Palantir as Intelligence Infrastructure
Matthew Steckman
[email protected]
Forward Deployed Engineer
Palantir Technologies
Binary, not Billboards
• Silicon Valley, CA based
• We are Engineers
• Founded in 2004 by
Stanford computer
scientists and the same
team that started PayPal
• Developed on our own
dime in partnership with
the community
What Palantir ISN’T!
• A visualization or charting tool
• A data mining platform
• A closed environment
• One database to rule them all
What is Palantir?
A powerful backend technology with an attractive and
intuitive user interface that has been designed to
address the challenges of data assurance, collaboration,
security, and data integration from the outset.
What is Palantir?
Like An Iceberg
Visualization is what you see first
What’s Below the Water Line?
Data Integration
Data Integration
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Single view of structured & unstructured data
Everything from the Enterprise to the Desktop
Full enforcement of security across data sources
Federated search
Sits on top of, doesn’t replace, your data sources
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• Palantir is your Enterprise Data Layer
Search and Discovery
Search & Discovery
• Search all your enterprise data from a single
interface
• Use Palantir as a search service (SOA)
• Conceptual searches, persistent searches,
geospatial searches
• Statistical, temporal, and geospatial discovery
• Full security across searches, ICD 501 compliant
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• Palantir is your Enterprise Search Service
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
• Because a Data Layer isn’t Enough for your Enterprise
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A secure repository for analysis
Analysts can build on each others’ work
Most robust security model in the IC
Manages resolutions across datasources and security
levels
• Revolutionary Revisioning Database
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• Palantir is your Knowledge Management solution
Collaboration
Collaboration
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Not lip service, real collaboration
Concepts based on how engineers collaborate
Share more than data, share analysis
Inside and across agencies
Across compartments, across classification
Only system designed with civil liberties and
privacy protections
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• Palantir is your solution for Collaboration in the IC
What’s Below the Water Line?
For the IC: Intelligence Infrastructure
• Palantir is your intelligence infrastructure
• Delivered to you commercially, not as a custom
development project
• Costs 5% of building it yourself
• Takes 1% of the time deploy
• “If we tried to build this, it would cost us $500MM”
- IC COTR
Civil Liberties Protections
Combating
Terrorism
Protecting Civil Liberties