IBS and Solace join forces

IBS and Solace join forces on real-time data and event-driven architecture

Most integration problems are not technical. They are a question of who has to ask whom.

Twenty systems that all need to talk to each other means up to 190 point-to-point connections - n(n-1)/2. Each one is a small contract that somebody has to build, test and keep alive. Add a twenty-first system and you add up to twenty more. This is why a new product often takes longer to integrate than to build. The idea is ready. The plumbing is not.

Event-driven architecture turns the question around. A system does not wait to be asked - it announces what happened, once, the moment it happens. Whoever cares, subscribes. Twenty systems, twenty connections to one backbone. The twenty-first costs one.

That is why we are partnering with Solace, the real-time data platform for the enterprise.

Solace connects applications, clouds, partners and edge systems through a single event-driven backbone. Its platform spans the Solace Event Broker and Event Mesh, Event Portal for event management and governance, micro-integrations that let mainframe and monolithic systems publish real-time data, and Agent Mesh for building and deploying agentic AI on live enterprise context. It has proven itself where volume and latency are unforgiving. Six of the ten largest investment banks run on Solace, alongside organisations such as Barclays, RBC Capital Markets, Airbus, Renault Group, Heineken and United Airlines.

The logic of the partnership is straightforward. Solace moves events: the real-time distribution layer that carries data between core systems, channels and cloud services the moment something happens. IBS knows the systems at both ends of that layer. We build and modernise the integration around core banking, payments and fraud prevention, where a late event is a lost event.

Our first joint focus is bringing event-driven architecture to the integration challenges that keep our customers from innovating faster. The core does not have to be replaced to take part. It has to be heard.

The two organisations complement each other in reach as well as capability. Solace operates globally across financial services, manufacturing, retail and transportation; IBS delivers mission-critical systems for banks, national payment infrastructures, government and telecom across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Stop asking your systems what happened. Let them tell you.

Learn more about Solace at solace.com. To discuss what the partnership can mean for your organisation, contact us.