[c1b]

As someone familiar with the USG data management tech landscape — it’s probably because it’s by far the best product with no remotely close second.

[worik]

> As someone familiar with the USG data management tech landscape — it’s probably because it’s by far the best product with no remotely close second.

That is sweetly naive, unless you are talking about their marketing department

[c1b]

Let me rephrase: I am extremely familiar with the USG data management tech landscape.

[brobinson]

What are the better products that are available?

[cedws]

Which product specifically? As I understand Palantir has several products and the NHS isn't buying one of them but paying for something bespoke.

[SushiHippie]

https://www.palantir.com/uk/healthcare/

They are using palantir foundry, which is palantir's big data platform, or how they call it: "The Ontology-Powered Operating System for the Modern Enterprise"

[SushiHippie]

What would be the second in your opinion, even if it's not close?

[c1b]

It varies by agency — either something built in house (very bad) or built by a company that knows how to acquire government contracts, of which there are few - the set of which frankly always has worse tech than Palantir. If product efficacy is not absolutely critical, the acquisition process will be driven by nepotism or other forms of corruption.

As an example for the second case in DoD space, there’s Advana.