Confluent, Inc. announced that Confluent is now available on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Confluent integrates with SAP Datasphere and delivers a secure, governed solution for accessing SAP data as fully managed data streams for customers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, Confluent provides businesses that use SAP solutions with a cloud-native and complete data streaming platform available everywhere it's needed--in the cloud, across clouds, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Configured directly within SAP Datasphere, the new Confluent integration allows businesses to: Build real-time applications at a lower cost with fully managed data streams powered by Confluent's Kora Engine, which reduces the total cost of ownership for Kafka by up to 60%. Move SAP data anywhere it needs to go and merge with third-party sources in real time via 120+ pre-built connectors, including AWS Redshift, AWS S3, Databricks, Google Cloud BigQuery, MongoDB, and Snowflake paired with a serverless offering for Apache Flink M maintain strict security, compliance, and governance standards with enterprise-grade data streaming security controls, and the industry's only fully managed governance suite for Kafka. SAP Store, found at store.sap.com, delivers a simplified and connected digital customer experience for finding, trying, buying and renewing more than 2,300 solutions from SAP and its partners.

There, customers can find the SAP solutions and SAP-validated solutions they need to grow their business. And for each purchase made through SAP Store, SAP will plant a tree. Confluent is a partner in the SAP PartnerEdge program.

The SAP PartnerEdge program provides the enablement tools, benefits and support to facilitate building high-quality, disruptive applications focused on specific business needs - quickly and cost-effectively.