# Confluent

Born in Silicon Valley, data in motion is becoming a foundational part of modern companies. Confluent’s cloud-native platform is designed to unleash real-time data. It acts as a central nervous system in companies, letting them connect all their applications around real-time streams and react and respond intelligently to everything that happens in their business.

Kong is building an ecosystem of Premium technology partners that collaborate with Kong to build best-in-class, fully-validated integrations with Kong Konnect and Kong Enterprise offerings.

Kong premium partners have integrations that are fully validated by Kong R&D and include features that support Kong Konnect and Kong Enterprise offerings. Premium partners also receive additional go-to-market benefits, including collaboration with Kong to ensure joint customer success.