Case Study: Infor saves ~$1M in a year with Sumo Logic
Key results
The challenge
Infor, an enterprise software company serving industries from aerospace and defense to healthcare and hospitality, ingests around 12 TB of machine data per day across roughly 4,000 users. As log volumes grew, the team needed to expand ingestion for development and incident-response use cases while keeping costs under control.
The solution
Infor standardized on Sumo Logic for log analytics and re-tiered its product logs to match data value to cost. DevOps teams used the platform to run fast queries to identify the source of code issues and troubleshoot software problems, while the tiering approach cut spend on lower-value logs.
“Our approach resulted in a doubling of our log ingestion in 2021 at an ingestion cost increase of only 10%, saving us around $1 million.”
IEIwan EisingTeam Lead of Service Reliability Architecture, Infor
The results, in context
According to the case study, Infor doubled its log ingestion in 2021 at an ingestion cost increase of only 10%, saving around $1 million, and achieved a 60% reduction in price per GB over 12 months. The company also reported saving 3,300 hours annually identifying and fixing development issues and reducing incident-response time by more than 5,000 hours per year, with up to an 80% cost reduction on re-tiered product logs.