"One of the main benefits Confluent Cloud has provided is being able to make the changes we want to make quickly and easily by creating a more seamless backend experience."

“At Victoria’s Secret, data is key for empowering agile decision making. We receive data from various systems including logistics, stores, and digital systems.”

“Confluent’s technology continues to provide the opportunity to develop competitively differentiated products for the future and is the technology we’ll take our next steps with.”

"In terms of hard costs, Confluent reduced our bottom line from the infrastructure cost perspective, reducing licensing and physical hardware. We reduced our projected yearly cost by 69%. And the months of planning we would have to put into meetings and seasonal projections are gone, so our management oversight is …

“We started using the open source version of Kafka a few years ago, but quickly realised we were coming to the limit of what we could achieve in terms of offering Kafka as a professional service to our product development team. Equally, we lack the sheer number of people to …

“When it comes to batch processing versus stream processing, both of them work. But one is a much more efficient way of doing it. A lot of the cost savings over the last twelve months has come from moving into a more efficient way of developing applications with stream processing.”

“We looked at building our own architecture, but we’d much rather consume services than build our own complex Kafka infrastructure. And you [Confluent] invented Kafka, so obviously we just went with that.”

“With Confluent, we’ve been able to optimize our in-house Kafka-support resources by ~50% and redeploy our engineering and development talent to creating innovative and value-added features for our customers instead. Additionally, engaging Confluent gave us the peace of mind that comes with minimizing downtime and knowing that our Kafka systems …

"Confluent enables us to see our data in motion, which was simply impossible with our existing systems... Much like the weather radar that shows how your situation has changed by the minute, seeing our data in motion with Confluent has enabled us to tackle long-standing business challenges, lower costs, and …

"It’s amazing how much more we can get done when we don’t have to worry about exactly how to do things. We can trust Confluent to offer a secure and rock-solid Kafka platform with a myriad of value-add capabilities like security, connectors, and stream governance on top."

"There isn’t another product that competes with Confluent Platform. Streaming data as events enables completely new ways for solving problems at scale."

"Kafka transforms even the most basic of initiatives. Adoption of Kafka at RBC has been massive and organic. Within the first six weeks after our launch of Kafka, we had 37 teams asking to use Kafka for various projects and initiatives."

"We know that Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka will continue to help us scale."

"Confluent and Google Cloud enabled us to address our large database footprint and retire our legacy data platform, which was in many ways our Achilles heel. After moving to real-time streaming on a cloud-based modern architecture, we can now deliver new features and capabilities to our customers and know that …

"We needed a real-time event streaming architecture to improve the time to market for new apps and reduce the time it takes to stand up and build new clusters and transform a couple of key use cases. Confluent Platform is really helping us, enabling us to move the data in …