Report: Why IT Leaders Are Prioritizing Data Streaming Platforms

In the age of AI, real-time data is becoming increasingly important for businesses, with data streaming platforms playing a crucial role in simplifying access and reuse of this data. The 2025 Data Streaming Report highlights how these platforms are emerging as a business imperative, helping organizations solve persistent data challenges such as data silos and governance-related disjoints. A complete data streaming platform provides the necessary capabilities to turn data into a reusable asset, ensuring it is inherently usable across multiple teams, discoverable, secure, and trustworthy. As AI systems become more capable, the demand for continuous, real-time data access will only accelerate, making data streaming platforms critical infrastructure. IT leaders see data streaming platforms as key to achieving their data-related goals, with 89% citing higher investments in DSPs this year. To unlock the true value of their data, organizations must prioritize governance early and adopt a shift-left approach to data processing and governance.

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