Palantir Foundry vs SAP Data Services comparison

Palantir and SAP are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Palantir is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.5, while SAP is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.2. Palantir holds a 2.6% mindshare in DI, compared to SAP’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Palantir users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAP Data Services and Palantir Foundry compete in the data processing and integration category. While SAP Data Services is favored for its robustness in data migration and integration, Palantir Foundry has the upper hand in data visualization and real-time analysis capabilities.

Features: SAP Data Services offers robust data integration and migration, data cleansing, data lineage, and strong SAP system integration. Palantir Foundry provides exceptional data visualization tools, data cataloging, and real-time processing capabilities, suitable for comprehensive data analysis.

Room for Improvement: SAP Data Services could enhance parallel batch job handling, web services integration, and improve error logging. More compatibility with big data solutions and dynamic scheduling capabilities is needed. Palantir Foundry could reduce setup time, improve documentation, enhance frontend functionalities, and lower costs, while making data export intuitive and expanding Python package support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Data Services is primarily deployed on-premises or private clouds, with generally well-rated customer service, though some support is considered slow. Palantir Foundry is often used in public cloud setups, appealing for large-scale operations, with room for faster response times for non-technical users.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Data Services offers usage-based pricing, beneficial for smaller organizations but potentially expensive for high data volumes, though seen as providing good ROI. Palantir Foundry's pricing is high but considered justifiable for large enterprises, with costs proportional to reduced development effort required.

To learn more, read our detailed Palantir Foundry vs. SAP Data Services Report (Updated: November 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry

Ranking in Data Integration

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (3rd), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (10th), Data Migration Appliances (3rd), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (1st), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)

SAP Data Services

Ranking in Data Integration

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Quality (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 2.6%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Data Services is 2.8%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Manilal Kasera

Senior Software Engineer at Tiger Analytics

Transparent with good reliability and good data visibility

The initial setup had a medium level of difficulty. If we go through the documentation, we can learn about what to do. In Palantir, they had a section called Academy, and that Academy was quite useful. If you go through that as a new user, it makes the process easier as you learn what to do. Initially, we didn't have many sources that would help us learn things, so we struggled a bit. In contrast, with Azure and Amazon Cloud, you have many sources from where you would be easily able to learn. You could just Google what you needed with them, as there's so much available documentation online. What was easy was the fact that everything was in one place. With AWS Cloud, there are many applications to support. You can use Glue or Athena, and you have all these other applications. However, with Palantir, everything is easy due to the fact that it is centralized. It's drag and drop and everything is very transparent.

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RambabuMandala

Software Development Senior Advisor at Dell EMC

Responsive support, scalable, and beneficial integration

The BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept. There are a lot of SAP applications and they have good integration with SAP packages. In the next release, they should be more advanced cloud functionalities and web services. More integration with other applications including SAPs and other applications. They should not switch to a complete solution but provide better integration with other applications.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The data lineage is great."

"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."

"The interface is really user-friendly."

"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."

"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."

"The security is also excellent. It's highly granular, so the admins have a high degree of control, and there are many levels of security. That worked well. You won't have an EDC unless you put everything onto the platform because it is its own isolated thing."

"The AI engine that comes with Palantir Foundry is quite interesting."

"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."

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"The basic functionality is quite good as is the basic logic and data information."

"The initial setup is not complex."

"The reporting on the data, even from third-party software, is very good."

"I appreciate having access to the SAP data."

"The maintenance of data services is the solution's most valuable feature."

"We can extract data at a table level, extract data at the ETL level, and we can extract data at an ODP level."

"The BA reporting tools, such as Data Services, and ETL tool in SAP Data Services are the most valuable. When we had in-memory requirements, we used HANA. HANA is most preferably for most the customers for in-memory. SAP is the first company that created the in-memory concept."

"The logic is also simple. It makes it easy to build your extraction."

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Cons

"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."

"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."

"Compared to other hyperscalers, Palantir Foundry is complex and not so user-intuitive."

"Some error messages can be very cryptic."

"Cost of this solution is quite high."

"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."

"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."

"The solution's visualization and analysis could be improved."

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"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."

"It would be nice if this solution was a bit easier to move from development to production."

