Compare Fusion for Optimizely

Dataweavers Managed Hosting Digital Project Team Managed Service Provider Platform Engineering Team

Managed Hosting
Digital Project Team
Managed Service Provider
Platform Engineering Team

Tech

Platform-as-a-Service

Multi-region, tuned for Optimizely, dynamically scalable, cost-optimized PaaS.
Dynamically scalable, PaaS.
Either IaaS or PaaS.

Either IaaS or PaaS.

Dynamically scalable, PaaS.

Front-end-as-a-Service

Dataweavers Rendering Host included (Q2, 2025)
3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.
3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.
3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.
3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.

Elastic Search-as-a-Service

Optimizely Find, Dataweavers globally scaled hosted search (Coming Q3, 2025).
Optimizely Find or 3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.
Optimizely Find or 3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.
Optimizely Find or 3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.
Optimizely Find or 3rd Party SaaS, additional cost.

Productized for Optimizely

Each component in Fusion is specifically optimized for running Optimizely and any unique customer requirements.
Optimized for running Optimizely. One size fits all.
Project only.
Custom built.
Horizontal services.

DevOps Pipelines

Fully optimized CI/CD with zero downtime tuned for Optimizely, productized, maintained and extensible.
Packaged based deployment solution with API no pipelines.
App only, no SLA, no maintenance.
No SLA, additional cost.
Basic implementation.

Deployment Governance

Robust governance model with extendable customized workflow approvals.
Basic standard release governance.
Governance configuration left to customer.
Governance configuration left to customer.
Robust governance model to organization standards.

Standard Extensions | eg. SAST, DAST

Codified best practice for secure release productized and maintained.
Customer to build and own, costly, no SLA, no maintenance.
Customer to build and own, costly, no SLA, no maintenance.
No SLA, no maintenance.
Not tuned for Optimizely.

SLA'd Ecosystem | Availability + Cost + Performance

Code deployment to application availability and performance, from infrastructure to end user experience full SLA.
SLA on uptime, performance customer dependent, deployment excluded.
No monitoring or management.
Infra and app SLA, not end user experience.
SLA excludes end user experience.

Tuned Optimizely Caching

Highly optimized, finely tuned for Optimizely, ongoing maintenance.
Optimized caching.
Once-off.
Ad hoc.
Not Optimizely specific.

App & Infra & Deployment Optimization

App, Infra, DevOps is optimized and maintained for performance, SLA 99.95/99.99.
Infrastructure and application, not DevOps, 99.90 SLA.
App only, once-off, no SLA.
Not Optimizely specific, weak SLA.
Not Optimizely specific, no SLA.

Your Azure Tenant

For compliance, host in your own tenant. Option to host with Dataweavers if required.
Vendor tenant only.
Your tenant only.
Your tenant only.
Your tenant only.

Compliance | ISO 27001, CPS, HIPAA, Organizational Cloud policies

Compliance app, infra, security, DevOps and operations. Fully transparent/inspectable and aligned to your security policies.
Infra focused ISO, limited visibility, standardized policies.
App not infra, not maintained.
Addl costly to get compliance.
Limited scenarios.

On mainstream support

Upgraded to latest upfront, maintained in mainstream support for contract term.
Customer responsible.
Not included, additional cost.
Not included, additional cost.
Project team responsibility.

BoT, DDoS, WAF and Security Incident Response

Full coverage and incident response, tuned to Optimizely customer environment and any unique requirements.
Limited response, standardized rules.
Customer responsible.
Not tuned for Optimizely.
Not tuned for Optimizely.

App version upgrades

Low cost, part automated, repeatable, no downtime.
Downtime and customer responsible.
Downtime, no automation and additional cost.
Downtime, no automation and additional cost.

Downtime with project team responsible.

Infrastructure Provisioning and Scaling

Fully automated, hands off, optimized for Optimizely, customized rules, productized improvements.
Optimized for Optimizely, standardized rules.
One-off custom with customer and infrastructure team responsible.
One-off customer, not optimized for Optimizely.
Limited Optimizely optimization.

Security

Specific alert criteria, tuned for Optimizely, general and Optimizely specific rules, deployment security built-in.
General security automation, limited deployment security.
Typically, no deployment security and security left for customer responsibility.
Generic security automation, limited deployment security.
Generic security automation.

Disaster Recovery Automation

Full responsibility, lowest RPO and RTO, active-active, fully automated failover.

Joint responsibility, active-passive, Medium RTO.
Left to customer and infrastructure team, once-off custom, high RTO.
Joint responsibility, manual intervention, active-passive, high RTO.
Joint responsibility, manual intervention, active-passive, high RTO.

Specialist SRE Team

Deep troubleshooting capability, devs, infrastructure & security 100% focused on Optimizely.

Deep infrastructure and app, troubleshooting capability with Optimizely skills.

Customer responsibility to build or buy support team.

Not dedicated to Optimizely knowledge.
General capability, limited Optimizely knowledge.

Time to Value

Productized implementation with automation resulting in fast time-to-value.
DevOps missing, customer responsibility and time sinking.
Delays due to lack of DevOps and infrastructure multi team dependencies.
Delays due to lack of automation in infrastructure and upgrade process.
Customer responsibility.

Team Structure

1 Team
Fully managed by Dataweavers: Infrastructure, DevOps, security, App, Optimizely vendor support.

4 Teams
Optimizely (2): Infrastructure and app,
Product Support
Customer (2): DevOps, App development

3-5 Teams
Customer (2): Infrastructure, Security
Partner (2): DevOps, App
Optimizely (1): Support

2-5 Teams
Partner (4): Infrastructure, Security, DevOps & App
Optimizely (1): Support
3 Teams
Platform (2): Infrastructure, DevOps & SRE; 
Solution (2): DevOps, App
Optimizely (1): Support

SaaS Adoption

One contract. Allowing SaaS and PaaS features side-by-side enabling an iterative journey, in tenant compliant rendering host which is included.
Single contract but requires external rendering host selection.
Separate contract and solution.
Separate contract and solution.
Separate platform and solution.

Useful links

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Queensland, 4005
Australia

united kingdom

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London, W1D 4EG
United Kingdom

united states

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Suite 200
New York, NY 10020
USA