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Axual Overview

What is Axual?

Axual presents a suite of Kafka solutions tailored for enterprises, offering both cloud and on-premise deployment options. Axual Governance simplifies the management of existing Kafka clusters with a user-friendly interface, visual data mapping and robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), ensuring secure and streamlined data oversight. Complementing this, Axual Platform extends these capabilities by including a managed Kafka cluster with advanced streaming capabilities. This comprehensive platform is designed for high-performance, real-time data processing, making it ideal for enterprises and large scale organizations seeking efficient and scalable data management solutions. Together, Axual Governance and Axual Platform provide versatile, powerful tools for Kafka operations, adaptable to any enterprise environment.

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With Axual Governance, organizations are able to scale their development teams around a central Kafka. Our platform comes with built-in self-service, data governance and security functionalities to unlock the full potential of Kafka for your development teams.


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Axual
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2015
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Jaarbeursplein, Utrecht
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46 employees on LinkedIn®
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Axual is a technology vendor specializing in data streaming and event-driven architecture solutions. Their platform enables organizations to build, manage, and scale real-time data applications, facilitating seamless data integration and communication across various systems. With a focus on enhancing operational efficiency and data accessibility, Axual provides tools and services that empower businesses to leverage the power of streaming data for better decision-making and responsiveness. For more information, visit their website at [axual.com](https://axual.com).


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Rahul S.
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Rahul S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Perfect tool to simplify Kafka services"
Many things comes on top of chart. 1. Service flow dashboard is really awesome, considering organisations wide integration and data flow, one stop...
Verified User
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"How to make complicated technology easy"
Axual is responsive, helpfull, has a lot of knowledge. They provide a layer around kafka which makes managing it quite easy.
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Easy and intuitive GUI"
The Selfservice portal of Axual is easy to understand for Teams to create their own flows. With the latest release there is also the possibility to...
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Axual Demo - Dashboard
Within the platform, the dashboard shows an overview of access requests, activity and more.
Axual Demo - Data topology map
The data topology map gives users a visual overview of applications, topics and how data is flowing.
Axual Demo - Topic detail
The detail page for topics enables users to change settings, see what applications connected and more.
Axual Demo - Schema registry
A schema registry with version control.
Axual Demo - Settings page
Within the settings you can add users, create groups and implement access control.

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Rahul S.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Axual?

Many things comes on top of chart.

1. Service flow dashboard is really awesome, considering organisations wide integration and data flow, one stop to summarise flows.

2. The best part, it's extremely easy to create , manage Publisher, Subscriber, Topics using Axual

3. Enabling the teams to focus on business functionality, and development rather than maintenance overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

There's nothing to dislike about the tool, it's precise and performs as expected. So no complaints so far Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are extensively working on events streaming Async operations, many challenges may popsup when you work on event streaming, and the complications of implementation itself is challenging.

With axual its just writing definitions in markup language and behind the screen Axual takes care of everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JT
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

Using the Axual software eases the rollout of Kafka and the use of it within the organization. By configuring Kafka using the selfservice or using API calls, integration within the data streaming environment is made very easy without needing to understand the exact details of the underlying Kafka platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

The evolution of the Axual software is rather quick and tends to break API's in some cases. This doesn' t speed up integration and needs the help of Axual consultants in those cases. The Axual teams respods fairly quick on requests and incidents though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Processing large amounts of data from several sources is fairly easy using Kafka in combination with the Axual selfservice software and API's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities
AU
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

Axual has a clear focus on making Kafka usuable as a self-service platform. It enables teams to do their own thing in a controlled way. At the same time they provide a manageable platform on the infra side so that we can run it on-prem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

The governance aspect is of the self-service portal provides a clear way-of-working for teams to manage their data streams. However, governing these activities to ensure compliance with company policies becomes a challenge. Self-service requires an automatied policy-driven way of working to stay in control and guide how teams configure their resources within the platform. This is lacking and in some cases forces us to resort to more centralized control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provide a high-performant, business- and mission-critical platform for enterprise-wide event streaming. It is a major part of our company data platform where data streams come together and are shared across the company. Being able to share data in real-time and in high volume is a crucial enabler for many business cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AD
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

- Enterprise grade solution (orgs, departments, teams)

- Supporting both federated or centralized approach

- Governance & access control for data in the hands of the data owner

- Very intuitive GUI

- Easy to test and troubleshoot created events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

- As with every solution: the first use case is the hardest to realize but once done every additional use case is easier and more cost efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Managing Kafka on an enterprise/corporate scale is quite intensive (release mgmt, required knowledge and skills) with Axual it becomes more manageable

- Ability to govern event streams throughout the whole life cycle from design to deprecation

- Ability to improve on data stewardship Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sion S.
SS
CTO and Co-Founder
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

The Axual platform offers a huge number of advantages that significantly elevate the operations and security of Apache Kafka. In my opinion, the primary benefit is minimising the operational complexity which comes with deploying Kafka at scale. With Axual Kafka, I can effortlessly scale my clusters to handle varying workloads and accommodate growing data volumes. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and ensures seamless performance even during periods of increased demand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

Some of the documentation is outdated and instructions on how to monitor the connectors is unclear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reduced the operational tasks around Kafka maintenance, while supporting improved security and multi-tenancy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
UT
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Axual?

Axual is responsive, helpfull, has a lot of knowledge.

They provide a layer around kafka which makes managing it quite easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

They have an unique tool and that means you pay a unique price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Axual gives us a platform to create and manage our Kafka streams on. They provide insights in how these streams run.

Also they provided us with a lot of valuable knowledge about Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Laurent S.
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President
Oil & Energy
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

Axual is an excellent software development and integration team specialised in Kafka deployment through various industry verticals. They are a true accelerator for the digital transformation of the pan european energy sectors and strong enabler for the decarbonisation of energy sectors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

Axual is strongly focused on technology developments and should develop more awareness on the business value proposition they actually enable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

The end to end energy value chain needs to further digitise to enable near real-time flexibility transactions across Grid users, renewable developpers as well as Grid operator. It requires the deployment of harmonised data architectures, interoperable data exchanges leveraging IEC industry standards as well as new secured streaming multi sided platform as proposed by Axual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
UO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

We're able to use Kafka without having to manage Kafka itself. Adding applications is just like plug-and-play, which allows our developers to add value quickly and on their own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

The simplicity Axual brings can make it harder to resolve issues that are deeper down at the Kafka level. Luckily customer support is always ready to help along! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Axual enables us to stream real-time data straight to our end users with barely any in-house expertise required. No need to hire and educate a large maintenance team that is occupied with tweaking and monitoring the Kafka cluster. Our developers can just innovate without the overhead! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MV
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Axual?

The product meets expectations (performance, near zero downtime) A well-functioning platform is more important than "formal SLA" agreements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

Backlog items may be moved forward in a schedule. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Axual is the event streaming platform for Volksbank. Axual adds the following extra functionality to Kafka for Volksbank:

- Security

- Self-service for DevOps teams

- Data governance

- High availability

- Data replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
IB
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Axual?

Good product, good partner. Axual care and help us each and every time we have an architectural as well as operational challenges.

The product is feature rich, and easy to use. Almost every time we have a new challenge, there is a feature for that. Axual release frequent new features.

Axual could accommodate all our intended deployment options. The platform is very enterprise-ready and resilient. Just impressed! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axual?

Still finding something. At this point in time (3yrs) it has been a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axual solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaling communication

Data driven use cases

Customer orientation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.