Syscat - the Systematic Catalogue

The last Single Source of Truth you'll ever need for your IT environment.

It's software that embodies a specific approach to knowledge-management which is optimised for managing IT environments, but is comprehensive enough to record and interconnect any other kind of information you have in mind.

It also has HTTP-based APIs for file upload/download and for IPAM

That's great. But what does it do?

Captures your entire infrastructure in one place, in a structured, self-consistent form with a consistent, predictable REST-like HTTP API, and gets out of your way.

That's actually all it does, by itself. The value is that it captures everything, it's all in one place, and it can be updated or queried by anything that speaks HTTP and JSON. Also, now all that data is accessible via the same HTTP API, so you only need to query one API.

Now think about what you can't do right now because of what your SSoT doesn't record, or connections it won't let you make, or that's simply made harder by the friction of having some of your information in this system with one authentication system, and some of it over there in that one with its own auth scheme. Now imagine something that records all those things in one place and removes all that friction - that is what Syscat does. The greater the number and variety of data-sources, and of systems that use that data, the more friction it removes.

If you're scanning this page for keywords, it gives you all of these in one system:

• Asset management
• Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• IP Address Management (IPAM)

Now think about all the problems that have been caused by teams using different terms to refer to the same thing, or the same term to refer to different things. With everything in a single system that uses the same terms to refer to the same things, you can reduce that problem significantly. It won't stop people using their own pet terms regardless, but no software can fix that problem.