Story
Confluent
KierHow Kier Runs Partner Exchange on Apache Kafka
Kier, an industrials organization in the United Kingdom, uses Apache Kafka from Confluent to support partner data exchange for data platform and lines of business.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in partner data exchange sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Apache Kafka is the governed place data platform and lines of business use for partner data exchange |
| Capability | New joiners can see how partner data exchange actually runs |
Story
Industrials work at Kier spans more than one site, even when headquarters sits in the United Kingdom. Secure data sharing was splitting across regional habits. Data platform and lines of business asked for a shared way to run partner data exchange without freezing local judgment.
Confluent (Apache Kafka) is what they standardized on. Confluent is the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, used to move events between applications in real time. Kier uses it as the system of record for secure data sharing, with data platform and lines of business as the primary operators and other groups coming in through the same queue.
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