Comparison of Cloudera and Palantir. While not similar in terms of services provided, they are both heavily funded unicorns with contrasting business value levers.
10. PARTNERS
In the Hadoop galaxy, many pieces, or satellite
technologies are required to create a complete
system.
A ‘Distribution,’ such as Cloudera or Hortonworks
provide the required pieces in a bundle, & gains
an advantage by having many satellite partners to
create a complete ecosystem.
12. PALANTIR STRENGTH: PATENTS
• In 2008, Palantir was primarily pursuing patents
on technologies for managing large datasets, and
automated analysis.
• These two areas made up 70% of their patent
portfolio.
13. BY 2015, THE
TOP AREA OF
PURSUIT
SHIFTED TO
USER
INTERACTION
Chart credit: LexisNexis
14. IN 2018, WE
CAN SEE A
RISE IN
PATENTS ON
DATA
INTEGRATION
Chart credit: LexisNexis
15. PALANTIR STRENGTH: PATENTS
While Palantir’s patent portfolio continues to grow
[now 379 registered patents], it is still rather small
in comparison to others in the big data space.
However, the impact value of Palantir’s patents in
the space are double that of Alphabet, Amazon,
and Microsoft, and triple that of IBM.