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	Why Open–Asia’s first neo-banking platform for SMBs and startups–banks on Sumo Logic to drastically reduce its turnaround time

Why Open–Asia’s first neo-banking platform for SMBs and startups–banks on Sumo Logic to drastically reduce its turnaround time

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services System Integration
Challenge	As the world’s fastest-growing neo-banking platform that works with various banks, Open faced challenges in providing data access to its various departments. Providing access to their underlying data by building an admin panel for various teams was both challenging and time-consuming. “We wanted an out-of-the-box solution that could analyze our logs and provide insightful information to our teams to take action based on that.” Setting up a log monitoring tool from the ground up using open source software may seem simple, but, maintaining and scaling requires time and investments. “Our log data ingestion increases month-on-month considering the number of transactions, and the interaction we get on our platform is increasing and we wanted a log monitoring tool that would automatically scale with us, without much intervention. After trying out various open source log monitoring tools, we decided to go with Sumo Logic, which was a perfect fit for our various needs,” says Ajeesh Achuthan, co-founder & CTO at Open. Read More
About Customer	Millions of small- and medium-sized businesses in India struggle with maintaining multiple bank accounts, book-keeping their daily spending, and disbursing payments to their employees. Bangalore-based Open, Asia’s first neo-banking platform for SMBs and startups, solves this by offering them a platform that automates most of these tasks controlling payouts, performing bulk transactions, payment collections, and automated accounting without relying on multiple software systems and dashboards. Open provides a simple dashboard to perform financial activities for smaller businesses and has APIs for those who need to build custom transactional and banking flow as needed. They have over 500,000 merchants on their platform and have processed over $11 billion annualized transactions so far. Open was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs Anish Achuthan, Mabel Chacko, and Ajeesh Achuthan, along with ex-TaxiForSure CFO Deena Jacob. In July 2019, it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tiger Global Management, and saw participation from Tanglin Venture Partners Advisors. Existing investors 3one4 Capital, Speedinvest, and BetterCapital AngelList Syndicate. Read More
Solution	Open’s support team uses Sumo Logic to respond to customer queries related to transactions – with minimal effort and in less time. They were able to drastically reduce their support TAT from around one hour to under 10 minutes. This was not the case with just the support team, but with the development team as well. The team was able to pull out logs for transactions and forward them to the respective banks for analysis without delaying their TAT. Open’s development team also relies on Sumo Logic for intelligence on production issues and error trends. One of the biggest challenges faced earlier by Open’s development team was finding and killing a bug. While other log monitoring tools failed to provide a seamless log search experience, Sumo Logic’s search, however, was quick to sort through billions of log records and help the development team drastically reduce time spent on the logs and dedicate more time to product development. Because the Sumo Logic dashboard is powerful, yet easy for the team to use, common issues are also resolved faster without reliance on DevOps teams. Open also uses Sumo Logic in various use cases not confined to log monitoring. “Apart from the dev and support teams, we have all our AWS CloudWatch logs pushed to Sumo Logic. This helps our DevOps team monitor the cloud seamlessly without switching between dashboards. We also use certain apps inside Sumo Logic, like their security analytics app dashboard to get high-level insights on incidents and vulnerabilities.“ Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

System Integration

Challenge

As the world’s fastest-growing neo-banking platform that works with various banks, Open faced challenges in providing data access to its various departments. Providing access to their underlying data by building an admin panel for various teams was both challenging and time-consuming. “We wanted an out-of-the-box solution that could analyze our logs and provide insightful information to our teams to take action based on that.” Setting up a log monitoring tool from the ground up using open source software may seem simple, but, maintaining and scaling requires time and investments. “Our log data ingestion increases month-on-month considering the number of transactions, and the interaction we get on our platform is increasing and we wanted a log monitoring tool that would automatically scale with us, without much intervention. After trying out various open source log monitoring tools, we decided to go with Sumo Logic, which was a perfect fit for our various needs,” says Ajeesh Achuthan, co-founder & CTO at Open.

About Customer

Millions of small- and medium-sized businesses in India struggle with maintaining multiple bank accounts, book-keeping their daily spending, and disbursing payments to their employees. Bangalore-based Open, Asia’s first neo-banking platform for SMBs and startups, solves this by offering them a platform that automates most of these tasks controlling payouts, performing bulk transactions, payment collections, and automated accounting without relying on multiple software systems and dashboards. Open provides a simple dashboard to perform financial activities for smaller businesses and has APIs for those who need to build custom transactional and banking flow as needed. They have over 500,000 merchants on their platform and have processed over $11 billion annualized transactions so far. Open was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs Anish Achuthan, Mabel Chacko, and Ajeesh Achuthan, along with ex-TaxiForSure CFO Deena Jacob. In July 2019, it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tiger Global Management, and saw participation from Tanglin Venture Partners Advisors. Existing investors 3one4 Capital, Speedinvest, and BetterCapital AngelList Syndicate.

Solution

Open’s support team uses Sumo Logic to respond to customer queries related to transactions – with minimal effort and in less time. They were able to drastically reduce their support TAT from around one hour to under 10 minutes. This was not the case with just the support team, but with the development team as well. The team was able to pull out logs for transactions and forward them to the respective banks for analysis without delaying their TAT. Open’s development team also relies on Sumo Logic for intelligence on production issues and error trends. One of the biggest challenges faced earlier by Open’s development team was finding and killing a bug. While other log monitoring tools failed to provide a seamless log search experience, Sumo Logic’s search, however, was quick to sort through billions of log records and help the development team drastically reduce time spent on the logs and dedicate more time to product development. Because the Sumo Logic dashboard is powerful, yet easy for the team to use, common issues are also resolved faster without reliance on DevOps teams. Open also uses Sumo Logic in various use cases not confined to log monitoring. “Apart from the dev and support teams, we have all our AWS CloudWatch logs pushed to Sumo Logic. This helps our DevOps team monitor the cloud seamlessly without switching between dashboards. We also use certain apps inside Sumo Logic, like their security analytics app dashboard to get high-level insights on incidents and vulnerabilities.“

Impact #1	Open’s support team uses Sumo Logic to respond to customer queries related to transactions with minimal effort and in less time.
Impact #2	The development team was able to pull out logs for transactions and forward them to the respective banks for analysis without delaying their TAT.
Impact #3	Sumo Logic’s search was quick to sort through billions of log records, helping the development team drastically reduce time spent on the logs and dedicate more time to product development.

Impact #1

Open’s support team uses Sumo Logic to respond to customer queries related to transactions with minimal effort and in less time.

Impact #2

The development team was able to pull out logs for transactions and forward them to the respective banks for analysis without delaying their TAT.

Impact #3

Sumo Logic’s search was quick to sort through billions of log records, helping the development team drastically reduce time spent on the logs and dedicate more time to product development.

Benefit #1	Reduced support TAT from around one hour to under 10 minutes.
Benefit #2	Processed over $11 billion annualized transactions.
Benefit #3	Over 500,000 merchants on their platform.

Benefit #1

Reduced support TAT from around one hour to under 10 minutes.

Benefit #2

Processed over $11 billion annualized transactions.

Benefit #3

Over 500,000 merchants on their platform.

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Why Open–Asia’s first neo-banking platform for SMBs and startups–banks on Sumo Logic to drastically reduce its turnaround time

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