"Source code control is another headache. When your source code base gets too large, managing the source code becomes cumbersome."

"At the integration level, there could be certain set of improvement to connect to various other systems."

"Some of the jobs that are built within Data Services require local files, and during initial deployment, those local files cannot be transported between machines simply because of security issues."

"Address validation in SAP Data Services is chargeable and should be made free."

"We would like the different tools offered within this solution to be available as standalone entities, rather than having to purchase the entire package when we only require a few features."

"The description of error messages isn't extensive, although they point to the problem. With other solutions, like Talend, I was able to use the debugger to get directly to the problem, but with SAP Data Services the debugger is not working. I'm not sure if it's a problem with the version specifically, but I'm using it in an enterprise environment and I can't do an upgrade."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing is high."

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."

"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."

"It's expensive."

"The pricing is a little high to make the product more competetive in the marketplace."

"The license price is expensive but medium to large-scale companies, should be able to afford it. Other solutions, such as Talend are easier to afford for smaller companies. Depending on the sources of the data where you are receiving your data you could be paying for more than one license."

"There is a one time purchase fee plus annual maintenance."

"Speaking about prices, Oracle and SAP are market leaders. So, the prices are more."

"The product’s on-premise version is expensive for a medium-sized company."

"The enterprise version of SAP Data Services is free."

"The price of SAP Data Services is a little high when compared to other solutions. Due to the pricing and capabilities, many clients are switching to other solutions."

"It's relatively expensive compared to other vendors, but it is competitive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Palantir Foundry?

Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration.

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What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?

The solution’s data security could be improved. We cannot use many Python packages with the solution. We were able to use only a few compatible Python packages.

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What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?

Our use cases are mostly related to data analytics. We are building some dashboards and ETL pipelines on the Palantir side. Palantir Foundry is a low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI. ...

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How do you evaluate the ratio of price to quality for SAP Data Services?

I believe the license for the product is fair, even though some competitors offer similar services at lower prices. The difference between the Edge edition and the next one up is significant in pr...

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Would you recommend SAP Data Services to complete beginners?

I think after some preparation, a beginner will be able to use SAP Data Services, however, if you are completely unprepared, you may have some issues. I think that in particular you will need a mo...

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How has SAP Data Services helped your organization?

SAP Data Services has helped our whole staff understand the data across various sources and systems within the company. Not everyone who works at my organization is an IT expert - most just have av...

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Overview

Palantir Foundry is an enterprise data management platform offering comprehensive tooling for working with big data. Because it is an operating system made for modern enterprises, it is highly available and a continuously updated platform.

Palantir Foundry is a fully managed SaaS platform that spans from cloud hosting and data integration to flexible analytics, visualization, model-building, operational decision-making, and decision capture. It equips technical and non-technical users to make data-driven operational decisions.

Palantir Foundry includes tools to integrate data of any scale, format, or structure, and also has granular, flexible access controls for individual datasets. In addition, it has an open, modular architecture with multiple RESTful APIs, it has native applications for developing machine learning and artificial intelligence, it provides sophisticated data science applications for users of all technical abilities, and much more.

Palantir Foundry Features

The most valuable Palantir Foundry features include:

Security, flexibility, interoperability, easy deployment, built-in role classification, purpose-based access controls, interoperable architecture, model integration, AI modeling tools, ontology, custom workflows, team-specific applications, self-serve analytics, lineage system, operational application building, 200+ data connectors, data versioning, change management framework, sand decision orchestration, and custom dashboard and report building tools.

With Palantir Foundry You Can:

Accelerate development & operations
Collaborate globally
Save time on security
Reduce costs

Palantir Foundry Benefits

Some of the many Palantir Foundry benefits include:

