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Microsoft Fabric vs Palantir Foundry comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Fabric
Ranking in Data Management Platforms (DMP)
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Palantir Foundry
Ranking in Data Management Platforms (DMP)
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (13th), IT Operations Analytics (8th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (10th), Data Migration Appliances (3rd), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

PK
Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati
Unified data platform has enabled consistent analytics and rapid visualization for all teams
The most valuable and useful feature I have found in Microsoft Fabric is data consistency, which is the top thing. We use the cloud, so it is very fast because we do not use other servers such as Redshift or any other database servers. We just stage the data in Data Lake, which is their central cloud storage, and from there we pull; the retrieval speed and processing speed are very fast, which is an advantage. The integration with Power BI in Microsoft Fabric has influenced my data visualization by making it very simple; you just click on Power BI, select your Data Lake that is available, and from there, you can create your visualization. It would be very rapid compared to other sources or if you use the DirectQuery mode or import mode, which would be slower when compared to the Data Lake mode of pulling the data. I usually evaluate the effectiveness of Microsoft Fabric's data integration capabilities by comparing it to other services. When I do all the things on Microsoft Fabric, I feel it is better in integration because all different analysts or persons working on data simply come to Microsoft Fabric, get that license, and can do whatever they want; whether they want to do BI reporting, analyze, or create models, it would be on the same platform, making it really easy for them to perform their tasks. The integration across all applications is very comfortable for users.
BA
Associate Vice President at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Unified data workflows have empowered collaborative analytics and streamlined AI development
Regarding points for improvement for Palantir Foundry, I see that they are improving day by day. In the last one to two years, I have seen many improvements compared to the two years that I have worked on Palantir Foundry. There are many things that come up, but a few things are not intuitive enough. Now that we are in this AI phase, Palantir Foundry has created some wrappers around the models, allowing us to create using a no-code application, chatbots, and LLM functions. The problem is that interaction with outside applications can be difficult with the current setup that Palantir Foundry has. There are ways to do that, but it is not that intuitive, which is what I feel.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable and useful feature I have found in Microsoft Fabric is data consistency, which is the top thing."
"Great features available in one tool."
"The ease of use is my favorite feature. We're able to build different models and projects or combine different projects to build one use case."
"I like the data onboarding to Palantir Foundry and ETL creation."
"The interface is really user-friendly."
"This product has all the various components for getting data, transforming it and visually creating the dashboards without the need to integrate things and no need to check the compatibility."
"The data lineage is great."
"It's scalable."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
 

Cons

"I think the Copilot usage in Microsoft Fabric can be improved."
"The solution's visualization and analysis could be improved."
"The solution’s data security could be improved."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"Cost of this solution is quite high."
"There is not a wide user base for the solution's online documentation so it is sometimes difficult to find answers."
"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's expensive."
"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."
"The solution’s pricing is high."
"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
University
6%
 

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Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Microsoft Fabric?
I think the Copilot usage in Microsoft Fabric can be improved. Across all Microsoft Fabric platforms such as Power BI or data engineering and Azure Data Factory, they have integrated this Copilot, ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Fabric?
My usual use cases for Microsoft Fabric involve using it as a unified platform where we perform all data engineering tasks, all data analysis tasks, and all data ML models on the same platform beca...
What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Fabric?
In assessing Microsoft Fabric's security features, I think we never have a chance to manage the security features directly, but that would be taken care of by the Microsoft admins or the platform a...
What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?
Regarding points for improvement for Palantir Foundry, I see that they are improving day by day. In the last one to two years, I have seen many improvements compared to the two years that I have wo...
What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?
There are several use cases that we are working on with Palantir Foundry. The first thing is for data model creation for all our data engineering pipelines. That is one use case. Palantir Foundry a...
What advice do you have for others considering Palantir Foundry?
The visualization part in Palantir Foundry works for me at least if I want to see how the data is structured and for an initial analysis, but I would say it is not as matured as Power BI or Tableau...
 

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Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense
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