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SAP BW/SAC vs Palantir Foundry: A Data Architecture Comparison Guide
Comparing SAP BW/4HANA/SAC reporting architecture with Palantir Foundry’s Ontology architecture through a concept mapping table and an equipment-management example, and when to run both together. -
Foundry Data Integration Guide: Data Connections to Pipelines
Who This Article Is For This is for data engineers evaluating or just starting on Foundry, or anyone who’s heard plenty about the Ontology but is curious how data actually gets in before any of that. If you’ve worked with ERP or internal system integrations, comparing this against familiar concepts like ETL and connectors will […] -
FDE vs. PI Consultant vs. Solution Architect: The Real Difference
Summary — FDE, PI Consultant, and Solution Architect all work somewhere between the business and the technology, but what they actually produce and how far their responsibility extends differ quite a bit. An FDE ships a working application, a PI Consultant redesigns and gets sign-off on a business process, and a Solution Architect designs structure […] -
How Foundry Actually Stores Data: ELT (Not ETL), and OSv2
Why Palantir Foundry stores data as file-based Datasets with Git-like branches and transactions, and how OSv2 turns that into an ontology’s actual storage layer.
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Palantir Foundry Architecture Overview: From Connect to AI in Five Layers
Why does Foundry have so many applications? A practitioner’s map of the five-layer architecture — Connect, Pipeline, Ontology, Applications, AI — and how it differs from a traditional BI/ETL stack.