Abstract: A method of and system and article of manufacture for creating a network and service inventory data model that does not constrain entities in the inventory or any relationship between entities, the method including modeling the entities, relating a first entity to a second entity via a join table, associating a label for a rule(s) and/or behavior(s) associated with an entity type of any of the modeled entities, decoupling metadata from the rule(s) and/or behavior(s), and implementing the rule(s) and/or behavior(s) associated at the entity type.

Abstract: A method of system for finding routes between network elements across a communication network, each network element having network equipment and connectivity data, the method including selecting at least one communication network for finding routes; reading input search parameters; providing a server having a routing graph database including connectivity data for each network element; synchronizing, by the routing graph database, the connectivity data with a corresponding discrete underlying inventory system; and identifying at least one route using the search parameters.