"We had no technologies to replace or augment because we’d never used event streaming technology before. Some of our members from different groups had experience handling Apache Kafka, but they weren’t part of the bigger project to build a data streaming platform. Confluent had an ability to immediately offer enterprise-level …

“We moved to Confluent Platform because we needed a platform that was stable and could scale easily, and it has security features that we couldn't find from other platforms."

“First, the cost and risk of making changes to large monolithic applications is prohibitive. Second, you end up with your data locked up in a particular technology and vendor, which can be very challenging to evolve.”

“When we're using services like Confluent for data delivery, we don't need to think about it. It just gets delivered.”

"Confluent engineers have worked hard to ensure our success, both before we went live and after. For SGX, Confluent offers a resilient, low-latency messaging backbone for an architecture that has enabled us to increase agility, streamline DevOps, and shorten time to market."

"With Confluent Cloud we have none of the overhead or worries that come with self-managing. We have a guaranteed 99.95% uptime SLA, access to 24x7 expert Kafka support, and access to the latest Kafka developments."

"With Kafka, we can liberate data from our heritage systems and combine it with real-time signals from our customers to deliver a hyper-personalized experience. For example, if our clickstream data shows a customer lingering over a product they looked at in the past, we can push a voucher to them …

“We are excited to continue using Confluent to scale our infrastructure and build even more real-time capabilities. As we expand, we know that Confluent will be key to supporting our growth and enabling us to remain at the cutting edge of the cryptocurrency industry.”

“With Confluent, we’ve achieved even more than what we’d hoped for just by being able to organize our information and make it flow without interruption. That was something mind-blowing for us, because our reality before was just the opposite—everything was difficult and manual and everything eventually broke. So we’ve gained …

“With Flink, we now have the opportunity to shift left and do a lot of early data transformations and computation on our data before it reaches Snowflake. This will optimize our data processing costs to increase the amount of data we have available.”

“Although we had some experience running open source Kafka ourselves, we recognized that we needed a trusted partner to help us resolve issues that we’d encounter with a larger-scale deployment. Confluent not only had a local office to provide that support, they also had the best known, verified solution, which …

"Availability of data is crucial, and having a fully managed platform for the data distribution lets us provide solutions to our customers at speed."

"Real-time inventory accuracy is just the foundation for much more than just inventory management; it enables retailers to improve post sales and supply chain processes as well as customer engagement and the customer experience. And beyond retail, the real-time asset tracking and supply chain management solutions we’ve built with Kafka …

"The level of credibility that Confluent has built in terms of modern, scalable and flexible stream processing does much of our blocking and tackling for us."

"Since deployment this year, we've never had any form of downtime with respect to processing millions of requests from our customers."