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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Foundations Services Bundle
Engagement Objectives
Confluent’s Foundations Services Bundle is a six-week engagement designed to help you understand and demonstrate the impact ofdata streaming capabilities, while enabling resources and preparing for broader enterprise adoption. Confluent will work with your teamto review your architecture, activate an enterprise-grade production environment, and go live with an initial set of up to three (3) highimpact use cases. By having Confluent Professional Services experts work with your team during the early stages, following establishedbest practices, you can accelerate your Confluent adoption and time to value.
This service will help drive you from level 1 tolevel 2 maturity of the event streaming adoption
framework and provide you with a prioritized
adoption vision and plan for future maturity
throughout your organization. For a little
perspective, here are the five (5) typical stages of
event streaming adoption:
For the engagement to be most beneficial, weencourage key members of the team to complete
some training beforehand to ensure familiarity withrelevant concepts. Visit www.confluent.io/training
to learn the fundamentals of data streaming andApache Kafka®.

Benefits of the Engagement

Accelerate Time to Value

Quality Assurance & Risk Mitigation

Develop desired capabilities and go live with specific use
case(s) to accelerate your event streaming maturity

Reduce risk of rework through the use of industry bestpractices and enablement of resources

Who Should Attend?
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Project Owner
Executive Sponsor
Product Owner

Engagement Location•••© 2023 Confluent, Inc. | Confluent.ioArchitect
Platform Owner
Data Engineer/Developer

This engagement is delivered over six weeks via remote sessions
or onsite at the Customer’s premises upon request.

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Engagement Activities
Pre-Engagement Kickoff Call•

Identify key stakeholders required to participate in this engagement.

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Align on Customer expectations and goals.

•Create an engagement plan with timeline and milestones.

•Confirm logistics.

Engagement Sample Agenda•​​Assess Customer’s strategic vision and objectives•

Align platform deployment strategy to business priorities to develop a North Star for project guidance•Develop a strategic business plan aligned to the North Star that addresses operational changes for data productization•

Review pre-production data models and connections and for up to three (3) use cases•

Install and configure data connectors in production environment•

Assess pre-production environment and self-hosted solution automation (CI/CD solution)•

Introduce Confluent best practices in data modeling and application design for event driven architectural patterns•

Deploy up to three (3) use cases from pre-production to production environment•

Perform a high-level skill gap analysis of your team and create a training plan•

Onboard and train critical roles inside your organization to leverage data streaming capabilities

Knowledge Transfer and Outcomes
After, a Confluent expert will provide a summary of the engagement, which may include:•Findings and recommendations based on engagement discussions•

Business value-aligned adoption roadmap•

Best practices around data modeling and event driven architectures•

Roles and skills assessment with initial training needs

Outcomes:•

Activation Engagment•

Activation of enterprise-grade production environment•

Up to three (3) use cases architected and promoted to production Confluent environment•

Critical role enablementOut of Scope
Any activities not explicitly set forth in this document are out of scope, including but not limited to:•

Detailed design deliverables/reports•Custom development

Confluent offers a wide range of Professional Services engagements.
Please visit http://confluent.io/services for more information.

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