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    Introduction

    Solace Event Portal helps integration teams and developers work together to design, govern, and grow event-driven integrations and applications. This guide walks you through the journey — from setup to reuse — with short videos that show how quick and simple it is to get started.

    By following these steps, you’ll:

    • Accelerate adoption of event-driven architecture across your teams.
    • Empower developers with self-service access.
    • Give integration teams confidence with governance, visibility, and accurate documentation.
    • Maximize the value of your Solace investment.

    Core Steps for Everyone

    To begin with Event Portal, you need to decide your approach:

    • Design-first: Model your event-driven architecture (EDA) directly in Event Portal to define how it should look.
    • Discover-first: Runtime discover, import, and audit your existing EDA to quickly gain visibility into what’s already running.

    Either way, the initial setup ensures your teams have a shared foundation:

    • Create application domains to align with your teams or functional areas.
    • Set up environments (dev, test, staging, prod) to reflect your operational lifecycle.
    • Model your event meshes and event brokers in Event Portal.
    • Connect Event Portal to your operational brokers so the configuration for your designs can be pushed to and stay in sync with runtime.
    • Setup self-service access so developers can explore available event data to reuse and configure event brokers to access that data – with governance guardrails in place, of course.

    To take a deeper dive into Solace Event Portal concepts, read this article.

    Set up Self-Service Access to Events

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    This video shows how to quickly set up environments and enable self-service access for developers. You’ll see how governance controls are applied from the start, so teams can move quickly without sacrificing consistency.

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    Connect your Brokers

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    Learn how to connect Event Portal to your brokers so you can control and audit what is running in production. This ensures developers can access the event data they need flowing through the brokers and designs stay accurate.

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    Build & Enrich: Design Your Apps

    This is where the fun begins. Developers get hands-on with easy-to-use design tools, while integration teams provide structure that keeps everything consistent.

    • Integration Teams: Create shared templates, review new event definitions, and align application domain and environments to business context — making sure that conventions and best practices are followed.
    • Developers: Model your apps with drag-and-drop tools, define publishers and subscribers, and describe events with payload schemas and metadata. Customize icons and colors so your event data flows are easy to explain and share.

    Create and Deploy a Publisher

    Watch how to model a publisher application that produces events and deploy its configuration to a broker in the runtime. You’ll see how Event Portal ensures the app can publish only the events it was designed for, while making them discoverable and reusable by others.

    Create and Deploy a Subscriber

    See how to design and deploy a subscriber application that connects to the events it needs. This makes it easy for developers to consume the right data while ensuring integration teams keep governance in place.

    Design UX Flows & RDPs

    Learn how to create REST Delivery Points (RDPs or webhooks) to send event data, notifications, or complete system integrations with the event mesh. The video also shows how RDPs appear graphically as applications with flexible connections, making it easy to represent how data flows across your ecosystem.

     

     

    Use Colors and Icons

    Discover how to apply colors and customize icons or logos to improve the readability of your designs. With these visual cues, your event flows are easier to understand and communicate with others.

    Promote Configuration to Runtime

    Going live doesn’t have to be risky or complicated. Event Portal automates configuration so designs move smoothly through your development, test, and integration environments, and then into production.

    • Developers: Request access to the events your apps need and submit requests to deploy the configuration to the runtime. No waiting, no manual broker configuration.
    • Integration Teams: Review and approve requests with confidence. Automated broker configuration ensures deployments are consistent, secure, and error-free.

    Manage Event Access Requests

    This video shows how developers can request the events their applications need

    This video shows how developers can request the events their applications need, and how integration teams can quickly approve or manage those requests. The process is streamlined, so access is controlled without slowing teams down.

    This video shows how developers can request the events their applications need

    Manage Configuration and Promotion Requests

    Coming end of October!

    Learn how to request and approve configuration deployments to keep production environments consistent and properly governed. With built-in request/approval workflows integration teams can enforce governance while helping developers move faster.

    Coming end of October!

    Export, Share, Govern

    Event Portal makes it easy to share designs and collaborate across teams — while keeping governance in place.

    • Integration Teams: Apply governance templates, manage access controls, and enforce best practices — ensuring collaboration doesn’t lead to chaos.
    • Developers: Share events and their payload schemas with teammates and add context so your work is easy to understand and reuse.

    Ensure Governance with Configuration Templates

    Learn how Solace Platform provides the tools

    See how configuration templates make it easy to apply standards and conventions across all event-driven assets. This ensures consistency and best practices without creating bottlenecks for developers.

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    Add Context with Custom Attributes

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    Secure Your System with Role-Based Access Controls

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    Learn how to assign and manage permissions for different user roles. This makes collaboration possible while ensuring only the right people can view, edit, or approve assets.

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    Maximize Reuse

    This is where the real value of event-driven architecture shines — enabling faster delivery and proving ROI.

    • Integration Teams: Use KPI dashboards to track adoption, highlight high-value events, and show leadership the business impact of EDA.
    • Developers: Discover existing events in the catalog and reuse them to build new apps faster.

    Organize and Discover Events in the Catalog

    Learn how Solace Platform provides the tools

    Watch how the catalog helps developers discover existing events, schemas, and apps to accelerate the implementation of new projects. By reusing what’s already built, teams save time and increase ROI of the technology.

    Learn how Solace Platform provides the tools

    Analyze Event Reuse with KPI Dashboard

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    See how the KPI dashboard gives integration teams visibility into event usage and reuse. These insights make it easy to track adoption and demonstrate the business value of event-driven architecture.

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    Why This Journey Matters

    With Event Portal, it’s not just easy to get started — it’s easy to design, govern and grow your event-driven system. Developers move faster with self-service tools, integration teams ensure governance without bottlenecks, and your organization gets maximum value from its Solace platform investment.

    Get started today and see how simple it is to build your first event-driven application!