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