CONNX for Kafka
Stream mainframe data to your Kafka-powered systems and end data silos for good.
Get critical data where you need it, fast
Anywhere from 40 to 80% of mission-critical enterprise data still sits on the mainframe—yet that data is often the hardest to leverage in modern data streaming initiatives.
If you’ve invested in Apache Kafka to power real-time applications and dashboards, but your customer and transactional data is left behind in the mainframe, you’re operating with an incomplete picture.
CONNX for Kafka creates a stable streaming connection with your mainframe to unlock your most valuable data, enriching your Kafka streams without disrupting your core systems.
How it works
Connect & configure in minutes
Quickly define and deploy robust, no-code data streams between your IBM Z® mainframe and your Kafka environment.
Stream without risk
Protect your mainframe with a stable, scalable integration engineered for minimal CPU overhead and non-disruptive data access.
Unlock enterprise insight
Instantly enrich your modern applications, dashboards, and advanced analytics with comprehensive customer and operational history.
Mainframe data streaming, solved.
Bridge the critical gap between your valuable mainframe data and your modern data ecosystem. Enrich your analytics, empower data teams, and replace costly, high-maintenance integrations with plug-and-play data streaming.
Enrich your systems with critical data
Combine valuable transactional records with real-time events in your Kafka streams to deliver a complete picture of your systems, enabling you to fuel cutting-edge dashboards, machine learning models, and cloud-based applications with data that is finally holistic and accurate.
Eliminate resource bottlenecks
Stop relying on manual queries and ad-hoc data requests that divert valuable DBA time. CONNX for Kafka frees technical teams from the low-value, high-maintenance tasks of data extraction, providing business units with direct, configurable access to critical mainframe data.
Replace vulnerable APIs with stable streaming
Move beyond custom-built or open-source connectors that require massive resources to maintain and troubleshoot. CONNX for Kafka is built for enterprise workloads, offering a stable, scalable data sync that lets you take full advantage of Kafka’s high throughput and low latency.
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