The recent revolution in data infrastructure and application architecture has transformed the way all kinds of organizations, from the traditional to the digital native, work with data. But to truly take advantage of event streaming as the most strategic platform within your company, it must move from the domain of one-off engineering initiatives into a central nervous system for the enterprise.

Transformation takes thoughtful strategy with specific business impact in mind. Knowing what business use cases other companies are putting into best practice is a great way to start envisioning—and enabling—your own shift to a centralized event streaming paradigm.

Read on to discover five of the top use cases Confluent has witnessed, with real-world customer examples and insights into how your organization can make the leap.