Could Confluent Become the Next Salesforce?

The cloud software company hasn't impressed the bulls.Confluent (CFLT 2.63%) and Salesforce (CRM -0.06%) both help companies analyze data with their cloud-based platforms. Confluent's platform processes "data in motion" in real time as it streams between applications. Salesforce is a much larger company that operates the world's largest cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Salesforce also provides other e-commerce, marketing, analytics, data visualization, and enterprise collaboratio ...