Powering Real-Time Insights: Ness Digital Engineering’s Partnership with Confluent

Powering Real-Time Insights: Ness Digital Engineering’s Partnership with Confluent

Data today has inundated organizations, and the ability to stream and process data in real-time is paramount for businesses seeking a competitive edge. A modern streaming architecture provides flexibility to support various use cases, providing insights from data sets that are processed in real-time. Organizations benefit dramatically from real-time data processing, as the insights enhance operations, boost monitoring and visibility for IT architecture, optimize business outcomes, and even improve overall customer experiences.

Approximately two-thirds of the use of event streaming platforms is to support real-time operational applications. The other one-third is used for ingesting, transforming, and storing streaming data for subsequent analytics applications.¹ For example, banks utilizing real-time data streaming technology can swiftly analyze transactions against historical data and customer profiles to detect potential fraud. If a customer’s behavior deviates, like attempting a large withdrawal from a distant ATM, the system flags it for investigation. This capability safeguards customer assets, bolsters trust, and prevents financial loss and regulatory issues.

Platforms like Confluent have enabled organizations to leverage streaming data effectively. Confluent, a foundational platform for data-in-motion, enables organizations to harness the power of continuously flowing data. Confluent provides a cloud-native experience with enterprise-grade features, providing advanced capabilities designed to accelerate application development and connectivity, enable transformations through stream processing, simplify enterprise operations at scale, and meet stringent architectural requirements.

Ness Digital Engineering (Ness) is a partner of Confluent with years of experience building applications to help firms unlock new insights from their data in real-time, leveraging Confluent’s Enterprise-Grade offerings. We help organizations maximize the time value of their data globally, delivering dynamic, actionable insights on their data to drive business results.

In fact, Options Clearing Corporation partnered with Ness to leverage a modern, cloud-based streaming architecture to transform and modernize its risk and margining platform. We helped OCC transition its Risk and Margining system from a batch-based overnight process to a near-time, event-based system.

Ness was recently recognized as the 2023 Confluent SI and Co-Delivery Partner of the Year for the Americas, highlighting our expertise in implementing Confluent solutions. Leveraging technologies like Apache Flink, we empower clients to extract real-time insights from their data using Confluent’s Enterprise-Grade offerings.

As an Elite Partner of Confluent, we offer end-to-end consulting and system integration services, from designing and configuring the Confluent platform infrastructure to providing comprehensive support. Through a focused Proof of Concept (POC) process lasting 2 to 4 weeks, we empower our clients to gauge the potential impact of Kafka on their workload.

Ness’s solutions are centered around building robust architectures that prioritize:

• Reliability – Designing architecture that minimizes downtime and data loss, employing redundancy and fault-tolerant mechanisms to ensure continuous operation.
• Performance – Optimizing system performance for large data volumes by fine-tuning configurations, implementing caching strategies, and leveraging Confluent’s scalability features to meet performance requirements.
• Security – Employing robust measures like encryption, authentication, and access controls to protect sensitive data.
• Cost Optimization – Assisting clients in optimizing infrastructure costs through resource right-sizing, data storage optimization, and cost-effective deployment models like cloud solutions, maximizing the value of their investment in Confluent’s platform.
• Operational Excellence – Streamline operations by implementing automated monitoring tools, establishing deployment best practices, and providing comprehensive training and support for the smooth operation of the Confluent platform.

Ness provides implementation services like Environments-as-a-Service (EaaS), automated resilience, and canary testing for seamless Confluent-based solution deployment. One of its key offerings is Re-orchestration, which enables the integration of new applications with existing data streams via Kafka for real-time data processing, application tracking, monitoring, and data repository integration.

As an integral part of Confluent’s Migration Accelerator program aimed at simplifying the migration process from traditional messaging systems to Confluent’s platform, we help clients navigate the complexities of migration to embark on a smooth data streaming journey.

The co-delivery model between Confluent and Ness maximizes synergies, facilitating seamless integration with real-time data streams and fostering intelligent enterprise-wide responses. This partnership harnesses advanced technology and domain knowledge, empowering organizations to fully utilize streaming data for innovation and growth.

Join us for the Confluent Data in Motion Tour on April 11 in Dallas and witness the revolution in streaming technology. Whether you’re looking to enhance customer engagement, streamline processes, or unlock new insights from your data, our team of experts will demonstrate a data streaming solution tailored to your unique business needs.

Register now: Data in Motion 2024 (ness.com)

¹Gartner: Market Guide for Event Stream Processing May 2023