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Comprehensive Streaming Analytics
Platform for Visualizing Real-time Data
A Confluent and Altair Panopticon Solution Brief

Customers today are dealing with huge amounts of fast changing
data requiring immediate, real-time decisions, particularly infinancial markets and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
With Panopticon and Confluent Platform, business users areenabled to build sophisticated stream processing data flows using
a standard web browser, start their analytical models, and begin
visualizing output in minutes. Users don’t need to know how towrite any Java or Scala scripts to make full use of the combined
platform’s wide range of event streaming capabilities.
Panopticon supports a comprehensive set of real-time and timeseries data visualization and data handling capabilities andworks directly with Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform
for a complete solution.

Panopticon Stream
Processing

Together, Panopticon andConfluent:• Real-Time Views – Fast
insight to improve
performance• Detect Anomalies –Program alerts to help
identify fraud, performanceissues, and other outliers• React Immediately – Turnraw events into action.
Optimize performance orchange behaviors• No Coding – Reduce
development time for
new streaming analytics
applications and dashboards
to minutes

Panopticon VisualAnalytics

streams
Electronic Trading
Applicationand Historical
Databases

IoT

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A Confluent and Altair Panopticon Solution Brief

Altair Panopticon – a comprehensive monitoring
and analysis platform
The platform consists of Panopticon Visual Analytics software and Panopticon Streams, an event processing engine thatenables business people to program sophisticated business logic and data functions using a fully visual interface.
In capital markets, Panopticon supports the unique requirements of high frequency trading desks and allows them to react
immediately to fast moving market events. It’s a perfect fit for investment banks, hedge funds, exchanges, and asset managers
that wish to improve profitability, ensure best execution, monitor risk, and comply with MiFID II and other regulations.
In IoT, energy, and telecommunications, Panopticon helps operations people identify potential failures before they can impact
the business, improve profitability, reduce the cost of regulatory compliance, and reduce operational risks. Specific applications
include logistics, smart buildings, manufacturing, network and grid monitoring and revenue assurance, and predictive
maintenance.

Confluent Platform makes Kafka enterprise-readyFounded by the original developers of Apache Kafka®, Confluent delivers the most complete distribution of Kafka withConfluent Platform. Confluent Platform improves Kafka with additional community and commercial features designed toenhance the streaming experience of both operators and developers in production, at a massive scale.

Panopticon and Confluent Platform
Confluent provides a robust and performant platform for Panopticon’s analytics processing. Kafka Streams enables partitioning,load-balancing, fail-over and security while schema registry and Avro form the foundation for data manipulation that is essential
for modelling. Together, customers enjoy a faster time-to-market and easier user adoption for visualizing real-time data.

Contact Confluent
Confluent.io/contact+1 (800) 439-3207

Contact Altair
Altair.com/panopticon

About Confluent

About Altair

Confluent, founded by the original

Altair transforms design and decision

creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneered

making by applying simulation,

the enterprise-ready eventmachine learning and optimization

streaming platform. With Confluent,throughout product lifecycles. Altair’sorganizations benefit from the first

software products represent a

event streaming platform built forcomprehensive, open-architecture

the enterprise with the ease-of-use,solution for simulation, datascalability, security and flexibility

intelligence, and cloud computing. We

required by the most discerning global

empower decision making for improved

companies to run their business in real

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time. www.confluent.io. Download atmanagement and exploration, financial

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services, health care, and retail
operations.
www.altair.com/panopticon.

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