Palantir Foundry

“It's for businesses that want a live operational model of how they run, but are out of Foundry's price range.”

“they've developed a pretty good skillset at merging disparate data and surfacing it for analytics”

“The so-called technical moat is ultimately an integration layer called an ontology.”

“I awfully think that this is the best implementation of semantic web principles I could ever imagine.”

“did the FDE model on a large scale (to great success)”

“Palantir revolutionized the enterprise software playbook”

“their effectiveness appears to be less in question”

“insanely powerful and well built”

“Its data layer is built around the idea that anytime you're making a change, you make a branch”

“do provide real data science/analytics value”

“This is, of course, highly illegal to do. There is no way giving medical data to a US consultancy does not violate UK and EU law”

“Palantir's technology looks good and I think it probably works.”

“Palantir's founders and executives are aware of what their tools are designed for and what they enable”

“Custody enforcement using the cloud hosted product, is mostly contractual, although they do offer some technical features”

“an unqualified statement that you maintain some nebulous idea of "custody" seems oblivious to even simple risk”

“you can import/export in pretty much any format you want and they've got a well documented sdk”

“both these technologies are being used to subvert democracy and suppress opposition”

“They leave behind a suite of operational (ie have write capabilities not just dashboards) applications”

“basically just pumped up database software aided and abetted by "consultants" parachuted into the client org”

“incredibly powerful but complex”

“They fuse cross-government agency data through Foundry and fuse them into unified profiles which the government can use to surveil and pressure citizens”

“It isn't engineered, it's glued in.”

“their apps are at best mid. I'd rate them 3/10 compared to alternatives that can do similar things”

“You're telling me the NHS had to make this highly questionable decision because they couldn't find a database vendor?”

“I think so much of Palantir is performative and for sales performances.”

“providers are designing daddy’s home style apartment complex bombing target solutions”

“Probably mostly just people who work at companies that bought their software and know it's not special.”

“It's a souped up version of Databricks. If you've worked with it it's always a laugh”

“It is expensive, which means that if an organization adopts it”

“once your org is in that state then Foundry starts looking really good”

“Palantir does have very strong capabilities to protect data e.g. security markings, not allowing data to be exported.”

“I’ve heard Foundry is not only insanely expensive, but to actually accomplish something comparable to the demos in your domain requires a huge amount of integration work to build it out in a way that locks you in.”

“When foundry came out the demo looked next level.”

“Foundry has a good toolset for the job.”

“the engineering / product culture @Palantir is diametrically opposed to what exists at SAP”

“My company is really changing its point of view on data at scale thanks to their tools.”

“If you set it up correctly, its insanely powerful”

“For an extravagant fee, you give them your data, they clean it for you”

“FDEs sell a product (Foundry, Gotham, GPT, Claude, Databricks).”

“it seems to work well with Palantir.”