Benefits of the Syscat approach to things (Wikipages)

What do you gain from Syscat's approach to information management?

1. Freedom from the fixed perspective of a rigid hierarchy.
   • Any resource can be your entry-point to this network of relationships.
2. Decentralised perspective enables a more comprehensive view.
   • From an IT perspective, this makes such a system inherently multi-organisational: instead of relationships being relative to "us", they're relative to "this org (which may or may not be us)". Now you can model the entire environment surrounding your organisation and its network.
     • If you've ever had to trace problems that lie somewhere in the half-dozen ASes between you and a customer, you'll know how useful this can be.
3. Duplication is eliminated, and information is richer.
   • Instead of having the same person or organisation represented once in the vendors table and again in the customers one, they appear once in the graph. Now the different relationships between you and them are visible in parallel - along with any relationships you know of between them and other people and organisations.
4. Different perspectives can be represented in their own terms.
   • What could be (the makes/models and applications available on the market).
   • What should be (e.g. IPAM).
   • What is actually there (e.g. what addresses are configured on an interface).
5. Comprehensiveness.
   • All kinds of things, and all kinds of relationships between them, without arbitrary limitations.
   • In principle, you could use Syscat to model the entire internet.
6. Consistency and coherency.
   • The same terms are used to refer to the same things, reducing problems where teams talk past each other.
7. Predictability
   • You always know where to look for a given thing.