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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 They can try to retrofit outdated systems and risk falling behind, or they can embrace this evolution and rearchitect their infrastructure for what’s next.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Event-Driven Data Integration is the Passport for Businesses to Join our Interconnected World

Event-Driven Data Integration is the Passport for Businesses to Join our Interconnected World

December 12, 2024

A staggering 88% of businesses are without fully integrated data systems, with many experiencing fragmented overviews of their operations. Day-to-day processes, global subsidiaries, and crucially, data remain cut off in siloes. This article spotlights how event-driven integration can change this, offering businesses the ability to connect systems at a much more granular level and facilitate real-time event exchanges that meet today’s expectations from customers, suppliers and employees.

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How Retailers Are Coping With a Shortened Holiday Season

How Retailers Are Coping With a Shortened Holiday Season

November 14, 2024

It’s a digital race against time. This year’s holiday season is shorter than normal — just 26 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, or five fewer days — and retailers are scrambling to juggle seasonal spikes and consumer expectations while coping with ever-daunting supply chain disruptions and nagging inflation. This article spotlights insights from Solace’s Ush Shukla, who points to an event mesh as a solution to helping the usual retail holiday pressures.

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The Urgent Need for Multi-cloud to Keep Business Running 24/7

The Urgent Need for Multi-cloud to Keep Business Running 24/7

November 07, 2024

Today’s fast-paced ‘to the second’ operating environment requires organizations be “always available”, and operating in real-time. There is an urgent need for adopting a multi-cloud strategy, but it isn’t an easy journey without the correct underlying architecture in place. This byline explores how a more agile, real-time business infrastructure that can not only manage what goes where, but the ability to comply with changing regulations, is essential for businesses to reap the real business value that a multi-cloud strategy can provide.

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The Future of Pharma: Technology for a more Predictable and Secure Medication Landscape

The Future of Pharma: Technology for a more Predictable and Secure Medication Landscape

November 06, 2024

The pharmaceutical industry plays a vital role in safeguarding public health. However, in recent years the public have played witness to a concerning rise in drug shortages, disrupting patient care and causing anxiety. This article explores how the industry can leverage real-time data and modern approaches to manufacturing technologies in order to mitigate these shortages, ultimately prioritizing patient safety and creating a secure medication landscape.

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Unlocking the future of EV charging with event-driven integration for a greener future

Unlocking the future of EV charging with event-driven integration for a greener future

October 25, 2024

The Government of Singapore has doubled down on encouraging its citizens to switch to Electric Vehicles (EVs). Particularly with Singapore’s primarily urban landscape and relatively small size, EVs are well suited to driving styles in the city-state. In this article, Solace’s CTSO, Sumeet Puri, argues that to truly instill confidence in EVs as a sustainable long-term investment, drivers need instant, reliable access to data. By adopting a real-time, event-driven approach, governments and EV manufacturers will empower drivers with the information they need to plan their next charge effectively, offering a more streamlined and efficient driving experience.

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Absolics finds semiconductor Solace

Absolics finds semiconductor Solace

October 16, 2024 Video

Phil Alsop, Editor at Silicon Semiconductor, chats with Tom Fairbairn, Distinguished Engineer at Solace, exploring how Absolics is using the Solace PubSub Platform to establish a real-time information flow across all enterprise applications in its US factory. By embracing an event-driven strategy, Absolics is now able to manage its entire API and events environment through one integrated solution, delivering a more automated data streaming and management process with high throughput and no downtime – allowing the company to make faster and more well-informed decisions.

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What hedge funds are missing about messaging

What hedge funds are missing about messaging

October 10, 2024

When a mere microsecond delay can impact the bottom line, hedge funds need high-performance technology stacks and infrastructure. This feature article sees Solace’s Himanshu Gupta outline four key considerations for a firm’s messaging architecture.

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