of guesswork.

Most enterprises already have data on their software estate. The harder problem is deciding what to do next. Archways brings portfolio context, renewal timing and independent market intelligence into one place, so decisions happen earlier and with clear trade-offs.

If your team is already asking whether to renew, replace or consolidate a tool, that's the moment Archways is built for.

​Who Archways is for

* **IT teams** rationalizing the stack, eliminating tool sprawl, and tracking renewals and contract terms.
* **Procurement teams** shortening purchase cycles and negotiating from market intelligence instead of vendor pitches.
* **Finance teams** validating spend against usage and catching duplicate purchases before they're signed.
* **Software consultants** advising clients on renewal, evaluation or rationalization decisions.

Archways is built for medium to large organisations with complex software estates, where decisions cut across these teams rather than sitting with one owner.

#### **​What Archways is not**

Archways is a decision layer, not a replacement for the systems you already run — ServiceNow, Coupa, Workday, SAP or spreadsheets. It sits on top of them and adds the market intelligence and scoring those systems don't carry. See How Archways Works for the mechanics.

#### **​Quick answers**

**What is Archways?** Archways is a decision intelligence platform that combines a company's own contract and usage data with independent market intelligence across 175,000+ vendors, so renewal, evaluation and consolidation decisions come with evidence attached.

**What problem does Archways solve?** Most enterprises can already see what software they own — the harder problem is deciding what to do next at renewal or when evaluating something new. Archways is built specifically for that decision point, not for inventory tracking on its own.


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