Palantir Foundry vs SAP Data Services comparison

Palantir and SAP are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Palantir is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while SAP is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.1. Palantir holds a 2.1% mindshare in DI, compared to SAP’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Palantir users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAP Data Services and Palantir Foundry compete in the data processing and integration category. While SAP Data Services is favored for its robustness in data migration and integration, Palantir Foundry has the upper hand in data visualization and real-time analysis capabilities.

Features: SAP Data Services offers robust data integration and migration, data cleansing, data lineage, and strong SAP system integration. Palantir Foundry provides exceptional data visualization tools, data cataloging, and real-time processing capabilities, suitable for comprehensive data analysis.

Room for Improvement: SAP Data Services could enhance parallel batch job handling, web services integration, and improve error logging. More compatibility with big data solutions and dynamic scheduling capabilities is needed. Palantir Foundry could reduce setup time, improve documentation, enhance frontend functionalities, and lower costs, while making data export intuitive and expanding Python package support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP Data Services is primarily deployed on-premises or private clouds, with generally well-rated customer service, though some support is considered slow. Palantir Foundry is often used in public cloud setups, appealing for large-scale operations, with room for faster response times for non-technical users.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Data Services offers usage-based pricing, beneficial for smaller organizations but potentially expensive for high data volumes, though seen as providing good ROI. Palantir Foundry's pricing is high but considered justifiable for large enterprises, with costs proportional to reduced development effort required.

To learn more, read our detailed Palantir Foundry vs. SAP Data Services Report (Updated: January 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry

Ranking in Data Integration

12th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Operations Analytics (10th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (11th), Data Migration Appliances (3rd), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (1st), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)

SAP Data Services

Ranking in Data Integration

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Quality (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 2.1%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP Data Services is 1.4%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SAP Data Services	1.4%
Palantir Foundry	2.1%
Other	96.5%

Data Integration

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SRINIVAS RATHOD

Architect at L&T Technology Services

Finds security and customization features impressive, although cost concerns persist

My experience with Palantir Foundry and Azure has been good. Palantir Foundry is costly, but Azure is open, which allows for easier experimentation. Being a closed product, Palantir Foundry is difficult to practice offline unless we have an enterprise edition. However, it is very secure compared to other platforms. Palantir Foundry's best features include security, built-in features, low-code, no-code platform, and ease of use. The collaborative workspaces within Palantir Foundry contribute to team efficiency and project outcomes through seamless operation. The ease of customization is particularly notable. I have worked with the data lineage feature in Palantir Foundry, which comes by default. We simply need to tick the checkbox and make necessary configuration changes within the system itself. We do not need to procure another lineage platform as Palantir Foundry has its own built-in features for data lineage, data governance, and data security. The lineage feature helps enhance our data management practices by allowing us to understand the origin of data, track all activities happening on the data, identify users and consumers, and monitor how it flows across the system. This makes it easier to generate reports based on the lineage database. The predictive analytics capability within Palantir Foundry impacts financial forecasting strategies through its AIP functionality, which includes numerous pre-built models, LLMs, and data science application libraries. Using the AIP library within Palantir Foundry helps us develop quick resolutions for predictive models and analytics.

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reviewer2686500

SAP BI Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

Integration has become more robust and seamless

SAP Data Services is mainly used for extraction of data, and it works with all databases. The flows and everything are configured effectively. One of the most valuable features is that it is integrated. Compared to the past, it is much more robust and easier to use. The only issue is that documentation is not up to the mark. The data quality management features support our business because we can fetch anything based on the requirements. Before, we used to have a tough time getting data, but now, with HANA and all these tools, it is seamless.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I rate Palantir Foundry a ten out of ten."

"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."

"I like the data onboarding to Palantir Foundry and ETL creation."

"It is easy to map out a workflow and run trigger-based scripts without having to deploy to another server."

"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."

"The virtualization tool is useful."

"It's scalable."

"Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration."

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"The solution is easy to use since it's a graphical tool. It also requires only low-level coding."

"Data Services' best features are its robustness and plug-and-play integration with other SAP applications."

"The most valuable feature of SAP Data Services is the integration with data sources."

"The HANA database, which is very fast, is a valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature is the logging capability."

"The best advantages of SAP Data Services are the good scalability and high customer satisfaction."

"I have worked with Data Services for a long time, and currently, I find the dashboarding and reporting part to be the most valuable function."

"It is a powerful product with a broad range of features."

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Cons

"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."

"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."

