Confluent Platform vs Dataminr Pulse

Likelihood to Recommend

If your company needs to build event-driven applications, like in healthcare industry, you need to enhance interoperability, and you are seeking a reliable service with enterprise-grade support, Confluent is the best on the market you can get. Their product works great and they provide very good customer service.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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For any news editor, Dataminr is a must. It is the only platform I have used which I would 100 percent recommend to anyone who needs constant access and notification to all that is going on in the world's media.Various other platforms provide information, but Dataminr collates all these other platforms together into one easy to use interface. It is remarkably quick to check Dataminr after receiving a desktop or email notification and find out what is going on regarding a specific subject. As a news editor, I am required to manage a news team that produces copy for breaking stories, and Dataminr allows me to find news and commission it faster than any other platform I have previously used.

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Billy Hawkins

Digital News Editor

talkSPORTOnline Media, 51-200 employees

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Pros

Products work great.
Training is available.
Customer support is good.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Collating various sources into one interface makes keeping track of breaking news remarkably easy.
The live update feature means updates from breaking stories are fed directly to the consumer. This means users do not have to go out their way to find out every last detail of a story, and can instead use their time writing the story.

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Billy Hawkins

Digital News Editor

talkSPORTOnline Media, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Cloud service might need more granular configuration.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Setting up Dataminr can be relatively obtuse. Although basic functions are easy to use, the more in-depth aspects require research and training to use correctly.
Topics are very broad, which can be a negative at times. It would be useful to have 'football' as a topic rather than 'sport', for instance.

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Billy Hawkins

Digital News Editor

talkSPORTOnline Media, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Confluent Platform Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0 per year

Dataminr Pulse Editions & Modules

Edition

Dataminr	$15,000¹

per year

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Support Rating

Confluent Platform 10.0

Based on 1 answer

The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Dataminr Pulse 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Connection issues/downtime occur but they are rare and generally quickly fixed. There are frequent seminars and tutorials to teach the platform. This is an excellent decision from the company and has made me more willing to learn how to use Dataminr correctly. As a result of this, I use the platform more than I would have if I had been forced to learn everything myself.

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Billy Hawkins

Digital News Editor

talkSPORTOnline Media, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We chose to use the Confluent Platform because they provide enterprise-grade customer service support. Whenever we have trouble setting up or using the service, we can create a ticket for them and it will be resolved pretty fast. Kafka is the open-source software that comes without warranty.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Before using Dataminr we did not use a similar platform, with stories discovered by simply crawling the web (TweetDeck/Reddit/news sites, etc). Because of this, Dataminr has been a game-changer for us and has revolutionized the way we have worked since it was introduced. Being able to completely remove one aspect of the job (searching for news) has increased productivity in all other areas.

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Billy Hawkins

Digital News Editor

talkSPORTOnline Media, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

It enables us to develop event driven application.
It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
It reduces latency of communication.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees

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Since starting to use Dataminr, our traffic has vastly increased. Though not entirely to thank for the growth, Dataminr has played a role in talkSPORT.com's ComScore increasing by 150 percent over the past 18 months.
Increased traffic is partly due to producing more content, and Dataminr has directly led to discovering a number of stories we previously would have missed.

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Billy Hawkins

Digital News Editor

talkSPORTOnline Media, 51-200 employees

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