Abstract
The Palantir White Papers discuss various aspects of our industry standard analytical platform for the intelligence and defense communities. These white papers aim to answer common questions and develop a shared, community-wide understanding of how Palantir works and what it enables.
Palantir As Intelligence Infrastructure
Shyam Sankar, Director of Forward Deployed Engineering, explains how Palantir meets the end-to-end infrastructure requirements of the modern intelligence organization.
Object Model
Shreyas Vijaykumar outlines the Palantir Object Model and tackles the complexities of building an enterprise Data Platform.
Dynamic Ontology
Dr. Asher Sinensky explains what we mean when we say Dynamic Ontology and considers what this enables in a real world deployment.
Data Integration Platform
Brian Schimpf introduces Palantir’s robust framework for data integration, a powerful model that accommodates every kind of enterprise datasource.
Access Control Model
Bob McGrew, Director of Engineering, discusses Palantir’s Access Control Model. He considers a variety of real-world scenarios and describes precisely how Palantir guarantees confidentiality under each case.
Revisioning Database
Bob McGrew, Director of Engineering, outlines Palantir’s Revisioning Database and explains why it’s important, what it does, and how it works.
Architecture and Scalability
Brian Schimpf speaks about Palantir’s server architecture, with a specific emphasis on its scale characteristics.
Application APIs
Dr. Asher Sinensky presents an overview of Palantir’s open APIs and Palantir’s fundamental belief that this openness will lead to long-term customer success over inflexible, closed, and proprietary solutions.
Open Platform
Brian Schimpf presents about Palantir’s open and extensible platform. He explains how Palantir fits into your current IT infrastructure as well as how Palantir can be extended
to meet custom needs.
XML Formats
Ari Gordon-Schlosberg, Senior Software Engineer and author of Palantir’s XML formats, speaks to the forethought, goals, and ultimate outcome of Palantir’s two open XML formats.
