Confluent is a cloud-native platform that enables users to easily access, store, and manage data as continuous, real-time streams. It is designed to unleash real-time data and acts as a central nervous system in companies, letting them connect all their applications around real-time streams and react and respond intelligently to everything that happens in their business. Confluent is built by the original creators of Apache Kafka, which is an open-source distributed streaming system used for stream processing, real-time data pipelines, and data integration at scale. Confluent delivers the most complete distribution of Kafka with additional community and commercial features designed to enhance the streaming experience of both operators and developers in production, at massive scale.

Confluent Platform simplifies connecting data sources to Kafka, building streaming applications, as well as securing, monitoring, and managing Kafka infrastructure. It is used for a wide array of use cases across numerous industries, from financial services, omnichannel retail, and autonomous cars, to fraud detection, microservices, and IoT. Confluent Control Center is a GUI-based system for managing and monitoring Kafka.

In summary, Confluent is a cloud-native platform that simplifies connecting data sources to Kafka, building streaming applications, as well as securing, monitoring, and managing Kafka infrastructure. It is built by the original creators of Apache Kafka and is used for a wide array of use cases across numerous industries.