Over the last decade, a new class of management tool, the network source of truth (NSoT), slowly emerged in the world of network operations. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) analysts have observed increased discussions about and rising adoption of NSoT tools as IT organizations mature their approach to network automation. Network teams use NSoT tools to establish a centrally located, authoritative repository of operations data that network automation tools can reference programmatically when interacting with and making changes to a network. However, an NSoT tool has applications beyond network automation, as this report will demonstrate.