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Confluent
RyderRyder Extends Stream Governance Across Partner Exchange
Ryder, an industrials organization in the United States, uses Stream Governance 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 |
| Productivity | Handoffs in partner data exchange sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Stream Governance is the governed place data platform and lines of business use for partner data exchange |
Story
Inside Ryder, 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 States. Data platform and lines of business needed a system that would still make sense after the original project team moved on.
Ryder uses Stream Governance 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 Ryder 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.
