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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by capkutay on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @05:58PM (#10786163)
They're basically a consulting company with in-house platforms for data management. You pay $100k+ per core pricing for their analytics platform, then you pay thousands more for implementation 'ninjas', consultants, training etc. It's a mix between a services and a technology company targeted at government accounts.
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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by serge2k on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @07:16PM (#10786410)
Reminds me of Oracle or IBM.
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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by akhilcacharya on Thursday December 24, 2015 @12:42AM (#10787259)
Except they're pretty much completely staffed by Stanford, MIT, Harvard, (etc) grads.
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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by dogma1138 on Thursday December 24, 2015 @07:18PM (#10789986)
When Oracle, SAP, and IBM used to rely heavily on professional service so were they.
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Re:Palantir Has Raised $880M at a $20B Valuation by anonu on Thursday December 24, 2015 @10:54AM (#10788518)
I'd add that they have really good visualization - which helps more as a marketing thing than anything else. The consultants drive the business...
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