Solution Brief

GOVERNMENT

Efficiently Modernizing Government
Data Environments

How can government enterprises modernize their data infrastructures efficiently to advance their digital ambitions when they must
contend with IT environments that are highly heterogeneous, siloed, and populated with hard-to-access, legacy systems?
Agencies respond to this challenge in various ways. Some simply disregard high value data sources when fielding new applications,because they lack the know-how or resources. Others continue to invest in expensive and time consuming point-to-point integrations,using legacy integration tools or custom code. These approaches fall short because they are neither scalable nor responsive to agencies’
evolving needs.

The good news is that the old approaches for designing, building and runningapplications have fundamentally changed with the advent of cloud, DevOps,and microservices. Combined with Confluent, these approaches andtechnologies make it possible for government organizations to easily inject
legacy data sources into new, modern applications and adapt to changing
real world circumstances faster than ever.

Event-Driven Data Streaming for Modern GovernmentApplications
Confluent, Apache Kafka® for the enterprise, is the modern data framework for unlocking data and serving the new applications
demanded by users. Using an event-driven architecture, Confluent shifts data from being passive to an active asset for the agency.
Confluent drives application behavior as fast as the mission rhythm allows, collapsing the space between data and mission.
Confluent can connect to any data source, whether mainframe or other legacy systems, cloud-based storage and applications, or evenreal time data. This can be within the agency enterprise or beyond. Once a connection to a data source has been established, it can bereused and recombined with other sources to rapidly create new applications and user experiences. With this decoupling of sources andtargets, Confluent relieves agencies of the time and resource-intensive chore of building point-to-point integrations every time they build
a new application. This decoupling is also why Kakfa has become pervasive as the data plane for microservices strategies.

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This architecture gives agencies the ability to gradually re-platform as their priorities and resources permit. Confluent can pull legacy-based
data into modern applications, either in the cloud or on-premise, thus presenting a path for agencies to eventually remove or replace thoselegacy systems. Robust data replication ensures that users aren’t impacted and data is not lost in the event of an outage. Critically, thedata event streams persist in Confluent for as long as desired making it possible to marry historical data to real time in order to produce
rich contextualized applications. Persistence also provides a crucial resilience for applications deployed into environments with limited orintermittent connectivity, or when surges in data volumes overwhelm ingest capacity of systems.
The event-driven paradigm means the users and applications are delivered continuously relevant data and context. This spares the overhead
and time delays that arise when data and information only come as a result of their action or apps periodically polling the source systems.
Any addition, change, or deletion of data constitutes an event that invokes the desired functions in numerous downstream applications.
Consequently, users receive highly personalized, timely and relevant information. These combined characteristics allow customers to rapidly
field new capabilities to users and increase their speed of innovation. For this reason, some customers describe Confluent as the central
nervous system for the enterprise.
Confluent customers provide better citizen experiences. They accelerate their vetting processes. They strengthen their cyber posture withenhanced threat hunting and smarter data delivery to SIEMs and other operations tools. Or they create real time situational awareness tools
for better law enforcement, national security measures, readiness reporting and mission execution. They build systems that can pinpoint thelocation of an item anywhere in their supply chain at any time. They put their data to work as they continuously imagine new capabilities.

Why Confluent?
Confluent knows Apache Kafka better than anybody. In fact, the original creators of Apache Kafka went on to create Confluent as a way toextend Apache Kafka’s event streaming capabilities to meet the more demanding enterprise needs of government agencies and businesses todevelop, deploy, operate, and secure modern data-driven applications.
Deploy new systems rapidly with more than 100 connectors to sources and sinks. Democratize the use of the platform with ksqlDB,
an interface that analysts will find immediately familiar and useful to create new event streams. Ensure resiliency with powerful data
replication, essential for many geographically distributed operations. Conform to security requirements with Role Based Access Control, FIPS
140-2 compliance and data encryption. Scale up and scale down the infrastructure based on workload demands. Monitor system health anddiagnose performance issues with Confluent Command Center. These and other capabilities, combined with Confluent’s unmatched support(and US Citizen Support for those customers that require it) make us the right choice for Government customers.

Ready to get started? Contact a Confluent expert today
Email us at publicsector@confluent.io | Or visit www.confluent.io/government/ for more details

About Confluent Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s
cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data,from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative ofdelivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations.
To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io.

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