"The startup pricing is high, causing concern despite being cost-effective in terms of total cost of ownership."

"The major hindrance with Palantir Foundry is that being a very closed product, the cost optimization and costing are not exposed to the end users."

"Difficult to receive data from external sources."

"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."

"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."

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"The support is poor because of the time and the knowledge of the support team."

"Newer feature integration is lagging behind the company acquisitions and the product could do more to service a broader range of devices."

"We encounter challenges while exporting implemented rules, such as those applied to objects like the material master, into a format like Excel for documentation and further analysis."

"I want some more business intelligence applications. People need to know more and more about data, including the transformation rules, etc. Informatica is a better product for data cataloging. SAP should update the data catalog."

"With SAP Data Services, the problem arises when I try to connect to Azure Databricks."

"The skillset of data engineers matters a bit to use all the functionality of this solution. Otherwise, the delivery speed won't be faster."

"The execution engines and processing engines have shortcomings and need improvements."

"The initial setup is complex."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's expensive."

"The solution’s pricing is high."

"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."

"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."

"The price is very reasonable."

"It's relatively expensive compared to other vendors, but it is competitive."

"Its pricing is as per the enterprise agreement and not a concern for us."

"There is a one time purchase fee plus annual maintenance."

"The product’s on-premise version is expensive for a medium-sized company."

"The enterprise version of SAP Data Services is free."

"At the entry level, if you're using it only for data integration, it is a little bit cheap. However, for large organizations it can be expensive. There are additional costs apart from the license."

"The license price is expensive but medium to large-scale companies, should be able to afford it. Other solutions, such as Talend are easier to afford for smaller companies. Depending on the sources of the data where you are receiving your data you could be paying for more than one license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Government

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	36

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?

Apart from the pricing and offline availability issues, improvements are needed in Palantir Foundry's costing factor. Cost-wise, it is not open for everybody, and they are not exposing anything out...

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What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?

One of the leading European manufacturing plants uses Palantir Foundry for manufacturing interior parts of various car brands such as Honda, Hyundai, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW. This involves hig...

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What advice do you have for others considering Palantir Foundry?

Palantir Foundry is an excellent product for data engineering. On a scale of one to 10, I would rate Palantir Foundry a 9.

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How do you evaluate the ratio of price to quality for SAP Data Services?

I believe the license for the product is fair, even though some competitors offer similar services at lower prices. The difference between the Edge edition and the next one up is significant in pr...

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Would you recommend SAP Data Services to complete beginners?

I think after some preparation, a beginner will be able to use SAP Data Services, however, if you are completely unprepared, you may have some issues. I think that in particular you will need a mo...

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How has SAP Data Services helped your organization?

SAP Data Services has helped our whole staff understand the data across various sources and systems within the company. Not everyone who works at my organization is an IT expert - most just have av...

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Also Known As

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SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects Data Integrator

Overview

Palantir Foundry is an enterprise data management platform offering comprehensive tooling for working with big data. Because it is an operating system made for modern enterprises, it is highly available and a continuously updated platform.

Palantir Foundry is a fully managed SaaS platform that spans from cloud hosting and data integration to flexible analytics, visualization, model-building, operational decision-making, and decision capture. It equips technical and non-technical users to make data-driven operational decisions.

Palantir Foundry includes tools to integrate data of any scale, format, or structure, and also has granular, flexible access controls for individual datasets. In addition, it has an open, modular architecture with multiple RESTful APIs, it has native applications for developing machine learning and artificial intelligence, it provides sophisticated data science applications for users of all technical abilities, and much more.

Palantir Foundry Features

The most valuable Palantir Foundry features include:

Security, flexibility, interoperability, easy deployment, built-in role classification, purpose-based access controls, interoperable architecture, model integration, AI modeling tools, ontology, custom workflows, team-specific applications, self-serve analytics, lineage system, operational application building, 200+ data connectors, data versioning, change management framework, sand decision orchestration, and custom dashboard and report building tools.

