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Confluent Current 2025 highlights

May 21, 2025 By Alex Durham In Lenses
Current 2025 featured two days of engineers figuring out how streaming tech needs to evolve in an AI-driven world. Gone are the days when talks focused on basic Kafka setup. This year, everyone was tackling complex integrations, developer happiness, and practical AI implementation. Still, the event drew a range of people, with plenty of new faces stopping by the Lenses.io booth – clear evidence that Kafka and data streaming continue to attract newcomers.
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EP 24 | Why AI Agents Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Cloudera's Abhas Ricky

May 21, 2025 By Cloudera, Inc. In Cloudera
AI agents are quickly becoming one of the most powerful tools in the enterprise AI toolkit. According to Cloudera’s latest Agentic AI Survey, 96% of enterprises plan to expand their use of AI agents. But what’s driving this surge, and how can organizations turn hype into results? In this episode of The AI Forecast, host Paul Muller sits down with Abhas Ricky, Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera, to explore the real momentum behind agentic AI. From healthcare to telecom, Abhas unpacks how AI agents are already transforming operations with speed, intelligence, and autonomy.
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How to Extend the Life of Your ERP and Still Put Finance in Control in 2025

May 20, 2025 By InsightSoftware In InsightSoftware
In 2025, companies are taking a cautious approach toward technology investments. That’s not surprising, given the uncertainty of the current global economic climate. For finance teams hoping to upgrade their systems this year, delayed ERP projects might sound like bad news, but if replacing your current system is not in the cards for 2025, there are still ways to enhance the overall value of your ERP software right now. ERP systems typically have a useful life of software between five and 15 years.
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New in Confluent Cloud: Bringing Together the Best of Batch and Stream Processing

May 20, 2025 By Hannah Miao In Confluent
Your teams want the immediate insights of stream processing with the scale and historical context of batch processing—but traditional data infrastructure forces you to resort to disparate tooling or manual workarounds to bridge that gap. This quarter’s release, coming to you live from Current London, brings new features in Confluent Cloud that fundamentally change this dynamic by seamlessly unifying stream and batch processing.
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Confluent Releases Managed V2 Connector for Apache Kafka for Azure Cosmos DB

May 20, 2025 By Sudhindra Sheshadrivasan In Confluent
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Confluent fully managed V2 connector for Apache Kafka for Azure Cosmos DB! This release marks a major milestone in our mission to simplify real-time data streaming from and to Azure Cosmos DB using Apache Kafka. The V2 connector is now production-ready and available directly from the Confluent Cloud connector catalog.
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Introducing the Next Generation of Control Center for Confluent Platform: Enhanced UX, Faster Performance, and Unparalleled Scale

May 20, 2025 By Philip Wang In Confluent
We're excited to announce the release of the next generation of Control Center for Confluent Platform, which delivers higher partition limits, faster spin-up time, metrics freshness, and simpler operational overhead. Confluent introduced Confluent Control Center in 2016 as part of Confluent Platform, simplifying Apache Kafka operations and delivering end-to-end visibility into data pipelines.
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The VSP One Data Platform Meets its Data Management Counterpart: Introducing VSP 360

May 20, 2025 By Ian Clatworthy In Hitachi Vantara
Peanut butter has jam. Wine has cheese. Great Britain has pubs. The world is filled with things that are great alone, but that together, create an even greater – dare I say, legendary – combination. Now it comes to the world of data platform management. Sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself. You see, a few months back I predicted 2025 was going to be a big year for data platforms. One such solution being Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One).
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databox

BI as a Service: 4 Reasons Smart Agencies Grow Faster with Business Intelligence

May 20, 2025 By Peter Caputa IV In Databox
Based on a sample of data from ~1,000 agencies and 14,000 clients, we estimate that agencies lose about 38% of their clients every year. Based on my 1,000s of conversations with agencies over the years, I think I know one of the big reasons why. Most agencies have been stuck in the same pattern for years: Do good work, report on it, wait for feedback, hope for renewal. They start strong—engaged with the client’s leadership, aligned on strategy and goals, excited to build.
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