Sumo Logic

“Empowering the people who power modern business”

Founded: 2010 in California, USA

Category: Artificial Intelligence

Primary office: Redwood City, California (USA)

Core technical team: Redwood City, California (USA)

Status: Private

Employees: 1000

Amount raised: $345 million (6 rounds – April 2019)

OVERVIEW

Enables enterprises to use cloud technology capabilities, machine learning and artificial intelligence to scale.
Enables faster data log analysis and monitoring as well as the transformation of sources of big data into real-time, usable insights
Analytics supports enterprises digitally and improves security and operational processes
Platform enables enterprises to easily detect and investigate indicators of compromises (IoC) and thereby improve compliance with information security and cybersecurity requirements or policies

PERFORMANCE METRICS

ACHIEVEMENTS

Supports 2000+ enterprises
Process 200+ petabytes of data and handles 20+ million queries for 2000+ enterprises around the world
First & only technology continuous intelligence report on the state of cloud operation of modern application stack – provides a data-driven guide to companies using or intending to shift to cloud operations
Forbes Cloud 100 (2018 & 2019)

Real-time SaaS platform to operate and secure enterprise applications at cloud scale
Operations analytics, security analytics, business analytics
Integrations with enterprise systems
Subscriptions for professionals and enterprises

Direct B2B API integrations
Technology partners, system integrators and resellers, managed service providers, SOC integration

Founder-led Management team
Expertise in DevSecOps management and compliance required to scale
Multi-tenant scalable and elastic cloud infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Multi-Cloud support
Sophisticated & real-time data analytics to enable fast decision making (over 30 million searches and 500 trillion records daily)

Assets

Over 150 different business applications and API integrations including SaaS, VPNs and SSOs for remote and secured operations,
Partners with top business technologies e.g. Amazon AWS, Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, etc.
Unified platform for technology teams to efficiently and concurrently manage development, operations and security.
Open source tools such as FluentD, Prometheus and CollectD
Open collection APIs
Various certifications and accreditations

Processes

Company data (from Apps, micro-services, cloud systems, SaaS servers, mobile devices, 3^rd-party systems and feeds) analyzed by Sumo Logic analytics (multi-tenant, scalable and elastic, machine learning, API, advanced analytics, security) servicing company stakeholders (DevOps, engineering, IT Ops, customer success, products, data scientists and SecOps)
Optimized analytics for logs, metrics, and events; powerful real-time analytics; streaming data processing
Secure by design (platform built with security-first principle in and for the cloud)
Customizable, user-friendly dashboard for insights and decision-making
24/7 technical support
Adopts business use cases to provide better insights e.g. SIEM (Security, Information and Events Management)
Supports and automates compliance to security and operational policies such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2.0
Initial free trial for its Continuous Intelligence Platform for businesses
Sumo free – for Individuals and small business to execute small projects
Flexible payment option for bigger businesses and projects – Pay as you grow

Priorities

Increase sales by applying big-data analytics to produce information about users, suppliers and customers
Increase value by arranging and directing a community comprised of groups that are external and internal to the company and connect everything needed to scale.
Increase profitability by enforcing policies and procedures for resource configuration, production and coordination, information search and gathering, bargaining, and accountability and enforcement
Increase value by forming good opportunities, combining external and internal resources, and operating across borders to raise capital
Increase profitability by improving links, interactions and shared purpose with local organizations in each region the company operates
Increase the company’s value by continuously seeking and receiving funding to support the company’s plan to scale and improve its image in the marketplace