Matt Aslett's Analyst Perspectives

My colleagues have recently described how agentic artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize enterprise computing by automating the handling of static and dynamic complexity to enable software to take action without the need for human intervention. Put simply, agentic AI is the orchestration of the execution of discreet business tasks by a combination of software components that automate business processes. While agentic AI is the next big thing, it can also be seen as the continuation of preceding trends that have shaped modern software, including microservices, which broke applications into collections of loosely coupled services, and event-driven architecture (EDA), which enables event-based communication between loosely coupled microservices to deliver real-time business processes. The link between microservices, EDA and agentic AI is naturally being highlighted by software providers with a track record of facilitating event-driven communication between applications, including Solace, which recently bolstered its messaging and event streaming platform with the addition of Agent Mesh—an event-driven framework for agentic AI. Solace was founded in 2001 to provide event-broker technology. Over the years, it expanded its portfolio with products that combine event-broker technology with event management and governance to help enterprises adopt event-driven applications and EDA. Numerous customers in a variety of industries—including financial services, automotive, gaming, food and beverage, and retail—use Solace. The company works with customers to facilitate the adoption of event brokers to manage and govern events and event-driven applications, as well as assisting them in embracing cultural and organization change to become event-driven organizations that recognize event processing as a fundamental component of an overall real-time business strategy. Solace was named Exemplary in ISG Research’s 2025 Buyers Guides for Real-Time Data, Messaging and Event Processing and Application Integration, as well as the 2024 Buyers Guide for Data Intelligence. Solace was also a Provider of Assurance in the 2025 Buyers Guide for Streaming Data and the 2024 Buyers Guides for Data Integration and Data Governance. The company recently rebranded its messaging and event streaming platform from PubSub+ to Solace Platform to reflect the expansion of its addressable market. While publish and subscribe message pattern was at the heart of the original focus of the company, it has long-since added support for request and reply, queuing, streaming and replay patterns, as well as addressing wider requirements for event-driven management, governance, visualization and integration. The branding may have evolved, but the core components of Solace Platform remain in place, including Solace Event Broker for streaming events across cloud, on-premises and edge environments and Solace Event Mesh to support a network of event brokers. Event brokers and event meshes can be managed with Event Portal, while the company also offers Mission Control for configuring, deploying and managing event brokers and event meshes; Insights for operational monitoring of the health and performance of event-broker services and event-based applications; Distributed Tracing for event observability and lineage management; and Integration Hub to provide an environment for discovering and managing connectors to enable event-driven integration. In late 2024, the company Solace also added Micro-Integrations, providing lightweight event-driven integration modules through which users can connect applications, messaging services, databases and files to Solace Event Mesh. More recently, the company announced the beta release of Solace Schema Registry in March to centralize schema management, including support for schema validation and schema evolution. I assert that by 2027, more than one-third of enterprises will integrate streaming and event processing with AI and generative AI (GenAI) inferencing to deliver interactive real-time applications. In the context of wider industry trends, perhaps the most significant recent addition to Solace Platform is Agent Mesh. This is an open-source, event-driven, agentic AI framework designed to support real-time communication between autonomous AI agents. Solace Agent Mesh includes orchestrator functionality to route inputs and requests in the context of dynamic or prescriptive workflows, gateways to enforce authentication, authorization and access control, and a memory model to store information generated by sessions and agents to retain and provide long-term context. Agent Mesh is designed to facilitate and manage interaction between multiple agents, as well as between agents and data sources. It offers support for Agent2Agent Protocol and Model Context Protocol as well as multiple agents and models from the likes of AWS, Anthropic, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Google and NVIDIA. Agentic AI remains in the early stage of development and adoption. Despite great potential, there are many challenges to be overcome in terms of enabling agents to take automated actions, including orchestration, security and governance. There is a case to be made for experts in inter-application communication, and Solace has put itself in a good position to address this opportunity with the release of Agent Mesh. The product is early in its evolution but provides the core capabilities required for communication between agents, and its availability as an open-source framework will enable Solace customers and prospects to build on existing investments in microservices and EDA as they experiment with agentic AI. I recommend that enterprises investing in event-driven applications and EDA and exploring agentic AI include Solace Platform in their evaluations. Regards, Matt Aslett

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