Axual launches Axual Governance to help organizations turn Kafka into a competitive advantage

Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 13, 2023 – Axual, a Dutch startup focussed on event streaming with Apache Kafka, is excited to announce the launch of Axual Governance – data governance and self-service for any Kafka. This new product helps teams that have adopted Kafka to collaborate easily, work more efficiently and spend less time on maintenance.

Running Kafka at scale is complex

Running Kafka in an enterprise is hard. As more teams start to use Kafka, it becomes difficult to manage. Different Kafka clusters pop up everywhere, topics are created on the fly and data streams are floating around the enterprise. This proliferation of clusters results in chaos and unnecessarily high costs.

Some organizations have a platform team that is responsible for delivering Kafka as-a-service to internal teams. This is also very difficult as the platform team can only handle so many requests, questions, and tasks at once. Often, the workload and maintenance acceleration that goes hand in hand with an organization scaling its Kafka overwhelms the platform team, meaning they become a bottleneck for other teams that want to tap into the possibilities of event streaming.

Scaling teams around Kafka while staying in control

“Since 2015 Axual has successfully delivered complete Kafka platforms to our customers. Our customers typically have dozens up to hundreds teams that need to collaborate through event streaming. Axual’s self-service enabled them to onboard many different teams onto a single streaming platform for the whole organization. In the past year-and-a-half however, more and more people came to us saying “we already have a Kafka, but we need to scale our people around it. Could you deliver your self-service on top of our Kafka?” said Jeroen van Disseldorp, CEO and Founder of Axual.

“Although the Axual software has undergone many changes, our goal remains the same – we want organizations to scale their development teams around Kafka. This is important for creating a single source of truth for event data, instead of worrying about what data to fetch from what Kafka cluster. Self-service with strict data governance is crucial, as it enables teams to manage their own part of Kafka independently.”

Axual Governance – turn Kafka into a competitive advantage

Data sharing is a business necessity and is crucial to stay ahead of the competition. Analyst firm Gartner says organizations that promote data sharing will outperform their peers on most business value metrics. The launch of Axual Governance enables Kafka, Confluent and Aiven users to easily collaborate through a central Kafka, spent less time on maintenance and accelerate the proces of getting new streaming use cases into production.

Axual Governance offers a centralized governance and self-service layer on top of any Kafka and provides:

• Self-service for DevOps teams
• Catalogs: topics, applications, schema
• Data & application ownership
• Topic access approval workflows
• Data formats, including schema
• Schema explorer

Introducing Axual Governance

Go to axual.com to start a free, 30-day trial with your own Kafka cluster.

About Axual

Axual is founded in 2015 by Jeroen van Disseldorp and is headquartered in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Axual platform enables organizations to turn their Kafka into a competitive advantage and comes with unique self-service, data governance and security capabilities. Customers include de Rabobank, de Volksbank, Logius, TenneT, Stedin, Enexis and more. Read more about Axual on our website.

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