Confluent Deepens Strategic Partnership with Microsoft to Accelerate Data Infrastructure Modernization in the Cloud
Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT) has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft aimed at accelerating data migration to Azure, facilitating real-time application development. This initiative involves enhanced technological integrations, solution development, and marketing strategies to ease the operational load of managing data streams in the cloud. The collaboration is particularly timely as businesses increasingly seek to innovate during digital transformation efforts exacerbated by COVID-19 disruptions.
- Strategic partnership with Microsoft to accelerate data migration to Azure.
- Enhanced technology integrations and solution development initiatives.
- Confluent's industry-leading cloud data streaming capabilities.
- Positive feedback from users on operational efficiency and cost reduction.
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New multi-year partnership helps organizations migrate data to Microsoft Azure faster to build real-time innovations with more ease
“COVID-driven disruption has drastically accelerated timelines for delivering end-to-end digital experiences and real-time operations,” said
“Streaming data in the cloud is the foundation of next-generation customer experiences and business operations,” said
Since the start of their strategic alliance, Confluent and Microsoft have made strides in building tighter integrations, extending Confluent’s managed cloud connectors across Azure services and supporting customers’ business-level initiatives.
“Cloud-powered innovation is driving the future of Walgreens Boots Alliance from every touchpoint,” said Yaël Gomez, Vice President, Global IT, Integration and Intelligent Automation, Walgreens Boots Alliance. “Confluent and Microsoft Azure are core to the modern technology stack that underpins our digital transformation programs. With real-time data streams in the cloud, we have the performance, scalability and reliability to ensure today’s most essential items get to customers the way they choose.”
Confluent maintains the industry's largest portfolio of data streaming connectors, and recently released new fully managed connectors for Azure deployments, including Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Analytics. These pre-built connectors are designed with Confluent’s expertise in Apache Kafka® to save organizations the months of engineering time typically needed to build and maintain custom integrations.
“Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure enables us to see our data in motion much more effectively than we could previously,” said
Setting your data in motion with Confluent and Azure is fast and frictionless. Confluent Cloud can be quickly accessed with single sign-on through Azure Marketplace’s Active Directory, and billing is integrated with Azure billing accounts for simple cost management. Confluent on Azure is one of the easiest ways to get started with Kafka and removes the operational burden of managing a complex, open-source distributed system.
“The new streaming architecture we built with Confluent and Microsoft Azure enables our product teams to dream up new products and exciting new ideas, instead of simply making existing products less costly to operate and keeping the lights on,” said Tim Wesley Interim, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture,
To hear how Confluent and Microsoft are helping companies modernize their businesses, tune into Microsoft’s Innovate for Impact event happening
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Additional resources
- Learn more about Confluent on Azure: https://www.confluent.io/azure/
- See how Confluent is helping its customers transform their businesses: https://www.confluent.io/customers/
- Join Confluent and apply for one of its open positions: https://www.confluent.io/careers/
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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