Tim Rice
ArcSite Enterprise Platform

ArcSite Enterprise Platform

Company
ArcSite
Year
2025
My role
Lead Product Manager
Contributors
Design, Engineering, CS, Sales
Stakeholders
Enterprise clients, CS, Sales
Status
Launched

Problem

The largest ArcSite customers had outgrown the platform's SMB foundations. Companies that started with a dozen users had scaled to hundreds. Many operated as franchise or private equity brands managing multiple locations across a single organization. There was no central place to manage users, product catalogs, or view rolled-up reporting across branches. Every admin task required CSM involvement, and the lack of cross-company visibility created distrust in the data.

Research

CS and Sales teams surfaced that the largest customers were at a breaking point. Hosted dozens of user feedback sessions to collect pain points directly from admins and business owners. Identified that the core gap was a missing enterprise control layer, not a set of individual feature requests.

Pain points

  • Account provisioning at scale required frequent CSM support, creating a bottleneck for customers and the internal team
  • Managing product catalogs across an org required tedious manual duplication and repeated CSM intervention
  • No rolled-up reporting across branches meant enterprise admins had no reliable view of overall business performance
  • Lack of trust in backend reports reduced confidence in ArcSite as a long-term enterprise tool

Vision

Give enterprise and multi-location organizations the control layer they need to manage ArcSite at scale, without requiring CSM support for routine operations. Position ArcSite as a viable platform for franchise networks and PE portfolio brands, not just individual contractors.

Solution

Delivered the platform in three phases across three quarters:

  • Phase 1 User Management: Gave enterprise admins the ability to provision and manage users at scale without CSM support
  • Phase 2 Product Catalog Management: Enabled centralized and distributed catalog models across an org, eliminating manual duplication
  • Phase 3 Reporting Dashboard: Delivered rolled-up cross-company visibility for corporate admins for the first time

Low fidelity / wireframes / sketches

  • Created an architecture diagram mapping the information model across user, company, and enterprise objects
  • Created a product library architecture diagram mapping centralized and distributed product catalog models, establishing the data foundation before any UI work began

Iterative validation

  • Partnered with the lead designer to build click-through prototypes at each phase
  • Met with key enterprise admins to validate approach and refine before moving to development
  • Used feedback loops across three delivery quarters to adjust scope and prioritization based on real admin input

Final UI / UX

Launched a dedicated subdomain platform for corporate admins with four core areas:

  • Reporting dashboard with rolled-up metrics across branches
  • User management
  • Company management
  • Product library management
Final UI / UX 1Final UI / UX 2Final UI / UX 3Final UI / UX 4

Retrospective

  • Retained $1M+ in ARR and drove seat expansion across enterprise accounts
  • Improved adoption in end user segments across managed organizations
  • Reduced CSM support engagements by removing friction from routine admin tasks