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Squirro is a powerful tool to examinegather, explore and exploit informationunderstand and act on any type of data (the '3X model').
Every atomic piece of information that is in some way distinct in the real world (such as an individual log entry, an individual e-mail or notes from a single call) is displayed as an individual item in Squirro. We refer to these items as documents. Documents arrive into Squirro from sources. Documents, searches and other operations are organized within a project in Squirro.
A user may have permissions to access one or more projects. The documents within a project are referred to as the project's corpus. The corpus is held in a special database known as the index. A single installation of Squirro, comprising multiple projects, is called an instance.
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