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If your company has launched a digital transformation project or is getting ready to start one, you may be interested to know that recent studies conducted by McKinsey, Everest Group, and IDC found that up to 75% of these initiatives fail to deliver on their projected business value. The reasons for failures vary, but a common theme is budget overruns.
One way companies can improve their odds of success is by taking a close look at their investment—and estimated return on investment (ROI)—both prior to and during digital transformation. As the saying goes, you should inspect what you expect. By interrogating costs and value on an ongoing basis, a company can pause a project that is not meeting business objectives and make the adjustments needed to ensure that it does.
We’ve seen how Confluent Cloud helps our customers reduce the cost of running self-managed Kafka by up to 60%. And we’ve seen how Confluent Cloud, by reducing management overhead for Kafka infrastructure, can shorten development cycles and enable customers to reduce time to market for event-driven applications from years to a matter of months.
To help you quantify the value of choosing Confluent Cloud, we are offering a free-of-charge total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment. Our goal in supporting this business value analysis is to help you identify how to reduce costs, time, and effort in deploying and managing Kafka across your enterprise.
During a TCO comparison exercise, we can help you work through typical Kafka setup and management costs and how a fully managed version of Confluent Cloud would compare. This is a relatively straightforward task requiring just a few inputs and assumptions.
But to really understand the business value of Confluent Cloud, we also need to understand:
To measure the business value of partnering with Confluent, we need to look beyond cost takeout alone. Since it can be difficult to attribute a quantified value amount to some of the areas listed above, we combine a quantified TCO argument with an unquantified, or intangible, ROI description of the additional value a fully managed service might deliver.
When completing a business value analysis, it’s important to keep two things in mind:
By assessing business value and TCO at the start of your project, rather than at the end, you are setting your digital transformation initiative up for the greatest probability of success.
To learn more about how we help our customers understand and capture the full business value of running Kafka as a fully managed, cloud-native service, download our white paper on Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of Confluent Cloud and request a free personalized TCO assessment.
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