Confluent

Confluent is a leading data streaming platform company founded by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka. The company provides a cloud-native, enterprise-grade platform that enables organizations to stream, connect, process, and govern their data in real-time. Built on the foundations of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink, Confluent's unified Data Streaming Platform serves as an intelligent connective framework that facilitates the continuous flow of real-time data from diverse sources across an organization. Confluent offers flexible deployment options including Confluent Cloud (fully managed), Confluent Platform (on-premises), Confluent Private Cloud, and WarpStream for private cloud environments. The platform features comprehensive capabilities including data streaming, 200+ pre-built connectors, stream governance, stream processing, Tableflow for converting topics to tables, and AI-ready features like Confluent Intelligence and Streaming Agents. These tools empower businesses to eliminate costly data infrastructure, clean data at the source, and prepare for AI/ML applications. Serving enterprises across multiple industries including financial services, retail and eCommerce, manufacturing and automotive, telecommunications, and public sector, Confluent helps customers transform data chaos into instantly accessible and usable data products. The company positions itself as a complete alternative to self-managed Kafka deployments, claiming significant cost savings and operational efficiency improvements for organizations seeking to harness real-time data streaming at scale.