Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams. Apache Kafka, an open source technology created by the founders of Confluent, acts as a real-time, fault-tolerant, highly scalable streaming platform. It is widely adopted for use cases ranging from collecting user activity data, logs, application metrics, stock ticker data, and device instrumentation. Its key strength is its ability to make high volume data available as a real-time stream for consumption in systems with very different requirements—from batch systems like Hadoop to real-time systems that require low-latency access, to stream processing engines that transform the data streams as it arrives. This infrastructure lets you build around a single central nervous system transmitting messages to all the different systems and applications within your company. By leveraging the Apache Kafka technology, Confluent Platform lets leaders in industries such as retail, logistics, manufacturing, financial services, technology, and media, move data from isolated systems into a real-time data pipeline where they can act on it immediately. Confluent was founded in 2014 and is based in Palo Alto, California.