Palantir Foundry vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

Palantir and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Operations Analytics category. Palantir is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.5, while Splunk is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Palantir holds a 4.1% mindshare in IOA, compared to Splunk’s 28.8% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Palantir users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 29, 2024

Splunk Enterprise Security and Palantir Foundry are both powerful platforms in the security and data analytics space. Users are happier with the pricing and support of Splunk Enterprise Security, but Palantir Foundry stands out with its advanced features, making it worth the higher price.

Features: Splunk Enterprise Security offers comprehensive security monitoring, data indexing capabilities, and integration with various data sources. Palantir Foundry handles complex data models, in-depth data analysis, and has collaboration features. Splunk excels in security-specific features while Palantir provides robust data management and analytical capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Splunk Enterprise Security needs enhancements in performance speed and more intuitive navigation. Palantir Foundry requires better documentation, easier onboarding processes, and improved user support. Splunk focuses on speed and usability compared to Palantir's need for better user assistance and documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk Enterprise Security is flexible with deployment options such as cloud and on-premises and has responsive customer service. Palantir Foundry has a complex deployment process but strong on-site support and thorough training programs. Splunk is favored for deployment ease, while Palantir's support and training receive higher marks.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk Enterprise Security offers competitive setup costs and quick ROI due to straightforward deployment and effective support. Palantir Foundry, despite higher initial costs, delivers substantial long-term ROI through advanced features and comprehensive data handling. Splunk is favored for cost-efficiency, while Palantir is seen as a worthwhile investment for long-term gains.

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Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry

Ranking in IT Operations Analytics

3rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (12th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (10th), Data Migration Appliances (3rd), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (1st), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)

Splunk Enterprise Security

Ranking in IT Operations Analytics

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

301

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 4.1%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 28.8%, down from 35.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

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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Avinash Gopu.

Associate VP & Cyber Security Specialist at US Bank

Offers good visibility into multiple environments, significantly reduces our alert volume, and speeds up our security investigations

There are limitations with Splunk not detecting all user activity, especially on mainframes and network devices. This is because Splunk relies on agents, which cannot access certain workstations. In these cases, we have to rely on application data. For example, with mainframes, manual reports are generated and sent to Splunk, limiting visibility to what's manually reported. This lack of automation for specific platforms needs improvement from Splunk. Additionally, API access is limited for other applications that rely on API calls and requests. This requires heavy customization on Splunk's end. These are the main challenges we've encountered. Monitoring multiple cloud platforms, like Azure, GCP, and AWS, with Splunk Enterprise Security presents some challenges. While Splunk provides different connectors for each provider, consolidating data from two domains across distinct cloud environments can be complex. However, leveraging pre-built templates and Splunk's data collation capabilities can help overcome these hurdles. Despite initial difficulties, I believe Splunk can effectively address this task, earning it an eight out of ten rating for its multi-cloud monitoring capabilities. While Splunk Enterprise Security offers insider threat detection capabilities, its effectiveness could be enhanced by integrating with additional tools, such as endpoint security solutions. This integrated approach is particularly crucial for financial institutions, which often require dedicated endpoint security teams. While using multiple tools is valuable, further improvements within Splunk itself are also necessary. Considering both external integration and internal development, I would rate its current insider threat detection capabilities as three out of ten. Threat detection is where Splunk falls behind. While it offers tools, other use cases require additional work. PAM is an enterprise tool that centralizes information about users, servers, and everything else. It needs real-time monitoring, which I haven't seen in any of the companies I've worked for. They only rely on Splunk for alerting, but real-time monitoring should be handled by the endpoint security team's tools. This means there's no detection or analysis at the machine or endpoint level. Additionally, threat analysis reporting is also absent.

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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

"It's scalable."

"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."

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

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

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

"The data lineage is great."

"The virtualization tool is useful."

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

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"Splunk is a user-friendly solution."

"We are using Microsoft 365 and we're using the Exchange Mail Service. It's good for monitoring that in particular."

"The risk-based alerting (RBA) is one of the valuable features."

"We have a more secure, robust environment, which keeps the harmful software out of the zone required."

"It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query on Splunk. The resolution time is about the same, but it took longer to discover the issue with ArcSight. Our previous solution took about an hour or more, but Splunk can do it within a few minutes or an hour at most."

"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."

"It is a one stop shop as a full monitoring and alerting solution for operations and application analysis for most of our back-end systems."

"You can use it to gather syslog messages from anything."

