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Palantir Executive Summary
Feb. 22, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Palantir is the market-leading analytical platform used at the strategic, operational, and
tactical levels within the US government. Our clients span the intelligence, defense, and
law enforcement communities. By combining a powerful backend with an intuitive frontend, Palantir enables you to execute your counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, counterintelligence, and counter-proliferation missions with greater speed and fewer resources.
Palantir’s integrated platform is deployable today and at a fraction of the costs required for
a comparable capability suite.
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Palantir is the market-leading analytical platform used at the strategic, operational, and
tactical levels within the US government. Our clients span the intelligence, defense, and
law enforcement communities. By combining a powerful backend with an intuitive frontend, Palantir enables you to execute your counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, counterintelligence, and counter-proliferation missions with greater speed and fewer resources.
Palantir’s integrated platform is deployable today and at a fraction of the costs required for
a comparable capability suite.
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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KEY FACTS
• Palantir is the market-leading analytical platform for CI, CT, CN, and CP, and is currently deployed across elements of the defense, intelligence, and law enforcement communities to include SOCOM, DIA, CIA, and JIEDDO
• Palantir is ready to be deployed on your network today. It is approved for JWICS,
SIPRNet, and CWE.
• Our 100% open platform
means Palantir will integrate
seamlessly with all your legacy
systems, all your current systems, and all your future
systems.
• With Palantir, operators have
the ability to discover and
explore potential connections
using any type of information
relating to any person, place,
or event in their analytical
environment. Whether that
Explore entities, relationships, and events over time.
data is from a laptop in the
field, a headquarters database,
or another agency, Palantir monitors all of an enterprise’s data sources, across security
domains and classification levels, for any information that relates to a known entity
(person, vehicle, communication device, etc.), place, or threat that exists in an operator’s environment.
• From the outset, Palantir was designed with the input of operators and analysts within
the IC and DoD. Their invaluable feedback has enabled the creation of a product that
allows users to do more work, in less time, while also providing a higher level of analytic insight.
• Palantir is designed to be used effectively to collaborate with a network of other users,
including those forward deployed. Palantir has been designed from the ground up to
make this type of distributed enterprise solution possible.
• Palantir comes configured with the most sophisticated security model on the market.
SUPPORTING YOUR MISSION NEEDS
Palantir is the world’s leading enterprise analytical platform, enabling a secure analytical
environment where analysts, operators, and warfighters can leverage disparate data types
from multiple INTs, while sharing their workflows aand discoveries, to build knowledge
over time. Palantir securely brings together data from message traffic, databases, field reporting, spreadsheets, word documents, XML files, and virtually any other format, enabling
users to organize data into knowledge and make vital connections. Palantir Technologies
understands the unique challenges faced by its users. This includes the need for large volume data discovery, collaboration, and controlled information sharing as well as the need
to manage multiple disparate data sources and ensure continuity of information across rotations.
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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KEY FACTS
• Palantir is the market-leading analytical platform for CI, CT, CN, and CP, and is currently deployed across elements of the defense, intelligence, and law enforcement communities to include SOCOM, DIA, CIA, and JIEDDO
• Palantir is ready to be deployed on your network today. It is approved for JWICS,
SIPRNet, and CWE.
• Our 100% open platform
means Palantir will integrate
seamlessly with all your legacy
systems, all your current systems, and all your future
systems.
• With Palantir, operators have
the ability to discover and
explore potential connections
using any type of information
relating to any person, place,
or event in their analytical
environment. Whether that
Explore entities, relationships, and events over time.
data is from a laptop in the
field, a headquarters database,
or another agency, Palantir monitors all of an enterprise’s data sources, across security
domains and classification levels, for any information that relates to a known entity
(person, vehicle, communication device, etc.), place, or threat that exists in an operator’s environment.
• From the outset, Palantir was designed with the input of operators and analysts within
the IC and DoD. Their invaluable feedback has enabled the creation of a product that
allows users to do more work, in less time, while also providing a higher level of analytic insight.
