Catalog

How does the Catalog help with data management?

The Catalog is a dedicated API directory tailored to your organization, housing API metadata accessible through an intuitive search interface. It simplifies the process of API reuse and nurtures the growth of comprehensive Mendix application landscapes.

It does so by providing organizations scaling their Mendix footprint with easy API discovery, effective maintenance capabilities, and full control over the APIs in their ecosystem.

How does the Catalog support developers in finding and using data?

The Catalog automatically indexes all APIs exposed by Mendix applications. Through curation, these APIs can be made discoverable to Mendix developers in the organization.

Mendix developers tasked with API integration benefit from easily searching, finding, understanding, and integrating with the right APIs. The Catalog is interactively usable directly within Mendix Studio Pro, allowing relevant APIs to be modeled as external entities via simple drag-and-drop actions.

Does the Catalog support CoEs in managing APIs?

The Catalog plays a pivotal role in API management, offering organizations a host of benefits. It facilitates the efficient distribution of APIs across the organizational landscape while ensuring a transparent overview of both available and utilized APIs.

Moreover, API owners derive significant value from the Catalog’s centralized platform, which serves as a comprehensive hub for hosting API information. This centralization streamlines consumer enablement, documentation, insights, and version control processes, enhancing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of anyone in the organization who works with APIs. It is an ideal tool for usage by the CoE to enable the efficient use of the platform across developers across and organisation.

How does the Catalog support governance and trust?

The Catalog provides a full suite of metadata curation and management tools to support governance and trust without limiting productivity. First of all, Mendix provides a variety of ways to curate API metadata, from simple descriptions and validation through business/technical ownership and custom tagging.

For governance support, Mendix provides both rich administration capabilities as well as dependency management through the Landscape view, providing insight into what applications expose and consume specific APIs.