There are a bunch of these kinds systems in the government. Palantir's tech is pretty cool and a nice spin on the area (besides looking nice and slick). But har

There are a bunch of these kinds systems in the government. Palantir's tech is pretty cool and a nice spin on the area (besides looking nice and slick). But hardly new. It takes a lot of cues from mish-mash systems like this one (warning PDF) http://www.cjmtk.com/EventRegistration/CjmtkConf08/DCGS-A_MFWS_Overviews_CJMTKUC.PDF http://www.cjmtk.com/EventRegistration/CjmtkConf08/DCGS-A_MF... (a hodge podge of every conceivable analysis tool and database under the Intelligence sun) And more unified systems like this http://www.futurepointsystems.com/ http://www.futurepointsystems.com/ (their page stinks but their tech is awesomely cool) and other single purpose tools like http://www.i2inc.com/products/analysts_notebook/ http://www.i2inc.com/products/analysts_notebook/ (industry standard link-analysis) http://tactical.overwatch.com/products/axis_pro.htm http://tactical.overwatch.com/products/axis_pro.htm (another recent link-analysis tool) http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/ http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/ (the name in geospatial) And others http://spotfire.tibco.com/ http://spotfire.tibco.com/ http://www.oculusinfo.com/SoftwareProducts/GeoTime.html http://www.oculusinfo.com/SoftwareProducts/GeoTime.html It's nice that they are expanding out into financial services and geospatial analysis. Up till now it's largely been a glorified (and very expensive) link-analysis tool (see i2's and overwatch's tools).