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Well Architected Assessment
Engagement Objectives
Confluent’s Well Architected Assessment is a four-week engagement designed to assess your data streaming capabilities and Enterprisearchitectural practices against Confluent best practices.
The engagement consists of two parts:• In the first two weeks, a series of interactive sessions and interviews are conducted. Confluent Professional Services assess yourcurrent practices and strategic goals against our Well Architected Framework, share best practices, and flag potential obstacles inyour journey.
• During the final two weeks, Confluent will work with your team to develop a roadmap for remediating short-term critical blockers andgenerate a long-term strategic data-streaming roadmap. Confluent will also provide remediation assistance for near-term critical issues
with any remaining time left on the engagement.
For the engagement to be most beneficial, we encourage key members of the team to complete some training beforehand to ensurefamiliarity with relevant concepts. Visit www.confluent.io/training to learn the fundamentals of data streaming and Apache Kafka®.

Well Architected Framework
This engagement provides an in-depth review of your streaming data capabilities against the five pillars of the Confluent WellArchitected Framework.
PILLAR NAMEDESCRIPTIONData

The data structures that are modeled, sent, stored, defined and distributed

Application

The applications that consume, produce and transform data

Platform

The foundation of self-service APIs, tools, services, knowledge, and support

GovernanceThe collection of rules, processes, and roles that ensure privacy and compliance

Organization

The organizational structures and communities that support event streaming

Benefits of the Engagement

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Who should attend?

Engagement Location• Project Owner

This engagement is delivered over four weeks via remote sessions• Executive Sponsor

or onsite at the Customer’s premises upon request.

• Data Business/Product Owner• Data Architect• Enterprise Architect• Platform Owner

Engagement Activities
Pre-engagement survey and kickoff call

Knowledge transfer and outcomes• Identify key stakeholders required to participate in

After the workshop, a Confluent expert will provide a summary ofthis engagement.

the engagement, which may include:• Align on Customer expectations and goals.

• Findings or best practices based on engagement discussions• Create an engagement plan with timeline and milestones.

• Areas of improvement• Confirm logistics.

• A Confluent best-practice gap analysis that notes areas forEngagement workshop sample agenda• Assess Customer’s strategic vision and objectives.
• Review Data in Motion Blueprint.
• Review Confluent Well Architected Framework pillars.
• Provide guidance on key concepts and best practices to build
a well-architected data-streaming environment.
• Analyze current state and assess alignment to Confluent
best practices.

potential remediation and their associated risks• Co-developed remediation roadmap• Remediation plan for near-term critical issues

Out of scope
Any activities not explicitly set forth in this document are outof scope, including but not limited to:• Detailed design deliverables/reports• Custom development• Develop Confluent best-practice-based gap analysis.
• Assess up to three (3) Confluent Platform or Clouddeployments to ensure the deployment meets functional,performance and resilience requirements• Co-develop a remediation roadmap listing recommendations
and proposals to address short-term and long-term
remediation efforts.
• Identify specific risks or non-standard architectures needed tobe remediated immediately to ensure the stability, security, andperformance of your environment.

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• Jumpstart short-term, high- priority remediations.

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