Case Study: Bosch Power Tools achieves real-time, scalable IoT event streaming and rapid digital transformation with Confluent Cloud

Bosch Power Tools Drives a Digital Transformation and Smart Tools Innovation by Streaming IoT Data with Confluent Cloud

Bosch Power Tools sought to accelerate a company-wide digital transformation by personalizing tool experiences and building new IoT-driven mobile and cloud applications, but a small team of fewer than a dozen solution architects needed a low‑maintenance, scalable way to ingest, store, and replay high‑volume sensor and assembly‑line data. To meet this challenge Bosch Power Tools partnered with Confluent, deploying Confluent Cloud Enterprise (Apache Kafka®) alongside Bosch IoT Hub and Microsoft Azure as the core event‑streaming backbone.

Confluent delivered a managed, real‑time event streaming platform (Confluent Cloud Enterprise with 24x7 support, unlimited throughput/retention and a 99.95% SLA) that enabled Bosch Power Tools to build multiple applications—RefineMySite, Pro360, HGApp and Bluehound—support real‑time alerting and dashboards, replay event streams, and outsource development while keeping a single source of truth. With Confluent, Bosch Power Tools established a low‑maintenance, scalable foundation for ongoing innovation, stayed on the cutting edge despite a small team, and rapidly launched new, event‑based services across manufacturing, field, and sales data.

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Ralph Debusmann

Solution Architect