With Palantir Foundry You Can:

Accelerate development & operations
Collaborate globally
Save time on security
Reduce costs

Palantir Foundry Benefits

Some of the many Palantir Foundry benefits include:

Modular: Because Palantir Foundry is modular, it can integrate with existing infrastructure.
Granular governance: Robust data governance controls help ensure seamless compliance, auditability, and security.
Secure data sharing: The security infrastructure allows you to share data securely, within organizations and with chosen partners.
Rapid integration: Palantir Foundry can rapidly integrate models and data from data platforms into an operational ontology, and can also fuel existing data platforms.
Stand-alone deployment: Palantir Foundry can be deployed standalone and can provide all necessary capabilities for data connection, data integration, and model building.
Prevent lock-in: The data and model integration suites are designed to prevent lock-in, and assume that tools will be interoperating with Palantir Foundry as an organization grows.
No SQL necessary: Users do not have to use SQL queries or employ engineers to write strings in order to search petabytes of data. With Palantir Foundry, natural language is used to query data and results are returned in real-time.
Excellent data integration: Palantir Foundry provides secure, scalable, and resilient integration of all data sources.
Availability: The Palantir platform uses DNS routing, gateways and elastic load balancing to ensure availability. Dedicated accounts and virtual resources are used on a per customer basis.
Multiple metrics types: The Palantir platform provides hundreds of metrics. Some include average session length, drop-off rate, number of logins per user, number of accounts, and search speed.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot users like Palantir Foundry because it has many advantages:

“It is user-friendly, good automation, and allows you to do a better job of data governance.” - Associate, Inhouse Consulting at a pharma/biotech company

“Works seamlessly with good end-to-end capabilities and the capability to scale.” - Wallace H., Sr. Director at a tech services company

Palantir

SAP Data Services is a top-ranking data integration and data quality tool. This is a product that aims to provide its users with effective access to their data in order to transform it and connect it to various business processes. SAP Data Services offers companies detailed data insights which improve decision-making and make company operations more effective.

Organizations can increase the value of their structured and unstructured data with the functionalities of this product regarding data integration, quality, and cleansing. Through various components such as:

Simplified maintenance
On-premises deployment
Data quality and integration
Intuitive user interfaces

the product transforms data into a ready-to-use resource for business insights.

Some of the key components of SAP Data Services include:

Universal data access
Native-text data processing
Intuitive user interfaces
Data quality dashboards
Simplified data governance
Scalability and high performance

Through these components, the product allows its clients to access and integrate data sources and targets with native connectors. Users can derive meaning from unstructured text data, match data to reduce duplicates, and see the impact of data quality issues. The tool also offers the option to enable parallel processing, bulk data loading, and grid computing for high-volume data loads.

SAP Data Services Features

The solution has different features for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and processing of text data. Using these features, clients can manage their company's data easily and achieve excellent results by optimizing it. Some of the product’s features include:

Data integration capabilities: The features regarding data integration provide a wide variety of opportunities. The product is available in 31 languages and connects to many data sources, providing its clients with access to their data anywhere at any time. It is also integrated with the SAP Business Suite applications, allowing users the full experience that the company has to offer. The tool is interconnected with SAP Data Hub, orchestrating data flows through the SAP Data Intelligence solution. Additionally, it supports a large number of third-party data sources, it is optimized for SAP HANA, and provides fine-tuned data replication and transformation through unique mechanisms.
Data quality capabilities: Clients can use a single interface to access designing, testing, debugging, editing, running, maintaining, and monitoring of data integration and data quality. It allows for the delivery of ready-to-use transformations and exposes hidden problems in users' data. With this feature, clients can build a single version of their data that is most efficient for them.
Data profiling capabilities: Companies that work with high-volume data can employ parallel processing, bulk data loading, and grid computing to be able to operate with the data more efficiently. This feature enables unlimited scalability and high availability by various automations. It also provides excellent security for the treated data through encryption and other services.
Processing of text data capabilities: This feature allows users to extract data from unstructured texts and understand it better. It works with 220 different file and text formats and 31 languages.

SAP Data Services Benefits

This solution offers various benefits to its clients regarding the efficient operation of their data. The key benefits of SAP Data Services include:

Broad access to data which can build a better perspective for companies of their information.
Improved decision-making and information management due to efficient data operations.
Ability to utilize various tools to help unify data on premises, in the cloud, or within big data.
The software provides efficient insight for reporting and data analytics.
The tool allows for easy integration with a large number of different databases.
The product provides the opportunity to seamlessly connect with other SAP solutions.
The solution simplifies extract, transform, and load (ETL) construction processes through intuitive graphic software.

Reviews from Real Users

According to Michael Lutz, senior data warehouse developer at Fox Chase Cancer Center, SAP Data Services is a powerful tool that does a lot.

An associate consultant at a consultancy says the tool is easy to use, simple to implement, and offers very good mapping capabilities.

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Sample Customers

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

EMC Corporation, LivePerson, Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Migros Group

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