Confluent provides a cloud-native messaging infrastructure that enables businesses to modernize their existing messaging architecture in incremental steps. Confluent's platform offers standardized connectivity, metadata management, and stream processing capabilities through its Kafka Connect framework and ksqlDB database. The platform also includes schema registration, governance, and data lineage capabilities to ensure the context of the data travels with it. By integrating Confluent with messaging middleware, businesses can unlock new use cases such as real-time customer applications and cloud-based applications. Confluent's solution for messaging modernization enables incremental adoption, allowing businesses to keep their existing messaging middleware at the center of their architecture while leveraging stream processing capabilities. The platform also includes a data in motion solution that allows businesses to send aggregate data to any connected destination, including third-party systems.