Kong Inc., a recognized leader in API and AI connectivity solutions, has announced that Solace, the real-time data and agentic AI company, has officially joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program. Through this strategic collaboration, both companies aim to provide enterprises with a unified, governed, and fully observable data fabric built specifically for the fast-growing agentic AI era. As a result, teams will be able to manage APIs, events, and AI services seamlessly through a single control plane.
Today’s organizations are under increasing pressure to innovate quickly while still maintaining strict security, governance, and compliance standards. At the same time, agentic AI systems require real-time, contextual data to flow smoothly across business operations. However, many enterprises still manage APIs and event streams in separate silos. Consequently, these disconnected systems create governance blind spots, slow down deployment cycles, and raise operational risks.
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To address these challenges, Kong and Solace are combining their strengths to simplify and strengthen enterprise connectivity. By integrating Solace’s real-time data movement technology with Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform, organizations can now govern APIs, event streams, Large Language Models (LLMs), and MCP servers from one centralized control plane. In addition, businesses can apply consistent authentication, lifecycle management, access controls, and policies across the entire data path.
Solace brings high-performance real-time data movement, event governance, and event-driven orchestration that supports agentic AI workflows. Meanwhile, Kong delivers centralized API management, robust security enforcement, advanced observability, and AI gateway capabilities. This is achieved through Kong Event Gateway’s native protocol support alongside the REST-like interface provided by Kong API Gateway. Ultimately, enterprises gain one consolidated platform where all data interactions from streaming events to API calls to AI service requests remain fully visible and easy to manage.
“Event-driven and API-driven architectures are no longer separate concerns,” said Ken Kim, Senior Vice President, Business Development at Kong Inc. “By bringing Kong and Solace together under a unified control plane, customers gain centralized governance, consistent security policies, and end-to-end observability across every data interaction from REST APIs to streaming events to AI agent calls. This is essential for organizations scaling in the agentic era.”
This partnership highlights how organizations are increasingly looking for unified approaches to data governance as AI adoption accelerates.
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“Real-time data is the lifeblood of modern, agentic AI,” said Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace. “Together with Kong, Solace is removing the silos between events, APIs, and AI services that slow down modern organizations, helping to accelerate innovation and empower teams to confidently scale their real-time, AI-ready platforms.”
In addition to the partnership announcement, Kong also emphasized the importance of its Premium Technology Partner Program. The program is designed to provide enterprises with trusted, validated integrations and plugins that enhance Kong’s commercial offerings, including Kong Konnect and Kong Gateway Enterprise. Premium partners receive engineering support, validation against the latest Kong releases, and opportunities for deeper collaboration.
For customers, this program expands access to a curated ecosystem of cutting-edge integrations backed by Kong’s quality standards. For partners like Solace, it creates new revenue opportunities, early product insights, and closer engagement with Kong’s engineering roadmap.
With this alliance, Kong and Solace are positioning enterprises to confidently scale real-time, AI-ready platforms while ensuring governance, security, and observability remain at the core of the agentic future.
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