The document outlines key insights about data streaming in 2025, emphasizing the importance of real-time data processing and governance. It highlights Confluent's role as a leading data streaming platform, detailing its financial performance, customer impact, and technological advancements. Additionally, it discusses the necessity for companies to treat data as a product to enhance data accessibility, improve decision-making speed, and derive operational efficiencies.

1. Five things you need to know
about data streaming in 2025
Peter Pugh-Jones
Director, CSG EMEA

2. About Confluent

3. On a Mission to Set Every Company’s Data in Motion
2024
2014
Founded in 2014 by the Creators of Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka used by >75% of Fortune 500
~$910M
FY24 Guidance*
$225M
Q2’24 Subscription
Revenue
$117M
Confluent Cloud
Revenue
~5,440
Customer Count
118%
Net Revenue
Retention
Note:
All financials are as of period ended December 31, 2023.

4. Confluent: The Data Streaming Pioneer
On a Mission to Set Every Company’s Data in Motion
Who we are
● Original creators of Apache
Kafka that’s used by >75%
of Fortune 500
● Leading experts in data
streaming, including
stream processing
● Validated by world’s largest
brands, ecosystem and
market
What we do
● Shift your thinking from
batch to real-time for all
your use cases
● Deliver a data streaming
infrastructure for the
modern enterprise
● Provide the best data
streaming experience,
on-prem and in the cloud
What you get
● Bring products to market
faster, decrease costs and
mitigate risk
● Easy procurement through
cloud marketplaces with
cloud-committed dollars
● A long term partner to
successfully adopt data
streaming at scale
Partner of the
Year
2023
US Partner of the
Year
2023
Partner of the
Year
2022
Strategic Partner
of the Year
2022
CTO Innovation
2019
Enterprise
Technology
Innovation
2019
$2.57M
Total savings
257%
3-year ROI
Total Economic
Impact Using
Confluent
Forrester report, March 2022 (Link)

5. Industry leaders for data streaming
The Forrester Wave(™): Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023 The Forrester Wave(™): Cloud Data Pipelines, Q4 2023

6. Tapping into the Potential
of Data Products

7. Universal, Curated, Streaming Data Products
Payments Processing
Real-time Trades
Fraud Detection
Artificial Intelligence is driving new data-driven opportunities to redefine customer experiences, improve efficiencies
in business operations and deliver new products and services that generate new revenue streams for your business.
Customer
Personalization
Risk and Reporting
“10% increase in data accessibility will result in more
than $65 million additional net income for a Fortune
1000 company” - Forrester

8. 8

9. Get more value from your data, today and tomorrow
Customers
Accounts
Web Logins
Transactions
Fraud Detection
Customers
Accounts
Inventory
Purchases
Web Clickstream
Customer Loyalty
Vehicle Telemetry
Repairs
Drivers
Customers
Delivery Management
“Companies that treat data like a
product can reduce the time it
takes to implement it in new use
cases by as much as 90%,
decrease their total ownership
(technology, development, and
maintenance) costs by up to 30%,
and reduce their risk and data
governance burden.”

10. The Need to Tap into 'Quick Thinking'

12. Almost nine out of 10 business
leaders (86%) must now make
decisions “faster than ever
before.”

13. PROCESS & GOVERN
Today: Custom pipelines contextualized for each use case

14. PROCESS & GOVERN
After the fact governance is unreliable

15. PROCESS & GOVERN
PROCESS & GOVERN
There are many consumers and downstream use cases

16. More than half of the leaders said they
have missed an opportunity because
they waited too long for data

17. Rise Above Data Hurdles

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DATA MESS + DELAY - CONFIDENCE = LESS USEFUL

19. ANALYTICAL ESTATE
OPERATIONAL ESTATE

20. PROCESS & GOVERN
Today: Custom pipelines contextualized for each use case

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PROCESS & GOVERN
We need to shift left - move governance and processing
closer to the stream

22. New Paradigm to Shift Left

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24. Information
(Curated, Reusable
Data Products)
Stateful
Joins
Temporal
Joins
Calculate
Aggregate
AI Insights
Source Systems
Governed Data
(Source Topics)
Process
Continuously
Consuming Systems

25. CONNECT
120+ Pre-built and 70+ fully
managed connectors
Custom connectors to
homegrown systems and apps
Connect with Confluent
partners
Confluent Connector Ecosystem

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Stream Quality
Stream Catalog
Stream Lineage
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GOVERN
Fully Managed Governance Suite
for Data Streaming

27. Stream Processing Use Cases
Applications
AI
Pipelines
Analytics
Datastream API Stateful Functions
Table API
Flink SQL
Apache Flink’s Unified Runtime
Apache Flink’s APIS
Apache Flink: Any Use Case, Any Scale
PROCESS

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Payments
Stream
Sales Trends
Third Party Compute
Engine
Event driven
microservice
(Java)
Product
Stream
Order
Stream
Customer
Stream
Data Products
Data Streams
Stream
Lineage
Data
Portal
Schema
Management
Confluent
managed
S3
Tableflow (Apache
Iceberg tables)
Data Explorer
Apply data
contract and data
quality rules
Payments Data
Mask PII.
Payment validation and daily sales
trends
Operational Data
PostgreSQL
CDC
Connector
(with SMTs)
Inventory Alerts
Snowflake
Sink connector
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Product Sales
High-level Example Architecture Diagram

29. AI : Infrancing with Stream Processing

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NOW GENERALLY AVAILABLE
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink
PROCESS
The First Truly Cloud-Native Flink Service

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LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Confluent Platform for Apache Flink
PROCESS
Long-term support for on-prem workloads

33. ANALYTICAL ESTATE
OPERATIONAL ESTATE
Apache Kafka is the standard
to connect and organize
business data as data streams
Apache Iceberg is an open table
format for analytic datasets that feed
the analytical estate

34. 3
4
TABLEFLOW
Tableflow
Convert Kafka topics, and associated schemas to Iceberg tables in one click to feed any data warehouse,
data lake, or analytics engine

35. The Need for a Strategic View

36. Data Streaming Maturity
I N V E S T M E N T & T I M E
V
A
L
U
E
1
2
3
4
5
Central
Nervous System
Mission critical, in
production, but
disparate lines of
business (LOBs)
Mission critical,
connected
LOBs
Identify and
launch a
project
Experimentation
/ early interest
Projects Platforms
How can you start using
Confluent as your strategic data
streaming platform
Use case / Project
List use cases /
relevant projects that
Kafka / Confluent is
used for
List use cases / relevant
projects that Kafka /
Confluent is used for

37. The Data Streaming
Organization is the
framework to deliver
Value from Data
Ways of Working
Unified Platform
Value from Data

38. One last thing !

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40. One more last thing :) !

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42. Thank You !
Q&A