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Kafka Connect is an enterprise-grade solution for integrating a plethora of applications, ranging from traditional databases to business applications like Salesforce and SAP. Kafka Connect provides a scalable, reliable solution that can often replace slow batch jobs by instead "streaming" updates. The power of Kafka comes at a price: While it's easy to use Kafka from a client perspective, the setup and operation of Kafka is a difficult task. Setting up a private Kafka cluster literally takes minutes, which makes IT departments focus on services they want to provide instead of operating a Kafka cluster.