# Make the Software Catalog your own

## What is the Software Catalog?

The Software Catalog in Rely.io serves as the central hub for all entities within your organization's tech ecosystem, providing an organized overview of software assets, systems, services, and more. 

The software catalog provides default views for the integrations that you setup but it's extensible so you can make it work for your organization.

<figure><img src="/files/cAO5UCXb0KoSKvQXoyUf" alt=""><figcaption><p>Software and Service Catalog overview</p></figcaption></figure>

Entities in the catalog are defined by their properties and relations. These entities are structured through customizable blueprints, enabling tailored access to information and management of the software ecosystem.

## Navigation

Each unique entity type (or blueprint) has its catalog, composed of a list of entities of that type. You can access these catalogs through the side panel in the “Software Catalog” section. Customize your sidebar by pinning or hiding entity types according to your preference.

<figure><img src="/files/nPOoMRM8b0n8VnnSiGXC" alt=""><figcaption><p>Customizing Software Catalog Navigation</p></figcaption></figure>

Click “Services” to access your [service catalog](https://webapp.rely.io/software-catalog/service/list). In this view, you can scroll sideways to explore the metadata, properties, and relations fields available for your services.&#x20;

Customize your view by hiding certain columns, changing their order, grouping by, or sorting by a particular field, and then save your customized view for future reference. Clicking on a specific row allows you to access a particular service's entity page for further insight.

<figure><img src="/files/PQgtI0Odb4JAvDJgrr4j" alt=""><figcaption><p>Service Catalog Details</p></figcaption></figure>

A cool thing about the service catalog is that you don't even need to open the service details page to interact with charts or navigate to external dependency pages. You can do it directly from the service list.

<figure><img src="/files/2g5OixeN77aPRk8B9Zzf" alt=""><figcaption><p>View information on Service Catalog list</p></figcaption></figure>

This step covers the basics on how to work with Rely.io. Continue to the next page for more information on [what you could do next](/getting-started-guide/whats-next.md).


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