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Confluent

Confluent Platform

Composite Score

7.1 /10

CX Score

7.1 /10

14 Reviews Write a Review

What is Confluent Platform?

The Confluent Platform is a stream data platform that enables you to organize and manage data from many different sources with one reliable, high performance system.

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Confluent Platform Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+78 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Confluent Platform?

20% Negative

13% Neutral

67% Positive

Pros

Security Protects
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Multi Channel Support

API Management and Orchestration

Batch Integration

Data Virtualization

iPaaS

Real Time Integration

Data Security

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Synchronization and Replication

Exception Handling and Notifications

Administrative Features

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Confluent Platform Reviews

Jaykumar P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Best Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Confluent Platform from other similar products?

Confluent platform is highly stable and reliable. The UI is very easy to use and provides necessary information regarding application performance.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It provides standard solutions to expedite time to market development. The tool includes integration to commonly used softwares and easy-to-understand documentation

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is nothing in particular but it is slightly pricey compared to other tools

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would highly recommend this tool for every project manager and developer to use and streamline all the processes

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Daniel L.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Support lacking

Likeliness to Recommend

5 /10

What differentiates Confluent Platform from other similar products?

It intends to provide enterprise level features for its main use cases

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The distributed nature of the architecture of the product

What do you dislike most about this product?

How complex it is to configure

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Ensure that you have sufficient expertise before purchasing

Pros

Unique Features
Security Protects

Cons

Less Effective Service
Wastes Time
Charges for Enhancements

Durvesh S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Biotechnology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

A great product and never disappoints.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Confluent Platform from other similar products?

I like kafka management a lot in the review.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data integration and batch platform techniques are the best

What do you dislike most about this product?

As of now nothing but I would like improvement in self balancing clusters

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The data integration and kafka management as well as batch integrations are the best.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Caring

Cons

Less Transparent

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Confluent Platform Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+78 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Confluent Platform?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Multi Channel Support The ability to support and connect with channels including Cloud Services, Big Data Platforms, web, mobile, social, IoT, wearables, etc.

API Management and Orchestration Includes publishing, promoting and overseeing APIs and Orchestration Services.

Batch Integration Includes ability to schedule integration processes to run on a periodic basis to control the movement of data from a source to target.

Data Virtualization Includes ability to create views joining disparate data sources without the need for persistence.

iPaaS Includes iPaaS (Cloud hosting) features and other advanced integration capabilities

Real Time Integration Able to integrate data in near-real time and handle movement of data from a source to target. Monitoring for changes in a data source in a non-invasive manner.

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing Includes data cleansing, reconciliation, and profiling across multiple sources in batch mode.

Synchronization and Replication Includes the ability to accurately catch, reflect, and correct changes in data across multiple data stores.

Exception Handling and Notifications Ability to catch, report, and handle exceptions; includes transaction logging and event viewing.

Administrative Features Includes basic aspects of data extraction, transformation, and loading. Administrative console and process viewing, interruption, restart, cancel, and rollback.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Confluent Platform Reviews

Jaykumar P.

Best Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Daniel L.

Support lacking

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Durvesh S.

A great product and never disappoints.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Multi Channel Support

API Management and Orchestration

Batch Integration

Data Virtualization

iPaaS

Real Time Integration

Data Security

Data Quality Profiling and Cleansing

Synchronization and Replication

Exception Handling and Notifications

Administrative Features

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support