--- title: What if the biggest benefit of modernization isn't lower... description: A Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by Confluent found that a representative composite organization achieved 137% ROI, USD 2.1 million in net... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-if-the-biggest-benefit-of-modernization-isn-t-lower-infrastructure-costs-but-the-capacity-to-d-r71q3gsna twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What if the biggest benefit of modernization isn't lower infrastructure costs, but the capacity to do more with the team you already have? 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A new Forrester study offers a framework for evaluating data og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What if the biggest benefit of modernization isn't lower infrastructure costs, but the capacity to do more with the team you already have? A new Forrester study offers a framework for evaluating data **[Confluent Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/conf)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by Confluent found that a representative composite organization achieved 137% ROI, USD 2.1 million in net present value and a 10-month payback period. Annual platform operations requirements dropped from 10.5 FTEs to 3.5 FTEs, which accounts for 79% of the USD 3.58 million in quantified benefits over three years. Platform incidents fell from 12 a year to 4, and the composite organization avoided 360 technical delivery hours for each new or materially updated production streaming use case. One customer described loyalty points that used to post in two days now landing in fifteen minutes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What ROI did companies see from migrating self-managed Kafka to Confluent Cloud? A Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by Confluent found a representative composite organization achieved 137% ROI, USD 2.1 million in net present value, and a 10-month payback period over three years. The organization also reduced platform operations staffing from 10.5 FTEs to 3.5 FTEs, which accounted for 79% of the USD 3.58 million in quantified benefits. _Teams weighing a Kafka migration can track vendor-backed cost and ROI claims like this on daily.dev._ ### How much do platform incidents drop after moving from self-managed Kafka to a managed service? Platform incidents fell from 12 a year to 4 for a representative composite organization that migrated from self-managed open-source Kafka to Confluent Cloud, according to a Forrester-commissioned study. The same migration freed engineering capacity equivalent to 7 full-time employees, previously spent keeping Kafka running, for higher-value work. _Anyone justifying a streaming platform migration can keep an eye on data points like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Findings from the 2026 Forrester TEI for Elastic Observability](https://daily.dev/posts/findings-from-the-2026-forrester-tei-for-elastic-observability-u4smkhxah) · elastic · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Tailscale's Total Economic Impact](https://daily.dev/posts/tailscale-s-total-economic-impact-ekckztbkt) · Tailscale · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Forrester study models 466% ROI from unified observability with Dynatrace](https://daily.dev/posts/forrester-study-models-466-roi-from-unified-observability-with-dynatrace-3lp7z42tf) · Dynatrace · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The 282% ROI of Unified Security](https://daily.dev/posts/the-282-roi-of-unified-security-v3tvoqfp3) · JFrog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Cost to Build a Data Streaming Platform: TCO, Risks, and Alternatives](https://daily.dev/posts/cost-to-build-a-data-streaming-platform-tco-risks-and-alternatives-mejeaza0h) · Confluent Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ibm](https://daily.dev/tags/ibm), [#platform-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/platform-engineering), [#apache-kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-kafka), [#confluent-cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/confluent-cloud), [#data-streaming](https://daily.dev/tags/data-streaming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-if-the-biggest-benefit-of-modernization-isn-t-lower-infrastructure-costs-but-the-capacity-to-d-r71q3gsna) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What if the biggest benefit of modernization isn't lower infrastructure costs, but the capacity to do more with the team you already have? 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