So what exactly do you get for those prices? Some data munging and analytics? Just hire a few data scientists and give them a map/reduce cluster. But this is the government so that might be more expensive than forking over the cash to Palantir.
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#12So what exactly do you get for those prices? Some data munging and analytics? Just hire a few data scientists and give them a map/reduce cluster. But this is the government so that might be more expensive than forking over the cash to Palantir.
> Just hire a few data scientists and give them a map/reduce cluster
That's exactly what Palantir is... companies like (SAP/Oracle)+(Accenture/Deloitte/IBM) can't compete with this since the "Just hire a few data scientists" talent is near impossible to attract without the sexiness of a company like Palantir. Palantir packages the whole thing up in a nice bow. Having spent a lot of time in enterprise software (mainly SAP), Palantir's value proposition is extremely attractive to BigGov and BigCo, with largely a higher rate of success and lower cost.
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#13All right in line with just about any sort of "Enterprise" software. Training and implementation services are downright cheap. Maintenance is the standard 20%. The last big vendor PO I had to look at put every professional services line item at $300-360/hr with $320 being about average.
Also Palantir's software actually does something more challenging than a lot of enterprise software.
People should go and see what small packages from Oracle, HP, Tibco & IBM cost. It's incredible.
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#14Pretty affordable considering many other things on the GSA don't work once you buy them!
Luckily for Palantir whether or not it works is classified. I have my doubts. I'm sure it "works", but I'm also sure it's a giant waste of money and Americans are not safer because we're funneling millions of dollars to Palantir.
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#15So Palantir is hiring if you have a clearance :-). Time to get your tax dollars back. Looks like SAIC all over again.
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#16Do not confuse the GSA schedule with actual implementation cost (or TCO as mentioned below).
The prices are a starting point and as with any relationship, they can (and will, if the buyer is smart) be negotiated.
Source: sold & implemented alot of software for the gubbmint.
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#18For folks who've never seen one of these. 132-33 - Price for a Palantir server, priced per core. $141k per core. Includes 1 year of "maintenance" (support and software upgrades). 132-34 - This is the maintenance for second year on. $28k per core. How many users can a core support? I dunno. But let's say you can serve 50 people off of a 4-core system (you can redo the math for the number of users). You initial purchas…
Not that out of line for what much other enterprise software costs. A Bloomberg terminal runs about $24k/user/year:
http://qz.com/84961/this-is-how-much-a-bloomberg-terminal-co...
When I was doing enterprise financial software it wasn't uncommon for contracts to run in the millions per year.
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#19For folks who've never seen one of these. 132-33 - Price for a Palantir server, priced per core. $141k per core. Includes 1 year of "maintenance" (support and software upgrades). 132-34 - This is the maintenance for second year on. $28k per core. How many users can a core support? I dunno. But let's say you can serve 50 people off of a 4-core system (you can redo the math for the number of users). You initial purchas…
Navigating enterprise sales cycles is a giant pain but man is it profitable compared to the latest social startup du jour.
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#20For folks who've never seen one of these. 132-33 - Price for a Palantir server, priced per core. $141k per core. Includes 1 year of "maintenance" (support and software upgrades). 132-34 - This is the maintenance for second year on. $28k per core. How many users can a core support? I dunno. But let's say you can serve 50 people off of a 4-core system (you can redo the math for the number of users). You initial purchas…
Thanks for breaking that down. I was looking cluelessly at the price sheet for the actual prices.