Six Years of Partnership with Solace: Helping Businesses Move at the Speed of Real Time

The Numbers Behind the Shift to Real-Time

90% of organizations are expected to adopt Event-Driven Architectures to support digital business initiatives by 2026. (Gartner)

18 microseconds — the average latency Solace PubSub+ can achieve for Direct Messaging under benchmark conditions, enabling near real-time event distribution across enterprise systems.

80% of enterprises are expected to significantly increase their use of event-driven architectures as AI, IoT, cloud-native applications and digital ecosystems continue to grow. (Industry analysts)

Six Years of Partnership with Solace: Helping Businesses Move at the Speed of Real Time

This isn’t just another technology trend.

It’s a reflection of how modern businesses now operate.

Customers expect instant confirmations. Employees expect real-time information. Supply chains depend on immediate visibility. Business leaders need decisions based on live data—not yesterday’s reports.

Yet many organizations still rely on traditional integrations that exchange information every few minutes, every hour, or sometimes only once a day.

The result?

Inventory discrepancies. Delayed customer notifications. Slow business processes. Inconsistent data across applications.

In today’s competitive landscape, businesses can no longer afford to wait for information to catch up.

They need systems that react the moment something happens.

This is where Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) changes the game.

And for the past six years, We Are Beebay has partnered with Solace to help organizations design and deploy real-time integration platforms that connect applications, systems and people without delay.

Why Real-Time Has Become a Business Imperative

Think about a customer placing an order online.

Within seconds, multiple business processes need to happen simultaneously:

• Inventory must be updated.

• The ERP must register the transaction.

• The warehouse must prepare the order.

• The Transportation Management System (TMS) must schedule the delivery.

• Customer service should immediately have access to the latest information.

• The customer expects an instant confirmation.

If one application receives the information several minutes later, the entire business process is impacted.

This challenge is becoming increasingly common as organizations adopt cloud platforms, SaaS applications, APIs, IoT devices and AI-powered services.

The question is no longer “How do we connect applications?”

The real question is:

How do we make every application react instantly when something important happens?

From Integration to Event-Driven Architecture

For years, enterprise integration relied on point-to-point connections and scheduled batch jobs.

While these approaches still have their place, they struggle to support businesses that require immediate responsiveness.

Event-Driven Architecture introduces a different model.

Instead of applications constantly asking whether data has changed, systems publish business events the moment they occur.

Any authorized application interested in those events automatically receives them in real time.

The result is a business that becomes faster, more resilient and significantly easier to scale.

Where Solace Fits In

This is precisely the challenge Solace was designed to solve.

Solace PubSub+ is an event broker that enables organizations to distribute business events instantly across applications, cloud platforms, APIs, IoT devices and data centers.

Its Event Mesh architecture allows events to move intelligently across distributed environments without applications needing to know where consumers are located.

Instead of building hundreds of individual integrations, organizations build a connected event ecosystem.

👉 Learn more about Solace Event Mesh

The platform also supports multiple industry protocols—including JMS, MQTT, REST, AMQP and Kafka—making it easier to integrate modern and legacy systems within the same architecture.

👉 More about Solace PubSub+

Six Years of Partnership, Countless Real-Time Integrations

At We Are Beebay, our partnership with Solace began six years ago with a shared vision:

Help organizations move beyond traditional integration.

Since then, we’ve delivered real-time integration projects across industries including retail, logistics, manufacturing and enterprise services.

Our teams have helped organizations connect:

• ERP platforms

• E-commerce solutions

• Transportation Management Systems (TMS)

• Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

• Mobile applications

• API platforms

• Cloud-native services

• IoT ecosystems

Every project reinforces the same conclusion:

Real-time integration is no longer a luxury.

It is becoming a competitive necessity.

Solace vs Kafka: It’s Not About Choosing a Winner

One of the questions we hear most often is:

“Should we use Solace or Apache Kafka?”

The answer is simple:

It depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

Apache Kafka has become the industry standard for event streaming, large-scale data pipelines, analytics and event replay.

Solace focuses on real-time event distribution, intelligent routing, dynamic subscriptions and enterprise-wide Event Mesh architectures.

Rather than competing, the two technologies frequently complement one another.

Kafka is excellent at storing and streaming large volumes of events.

Solace excels at ensuring operational business events reach the right applications instantly, wherever they are.

Solace provides an excellent comparison of both technologies here:

👉 Solace vs Apache Kafka

If you’re interested in the architectural differences, this article provides an in-depth comparison:

👉 Kafka Datapath Architecture vs Event Mesh

Many organizations also combine both platforms using Solace’s native Kafka integration capabilities.

Learn more:

👉 Connecting Kafka and Solace PubSub+

👉 PubSub+ Kafka Connectors

The Business Value We See Every Day

Technology should never be implemented for its own sake.

Across our customer projects, we’ve consistently observed tangible business benefits:

• Faster customer experiences

• Near real-time inventory visibility

• Reduced application complexity

• Improved operational resilience

• Faster deployment of new business services

• Better scalability across distributed systems

• Stronger foundations for AI, automation and digital transformation

When information moves instantly, businesses move faster.

Looking Ahead

Artificial Intelligence.

Connected devices.

Composable applications.

Autonomous supply chains.

Every major technology trend depends on one fundamental capability:

Real-time information.

Organizations that continue relying on traditional integration patterns will increasingly struggle to keep pace with customer expectations and business growth.

Those embracing Event-Driven Architecture will be better positioned to innovate, scale and adapt.

After six years of partnership with Solace, We Are Beebay remains committed to helping organizations build integration platforms that are not only connected—but truly real-time.

A Word from Our Director

“Technology should never be an obstacle to business innovation. Over the past six years, our partnership with Solace has enabled us to help organizations transform the way information flows across their enterprise. Together, we’ve delivered platforms where events travel instantly, decisions happen faster, and businesses become more agile. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved together and even more excited about what lies ahead as real-time architecture becomes the foundation of modern digital enterprises.”

Co-founder - We Are Beebay