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Explore insights from 4,625 IT leaders on how data streaming platforms are accelerating AI adoption, powering agentic AI, delivering measurable ROI, and helping organizations turn real-time data into competitive advantage.
Explore how manufacturing and automotive leaders use data streaming to boost efficiency, enable real-time decisions, and drive innovation. This ebook shares key trends, use cases, and customer stories from BMW Group, PAUL Tech AG, and more. Download now to get inspired.
Learn why most AI projects stall before production and why context, not bigger models, is the missing piece. Discover the pillars of Context Engineering and a practical framework for unifying architecture for continuous context so your AI agents and applications act on fresh info to deliver ROI.
See how banks and financial institutions use real-time data streaming to modernize systems, enable instant payments, reduce fraud, and meet compliance needs. Authored by Kai Waehner, Confluent’s Global Field CTO.
Modern fraud technology calls for a modern fraud detection approach, and that requires real-time data. Industry leaders from Capital One, RBC, and more are detecting fraud using data streaming to protect customers in real time.
Read this updated second edition of the guide to learn how data streaming enables real-time insights, event-driven architectures, and agile innovation. You’ll explore industry use cases, strategies, and new customer success stories for driving business growth, enhancing customer experiences, and optimizing operations.
A data streaming platform enables AI agents to operate dynamically, processing and acting on real-time events. Learn the anatomy of an agent, how to build singular to multi-agent systems, design patterns for scalable architectures, and real-world agentic AI applications.
Download this Forrester study to understand the economic benefits of Confluent Cloud.
Learn the challenges of traditional messaging middleware, hindering innovation, low fault tolerance at scale, ephemeral persistence limiting data usage for analytics, and soaring technical debt and operational costs.