+An End-to-End Streaming
Analytics Solution
A Confluent and Imply Solution Brief

Confluent Platform and Imply
enable next generation data
stacks for exploring andvisualizing event-driven data
in real-time

Together, Imply and Confluent
provide:Traditionally, data analytics has been batch-oriented. Data analysts
write complex SQL queries and create static reports by querying adata warehouse. However, when data analytics becomes streamoriented, many new workflows are possible. Queries naturally
become exploratory and ad-hoc, and users can interact with realtime data to compare current performance to historical, detect
anomalies and explain the root cause.

• New analytic use cases for
streaming data through
Apache Druid (incubating),
a new type of databaseideally suited for eventdriven data

Interactive, real-time data exploration is a powerful new use casethat could not be easily done before. An end-to-end streaming
stack comprised of the Confluent Platform and Imply provide
a foundation for new use cases and analytics workflows withstreaming data.

• A fully end-to-end streaming
analytics stack withexactlyonce guarantees• Easy, interactive, adhocdata exploration of data inApache Kafka® topics• Freedom of choice to deploy
anywhere – on premises orin the cloud• Easy data pipelines: Druid
integrates with Kafka
natively

An End-to-End Architecture for Streaming Analytics

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A Confluent and Imply Solution Brief

Imply is a high-performance analytics solution built on Apache
Druid (incubating)
To store, query, and visualize event-driven data. Imply was founded by the creators of Druid, a widely adopted open source
analytics engine. Imply enhances Druid with a powerful operational UI, enterprise grade security, easy cluster management,and performance analytics tools. Druid’s innovative architecture makes it an ideal query engine in modern streaming dataarchitectures and in use cases with clickstreams, application metrics, supply chain data, and network telemetry. Imply is designed
for workloads where users analyze and explore data through an interactive UI where query performance and uptime are critical.

Confluent Platform completes Apache Kafka
Through a complete enterprise-ready event streaming platform, with mission-critical reliability and freedom of choice – cloud
or on-premises. Connect all your applications and data with the broadest ecosystem of connectors and process and respondin real-time with Kafka Streams and KSQL. With Confluent Platform, you can deploy with confidence on the platform built
by the Kafka experts, stream at enterprise scale, and trust in the security of enterprise-grade encryption, authentication
and authorization.

Confluent Platform and Imply deliver enterprise-gradestreaming analytics
Confluent Platform is the only event streaming platform built entirely on Kafka that makes implementing, managing anddeploying an enterprise streaming platform with Kafka easy, reliable, secure and auditable. Imply acts as a sink for Kafka
and Confluent Platform and provides a comprehensive analytics and visualization solution based off of Apache Druid.
Together, Confluent and Imply make ad-hoc analytics on event streams a reality.

Contact Confluent

About Confluent

About Imply

Confluent.io/contact

Confluent, founded by the original

Imply is a high-performance analytics+1(800) 439-3207

creators of Apache Kafka®, pioneeredsolution to store, query, and visualize

the enterprise-ready event

event-driven data. Imply is available

streaming platform. With Confluent,

as both an on-premises and as aorganizations benefit from the firstmanaged cloud service. The full

event streaming platform built forsolution combines Apache Druidthe enterprise with the ease-of-use,(incubating) with Imply Pivot, an

scalability, security and flexibility

operational analytics UI, Imply Clarity,

Contact ImplyImply.io/contact

required by the most discerning global

a performance analytics and monitoring

companies to run their business in realtool, Imply Manager, an easy cluster

time. www.confluent.io. Download atmanagement and deployment tool

www.confluent.io/download.

and Imply Security, a comprehensive
enterprise grade security system.
Imply is used to analyze a wide
range of event-driven data, including
clickstreams, application metrics, andnetwork telemetry. Visit Imply.io©2020 Confluent, Inc. | confluent.io/insurance

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