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Cons

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

"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."

"Cost of this solution is quite high."

"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."

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

"There is not a wide user base for the solution's online documentation so it is sometimes difficult to find answers."

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

"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."

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"A lot of people are averse to using new tools so if they make it even more user-friendly than it already is, I think that could go a long way."

"The administration of the cluster and app deployment to indexers or search heads can be done only using ssh access and command line, there is no GUI tools for that."

"I would like to see ability to master management. In terms of clustering, how it manages clustering needs improvement."

"It works as intended for us, and we are getting everything that we need out of it. If anything, its initial setup can be improved a bit."

"I would like some additional AI capabilities to provide additional information about things going wrong and things going well."

"The integration could be a bit better. They charge for certain integrations."

"I think the tech support response time could be a bit better. Sometimes I need to wait more than 24 hours for a response to my tickets."

"The area of concern revolves around the fact that Splunk is an expensive product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive."

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."

"The solution’s pricing is high."

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

"Splunk Enterprise Security is expensive. I would rate the cost an eight out of ten with ten being the most expensive."

"It can be expensive, especially the licensing costs. However, there is added value in what it can do, not just log aggregation."

"ROI is estimated at saving my team roughly 10 to 12 man hours per week in troubleshooting for our company as well as what our profits had been from our services of installing, configuring, and supporting other clients with the product."

"From what I have seen so far, Splunk has multiple cost models. The one that we are using is pretty good when it comes to ingesting data into the environment. It has worked out pretty well."

"Price-wise, if you compare QRadar to Splunk for SIEM functionality then they are in the same range but when you integrate SOAR with these solutions, Splunk takes the lead and is more competitive."

"I remember Splunk being relatively affordable. Kibana was more reasonable, but you get more with Splunk. If I was suggesting something, I would probably suggest Splunk because it is better to pay a little bit more and get a lot more."

"While Splunk is more expensive than other solutions, we would still choose it because of its capabilities."

"The cost is on the high end, which makes it difficult for some organizations to use."

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Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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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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What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?

It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...

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How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?

Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...

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Comparisons

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Compared 13% of the time

Palantir Gotham vs Palantir Foundry

Compared 7% of the time

SAP Data Services vs Palantir Foundry

Compared 6% of the time

AWS Glue vs Palantir Foundry

Compared 4% of the time

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform vs Palantir Foundry

Compared 4% of the time

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Wazuh vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 10% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 9% of the time

Dynatrace vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 8% of the time

Datadog vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 5% of the time

Sentinel vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 4% of the time

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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

Splunk Enterprise Security is widely used for security operations, including threat detection, incident response, and log monitoring. It centralizes log management, offers security analytics, and ensures compliance, enhancing the overall security posture of organizations.

Companies leverage Splunk Enterprise Security to monitor endpoints, networks, and users, detecting anomalies, brute force attacks, and unauthorized access. They use it for fraud detection, machine learning, and real-time alerts within their SOCs. The platform enhances visibility and correlates data from multiple sources to identify security threats efficiently. Key features include comprehensive dashboards, excellent reporting capabilities, robust log aggregation, and flexible data ingestion. Users appreciate its SIEM capabilities, threat intelligence, risk-based alerting, and correlation searches. Highly scalable and stable, it suits multi-cloud environments, reducing alert volumes and speeding up investigations.

What are the key features?

Comprehensive Dashboards: Provide a holistic view of security operations.
Flexible Data Ingestion: Supports various data sources for better analysis.
Robust Log Aggregation: Centralizes log management for easier monitoring.
Machine Learning Toolkit: Enhances threat detection and prediction capabilities.
SIEM Capabilities: Integrates security information and event management.
Threat Intelligence: Utilizes external information to improve security measures.
Risk-Based Alerting: Prioritizes alerts based on the risk they pose.
Correlation Searches: Identifies and correlates security events effectively.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Visibility: Improves monitoring across endpoints, networks, and users.
Faster Incident Response: Speeds up identification and resolution of security issues.
Reduced Alert Volumes: Lowers false positives and enhances signal-to-noise ratio.
Scalability: Adapts to growing and changing security needs.
Improved Security Operations: Integrates multiple security facets into one platform.

Splunk Enterprise Security is implemented across industries like finance, healthcare, and retail. Financial institutions use it for fraud detection and compliance, while healthcare organizations leverage its capabilities to safeguard patient data. Retailers deploy it to protect customer information and ensure secure transactions.

Sample Customers

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

Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.

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