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IBM acquired a company called i2 in 2011 that already was a competitor to Palantir for defence/law enforcement analysis https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/press
by Maxious 9y ago
IBM acquired a company called i2 in 2011 that already was a competitor to Palantir for defence/law enforcement analysis https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35255.wss https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35255.wss
Even if you don't have the roughest and toughest devs in the market, surely spending more time with NYPD than the Palantir FDEs (are engineers part of the skeleton staff mentioned in the article?) would get a more valuable result?
- krona 9y agoActually i2 was 20 years old when it was acquired, and it was the dominant law enforcement investigative analysis product in the US at the time. Palantir were the hotshots. Of particular note was when i2 Group took Palantir to court for a conspiracy to misappropriate its software and trade secrets. They settled out of court (for a huge sum of money.) IBM swooped in soon after.
- linkregister 9y agoThis is Analyst's Notebook, a product that has been around for at least as long as Palantir. I imagine i2 continuously improves on it. In the past, it lacked the huge amount of transforms in Palantir to get data into the worksheet. Of course these transforms were written by expensive Forward Deployed Engineers to write glue code and convert disparate protocols and file formats. It turns out that doesn't scale well, and it looks like Palantir had to raise prices.