Confluent Inducted Into JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation

By PRNewswire On Jan 10, 2019

Leading Streaming Platform Provider Recognized for Disruptive Technology Innovation and Business Impact

Confluent, provider of the leading streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, announced that it has been inducted into the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation. Confluent joins a distinguished set of technology companies recognized for their innovation, business value and disruptive nature.

“Confluent’s innovative real-time event and data management platform helps us to accomplish that.”

Confluent was honored with the award for providing JPMorgan Chase with Confluent Platform, a distributed streaming platform that delivers the operations, monitoring and administration tools for running Apache Kafka at scale, making it possible to create new products, respond to customers and make business decisions in real time. JPMorgan Chase partners with Confluent to provide highly reliable event streaming and event management technology to support high-speed communications between autonomous applications, which are modeled on microservices.

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“At JPMorgan Chase, we continuously seek to better understand and meet the needs of our customers,” said Andrew J. Lang, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), JPMorgan Chase. “Confluent’s innovative real-time event and data management platform helps us to accomplish that.”

“In order to meet rising consumer expectations and become fully digital, embracing real-time data is essential,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO at Confluent. “We’re proud to partner with JPMorgan Chase. This award recognizes Confluent as a key platform in digital initiatives as well as the importance of making data the heart of the business.”

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JPMorgan Chase is a leader in financial services, engaging and partnering with pioneering companies that help drive positive customer and employee experiences in new ways, such as digital, security and data and analytics. Since 2010, twenty-two companies have been inducted into the JPMorgan Chase Hall of Innovation. The Hall of Innovation Award was presented at the 10th Annual J.P. Morgan Technology Innovation Symposium in Menlo Park, California.

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