The following terms are referenced throughout this guide and are needed to understand the core concepts of the Squirro platform.
tenant
A tenant is a customer creating many users on the Squirro platform for its company or team.
user
A user is consuming information through the Squirro platform.
item
An item is a piece of information that is consumed through the Squirro platform.
project
A projects contains a collection of items.
source
A source processes and completes items and stores them in the Squirro platform.
subscription
A subscription sends new items from a source into a topic.
provider
A data provider gets items for sources from external systems.
user token
A user token is generated by the Squirro platform on behalf of a user. The token can be used for authentication.