• Palantir is designed to be used effectively to collaborate with a network of other users,
including those forward deployed. Palantir has been designed from the ground up to
make this type of distributed enterprise solution possible.
• Palantir comes configured with the most sophisticated security model on the market.
SUPPORTING YOUR MISSION NEEDS
Palantir is the world’s leading enterprise analytical platform, enabling a secure analytical
environment where analysts, operators, and warfighters can leverage disparate data types
from multiple INTs, while sharing their workflows aand discoveries, to build knowledge
over time. Palantir securely brings together data from message traffic, databases, field reporting, spreadsheets, word documents, XML files, and virtually any other format, enabling
users to organize data into knowledge and make vital connections. Palantir Technologies
understands the unique challenges faced by its users. This includes the need for large volume data discovery, collaboration, and controlled information sharing as well as the need
to manage multiple disparate data sources and ensure continuity of information across rotations.
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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OPEN PLATFORM
• Designed from its inception to integrate with all legacy, current, and future systems
• Palantir’s open APIs and flexible data model allow you to customize and extend Palantir, easily and without additional expense
• Import data in any format: databases, seized media, emails, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
html, text, csv, xml, pdf, and more
• Works with existing tools including: entity extractors, NLP toolkits, social network
analysis, geospatial, or link analysis tools
SEARCH AND DISCOVERY
• Real-time, integrated search capability against user defined datasources
• Search entities, events, documents, message traffic, pocket litter, links, and paths
• Discover how entities are related, connected and networked
• Explore networks conceptually
• Develop and extract baseline entity/target patterns through pattern analysis
• Complete support for foreign language content and searching
• Set and save search parameters to proactively tip the user to new information as it
becomes available
ANALYTIC TOOLS
• Analyze your data in the
relational, temporal, and geospatial domains
• Integrates with all GIS applications, including ESRI, Google
Earth, WebTAS, and many
more
• Works with your imagery
and video analytical systems,
including your UAV footage
• Perform geographic searches,
understand how the data and
intel look geospatially
• Figure out why things are happening where they are
View and edit detailed virtual dossiers that show relationships, properties, histories, images, videos, pocket litter
and more.
• Figure out where they are going to happen next
• Understand how events are related over time and how entities are related to events
• Identify and leverage patterns for predictive analysis
• Perform social network (SNA) and link analysis
• Export analytic results with full sourcing information
• Assemble presentations and targeting/case packages automatically
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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OPEN PLATFORM
• Designed from its inception to integrate with all legacy, current, and future systems
• Palantir’s open APIs and flexible data model allow you to customize and extend Palantir, easily and without additional expense
• Import data in any format: databases, seized media, emails, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
html, text, csv, xml, pdf, and more
• Works with existing tools including: entity extractors, NLP toolkits, social network
analysis, geospatial, or link analysis tools
SEARCH AND DISCOVERY
• Real-time, integrated search capability against user defined datasources
• Search entities, events, documents, message traffic, pocket litter, links, and paths
• Discover how entities are related, connected and networked
• Explore networks conceptually
• Develop and extract baseline entity/target patterns through pattern analysis
• Complete support for foreign language content and searching
• Set and save search parameters to proactively tip the user to new information as it
becomes available
ANALYTIC TOOLS
• Analyze your data in the
relational, temporal, and geospatial domains
• Integrates with all GIS applications, including ESRI, Google
Earth, WebTAS, and many
more
• Works with your imagery
and video analytical systems,
including your UAV footage
• Perform geographic searches,
understand how the data and
intel look geospatially
• Figure out why things are happening where they are
View and edit detailed virtual dossiers that show relationships, properties, histories, images, videos, pocket litter
and more.