Modular: Because Palantir Foundry is modular, it can integrate with existing infrastructure.
Granular governance: Robust data governance controls help ensure seamless compliance, auditability, and security.
Secure data sharing: The security infrastructure allows you to share data securely, within organizations and with chosen partners.
Rapid integration: Palantir Foundry can rapidly integrate models and data from data platforms into an operational ontology, and can also fuel existing data platforms.
Stand-alone deployment: Palantir Foundry can be deployed standalone and can provide all necessary capabilities for data connection, data integration, and model building.
Prevent lock-in: The data and model integration suites are designed to prevent lock-in, and assume that tools will be interoperating with Palantir Foundry as an organization grows.
No SQL necessary: Users do not have to use SQL queries or employ engineers to write strings in order to search petabytes of data. With Palantir Foundry, natural language is used to query data and results are returned in real-time.
Excellent data integration: Palantir Foundry provides secure, scalable, and resilient integration of all data sources.
Availability: The Palantir platform uses DNS routing, gateways and elastic load balancing to ensure availability. Dedicated accounts and virtual resources are used on a per customer basis.
Multiple metrics types: The Palantir platform provides hundreds of metrics. Some include average session length, drop-off rate, number of logins per user, number of accounts, and search speed.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users like Palantir Foundry because it has many advantages:

“It is user-friendly, good automation, and allows you to do a better job of data governance.” - Associate, Inhouse Consulting at a pharma/biotech company

“Works seamlessly with good end-to-end capabilities and the capability to scale.” - Wallace H., Sr. Director at a tech services company

SAP Data Services is a top-ranking data integration and data quality tool. This is a product that aims to provide its users with effective access to their data in order to transform it and connect it to various business processes. SAP Data Services offers companies detailed data insights which improve decision-making and make company operations more effective.

Organizations can increase the value of their structured and unstructured data with the functionalities of this product regarding data integration, quality, and cleansing. Through various components such as:

Simplified maintenance
On-premises deployment
Data quality and integration
Intuitive user interfaces

the product transforms data into a ready-to-use resource for business insights.

Some of the key components of SAP Data Services include:

Universal data access
Native-text data processing
Intuitive user interfaces
Data quality dashboards
Simplified data governance
Scalability and high performance

Through these components, the product allows its clients to access and integrate data sources and targets with native connectors. Users can derive meaning from unstructured text data, match data to reduce duplicates, and see the impact of data quality issues. The tool also offers the option to enable parallel processing, bulk data loading, and grid computing for high-volume data loads.

SAP Data Services Features

The solution has different features for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and processing of text data. Using these features, clients can manage their company's data easily and achieve excellent results by optimizing it. Some of the product’s features include:

Data integration capabilities: The features regarding data integration provide a wide variety of opportunities. The product is available in 31 languages and connects to many data sources, providing its clients with access to their data anywhere at any time. It is also integrated with the SAP Business Suite applications, allowing users the full experience that the company has to offer. The tool is interconnected with SAP Data Hub, orchestrating data flows through the SAP Data Intelligence solution. Additionally, it supports a large number of third-party data sources, it is optimized for SAP HANA, and provides fine-tuned data replication and transformation through unique mechanisms.
Data quality capabilities: Clients can use a single interface to access designing, testing, debugging, editing, running, maintaining, and monitoring of data integration and data quality. It allows for the delivery of ready-to-use transformations and exposes hidden problems in users' data. With this feature, clients can build a single version of their data that is most efficient for them.
Data profiling capabilities: Companies that work with high-volume data can employ parallel processing, bulk data loading, and grid computing to be able to operate with the data more efficiently. This feature enables unlimited scalability and high availability by various automations. It also provides excellent security for the treated data through encryption and other services.
Processing of text data capabilities: This feature allows users to extract data from unstructured texts and understand it better. It works with 220 different file and text formats and 31 languages.

SAP Data Services Benefits

This solution offers various benefits to its clients regarding the efficient operation of their data. The key benefits of SAP Data Services include:

Broad access to data which can build a better perspective for companies of their information.
Improved decision-making and information management due to efficient data operations.
Ability to utilize various tools to help unify data on premises, in the cloud, or within big data.
The software provides efficient insight for reporting and data analytics.
The tool allows for easy integration with a large number of different databases.
The product provides the opportunity to seamlessly connect with other SAP solutions.
The solution simplifies extract, transform, and load (ETL) construction processes through intuitive graphic software.

Reviews from Real Users

According to Michael Lutz, senior data warehouse developer at Fox Chase Cancer Center, SAP Data Services is a powerful tool that does a lot.

An associate consultant at a consultancy says the tool is easy to use, simple to implement, and offers very good mapping capabilities.

Sample Customers

Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense

EMC Corporation, LivePerson, Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Migros Group

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