Centazio
PicNet's open-source platform for systems integration. It connects your applications, keeps their data in sync, and gives every team one place to report from. Built on .NET and already running in production across Australian organisations.
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OPEN SOURCE
A platform you can read, not a black box
Most integration platforms are closed products you rent and never really see inside. Centazio is the opposite. We build it in the open under PicNet's GitHub organisation, so you can read the code, run it yourself, and check how your data is handled before you commit to anything. There are no licence fees, and you are never locked in to us.
View Centazio on GitHubTHE PROBLEM CENTAZIO SOLVES
When your systems don't talk to each other
Each team picked its own software over the years, and now your data sits in separate silos that were never meant to share.
You would replace one of your systems tomorrow, but the cost and risk of moving the data keeps you where you are.
People copy the same records from one system into another all day. It is slow, and it quietly introduces errors.
Nobody can see the whole business at once, because the numbers live in five places and rarely agree.
Your current integration tool costs a lot to run and needs a specialist on hand just to keep it going.
HOW CENTAZIO IS BUILT
Built to keep running when a system fails
Centazio assumes any system can fail at any moment, including itself. When one goes down, the rest keep running. It expects the systems around it to change without warning and copes when they do.
Data from every system lands in one central store, written in your business's own language rather than any vendor's. That store is what every report reads from.
Each connection runs on its own, so your systems never depend on one another. The business keeps working through an outage, and a problem in one system cannot spread to the rest.
Every integration is split into clear read, transform and write steps, and Centazio rechecks its assumptions about your systems on a schedule. Less goes wrong, and what does is easy to find.
HOW IT WORKS
How Centazio moves your data
Pull data from each system
Centazio polls each source system on a schedule and copies new or changed records into a staging area. It only reads, so the source carries no extra load and never has to know that Centazio exists.
Clean it and store it once
Staged data is checked, cleaned and mapped into your own business language, then saved to one central store. That store becomes the single source of truth every report and every other system reads from.
Send it where it is needed
Separate steps take the central data and write it into the systems that need it. Reading and writing stay apart, so a change in one system cannot quietly break another.
Handle anything unusual
When a job does not fit the standard pattern, a custom step can call an API, run a workflow or move files. It is ordinary .NET code, so there are no platform limits to work around.
ALL YOUR DATA, FROM ALL YOUR SOURCES, IN ONE PLACE
How Centazio fits your environment
Centazio runs on AWS, on Azure, or on your own servers. PicNet can host and manage the whole thing for you, or hand it to your in-house team. Either way, you can move it later without rewriting your integrations.
Once it is in place
- One reporting database every team can rely on
- New integrations measured in days, not months
- A full audit trail and event log for every record
- No licence fees, because the platform is open source
- Ongoing support from the senior team that built it
ORGANISATIONS THAT INTEGRATE WITH CENTAZIO
Running in production today
A five-year integration and migration program
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, one of the country's premier yacht clubs, is part way through a large digital transformation. Around ten of its systems are being replaced and then connected to each other, and all of the existing data has to move across to the new setup.
Among the systems being replaced and connected:
- Member management system
- Marina management system
- Financial system
- Payroll system
- Point of sale system
PicNet runs the integration work across all ten systems for this five-year program, using Centazio alongside Microsoft Azure Integration Services.
Technologies (Azure Integration Services):
- Azure Logic Apps
- Service Bus
- API Management
- Event Grid
- Azure Functions
- Data Factory
Connecting HR, payroll and finance
This residential aged care provider runs several systems for care, compliance and workforce management. They wanted those systems to share data so that daily operations took less manual effort.
PicNet built an integration platform for two of their systems as a proof of concept: an HR system to manage the workforce, and a payroll and finance system. It moves employee details, leave balances, timesheets and pay run data between the two.
The proof of concept went well, and the organisation is now planning to use Centazio for further projects.
Technologies (Azure Integration Services):
- Azure Logic Apps
- Service Bus
- API Management
- Event Grid
- Azure Functions
- Data Factory
System integration and data migration
Guide Dogs NSW/ACT is a leading provider of orientation and mobility services for people who are blind or have low vision. It trains people to get around safely using canes, guide dogs and electronic aids.
PicNet first connected their CRM to other applications and databases, then migrated data out of a legacy application into the CRM. They now have a single source of truth for their data, and we are working with them on further integration, data warehousing and migration.
- Centazio and Azure Integration Services
- Informatica
- MS SQL
- AirDocs
- Scribe
- Power Automate
- Power Apps