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How a French Tire Manufacturer Achieved 35% Savings from Reduced Apache Kafka® Operations Costs?

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    Business Impacts

    01

    35% Cost Saving

    Estimated 35% in cost savings from using Confluent Cloud, compared to on-premises operations

    02

    99.99% SLA

    Confluent Cloud guarantees 99.99% uptime and elastic scalability, handling over 10TB of data daily

    03

    Faster Time to Market

    Confluent shaved 8-9 months off the company's time to market compared to self-managing open-source Kafka

    Overview of Client

    Founded in 1889 in France, this manufacturer began as a small rubber factory and invented the radial tire. Today, it's a global leader in tire production, investing nearly €650 million annually in research and development. The company produces tires for a wide range of vehicles and uses its long history of innovation to offer sustainable mobility solutions and predictive insights.

    Challenges

    Operational complexity with Kafka

    Real-time inventory visibility and management

    Cloud integration and scalability

    High maintenance costs

    Resilience and uptime

    Solutions

    Adoption of Confluent Cloud: Moving from on-premises Kafka to Confluent Cloud, a fully managed cloud-native solution.

    Cloud partner selection: Selecting Microsoft Azure for seamless migration and integration.

    Real-time data pipelines: Implementing Confluent Cloud for live data streaming and inventory management.

    Cost optimization: Lowering total ownership costs by outsourcing Kafka infrastructure management.

    Enhanced engineering efficiency: Boosting productivity with Confluent’s managed services and expertise.

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