Solace unveils micro-integrations for real-time data flow

Solace has announced the addition of micro-integrations to its event-driven integration and streaming platform, Solace PubSub+ Platform.

The new Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations are small and lightweight modules designed to facilitate event-driven integration by enabling real-time communication between a variety of enterprise technologies. These technologies include legacy and SaaS applications, messaging services, databases, files, and artificial intelligence agents, which are linked to an event mesh for information exchange.

By liberating events from source systems, PubSub+ Micro-Integrations can stream data over the event mesh and integrate it seamlessly to target systems. This approach includes connectors that manage event data on and off the event mesh, along with processors that transform the data to be reused by other integrations, enhancing existing iPaaS and API management platforms.

Jeff Pollock, Vice President of Products and Cloud Services for Data Replication, Streaming Data, and DB Migrations at Oracle, remarked, "Over the years many things have changed, but the driving business need to do more workloads in real-time has not. As we move forward into the future, there will always be more demand for real-time data and not less. Nobody wants to go backwards to the old days when everything was batch processing."

He added, "With the new Oracle GoldenGate integration to Solace, we have connected the best of distributed data mesh with the best of distributed event mesh architectures, empowering our customers to move forward with modern real-time solutions for AI, analytics and event-driven architectures."

The introduction of PubSub+ Micro-Integrations is part of Solace's broader effort to shift enterprise integration towards an event-driven architecture. Traditional synchronous, point-to-point integration methods can create complex and fragile connectivity webs within large enterprises, unable to cope with dynamic data volumes and prone to failure.

Carl Lehmann, Senior Research Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, noted, "Enterprises have been accelerating their investments in application modernisation to realise the benefits of cloud-native technologies. They are also aiming to enhance the execution of their digital business operations through continuous analysis of real-time data generated from IT and business events. They are seeking to become event-driven enterprises that maintain a constant state of awareness and are highly responsive to change, risk and opportunity."

He continued, "An event-driven enterprise can quickly sense and effectively respond - reactively, predictively and even autonomously - to any changes in execution, performance, risks and opportunities. We believe that technology that enables this, like that offered by Solace, will be in increasing demand."

The PubSub+ Micro-Integrations offer integration to a range of applications including SAP, Salesforce, Oracle GoldenGate, and various Kafka-based solutions. Additionally, Solace has partnered with integration platform providers like Boomi, Mulesoft, and SAP to develop tools that assist users in adopting event-driven integration approaches.

Shawn McAllister, Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Solace, stated, "Solace PubSub+ Micro-Integrations are about to revolutionize the integration of applications in much the same way microservices changed the game for applications themselves — by decomposing monolithic integration flows into smaller, more manageable, purpose-built components. In doing so, Solace Micro-Integrations will enable the event-driven integration it will take to meet the performance, reliability, agility and scalability needs of increasingly connected, real-time, and intelligent enterprises."

Solace's event-driven integration and streaming platform, supported by event-driven architecture, is used by various organisations, including 60% of the world's largest investment banks and several digital government initiatives globally. The company continues to expand its role in enabling real-time data action and reaction to improve operational efficiencies and customer experiences.