Community Edition User Documentation

Overview

This User Guide provides Community Edition users with the information that is required to effectively use the platform from source creation and management, through to data visualization and reporting.

Audience

Analysts should read the user documentation to understand the tasks they can perform and to learn about the IKANOW Source management and data visualization user interfaces.

The audience of the user documentation includes, but is not limited to the following:

  • All-Source Analyst
  • Social Analyst
  • Tier 1, 2, 3 Cyber Analysts

Advanced Source Management

Source management is intrinsically an advanced topic, especially when taking into consideration Community Edition's highly flexible, and extensible platform with its own customization engine.  For advanced source management topics a development background and firm understanding of concepts such as natural language processing (NLP), and big data are essential.  Advanced users can consult the API Reference, as well as Developer Guides and Tutorials.

 


 

Understanding IKANOW Core

This section is intended to introduce you to the high level concepts of the IKANOW platform to get you up and running with the powerful analytics platform quickly.

 

Source Management

This section is intended to introduce you to the basic concepts of source management, before describing the different user interfaces, and taking you some common procedural workflows for getting up and running with source management.

Source Manager Interfaces

Defines the fields of the Source Manager user interfaces.

Visualization

This section is intended to get you up-and-running quickly with visualizing your data sources.  This is where your data comes to life, insights are revealed, and the powerful capabilities of the platform can be experienced.

Community Edition User Interfaces

This section is a reference and defines all of the fields of the visualization widgets.

Enterprise

This section is intended to include user documentation for features that are only specific to the enterprise version of the IKANOW platform.