Astera ReportMiner: Automate Document Extraction Across Any Layout or Format

Most enterprises spend 80% of analysts' time just extracting data from documents. Formats change. Vendors switch layouts. Templates break. Astera ReportMiner handles document variability automatically. It converts documents into structured, system-ready data regardless of layout, with no templates and no code. Teams get their time back. Data flows into downstream systems reliably. This video shows how ReportMiner handles real-world document variability and keeps your data pipeline moving automatically.

Don't trust AI agents on Kafka. Unless you have OAuth 2.1. (Live)

Every engineering team is onboarding AI agents. Most are doing it without a governance model - static API keys, no audit trail, no way to revoke access if something goes wrong. Join us on April 15th as we go live on the topic everyone is talking about but few are solving: how to govern AI agent access to streaming data.

Introducing Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Apache Kafka, Flink SQL, and More

Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 8.2, which builds on Apache Kafka 4.2! This release extends and simplifies what you can do with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink, whether that’s handling task queues natively with Apache Kafka 4.2, processing streams easily with Flink SQL, or managing cluster migration, upgrades, or disaster recovery without the usual operational pain. The release highlights are below, and additional details about the features are in the release notes.

Spotter Semantics-The Rosetta Stone for Agentic AI

In 1799, soldiers near Rosetta, Egypt, unearthed a stone carved with the same decree in three scripts: hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Ancient Greek. Because scholars already understood Greek, it unlocked a language—and with that, a civilization’s worth of knowledge that had been dark for over a millennium. We’re at a similar inflection point in enterprise data.

Driving Business Value with AI: 4 Data Democratization Plays

AI-powered analytics is everywhere right now. But the payoff? Not so much. Two patterns show up again and again. The first is an “AI everything” backlog that expands faster than teams can deliver. The second is an insights bottleneck that still forces the business to wait in line for basic answers while analysts drown in ad hoc requests.

On-Premise Data Collection Platforms Compared by Capability (2026)

Most on-premise data collection tools focus on a single method—analytics, web tracking, or surveys. Organizations that need full control over user data—whether for compliance, security, or internal policy—are increasingly turning to on-premise data collection platforms. But once you start researching on-premise data collection tools, things get confusing quickly. Some platforms focus on analytics. Others handle surveys or feedback.