Dataweavers Arc: Unlock Headless without the Headaches

Yes, Arc is fully currently compatible with Sitecore, Optimizely and Contentstack with more to come. It’s purpose-built to support headless architectures, giving your teams the flexibility to deliver modern, composable digital experiences. With Arc, you can accelerate delivery and simplify operations,  all while remaining fully compliant with enterprise-level controls and governance.

Arc offers flexible pricing with three tiers (Bronze, Silver, and Gold) and support models (Essential, Standard and Premium) these are aligned to your feature needs, environment complexity, and level of support. Your cost includes a tailored onboarding setup, a monthly subscription based on the right features and support, and optimized infrastructure designed for your traffic and performance. We select with you the most appropriate tiering, using your real data, so you only pay for what you need and can easily scale as your business grows. Arc is surprisingly cost effective, aligned to what you would pay for only a rendering host with support, but providing complete platform operations. 

Dataweavers is a dedicated, niche-focused expert organization and ISV partner, providing products to drive DXP automation and management. With certified developers and decades of combined DXP, Cloud and DevOps expertise, Dataweavers leverages this experience to deliver seamless outcomes and manage thousands of websites, currently serving over 2.5 billion page views annually. Known for passing stringent security audits, Dataweavers is the only dedicated in-your-tenant platform operations provider for Sitecore and Optimizely.   

Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud platform, offering a comprehensive suite of services, including Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and managed database solutions. These services enable businesses to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft’s global network of data centers, providing scalable and secure infrastructure for a wide range of digital needs.  

Arc enhances performance with advanced multi-region deployments, auto-scaling, and load balancing, keeping your site responsive even during peak traffic. We deliver a highly tuned CDN and caching layer within the stack, including image optimization, to accelerate load times. High availability is ensured with active monitoring, performance tuning, and secure-by-default configurations to maintain optimal uptime.

Yes, Arc automates essential operations such as deployments, monitoring, scaling, and backups, minimizing the need for manual processes. This high level of automation reduces human error, speeds up deployment, and ensures consistent performance across environments, providing a reliable and efficient platform experience.    

Arc prioritizes security with a multi-layered protection model, including Web Application Firewalls (WAF), DDoS and bot protection, and strict access controls, all designed to ensure compliance with data protection standards and robust defense for your digital assets. Integration with the head application can also be configured within your firewall-controlled environment, preventing exposure of critical business APIs and line-of-business systems to external threats. This approach safeguards your platform from every angle, keeping your operations secure and compliant.

Arc’s streamlined onboarding process for a greenfield implementation typically gets you fully operational within 10 to 15 days, including team enablement, starter kit accelerator, security and fully functional deployment processes ready to go.   

Arc is designed to meet or exceed industry standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, and APRA. It offers robust compliance features such as data encryption, detailed audit logs, role-based access controls, and continuous patching. It provides for full data sovereignty and important RBAC controls. This allows you to focus on innovation while Arc takes care of your compliance and security needs, ensuring your platform is always aligned with regulatory requirements. 

Arc provides continuous improvement to keep your platform at peak performance. Our team actively monitors performance metrics and periodically applies updates with the latest Azure and platform enhancements, ensuring your environment remains optimized, secure, and future-ready. 

Platforms like Vercel and Netlify are excellent Front-end-as-a-Service” (FEaaS) providers for front-end applications and standard function execution. But a rendering host alone isn’t enough when you move into enterprise headless, where backend-for-frontend APIs, experience APIs, integration/data services, DevOps pipelines, security, observability, and governance all come into play.

Arc is built for this next level. Delivered in your Azure tenant, it provides complete platform operations: rendering, APIs, integrations, DevOps, monitoring, security, and compliance. With Arc, you don’t just get a hosting layer, you get the full operating model and end-to-end support required to scale from simple sites to complex, multi-channel digital experiences.

Key advantages include:

• End-to-End Management: 24/7 monitoring, automated scaling, proactive resolution, and continuous security updates.
• Enterprise DevOps: Deployment pipelines and monitoring across both the front end and CMS back end, always in sync.
• Compliance by Design: Operating entirely within your Azure tenant ensures data residency, governance, and regulatory alignment.

In short, Arc ensures you’re not relying on a rendering host alone, but on a complete, enterprise-ready foundation with full platform operations and support. Already invested in an FEaaS solution and want to keep it? Let’s talk about how Arc provides the rest.

Hosting your headless front end in Azure keeps everything under your control — data residency, compliance, and alignment with enterprise policies. With Arc, you also get the full set of components that make headless work at scale, including storage, backend-for-frontend APIs, experience APIs, and integration APIs. Arc enhances this setup by combining Azure’s scalability and security with our expertise in infrastructure, DevOps, and DXP operations. The result is high performance, reliable operations, and a headless environment fully aligned with your standards.