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Building an Open Agent Mesh for Real Enterprise Workflows

Building an Open Agent Mesh for Real Enterprise Workflows

October 28, 2025 PODCAST

What happens when agents can talk to agents – securely, asynchronously and at scale? We sit down with Solace’s Chief AI Officer Ed Funnekotter to unpack the architecture behind an open agent mesh and why event-driven design is the key to turning AI hype into dependable workflows.

The Agentic AI Powerhouse Transforming Business Capabilities

October 08, 2025

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is the new revolution. With its ability to merge numerous agents into a single, organized ecosystem that autonomously handles real-time queries, it can transform business processes — from adjusting retail supply chain inventory to reconfiguring manufacturing lines to meet fluctuating demand.
Supporting the agentic AI powerhouse is a big ask! To unleash agentic AI’s full capabilities requires multiple data sources that are actively integrated across a global reach.
This article shows how the event-driven approach, nurtured through an agent mesh, is the foundation for building an agentic AI powerhouse.

It’s make or break for Agentic AI: Don’t repeat the mistakes of microservices past!

September 29, 2025

Technology has a worrying habit of repeating its architectural mistakes. Early struggles implementing microservices — where tight coupling masked as modular design and point-to-point integrations often just descended into complex webs — introduced failures that brought entire systems down. Today, we’re witnessing the same mistakes with Agentic AI integration. Thankfully, the same remedy for microservices applies to the AI world in the form of event-driven architecture (EDA). This article explores how organizations who adopt EDA early can create AI systems that are inherently more resilient, scalable, and maintainable.

Ending Europe’s drug shortage crisis with modern integration

September 04, 2025

The widespread drug shortages that reached alarming levels in Europe in 2024 exposed a deeper structural weakness: Europe’s pharmaceutical supply chain is still too fragile, too opaque, and too slow to adapt to sudden shocks. This article explores how the industry can no longer afford patchwork fixes; it demands a fundamental rethink of how data flows across the pharmaceutical value chain.

Volatile Tariffs Cause Supply Chain Headaches

August 25, 2025

Recent political uncertainty and volatility in global trading, specifically the Trump administration's rapidly changing tariffs, have spotlighted global supply chains. The current pace of policy U-turns and brinkmanship makes it clear that businesses must move faster than the disruption. This article explores five critical IT tips for manufacturers to consider in order to best navigate these turbulent times using event-driven systems.

From vision to reality: Event-driven integration for the ASEAN Power Grid

From vision to reality: Event-driven integration for the ASEAN Power Grid

August 21, 2025

The ASEAN Power Grid (APG) is a major regional initiative aiming to connect electricity networks across 10 Southeast Asian countries. Its goal is to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy while addressing the region’s energy trilemma – strengthening security, ensuring equity, and advancing sustainability. However, since its proposal in 1997, progress has been slow, hindered by fragmented policies, infrastructure limitations, and financial challenges. Although momentum is once again building, there still remains one key oversight – building the physical grid isn’t enough; it needs a smart, real-time digital infrastructure to work. This article explores the merits of event-enabling the integration network, empowering energy systems to respond instantly to changes in supply and demand, mitigating power outages and safeguarding sustainability efforts.

Agentic AI is exposing the frailty of our creaking enterprise integration

July 31, 2025

Thousands of applications, potentially billions of data points, and increasingly intelligent agents are making decisions at the edge of operations. But beneath this surface lies an architectural flaw that’s about to become impossible to ignore – enterprise integration is broken.Today’s businesses demand more than data syncing and API orchestration. This article argues it requires real-time collaboration between people, applications, and now, increasingly, autonomous software agents powered by artificial intelligence. And those agents, unlike legacy systems, don’t wait for a nightly batch job or tolerate stale data. They act in milliseconds, they expect now.

Retailers must embrace AI and real time data now, or risk business failure

Retailers must embrace AI and real time data now, or risk business failure

July 29, 2025

This moment in retail isn’t about playing catch-up. It’s about reimagining what physical retail can be. The high street must become more than just a place to shop; it must be a living, responsive environment that adapts to customer needs in real-time, blending the best of digital convenience with the richness of human interaction. As this article explains, the divide is no longer between online and in-store. It’s between those who operate in real time and those who don’t. Retailers must adapt now, or risk becoming the next name on the growing list of brands that couldn’t keep up.

Real-time architecture is the missing foundation in Southeast Asia’s AI race

Real-time architecture is the missing foundation in Southeast Asia’s AI race

July 18, 2025

AI has the potential to transform Southeast Asia’s digital economy. Despite widespread enthusiasm, only a small percentage of businesses in the region are prepared to scale AI due to infrastructure limitations, especially fragmented data systems that hinder real-time integration. In this feature story, Solace’s Floyd Davis discusses how true AI success depends not just on smart models but on robust, agile, and resilient architectures—particularly event-driven and agent-based systems.

Choosing the right integration strategy for AI in manufacturing: API-led, event-driven, or hybrid?

Choosing the right integration strategy for AI in manufacturing: API-led, event-driven, or hybrid?

July 07, 2025

In the nascent concept of Industry 5.0, manufacturers are exploring new strategies to enhance competitiveness, efficiency, and resilience. As manufacturers seek to leverage AI, the challenge often lies not in the AI models themselves, but in the integration of these models with existing enterprise data, legacy systems, and operational workflows. To fully realize the potential of AI, manufacturers have to balance flexibility, scalability, and operational requirements. This article spotlights three possible approaches.

Giving Airlines An AI Overhaul

Giving Airlines An AI Overhaul

July 04, 2025

The aviation industry is already implementing AI solutions, but it is barely scratching the surface of the value AI can bring. To release the power of agentic AI requires an event-driven integration strategy to connect masses of diverse and disparate data in real-time. Only then will airlines be able to understand the bigger picture and have the tools to transform the way we fly, from the point of customer booking, right down to in-flight emergencies

How human and tech partnerships power data-driven manufacturing

How human and tech partnerships power data-driven manufacturing

June 25, 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 article by Solace CTSO Sumeet Puri, discover how traditional integration methods are longer sufficient in a manufacturing sector moving towards Industry 5.0. Event-driven integration is a key enabler to unlocking the full potential of real-time data in manufacturing on a global scale.

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.

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.

Building digital resilience in today’s AI-first era

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.

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.

Why event-enabled AI is taking off in aviation

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.

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

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.

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.

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.