Receiving the highest scores possible in 14 criteria, Confluent was recognized for strengths in messaging, processing, and event-driven enterprise applications.

Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced it was named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025. The report states, “Streaming data represents the physical and digital reality of what is happening in your business right now.” This data is essential for businesses to make fast, accurate decisions which AI agents can now make at digital speed.

“Confluent excels across the majority of capabilities, including messaging, processing, governance, developer experience, and fault tolerance,” states The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025. “Confluent is an ideal fit for enterprises that wish to expand their streaming data use cases with enterprise-level governance, tooling, and ongoing innovation.”

In today’s fast-paced world, streaming data powers immediate insight into every part of a business. AI agents are making more decisions in real-time, but mistakes can multiply quickly if the information is stale. Traditional data lakes are too slow to keep up. The solution is an enterprise-wide streaming platform that delivers fresh, accurate data, empowering AI to make smarter and faster decisions across the organization. Given the state of the industry, Forrester identified Confluent as one of the fifteen most significant streaming data platform providers in this report.

“Data streaming is the backbone of real-time applications and AI that power today’s world,” said Jay Kreps, Co-Founder and CEO of Confluent. “Our customers prove that every day. Their trust drives us to deliver a complete platform that streams, connects, processes, and governs data everywhere it’s needed. With live, reliable data, they’re building smarter systems, delivering real-time experiences, and unlocking the full potential of AI.”

Confluent pioneered the data streaming category to help organizations move beyond rigid, point-to-point connections and unlock a continuous flow of real-time data. Confluent’s data streaming platform streams, connects, processes, and governs data at scale, anywhere. It also adds AI intelligence, automation, and cross-cloud flexibility, allowing teams to break down barriers and focus on driving real business impact.

The company scored the highest score possible in 14 criteria Forrester evaluated, including

• Current offering: messaging, processing, governance, developer experience, event-driven agents, platform management, resource optimization, fault tolerance, and performance architecture
• Strategy: vision, innovation, roadmap, partner ecosystem, and community

Confluent also received above-average customer feedback with customers appreciating its range of cloud-native deployment options, pace of innovation, and extensive tooling for governance, development, and managing large-scale deployments. Customers note exceptional, responsive customer support.

Additional Resources

• Access a complimentary copy of the full Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025 report.
• Read the blog for more details on Confluent’s placement in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025.
• See how Confluent is helping its customers transform their businesses.

About Confluent

Confluent is the data streaming platform that is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure that sets data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion—designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations. To learn more, please visit www.confluent.io.

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