{"id":12372,"date":"2025-02-20T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=12372"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:26:38","slug":"channel-4","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/case-studies\/channel-4","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"challenge\">Challenge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the U.K.\u2019s largest media companies, Channel 4 provides nearly two dozen distinct content viewing apps and platforms designed to support an expanding, demanding viewer community of greater than 20 million people. All of this activity generates huge quantities of disparate log data that had not been properly gathered or analyzed, making it difficult to optimize the user experience as well as fully exploit the next generation of cloud computing architectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"solution\">Solution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The company implemented Sumo Logic\u2019s born-in-the-cloud machine data analytics platform to collect \u2014 in a standardized format \u2014 machine data generated by all viewing apps and hosted services. Channel 4 has also laid the foundation for expanding to the remainder of its technology portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div id=\"customer-info-block_250f494a07682828b87a02ab7708198c\" class=\"customer-info-block\"><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-wrapper blue no-headshot\"><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item\"><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__rail\"><\/div><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__content\"><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__quote\"><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__quote-text\">\u201cSumo Logic has brought order, standards, and visibility to what had been a very haphazard approach to dealing with our massive amounts of machine data.\n\u201d<\/div><\/div><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__bottom-name-wrap\"><p class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__bottom-name\">Dan Jackson, Principal Architect<\/p><\/div><div class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__logo-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/case-studies\/channel-4\" class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__logo-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sumologic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/channel4-logo-wht.svg\" alt=\"Dan Jackson logo\" class=\"content-testimonial-block-item__logo\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"results\">Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the Sumo Logic rollout is still underway, Channel 4 has already realized impressive benefits from this initiative. 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