Confluent, a data streaming company, introduced the Confluent OEM program. This program is designed to assist MSPs, CSPs and ISVs, making it easy to launch and enhance customer offerings with a complete data streaming platform for Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.
With license to globally redistribute or embed Confluent’s enterprise-grade platform, partners can quickly bring real-time products and Kafka offerings to market, monetizing customer demand for data streaming while incurring minimal risk. The program makes data streaming a high-margin part of the business, with expert implementation guidance and certification to help partners:
- Launch enterprise-ready offerings.
- Introduce flexible commercial terms that match how partners sell.
- Provide ongoing technical support to promote long-term customer success.
“As data-driven technologies like GenAI become essential to enterprise operations, conversation has shifted from ‘if’ or ‘when’ a business will need data streaming to ‘what’s the fastest, most cost-effective way to get started’?” said Kamal Brar, SVP, worldwide ISV and APAC, Confluent. “We help our partners unlock new revenue streams by meeting the growing demand for real-time data within every region they serve. Confluent offers the fastest route to delivering enterprise-grade data streaming, enabling partners to accelerate service delivery, reduce support costs, and minimize overall complexity and risk.”
The Confluent OEM Program alleviates the burdens of self-managing open-source technology while going beyond Kafka and Flink. MSPs and CSPs can deliver a complete data streaming platform through Confluent, unlocking more customer projects across AI, real-time analytics, application modernization and more. ISVs can also embed Confluent within their products or applications to cost-effectively power modern customer experiences that are fueled by real-time data. Confluent simplifies data streaming by eliminating the operational complexities of open source deployments, accelerating delivery times and ensuring customer success through ongoing expert support. Secure, governed data streams can be available, whether on premise, at the edge or in the cloud.
OEM program benefits include:
- Design review and development support.
- Accelerated time-to-value with a complete, ready-to-use data streaming platform that includes 120+ Kafka connectors, Flink stream processing, enterprise-grade security, data quality controls and cloud-based monitoring.
- Confluent certification.
- Flexible commercial terms.
- Expert technical support.
