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At SPOUD, we accompany you on your event-streaming journey

With many years of experience, a unique skill set, and the focus on event-streaming and Kafka, SPOUD supports your project from trainings and consulting, to architecture design, until engineering.

Event-Streaming Journey

SPOUD’s unique focus on event-streaming makes us the perfect partner for your data-driven future.

The event streaming journey typically follows a certain order of challenges. At SPOUD we are dedicated for years to accompany our customers on their individual journey.
Mostly, questions about security (e.g., zero trust approach), DevOps processes and automation, but also API abstractions arise from the beginning. SPOUD’s highly trained event-streaming experts consult, and support you throughout all those stages. Once the initial hurdles have been cleared, processes are introduced and technologies are established, data transparency, discoverability, collaboration, and governance come into play.

When you integrate Kafka or event-streaming in general, in your enterprise, you will observe different layers of challenges that we model as a Maslov’s pyramid. The maturity levels range from physiological needs or stable runtime to self-actualization or global impact. Let’s dive in together and determine the main challenges we observe and how we can typically get by them.

“With the help of SPOUD we were able to quickly evaluate the different options for event-streaming on the cloud. Thanks to their experience, we could assess, test and build a PoC in only three months. The PoC is now the foundation for the bigger scoped project.”

Tirone Gigandet, Team Lead, La Mobilière

The big picture

To help you get started or continue on the event-streaming journey, SPOUD offers the following services.

Services

Kafka Trainings

Our trainers teach your team how to use Kafka: From the basics to specific best practices and use cases. Profit from our experience and get the most out of it with dynamic trainings tailored to your needs

Our trainings are conducted by experienced Kafka experts with broad knowledge in the different frameworks. That way, we can help you from working out software architecture to implementing, using, and maintaining your event-streaming platform.

Topics:

  • Kafka
  • Confluent Cloud
Specifications:
  • Spring Boot
  • Your preferred framework
 

Mandate

Our body leasing service allows you to access a pool of highly qualified engineers with a wide range of expertise, without the commitment of a long-term contract or the costs of hiring permanent employees. Whether you need engineers for a specific project, or to fill temporary gaps in your team, our body leasing service can provide you with the flexibility and scalability you need.

Our body leasing service is designed to provide you with a cost-effective and efficient solution for your engineering needs, allowing you to focus on your core business activities, while we take care of the rest.

Project Manager and Scrum Master

Our Scrum Masters and IT Project Managers are highly experienced professionals who are trained and certified in agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. 

They can help you to establish and maintain a culture of agile and continuous improvement within your organization. They can also help you to implement best practices and tools to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your projects.

With our services, you can be assured that your IT projects will be managed by experienced and qualified professionals who will work closely with your team to ensure that your projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards.

Business & Use Case Assessment

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

Event-Streaming and real time data enables a company to open up new business fields. SPOUD helps their clients to identify data-driven opportunities in workshops, actively supports or leads in pitching business cases to the management, and implements concrete use cases: agile and in close collaboration with the customer.

Challenges:

Most companies generate countless amounts of data. Extracting the full potential from it, opening up new use cases and approaching data analytically is not easy. SPOUD helps you to analyse processes, identify data flows and shows you how to open up new business opportunities.

Event-Streaming from ramp-up and PoC to roll out

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

SPOUD helps you to get started on your event-streaming journey. Start simple with a PoC. Try things out and experience the potential event-streaming.

Challenges:

The first step is always the most difficult one. A new environment can be quite challenging. We’re here to help you go through it.

Technologies

Event-Streaming on the Cloud or Hybrid

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

SPOUD helps you to get started on your event-streaming journey. Start simple with a PoC. Try things out and experience the potential event-streaming.

Challenges:

The first step is always the most difficult one. A new environment can be quite challenging. We’re here to help you go through it.

Technologies

Success story

“With the help of SPOUD we were able to quickly evaluate the different options for event-streaming on the cloud. Thanks to their experience, we could assess, test and build a PoC in only three months. The PoC is now the foundation for the bigger scoped project.”

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Infrastructure and Broker Integration

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

Data integration happens on application or database level. Whether change-data-capture or direct integration of databases, SPOUD supports you. But it doesn’t stop there, also 3rd party applications can be integrated into your event system.

Challenges:

Accessing and converting data can be more complicated that it seems. In addition, the location and security clearance needed to access sensitive data can be difficult to obtain.

Technologies

Event Processing

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

One data source alone hasn’t necessarily a lot of interest. But merging it with other sources can result in some valuable insights.

Challenges:

Moving data around with Kafka is one thing, but transforming them, joining them etc. is on another level. SPOUD has extensive know-how on how to help you make sense of your data and reveal their true value.

Technologies

Event-Streaming Operations

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

Complexity of operations is characterized by the complexity of integration technologies, monitoring, and automation needs.

Challenges:

Kafka Operation, like any other big java application, can become quite complex. It’s not just a standalone app. It’s a cluster that can be replicated across multiple geographical zones.

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Analytics and Visualization

We offer: Consulting Software DevelopmentSupport

Benefit:

SPOUD builds your custom visualizations or sets up dashboards for your needs.

Challenges:

Having a lot of data is an easy task for big companies. But making sense of them and getting the right insights, this is the real challenge.

Technologies