The High-Performance Backbone: Benchmarking Your Enterprise for Streaming Success

For decades, enterprise strategy has been throttled by the "Data Mess"—a brittle web of point-to-point integrations and slow batch processes that create systemic friction and stall innovation. For the modern tech executive, the challenge is no longer just managing data at rest, but enabling the High-Velocity Enterprise: an organisation capable of making intelligent, data-driven decisions in the moments that matter.

This session introduces the Data Streaming Readiness Framework, a diagnostic, socio-technical methodology designed to move organisations beyond the "Data Mess". Based on the results of many sessions with technology leaders, we move past technical hype to address the core strategic pillars of streaming readiness: Value from Data, through a Unified Platform, guided by Purposeful Adoption.

In this talk, we dive into the architectural shifts required to dissolve the wall between operational and analytical planes. We will discuss:

Data as a Product: Transforming "just data" into intentionally shared, discoverable, and governed assets with clear ownership.

The Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Providing a "golden path" for engineers that abstracts technical complexity and automates global guardrails.

Decentralized Accountability: We shift from over-burdened central teams to a Platform Team while Business Domains take full ownership of their data.

We share benchmarks and "Tales from the Trenches" from global leaders, including:

How a Global Retailer consolidated 4 disparate estates to remove legacy integration debt and save six figure sums annually.

How an Automotive Manufacturer institutionalised value governance, linking streaming outcomes directly to enterprise KPIs and P&L impact.

Audience Takeaways:

The Readiness Scorecard: A 9-category framework to baseline your enterprise’s data streaming maturity.

Executive Metrics: Link streaming data to the P&L, including annual cost savings and a reduction in implementation costs.

The "Day Zero" Blueprint: A step-by-step execution roadmap to navigate the transition from organic adoption to a unified enterprise backbone.