Seconds can mean millions of dollars to financial institutions in fraud or instant pricing scenarios, and real-time, actionable insight from vast streams of data is crucial.

With an explosion of IoT sensor, organizations managing the backbone of smart cities, autonomous vehicles and more need simple, robust reliable ways to manage, and get insights from, their data.

Today's institutions require near-instant insight into their network traffic information to quickly assess and stop any network threats before crucial information is compromised.

It's critical for manufacturers to have an up-to-date, accurate view of all aspects of their supply chain, and real-time, streaming data is critical to achieving this.

From aggregation to correlation to sentiment analysis, companies rely on a real-time view of social media data to know what their stakeholders are saying now - not yesterday.