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Confluent
FortinetFortinet Modernizes Feature Pipelines with Confluent
Fortinet, an information technology organization in the United States, uses Confluent Cloud from Confluent to support applied machine learning for data scientists and ML engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because feature pipelines has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in applied machine learning sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how applied machine learning actually runs |
Story
Fortinet grew feature pipelines faster than the local tools around it. From the United States, information technology teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Data scientists and ML engineers were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Confluent Cloud put applied machine learning on Confluent. Confluent is the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, used to move events between applications in real time. Fortinet keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so data scientists and ML engineers do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier applied machine learning. Feature pipelines is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join data scientists and ML engineers without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
