Compare Arc for Sitecore

Do It Yourself
Vercel/Netlify

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.