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The Streamhouse platform that powers AI at machine speed, designed by the original co-creators of Apache Kafka®

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Overview

Data in motion

IBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments. Together, IBM and Confluent turn raw events into trusted, reusable data products for applications, analytics and AI—without brittle batch pipelines or custom integration sprawl.

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Current 2026: Confluent Product Launches
Confluent Data Streaming Platform - the foundation for a Streamhouse, announces Lightning Tables, Managed Model Inference, Multi-Tenancy for Confluent Private Cloud, Confluent Gateway and lots more.
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2026 Data Streaming Report
Bridging the gap between data and AI value taps into insights from 4,625 IT leaders across industries and geographies.

Features

Complete Data Streaming Platform

Cloud-Native Kafka

Deliver unparalleled reliability with IBM Confluent Cloud’s 99.99% uptime SLA, support GBps+ workloads with elastic scaling.

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150 pre-built connectors

Connect databases, SaaS applications, on-prem systems and modern cloud services with prebuilt and fully-managed Kafka connectors across your entire ecosystem.

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Native governance suite

Ensure your applications act on trusted, secure and compliant data through built-in governance and data quality tools.

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Integrated stream processing

Process and transform data in real time at scale with fully-managed Apache Flink®, enabling low-latency analytics, cloud-native applications and responsive AI.

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Fresh data, shared context

Query enables direct access to current governed data without a separate serving layer, ensuring applications, AI agents, and analytics systems operate on the same fresh, trusted context.

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Flexible deployment

IBM Confluent Cloud

Stream smarter with our fully managed, cloud-native Kafka service

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IBM Confluent Platform

Run and manage our complete data streaming platform on premises

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IBM Confluent Private Cloud

Bridge on-premises control with the automation of a cloud service

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WarpStream

Deploy a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform in your private cloud

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Use cases

Turn data into action as it happens

Connect, process, and act on enterprise data the moment it is created. Enable real-time analytics, AI, automation, and applications with continuously updated, trusted data streams that connect systems, accelerate decisions, and unlock business value.
Do more with data streaming

Build with a complete data streaming platform to power AI, analytics and apps with real-time, enriched, trustworthy data.

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Event-driven automation

Combine trusted transactional messaging with modern integration and orchestration across hybrid environments.
Activate the modernized mainframe

Identify and drive real-time events at the transaction source and stream transactional data for real-time analytics, automation and AI.
AI-ready, real-time data

Ensure every model, agent and workflow runs on continuously updated enterprise data with lineage, policy enforcement and quality controls.

Case studies

Real-world results

14x Predictive AI performance

GEP boosts AI-powered supply chain, processing 1B events per month.

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Power 100M+ users daily

Notion transforms its AI capabilities with the IBM Confluent.

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$1M+ in TCO savings for data

SecurityScorecard combines on-prem with cloud to cost-effectively power real-time security prevention at scale.

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Real-time marketing at scale

SAS delivers real-time omnichannel experiences with seamless scalability and reliability.

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Integrations

Better together

IBM Confluent + IBM watsonx.data®

Unify real-time event streams with structured and unstructured enterprise data to deliver trusted, AI-ready data across your hybrid enterprise.

  • Combine data in motion with enterprise data at rest in an open hybrid data foundation
  • Add metadata, lineage and policy-driven context to make data trusted, reusable and AI-ready
  • Deliver governed data products to applications, analytics and AI agents across the enterprise
 IBM Confluent + IBM Integration

Unify event streaming and enterprise integration to connect applications, data and systems across hybrid environments.

  • Stream and integrate events across fragmented integration architectures with a scalable event-driven backbone
  • Unlock comprehensive integration patterns across event streaming, APIs, B2B/EDI, iPaaS and IBM MQ
  • Accelerate automation and business responsiveness with real-time data flows
 IBM Confluent + IBM Z®

Bring real-time event streaming to mission-critical IBM Z transactions and systems of record. Stream mainframe transactions and events securely into Kafka-based architectures.

  • Stream mainframe transactions and events securely into Kafka-based architectures
  • Enable real-time integration of IBM Z data with cloud applications, analytics and AI, without impacting the core system
  • Power responsive digital experiences and automation with trusted enterprise event streams

Resources

Find the support you need

Explore announcements, blogs, webinars and more resources to learn more about data streaming and how IBM Confluent delivers value.
eBook Streamhouse. Your business. Always current.

Learn how Confluent's Streamhouse architecture powers real-time, governed AI decisions.

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On-Demand Webinar The missing ingredient for AI ROI: trusted, real-time data

Discover how real-time context helps organizations improve AI performance, accelerate innovation, and increase ROI.

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eBook 5 Signs You're Carrying Observability Debt

Observability costs are often a symptom of deeper telemetry pipeline challenges, not just tooling decisions.

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On-Demand webinar The Real-Time Industrial Enterprise: Unlocking AI with IBM & Confluent

Explore how real-time data, AI and automation are helping industrial organisations accelerate decision-making, improve operational resilience and unlock measurable business outcomes.

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On-Demand Webinar 2026 Confluent AI Predictions

Learn how to build an AI-ready data architecture for the year ahead.

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Datasheet Good teams manage Kafka. Efficient teams use Confluent

Thrive in a real-time world with a platform designed for data in motion. Learn how Confluent helps you unlock more value from streaming data across your business.

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