• Figure out where they are going to happen next
• Understand how events are related over time and how entities are related to events
• Identify and leverage patterns for predictive analysis
• Perform social network (SNA) and link analysis
• Export analytic results with full sourcing information
• Assemble presentations and targeting/case packages automatically
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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COLLABORATION
• Collaboration has been part of the product since inception
• Users can share data, shoeboxes, folders, filters, and investigations, all subject to access
control
• Build networks faster, understand overlap, track changes to all data and assumptions
• Identify and form ad hoc Communities of Interest
• Easily identify collection gaps
EXTENSIVE ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY
• Supports open discovery: the system identifies other existing relevant data associated
with the users query
• Supports closed discovery: the system can restrict discovery to users thereby protecting
sensitive sources and methods and mitigating CI risks
• With Palantir’s Access Control Model, sensitive information can be compartmented
and secured
COMMITTED TO EXCEEDING YOUR EXPECTATIONS
We are a product company. We
provide the best product on the
market at the very best value. We
stand by the product. An investment in Palantir is all inclusive.
When you buy our product, you
get everything you could possibly need to make Palantir work
for you, including training, support, and scalable infrastructure
that meets your technical requirements.
SCALE
• Palantir is designed to scale
cost effectively
Quickly create knowledge and structure from message
traffic.
• Easily handles 100s of millions of entities, events, and documents
BASIC TECHNICAL INFORMATION
• Interoperability via SOAP and web services
• Web deployable
• Works over low bandwidth or satellite connections
• Works without connectivity through periodic re-syncs
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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COLLABORATION
• Collaboration has been part of the product since inception
• Users can share data, shoeboxes, folders, filters, and investigations, all subject to access
control
• Build networks faster, understand overlap, track changes to all data and assumptions
• Identify and form ad hoc Communities of Interest
• Easily identify collection gaps
EXTENSIVE ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY
• Supports open discovery: the system identifies other existing relevant data associated
with the users query
• Supports closed discovery: the system can restrict discovery to users thereby protecting
sensitive sources and methods and mitigating CI risks
• With Palantir’s Access Control Model, sensitive information can be compartmented
and secured
COMMITTED TO EXCEEDING YOUR EXPECTATIONS
We are a product company. We
provide the best product on the
market at the very best value. We
stand by the product. An investment in Palantir is all inclusive.
When you buy our product, you
get everything you could possibly need to make Palantir work
for you, including training, support, and scalable infrastructure
that meets your technical requirements.
SCALE
• Palantir is designed to scale
cost effectively
Quickly create knowledge and structure from message
traffic.
• Easily handles 100s of millions of entities, events, and documents
BASIC TECHNICAL INFORMATION
• Interoperability via SOAP and web services
• Web deployable
• Works over low bandwidth or satellite connections
• Works without connectivity through periodic re-syncs
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• Conforms to SOA
• Scales on commodity hardware
TRAINING
• Palantir provides a series of customer specific, mission specific training videos to allow
for just-in-time training and easy access to refresher material
• Palantir is the easiest to use application in this category. One day of training is all that
is required—we understand that you have a job to do
• Palantir will conduct training anywhere in the world where you need us. Training is
included with the product
MAINTENANCE/SUPPORT
• No special personnel required or excessive overhead
• Responsive on-demand support and service to forward deployed units 24/7/365 at no
extra cost
• Celebrated, mission focused support: if you need us, Palantir will be with you anywhere
in the world, at any time
Detailed analytical trails allow analysts to visually see the lines of inquiry they are working on and
return to any previous postion.
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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• Conforms to SOA
• Scales on commodity hardware
TRAINING
• Palantir provides a series of customer specific, mission specific training videos to allow
for just-in-time training and easy access to refresher material
• Palantir is the easiest to use application in this category. One day of training is all that
is required—we understand that you have a job to do
• Palantir will conduct training anywhere in the world where you need us. Training is
included with the product
MAINTENANCE/SUPPORT
• No special personnel required or excessive overhead
• Responsive on-demand support and service to forward deployed units 24/7/365 at no
extra cost
• Celebrated, mission focused support: if you need us, Palantir will be with you anywhere
in the world, at any time
Detailed analytical trails allow analysts to visually see the lines of inquiry they are working on and
return to any previous postion.
inquiries@palantirtech.com
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