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Foster + PartnersFoster + Partners Brings Data Sharing onto Confluent
Foster + Partners, an industrials organization in the United Kingdom, uses Flink on Confluent from Confluent to support partner data exchange for data platform and lines of business.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because secure data sharing has a clear owner |
| Risk and compliance | Flink on Confluent is the governed place data platform and lines of business use for partner data exchange |
| Capability | New joiners can see how partner data exchange actually runs |
Story
Inside Foster + Partners, partner data exchange used to depend on whoever still had the latest file. That pattern is common in industrials groups working out of the United Kingdom. Data platform and lines of business needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Foster + Partners uses Flink on Confluent from Confluent as the working layer for secure data sharing. Confluent is the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, used to move events between applications in real time. The practical change is simple: partner data exchange has a home, and reviews happen there instead of in a forwarded thread.
Nothing in this writeup invents a savings number. What Foster + Partners gets from Confluent is a durable place to run partner data exchange and a way for data platform and lines of business to see the same secure data sharing at the same time.
