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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Exploration Services Bundle
Engagement Objectives
Confluent’s Exploration Services Bundle is a two-week engagement designed to help you understand the potential value of data
streaming, while enabling resources and preparing for broader enterprise adoption. Confluent will work with your team to review yourarchitecture, identify high impact use cases and build a proof of value by deploying a non-production Confluent Cloud environment todemonstrate the impact of Data in Motion capabilities. By having Confluent Professional Services experts work with your team during
this critical early stage, following established best practices, you can accelerate your Confluent adoption and time to value.
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®.

Benefits of the Engagement

Accelerate Time to Value

Quality Assurance & Risk Mitigation

Quickly build a proof of value platform to realize
the impact of data streaming

Reduced risk of rework through the use of industry
best practices and enablement of resources

Who should attend?

Engagement Location• Project Owner

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

or onsite at the Customer’s premises upon request.

• Product Owner• Architect• Platform Owner© 2023 Confluent, Inc. | Confluent.io1

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Engagement Activities
Pre-engagement survey and kickoff call

Knowledge transfer and outcomes• Identify key stakeholders required to participate in thisAfter the workshop, a Confluent expert will provide a summary ofengagement• Align on Customer expectations and goals• Create an engagement plan with timeline and milestones

the engagement, which may include:• Findings and recommendations based on engagement
discussions• Confirm logistics• A Confluent best-practice security gap analysis that notes

Engagement workshop sample agenda• Roles and skills assessment with initial training needs• Assess Customer’s strategic vision and objectives• Review Customer’s current architecture landscape• Identify high-impact use cases and create enablement
recommendations for the use cases• Deploy non-production Confluent Cloud environment andcreate deployment scripts for use in CI/CD pipeline• Identify a reference use case and define a data model up to
three source datasets• Deploy Datagen Source Connector with reference datasets inConfluent Cloud• Stand up reference pipeline (KStreams or KSQL)

areas for potential remediation and their associated risks

Outcomes:• Confluent Cloud non-production environment established withreference use case(s)• Critical role enablement

Out of scope
Any activities not explicitly set forth in this document are out of
scope of the engagement, including but not limited to:• Detailed design deliverables/reports• Custom development• Deploy sample data connector and configure the Managed Sink
Connectors for the destination data store if using Confluent
Cloud• Perform a gap analysis of the security requirements• Identify required activities for Customer to close gap against
security requirements• Perform a high-level skill gap analysis of the Customer’s teamand create a training plan

Confluent offers a wide rangeof Professional Services
engagements.
Please visit http://confluent.io/services formore information.

• Onboard and train critical roles to leverage Data in Motion
capabilities© 2023 Confluent, Inc. | Confluent.io2