Event Mesh: the Architecture Layer That Will Make Your Business Event-Driven
- 1. Event mesh
The architecture layer that will make your
business event-driven
Gartner Symposium, Oct. 31, 2018
Phil Scanlon, VP Field Technology, APJ
- 3. 2017
Gartner Says CIOs Must Define an Event-
Centric Digital Business Strategy
Press release: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2017-07-10-gartner-says-cios-
must-define-an-event-centric-digital-business-strategy
- 4. 2018
“By 2022, event-sourced, real-time situational
awareness will be a required characteristic for
70% of new digital business solutions.”
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018: Event-Driven Model. 8. March 2018
- 5. 2018
“And 80% of new business ecosystems will
require support for event processing”
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2018: Event-Driven Model. 8. March 2018
- 8. We believe events will become the life blood of
the modern enterprise, and they will need to need
flow freely and easily, across every environment
and component of the digital enterprise.
- 10. How will you do it?
• How will you provide uniform connectivity?
- 11. How will you do it?
• How will you provide uniform connectivity?
• How will you scale it? Make it robust and secure?
- 12. How will you do it?
• How will you provide uniform connectivity?
• How will you scale it? Make it robust and secure?
• How will you ensure proper governance?
- 14. Gartner recommends the use of advanced event
brokers as a critical component in event - driven
architectures for digital business.
Event mesh is an architectural layer (distributed
event brokers) that routes events from producers
to consumers in a flexible, reliable and governed
manner, no matter where your apps are
deployed.
Source : https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-5D8UG66&ct=180820&st=sb
- 16. NETS Group
• The NETS Group enable digital payments for merchants,
consumers and banks across the entire payments value chain.
• 102,000 terminal’s accepting QR Codes
• Solace’s Event Broker allows NETS to reliably and securely
route the real-time information involved with large numbers of
transactions
“Without Solace we
were unable to rollout
our technology fast
enough. We can now
onboard a bank a
month. Previously it
took 3 months”
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© Solace
Proprietary & Confidential
Vincent Low
CIO NETS
https://solace.com/customer-profile/nets
- 17. • Event data persistence
and distribution
– High-speed pub/sub,
scaling
– Private cloud deployment
– Open interfaces
multiple protocols
• All credit card
authorizations @ Amex
go through Solace
American Express
• Reduced TCO though
server consolidation
and management
simplification
• Future proof
performance and scale
• Move towards a more
EDA moving off of
mainframe/IBM
- 18. Solace IoT Case Study: Core Transport Technologies
• Core TT provide logistics solutions to Airlines, Cargo carriers and US government agencies.
• Solace is the event backbone for CORE's worldwide IoT implementation
• Solace Event Brokers are deployed both in the Cloud and on Premise to manage all the logistic
events
• Solace effectively synchronizes and exchanges critical information in real-
time, updating users on the status of their deliveries as well as potential
logistical problems
“Solace gives us the ability to
dynamically manage and
deliver information in real time
which is critical to maintaining
contingency plans and
adapting as events unfold.
This enables quick, informed
shipping decisions, keeping
services efficient and
effective.”
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Proprietary & Confidential
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Ian Craig
Managing Director
Core Transport Technologies
https://solace.com/customer-profile/core-transport-technologies
- 19. • Solace fans out National
Airspace System SWIM
data feeds to airlines,
airports, FlightAware,
etc.
• Traffic Flow/ Flight
Plans STDDS
– Collect/publish data from
airportsSFPDS , TBFM,
Air Traffic Control
Why Solace?
– Predictable, high
performance
– High fanout for large number
of connected systems over
WANs
– Fast fail over time to support
business continuity
– Easy to manage with more
real-time monitoring and
response
– Built-in hardware compression
reduce WAN bandwidth
- 20. Solace is backbone of
LTA’s 2nd-generation
“Electronic Road Pricing”
traffic management
solution
– Connect 1.5M vehicles
(200K at a time) in real time
for pay per use road tolls
– Suggest better routes,
traffic management – real
time and long term and
value added
services/analytics
Singapore LTA ERP
• Why Solace
– Smaller footprint
– Reliability and robustness
– Subscription
management,
MQTT request reply, topic
to queue bridging, fanout
– Advanced security and
monitoring/event
generation
- 21. SAP Enterprise Messaging
• SAP Cloud Platform includes Enterprise Messaging to
connect applications, business partners and devices as part
of an end to end Business process.
• Solace Appliances are in 15+ SAP datacenters globally as
well as Software in SAP Public and Private Cloud
• Solace provides vehicle connectivity in SAP Vehicle Insights
managing the flow of events to and from vehicles across
inconsistent networks
“With Solace middleware,
we anticipate that SAP
customers can take
advantage of a pre-
integrated architecture
for leveraging SAP
software and cloud
services to help tackle
challenges such as the
Internet of Things and
enabling big data
movement in a digital
world.”
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Proprietary & Confidential
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Gunther Rothermel
senior vice president,
Products and Innovation
Technology for SAP
https://solace.com/customer-profile/sap
- 23. What should you look for in an event broker?
Dynamic: self-routing, self-learning, self-healing.
- 24. What should you look for in an event broker?
Dynamic: self-routing, self-learning, self-healing.
Open: protocols & APIs.
- 25. What should you look for in an event broker?
Dynamic: self-routing, self-learning, self-healing.
Open: protocols & APIs.
Simple: deployment, governance, scalability.
- 26. • World’s foremost experts in event
distribution and messaging middleware
• 15 Global offices
• HQ in Ottawa, Canada
- 27. •Proven and trusted by:
• 9 of top 12 Investment banks
• Top American & Indian telcos
• Air traffic management around the world
• Top auto makers for connected car initiatives
• Singapore smart city and transportation
- 28. •Phil Scanlon
•VP Field Technology, APJ
phil.scanlon@solace.com
•Visit us at booth #A8
Thank you
•Phil Scanlon
•VP Field Technology, APJ
phil.scanlon@solace.com
•Visit us at booth #A8
Thank you