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Capital Markets Are Being Pressed to the Limit to Cope with the Market Volatility around U.S. Trade Tariffs

Capital Markets Are Being Pressed to the Limit to Cope with the Market Volatility around U.S. Trade Tariffs

June 18, 2025

Recent political changes and the volatility around the U.S. trade tariffs have led to record-breaking trading volumes. The resulting huge increases in data volume mean that many trading companies are reaching data capacity limits. In this article, Solace’s Himanshu Gupta argues that IT systems and data must be up-to-date, fast-acting, agile, and flexible no matter the market volatility. While this may be beyond the reach of traditional batch or even API-based approaches, for systems underpinned by an event-driven integration platform, it’s all in a day’s work.

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AI didn’t break enterprise integration, it just revealed the cracks

AI didn’t break enterprise integration, it just revealed the cracks

June 13, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on traditional approaches to stitch their systems together. These methods were passable when integration was about moving data between a few back-office systems on a predictable schedule. But with the advent of AI, that era is over. In this exclusive article, Solace CEO Denis King argues today’s businesses demand real-time collaboration between people, applications, and now, increasingly, autonomous software agents powered by artificial intelligence. And those agents don’t wait for a nightly batch job or tolerate stale data; they expect that information now.

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Building digital resilience in today’s AI-first era

May 23, 2025

As AI capabilities evolve — from generative to predictive models to autonomous and agentic systems — so too does the complexity of integration and scalability. Staying competitive in this AI-first era demands more than innovation; it requires digital resilience, ensuring AI systems are reliable, adaptive, and responsive in a volatile environment. This article explores how real-time integration layers (event mesh) together with distributed agent systems (agent mesh) can form the dual engine of resilience, helping organisations to continuously learn, adapt, and respond to dynamic market conditions.

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Keeping Drug Supplies Available Means Pharmaceutical Organizations Must Move in Real-Time

Keeping Drug Supplies Available Means Pharmaceutical Organizations Must Move in Real-Time

May 23, 2025

The persistent issue of drug shortages, evidenced by the recent AMA policies, requires a shift in the pharmaceutical industry's approach. Moving beyond reactive measures, the industry must embrace advanced manufacturing, real-time data, and intelligent automation to build more resilient supply chains. Lessons learned from the retail sector highlight the power of proactive demand tracking and inventory management, while continuous monitoring and AI-driven analytics bring additional quality control and predictive capabilities. This article explores how, with the right approach and the right data, the pharmaceutical sector can ensure a stable and reliable supply of essential medications.

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Why event-enabled AI is taking off in aviation

May 17, 2025

The post-pandemic resurgence in air travel has been swift and significant. But for the aviation industry, this rebound isn’t just a sign of recovery, it’s a high-stakes stress test. Digital transformation is no longer a long-term strategy. It’s a constant, iterative operational imperative. According to Solace distinguished engineer Tom Fairbairn, those who lead with an intelligent, real-time strategy, combining predictive AI with a responsive event-driven integration platform, will not only weather the next surge – they will redefine what operational excellence looks like in aviation.

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Dealing with Tariffs: How Event-driven IT Systems Can Help Manufacturers Navigate Turbulent Times

May 08, 2025

Recent political uncertainty and volatility in global trading, specifically the Trump administration's rapidly changing tariffs, have thrown a spotlight on global supply chains: how fast can your supply chain react? The answer lies in the strength of your supply chain software, and how fast data can be updated and accessed in real-time. But as Solace Distinguished Engineer Tom Fairbairn argues, only businesses that have embraced an event-driven integration strategy will be able to truly simulate the effect of policy changes as they occur and support supply chain changes as soon as they need to be applied.

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Is Agentic AI the Master of Multitasking?

Is Agentic AI the Master of Multitasking?

May 05, 2025

Timely access to up-to-the-minute data is a fundamental prerequisite for agentic AI to deliver on its transformative potential. According to Ed Funnekotter, Solace Chief AI Officer, an agent mesh can optimize the effectiveness of AI agents to meet the demands of dynamic business requirements. In fact, without the real-time, contextual information flow the mesh provides, any agentic AI system is essentially operating with blind spots and cannot fully react effectively to changing business conditions or make truly insightful decisions.

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Why banks need EDA to deliver real-time, human centric service

Why banks need EDA to deliver real-time, human centric service

April 28, 2025

As we move deeper into the AI-first era, banks face a choice. They can try to retrofit outdated systems and risk falling behind, or they can embrace this evolution and rearchitect their infrastructure for what’s next. According to Tom Fairbairn, Solace Distinguished Engineer, the digital banking revolution may no longer be new, but it is far from over. It’s simply evolving, and for those ready to invest in the right foundations, the opportunity is greater than ever.

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Helping Retailers gain control of their sustainability goals

Helping Retailers gain control of their sustainability goals

March 27, 2025

As of February 2025, all listed companies in Singapore must disclose climate-related data aligned with the International Sustainability Standards Board standards, with large non-listed firms to follow by FY2027. Amid these new measures, businesses are under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprint in the coming years. In this article, Ush Shukla, Solace Distinguished Engineer, explains how a robust IT foundation, underpinned by event-driven architecture, can enable the real-time, cross-channel event streaming retailers require to successfully spearhead their critical ESG efforts.

