Palantir Foundry vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

Palantir and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Operations Analytics category. Palantir is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.5, while Splunk is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Palantir holds a 4.2% mindshare in IOA, compared to Splunk’s 30.2% 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

4th

Average Rating

7.6

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

Number of Reviews

301

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 4.2%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 30.2%, down from 36.5% 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

Nov 22, 2022

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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Sameep Agarwal.

Group manager at HCM Technologies

Oct 23, 2023

It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query

The ingestion happens quickly, so you can run up the data costs if you use the default settings. It isn't a problem for government agencies in the Saudi market, but many of the corporations in India are small or medium-sized enterprises that cannot afford that kind of ingestion system. Splunk needs to be tweaked in JSON so you can limit what is coming from the endpoints, especially the events. One needs to filter that out so that only certain events are ingested, like login failures, Active Directory changes, password reset requests, privilege modifications, etc. Each Windows machine generates about 310 KB of information per event, but we can tweak that down to about 50 KB.

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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 ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."

"Great features available in one tool."

"The data lineage is great."

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

"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 interface is really user-friendly."

"It's scalable."

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

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"We can quickly search for almost anything across many log sources in seconds."

"The logs on the solution are excellent."

"The search engine and indexes are fast and optimized, and the report generation dashboard is user-friendly."

"The search lookups are useful."

"Splunk is user-friendly. We can easily customize the monitoring script."

"We were able to create a catalog of dashboards and have a holistic view at all levels. We could understand our business much better. Real-time errors, which were buried in emails before now, surfaced up on dashboards."

"We saw the granularity that we could get from Splunk far exceeded what we already had. We had the ability to have our security team really focus on the platform and stay within the platform, but they could correlate with a variety of other stakeholders, and our stakeholders were growing."

"Visualizations are the best way to understand deviation techniques from the norm."

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Cons

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

"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."

"The workflow could be improved."

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

"Cost of this solution is quite high."

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

"Difficult to receive data from external sources."

"Some error messages can be very cryptic."

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"I think the only thing lacking is that there are some answers that I couldn't find about the tool without reaching out to support, and it had to be escalated to the engineering team."

"Splunk does not build apps. They only go back and validate the apps that somebody has already built. They should have remote consulting support. They have a wonderful solution. They have 24/7 security. Nobody needs to depend on any third party and will therefore just buy Splunk on the cloud."

"The setup time is quite long."

"The prices are complicated as we operate in a small third-world country."

"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."

"Splunk's ability to analyze malicious activities scores an 8 out of 10, but there's room for improvement. By analyzing emerging patterns, Splunk could identify and predict potential threats more effectively."

"The security can be improved."

"The difficult part is related to integration with sources of data that are used to create the logs as this depends on the infrastructure of the client."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."

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

"The solution’s pricing is high."

"It's expensive."

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

"I am fine with the licensing, but in terms of the cost, it is expensive for the data that we have. We have an open discussion with our account rep about this."

"Splunk has always been on the expensive side."

"Expensive compared to other options."

"We have seen ROI and improvements as we have continued to use the product, but they are more reactive."

"We had a yearly subscription."

"There is an annual license required to use this solution."

"Be upfront about your needs and expectations. Splunk is great to work with."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

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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 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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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

Datadog vs Splunk Enterprise Security

Compared 4% of the time

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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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