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Palantir Foundry pros and cons

Vendor: Palantir

3.8 out of 5

15 reviews
86% willing to recommend

256 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Palantir Foundry offers excellent end-to-end capabilities and security with granular access controls. Its scalable platform facilitates workflow mapping and AI-enhanced utility without integration checks. However, challenges include high costs, manual setup, limited European data hosting, and data lineage tracking issues. New users also need more online documentation.

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PROS

Palantir Foundry offers comprehensive end-to-end capabilities with strong security features that provide multiple levels of control.

It encapsulates all components, eliminating the need for integration or compatibility checks.

The platform is scalable and facilitates easy mapping of workflows and trigger-based scripting without requiring deployment to another server.

Live video sessions complement the documentation by providing direct interaction opportunities for inquiries and learning.

Palantir Foundry includes an AI engine and robust plugin connectors which support real-time integration and data lineage.

CONS

They do not have a data center in Europe, and data needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure.

The workflow could be improved.

The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages.

The cost is quite high.

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

Palantir Foundry Pros review quotes

Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Dec 20, 2022

The data lineage is great.

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reviewer2022087

Sr Consultant at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 14, 2022

The virtualization tool is useful.

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Senior Software Engineer at Tiger Analytics

Nov 22, 2022

It's scalable.

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Sai Arun Bandhakavi

Associate Vice President at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 29, 2022

Great features available in one tool.

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MW

Manager, Data Governance at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 4, 2022

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.

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MC

Certified developer on Palantir Foundry at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Dec 12, 2022

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

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KM

Senior Analyst/ Customer Business and Insights Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 22, 2024

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

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reviewer2038020

Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 29, 2022

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.

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reviewer2031192

Data Scientist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 22, 2022

It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server.

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reviewer1379157

Associate - Inhouse Consulting at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 12, 2020

The interface is really user-friendly.

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Palantir Foundry Cons review quotes

Senior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Dec 20, 2022

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

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Sr Consultant at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 14, 2022

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

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Senior Software Engineer at Tiger Analytics

Nov 22, 2022

The solution could use more online documentation for new users.

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Sai Arun Bandhakavi

Associate Vice President at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 29, 2022

Difficult to receive data from external sources.

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MW

Manager, Data Governance at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 4, 2022

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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MC

Certified developer on Palantir Foundry at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

Dec 12, 2022

The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved.

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KM

Senior Analyst/ Customer Business and Insights Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

May 22, 2024

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

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reviewer2038020

Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 29, 2022

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

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reviewer2031192

Data Scientist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Nov 22, 2022

Some error messages can be very cryptic.

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reviewer1379157

Associate - Inhouse Consulting at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 12, 2020

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.

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