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The Coolest Data Management And Integration Software Companies Of The 2023 Big Data 100
Rick Whiting
Part 4 of CRN’s 2023 Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data management and integration software space.
Confluent
CEO: Jay Kreps
Confluent calls itself the “data in motion” company with its Confluent Platform software and Confluent Cloud streaming data pipeline system for managing real-time data processing and data flows between applications and data sources.
Other products in the Confluent portfolio include Stream Designer, Stream Governance and ksqlDB.
Confluent, based in Mountain View, Calif., was launched in 2014 to commercialize the Apache Kafka open-source event streaming platform that Confluent’s founders created while working at LinkedIn. Confluent went public in June 2021 and in 2022 the company reported revenue of $585.9 million, up 51 percent from 2021.
In January, Confluent struck a deal to acquire Immerok, which developed a fully managed cloud service based on Apache Flink, the popular open-source technology for building stream processing applications.
