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Data Streaming with Confluent Meets SAP and Databricks for Agentic AI at Sapphire in Madrid

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Data Streaming Meets the SAP Ecosystem and Databricks – Insights from SAP Sapphire Madrid

ByKai Waehner
28. May 2025

SAP Sapphire 2025 in Madrid brought together global SAP users, partners, and technology leaders to showcase the future of enterprise data strategy. Key themes included SAP’s Business Data Cloud (BDC) vision, Joule for Agentic AI, and the deepening SAP-Databricks partnership. A major topic throughout the event was the increasing need for real-time integration across SAP and non-SAP systems—highlighting the critical role of event-driven architectures and data streaming platforms like Confluent. This blog shares insights on how data streaming enhances SAP ecosystems, supports AI initiatives, and enables industry-specific use cases across transactional and analytical domains.

Apache Kafka for Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance in Industrial IoT

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Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
25. October 2021
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The manufacturing industry is moving away from just selling machinery, devices, and other hardware. Software and services increase revenue and margins. Equipment-as-a-Service (EaaS) even outsources the maintenance to the vendor. This paradigm shift is only possible with reliable and scalable real-time data processing leveraging an event streaming platform such as Apache Kafka. This post explores how Kafka-native Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance help with this innovation.

Supply Chain Optimization with Apache Kafka and SCM

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Apache Kafka for Supply Chain Management (SCM) Optimization

ByKai Waehner
15. December 2020
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Supply Chain optimization leveraging Event Streaming with Apache Kafka. See real-world use cases and architectures from Walmart, BMW, Porsche, and other enterprises to improve the Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes. Automation, robustness, flexibility, real-time, decoupling, data integration, and hybrid deployments…

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Building a Postmodern ERP with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
20. November 2020

Postmodern ERP represents the next generation of ERP architectures. It is real-time, scalable, and open by using a combination of open source technologies and proprietary standard software. This blog post explores why and how companies, both software vendors and end-users, leverage event streaming with Apache Kafka to implement a Postmodern ERP.