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Unlock the value of data across your business
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Stream, connect, govern, and process data across your entire organization
Handle events through a cloud-native engine
Integrate to third-party sources and sinks
Enable secure and democratized access to critical data
Transform, analyze, and act on real-time data
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Run and manage our complete data streaming platform on-premises
Deploy a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform in your private cloud
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Use cases
Clean and govern data at the source and turn topics into Iceberg or Delta Lake tables
Build RAG and agentic AI use cases with real-time, contextual and trustworthy data
Learn to build event-driven microservices applications with data streaming
Discover best practices for common data streaming use cases
Industries
How to build and scale real-time AI agents with a data streaming platform
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Capabilities
What's in a data streaming platform?
Stream data and seamlessly scale workloads
Integrate third-party sources and sinks
Increase data quality and share data streams
Represent data streams as analytics tables
Deployment Options
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View sessions and slides from Kafka Summit Europe 2021