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 "company": "confluent",
 "as_of": "2026-09-24",
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   "id": "confluent-p01",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Commercial scope",
   "statement": "The founders established a company around enterprise data-in-motion infrastructure after creating Kafka.",
   "event_date": "2014",
   "date_precision": "year",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p02",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Confluent Platform",
   "statement": "The company announced its first Platform release for customer-managed deployments.",
   "event_date": "2015-01",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p03",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Managed cloud",
   "statement": "Confluent Cloud became generally available as a managed service.",
   "event_date": "2017-11",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p04",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Stream processing",
   "statement": "The filing\u2019s historical timeline dates general availability of ksqlDB to March 2018.",
   "event_date": "2018-03",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
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  {
   "id": "confluent-g04",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Cloud marketplaces",
   "statement": "Confluent Cloud became available through the three leading cloud providers\u2019 marketplaces.",
   "event_date": "2020-08",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
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  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p05",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Deployment choice",
   "statement": "Customers could use self-managed Platform or fully managed Cloud.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
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  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p06",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Connectors",
   "statement": "Prebuilt connectors linked streams with other applications and data systems.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p07",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Security and control",
   "statement": "Commercial functionality included role-based controls, audit logs and schema validation.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p08",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Cluster operations",
   "statement": "Platform features included self-balancing clusters, tiered storage and multi-region clusters.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p09",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Support",
   "statement": "Enterprise support and education accompanied production deployments.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-p10",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "product",
   "dimension": "Cloud operations",
   "statement": "Managed Cloud covered infrastructure operations, including scaling and maintenance.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
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  {
   "id": "confluent-g01",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Developer entry",
   "statement": "Developers could learn and begin using the technology before a centrally negotiated purchase.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g02",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Self-service",
   "statement": "The company offered a fully online learning and purchase route.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g03",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Direct sales",
   "statement": "Experienced field teams served customers through a direct sales motion.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g05",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Partner routes",
   "statement": "Systems integrators, software vendors and resellers supplemented direct selling.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g06",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Platform charging",
   "statement": "Platform subscriptions were generally annual and priced per software instance.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g07",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Cloud charging",
   "statement": "Cloud offered pay-as-you-go and usage-based minimum commitments.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g08",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Committed usage",
   "statement": "Minimum-commitment Cloud contracts generally lasted at least one year.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g09",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Community education",
   "statement": "Meetups, technical content and training supported the developer community.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g10",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Account expansion",
   "statement": "The company pursued more use cases and larger workloads inside existing accounts.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "confluent-g11",
   "business": "Data streaming platform",
   "category": "go_to_market",
   "dimension": "Professional services",
   "statement": "Implementation and education services supported adoption alongside subscriptions.",
   "event_date": "2021-06",
   "date_precision": "month",
   "evidence_kind": "documented_offer_or_action",
   "sources": [
    "CF1"
   ]
  }
 ]
}