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Better Together with Industry 5.0

Better Together with Industry 5.0

March 20, 2025

Industry 5.0 demands that we fundamentally rethink traditional integration approaches in manufacturing. This article explores how event-driven integration is a key ingredient to unlock the full potential of real-time data across even the most global manufacturing operations.

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Agentic AI is a sea change for business – but needs event-driven thinking to unlock its full potential

Agentic AI is a sea change for business – but needs event-driven thinking to unlock its full potential

March 20, 2025

Agentic AI is a sea change in the use of AI, going beyond simple LLM applications to create autonomous systems capable of never-before-seen levels of reasoning and adaptation. But to unlock its full potential to deliver applications that can think and reason to solve these complex and mind-bending problems means data from multiple sources must be integrated in real-time and on a global scale. As Solace Chief AI Officer Ed Funnekotter notes in this byline: an event-driven approach manifested through an agent mesh is essential for intelligent, adaptive Agentic AI systems to respond to the complex demands of modern business.

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Navigating the UK banking industry’s shift to digital

Navigating the UK banking industry’s shift to digital

March 14, 2025

UK banks are navigating a transformative shift towards a fully digital presence, with 2025 expected to see even greater adoption. As branch closures leave many customers without local access, questions remain about maintaining service quality and customer trust online. In this “Off the Books” Q&A, Solace Distinguished Engineer Tom Fairbairn discusses how an event-driven strategy offers a solution.

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Navigating the AI shift in telecommunications: From promise to practical connection

Navigating the AI shift in telecommunications: From promise to practical connection

February 19, 2025

Today’s customers expect fast, efficient, and personalized service from their telecom providers, from first interaction through to post-purchase support. Meeting these expectations is critical to driving business growth and fostering customer loyalty. With the advent of AI, this vast reservoir of previously untapped data transforms into fertile ground for opportunities to cultivate new services, improve existing ones, and elevate customer experiences while streamlining operations. This article spotlights how an event-driven strategy enables telecom companies to deliver real-time data and context to AI agents and models, propelling their organisations forward in the AI era.

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Industry 5.0: People and Machines Interact in Real-time to Transform Manufacturing Processes

February 07, 2025

From 3D printing to AI, manufacturing processes are in the crosshairs of change. And now, for the first time, the technology is there to give manufacturers the power to view their processes not from the part to the product with all the intervening disconnects, but from the product to the part, in real-time. In this byline, Sumeet Puri, Chief Technology Solutions Officer, Solace, explains how traditional manufacturing integration methods are no longer enough in an industry quickly evolving towards Industry 5.0. The key enabler lies in event-driven integration backed by humans.

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EDA is crucial in the agentic AI era: Solace

February 07, 2025

Event-driven architecture (EDA) has made many processes and technologies more agile, seamless, and efficient — and now, even generative AI stands to benefit. Beyond providing real-time enterprise data to AI models, EDA also supports communication between AI agents. In this Q&A spotlight, Shawn McAllister, Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Solace, touches on a wide range of topics impacting the application integration market, from micro-integrations, to the emergence of events-based API management, as well the critical need for real-time data, delivered via an event-driven integration strategy, to augment an enterprise’s AI strategy.

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Guinness shortage: a wake-up call for supply chain transformation

Guinness shortage: a wake-up call for supply chain transformation

January 13, 2025

The unthinkable recently happened in the UK: a nation-wide shortage of Guinness. Whether the scarcity was driven by Gen Z’s obsession with ‘splitting the G’ on their pints or a miscalculation of production and distribution during a peak demand period, this article argues that one thing was abundantly clear; businesses everywhere must rethink how they balance supply and demand.

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Putting a multi-cloud strategy into place

Putting a multi-cloud strategy into place

January 10, 2025

This article outlines how in the face of demanding consumer expectations around responsiveness and availability, businesses that are the most responsive and available will out-compete the businesses that are not. A multi-cloud approach keeps them agile and available, even when it comes to operating in multiple regions.

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The essential role of traditional AI and EDA in the journey to agentic AI

The essential role of traditional AI and EDA in the journey to agentic AI

January 07, 2025

In this exclusive byline, Solace Distinguished Engineer Jamil Ahmed argues that in the race for AI supremacy, the winners will be those who can turn the firehose of real-time data into a precision instrument of business intelligence.

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Event-driven architecture: the backbone of the high-tech smart factory

Event-driven architecture: the backbone of the high-tech smart factory

January 06, 2025

As factories continue to adopt and expand AI, IoT, and real-time data analytics, event-driven architecture will play a critical role in shaping the future of manufacturing. This article explores how with EDA, manufacturers are better equipped to meet the demands of Industry 5.0 by facilitating human-machine collaboration, supporting sustainable practices, and enabling resilient, data-driven operations. (Note - article is found in 2024 Issue 10, page 30)

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The new face of banking: From transactions to dialogue

January 03, 2025

AI has the potential to improve customer relationships by enabling retail banks to focus more on customer needs. To achieve this, banks need to view AI not as a simple technological upgrade, but as an opportunity to place the customer at the centre of their strategy for loyalty. This byline explores how an effective event-driven integration strategy is critical for offering retail banks the insights they need to enhance their customer loyalty efforts.

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