Confluent Named a Leader in Two IDC MarketScape Reports Evaluating Data Streaming Technologies
IDC MarketScape reports for
"We believe our position as a Leader in both IDC MarketScapes is based on market recognition of data streaming platforms," says
At the heart of the data streaming movement is Apache Kafka®. Kafka is the de facto standard and most successful open source technology for streaming data used by hundreds of thousands of developers, including 75% of the Fortune 500. Confluent provides everything companies need to implement Kafka use cases quickly, securely, and reliably, everywhere they need it. With the only data streaming platform that streams, connects, processes and governs real-time data, organizations can break down data barriers and easily reuse and access data streams for endless use cases. Instead of tackling a complex data mess, teams can now focus on developing real-time applications that drive significant business value.
The IDC MarketScape for
The company’s strengths as evaluated by the IDC MarketScape in this excerpt include:
- Stream Governance: “Confluent has built an extensive set of stream intelligence capabilities that enable stream governance. The company supports event discovery through its stream catalog and data portal, runtime schema validation provided by a schema registry, stream lineage capability to trace data flowing through the stream, and the ability to tag sensitive event data flowing within the stream. These capabilities contribute to improving the quality of data in the stream, stream tracing, and compliance with internal and external policies and regulations.”
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Confluent partner program and multicloud support: “Confluent has a large and diverse set of global channels, implementation, and technology partners. Confluent is available on all public clouds, including
Amazon Web Services , Azure, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and the IBM Cloud.”
The IDC MarketScape for Event
The company’s strengths as evaluated by the IDC MarketScape in this excerpt include:
- Strong analytical and operational capabilities: “Confluent Cloud supports a wide range of analytical and operational capabilities like partitioning, advanced routing and processing, and metrics monitoring. Implementation of AI capabilities, such as integration of commercial LLMs and, more recently, partnering for real-time contextual data with vector databases, will only continue to expand the range of analytical and operational capabilities available for Confluent customers.”
- Out-of-the-box monitoring and security capabilities: “Confluent sets itself apart from many vendors with the number of out-of-the-box capabilities offered on Confluent Cloud, including in-demand monitoring and security capabilities that are expected or commonly utilized for event brokers. This gives Confluent a great competitive advantage over vendors that require third-party integrations or other, more complicated processes to engage these tools and capabilities.”
Additional resources
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Download an excerpt of IDC MarketScape for
Worldwide Event Broker Software 2024 Vendor Assessment -
Download an excerpt of IDC MarketScape for
Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing Software 2024 Vendor Assessment - Read more about Confluent’s placement in the IDC MarketScapes in this blog post
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About Confluent
Confluent is the data streaming platform that is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations. To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io.
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About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
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