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Research Brief: Closing the Real-Time Data Gap in Enterprise AI with IBM and Confluent
Research Brief
Apr 02, 2026
by
Mike Leone
Enterprise AI workloads increasingly depend on real-time data, yet most organizations still operate batch-oriented pipelines that cannot keep pace with production-grade inference and agentic demands. IBM’s acquisition of Confluent integrates real-time data streaming into its hybrid cloud and AI portfolio, targeting the growing gap between where enterprise data resides and where AI models need it.
