Platform Architecture Overview

Octostar is organized around a few core services that work together. Workspaces provide secured storage for evidence files and case artifacts, while records and relationships represent structured data defined by the Ontology.

When you upload or connect data, Octostar indexes it so you can search across both unstructured evidence and structured records; in many deployments this includes enrichment steps (for example OCR, transcription, and entity extraction) and both full-text and semantic indexing for fast retrieval.

Connected databases and external systems can be exposed through the Fusion Center using mappings that align source data to the Ontology, creating a unified (often virtual) knowledge graph without forcing you to move data.

On top of this foundation, apps, Search, Link Charts, dashboards, and AI Chat provide the user-facing workflows, and all access is governed by permissions with audit-friendly provenance back to source files and records.