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Arc for Sitecore Do It Yourself FEaaS Competitor Four
Do It Yourself
FEaaS
Tech
JAM Stack Support
Primary support for Next.js solutions, but also additional options.
Additional cost and extensive investment with trial-and-error months.
Included.
Pure Static Apps
In addition to Next.js also supports discrete single page apps or static storage, globally replicated with 99.99% uptime.
Additional cost.
Additional cost.
API Hosting
Secure API hosting for your business and integration logic.
Additional cost.
No discrete API layer - only provides compute functions.
Pre-built SaaS Adapters
Adapters with pre-built integrations to Sitecore's SaaS products and legacy software.
Additional cost and extensive investment with trial & error months.
Partial connectivity for XMC no other Sitecore components.
DevOps Pipelines
Fully optimized CI/CD with zero downtime tuned for Sitecore productized and maintained with extension points/options.
Additional cost and extensive DevOps investment with trial & error months.
Basic GitOps process support only for Head.
Site Preview
Front end site previews with full security bound to non-production XMC. Deploys off feature branches allow testers to validate UI features with XMC content.
Not possible.
Available but IP allowlisting requires additional cost.
Orchestration FE and BE Changes
Orchestrated deployment across Rendering Host and XMC with no downtime and SLA guarantees.
Additional cost for extensive DevOps investment with trail & error.
Basic GitOps process support only for Head, no orchestration with XMC deploys.
End to End Starter Kit
End-to-end starter solution with Next.js and XMC deploying and ready to use from day one.
No end-to-end starters, Dev team will have to stitch together various samples.
Only a starter for Next.js on Vercel, but not including XMC.
SLA'd Ecosystem | Availability + Cost + Performance
Code deployment to application, to infrastructure to end user experience. Fully covered under SLA.
Requires 2 to 4 separate teams with difficult hand-offs.
Only SLA availability of head hosting, not site performance or end-to-end availability.
On Demand ISR For Sitecore
Prebuilt optimized end-to-end solution for Sitecore included.
Client developers to build from the ground up.
Capability exists, client developers to build.
Image Optimization
Cloudflare backed image optimization included and highly cost effective.
Would need to buy/build for additional cost.
Included but very costly.
Tuned Sitecore Caching
Highly optimized, finely tuned for Sitecore including ongoing maintenance.
Client developers spend more time to iteratively configure and build for additional cost.
Client developers spend more time to iteratively configure and build for additional cost.
BoT, DDoS, WAF and Security Incident Response
Full coverage and incident response, tuned to Sitecore unique quirks.
Client infrastructure team could provision at additional cost.
Only Head.
Compliance
Compliance across app, infrastructure, security and operations layers - ready for industry regulations.
Could aim to align to best practice Azure/AWS policy and certify with additional time and spend.
Only Head.
Monitoring
Full coverage centralized views and alerts responded to by the Dataweavers team.
Additional tooling required at extra cost.
Only Head.
Specialist SRE Team
Deep troubleshooting capability, developers and infrastructure with Sitecore and Rendering Host skills.
General capability, no Sitecore knowledge.
No dedicated Sitecore knowledge.
Time to Value
Fast time to value due to productized implementation with automation from one team.
Zero base, extensive time and cost to get architecture and solution right.
Non-integrated solution and process, significant time spent getting architecture and overall solution right.
Team Structure
One team - Infrastructure, DevOps, Security, App, Sitecore vendor support managed by Dataweavers.
Minimum 3 vendors and 2 teams.
Minimum 2 vendors and 1 team.
SaaS Adoption
One contract. Allowing SaaS and PaaS features side-by-side legacy Sitecore and Headless SaaS enabling iterative journey and cutover.
Multiple client teams across separate infrastructure. Difficult to iteratively manage a cutover.
Only Head - difficult to iteratively manage cutover.