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"Unlike Palantir, which seems to have a services-centric model, this new company would be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model." I thought Pala
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
"Unlike Palantir, which seems to have a services-centric model, this new company would be focused on a more SaaS-centric software-driven model."
I thought Palantir was extremely software-driven. Could someone clear up what the above sentence means?
- ndarwincorn 7y agoJudging off Glassdoor reviews, most of their devs are embedded ('forward-deployed' in their militaristic lingo). From that and my own short interview experience a few years ago, a lot of their revenue comes from bespoke ETL for clients into an on-prem software deployment and there's no concrete push to move to something more off-the-shelf.
- scarejunba 7y agoPalantir does really well for what they do, but this article is as true today as it was in 2016 in terms of what they are https://simplystatistics.org/2016/05/11/palantir-struggles/ https://simplystatistics.org/2016/05/11/palantir-struggles/ They're almost just a consultancy.