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ANSWERS @2026
Ontology - ANSWERS💫✔️-- an operational layer for the organization.
- sits on top of the digital assets integrated into the Palantir platform (datasets and models) and
connects them to their real-world counterparts, ranging from physical assets like plants, equipment, and
products to concepts like customer orders or financial transactions.
- serves as a digital twin of the organization, containing both the semantic elements (objects, properties,
links) and kinetic elements (actions, functions, dynamic security) needed to enable use cases of all types.
Ontology semantic elements - ANSWERS💫✔️-objects, properties, links
Ontology kinetic elements - ANSWERS💫✔️-actions, functions, dynamic security
objects, properties, and links - ANSWERS💫✔️-Defining the semantics of your organization happens by
mapping existing datasources into
Action types and Functions - ANSWERS💫✔️-The kinetics of the organization—enabling change while
complying with organizational controls and governance—are defined in the Ontology using
Functions - ANSWERS💫✔️-provide a way to author and evolve business logic with arbitrary complexity.
Interface - ANSWERS💫✔️--an Ontology type that describes the shape of an object type and its
capabilities.
-provide object type polymorphism, allowing for consistent modeling of and interaction with object
types that share a common shape.
Object Views - ANSWERS💫✔️-are a central hub for all information and workflows related to a particular
object. This includes key "biographical data" about an object, any linked objects, key related metrics,
and links to (or embedding of) key analyses, dashboards, and applications related to the object.ho
,Object Explorer - ANSWERS💫✔️--a search and analysis tool for answering questions about anything in
the Ontology layer.
-requires no pre-configuration and is geared towards less technical users.
Quiver - ANSWERS💫✔️--enables advanced analytical workflows in the Ontology layer through a visual
point-and-click interface and a powerful charting library. - can be used to support anything from simple
linear drill-down analyses to highly-branched and complex analyses with aggregations and statistical
functions.
- also supports native time series analysis.
- analyses can be templatized into read-only dashboards for broader consumption.
Workshop - ANSWERS💫✔️--enables point-and-click code-less application-building natively on the
Ontology layer.
-Applications built are more dynamic and interactive than typical dashboards created in other point-
and-click tools.
- as user-friendly and high-quality as custom React applications
Slate - ANSWERS💫✔️--a flexible application builder for Foundry that requires more technical
configuration and code than Workshop.
- applications interact with the Ontology layer, but can also interact directly with Foundry datasets.
- enables significant visual customization based on web development paradigms and has a wide range of
available features, but also requires more technical knowledge to build and maintain applications than
Workshop.
Carbon - ANSWERS💫✔️-- enables combining multiple resources or applications in Foundry to create
highly curated workspaces for operational users. By allowing you to combine analytical results such as
dashboards, applications built in Workshop or Slate, and out-of-the-box capabilities such as Object
Views and Object Explorer, it enables workflow builder to perform the "last mile" of customization to
create a highly tailored and usable experience for end users.
- can provide a focused experience for less technical users that need to carry out critical operational
workflows.
Map - ANSWERS💫✔️-application allows you to bring together and analyze objects and other data in a
geospatial context.
, Application Comparison - ANSWERS💫✔️-see PNG
Main Use Cases - ANSWERS💫✔️-Discovery, Analysis, Dashboards, and Applications.
Discovery - ANSWERS💫✔️-- enables users to find the right information or workflow.
- is primarily enabled through two core features: curated content hubs and search.
Analysis - ANSWERS💫✔️-enables users to answer a broad range of questions.
Dashboards - ANSWERS💫✔️-- are sets of pre-configured visualizations consumed primarily in a read-
only fashion by a broader set of consumer users.
- are often used to turn meaningful Analyses into recurring reporting or operational monitoring.
- are characterized by a large number of charts and other visualizations, but are not as customizable or
interactive as Applications (see below).
- are often parameterized such that users can filter down the visualizations to different subsets of data.
Applications - ANSWERS💫✔️-- are interactive custom operational interfaces intended for a specific user
group to solve a specific problem.
- are often more complex than dashboards and are oriented at enabling users to follow a specific and
on-rails workflow.
Workflow Styles - ANSWERS💫✔️-1. Exploratory
2. Workflow- specific
Exploratory applications - ANSWERS💫✔️-- do not need to be pre-configured by a "builder" user and are
used out-of-the-box by end users as soon as data has been modeled into the Ontology.
- the end-user defines their analytical path, and can answer a wide range of questions that are not pre-
determined.
- typically contain a set of search, visualization, and transformation features to enable this. Object-aware
ANSWERS @2026
Ontology - ANSWERS💫✔️-- an operational layer for the organization.
- sits on top of the digital assets integrated into the Palantir platform (datasets and models) and
connects them to their real-world counterparts, ranging from physical assets like plants, equipment, and
products to concepts like customer orders or financial transactions.
- serves as a digital twin of the organization, containing both the semantic elements (objects, properties,
links) and kinetic elements (actions, functions, dynamic security) needed to enable use cases of all types.
Ontology semantic elements - ANSWERS💫✔️-objects, properties, links
Ontology kinetic elements - ANSWERS💫✔️-actions, functions, dynamic security
objects, properties, and links - ANSWERS💫✔️-Defining the semantics of your organization happens by
mapping existing datasources into
Action types and Functions - ANSWERS💫✔️-The kinetics of the organization—enabling change while
complying with organizational controls and governance—are defined in the Ontology using
Functions - ANSWERS💫✔️-provide a way to author and evolve business logic with arbitrary complexity.
Interface - ANSWERS💫✔️--an Ontology type that describes the shape of an object type and its
capabilities.
-provide object type polymorphism, allowing for consistent modeling of and interaction with object
types that share a common shape.
Object Views - ANSWERS💫✔️-are a central hub for all information and workflows related to a particular
object. This includes key "biographical data" about an object, any linked objects, key related metrics,
and links to (or embedding of) key analyses, dashboards, and applications related to the object.ho
,Object Explorer - ANSWERS💫✔️--a search and analysis tool for answering questions about anything in
the Ontology layer.
-requires no pre-configuration and is geared towards less technical users.
Quiver - ANSWERS💫✔️--enables advanced analytical workflows in the Ontology layer through a visual
point-and-click interface and a powerful charting library. - can be used to support anything from simple
linear drill-down analyses to highly-branched and complex analyses with aggregations and statistical
functions.
- also supports native time series analysis.
- analyses can be templatized into read-only dashboards for broader consumption.
Workshop - ANSWERS💫✔️--enables point-and-click code-less application-building natively on the
Ontology layer.
-Applications built are more dynamic and interactive than typical dashboards created in other point-
and-click tools.
- as user-friendly and high-quality as custom React applications
Slate - ANSWERS💫✔️--a flexible application builder for Foundry that requires more technical
configuration and code than Workshop.
- applications interact with the Ontology layer, but can also interact directly with Foundry datasets.
- enables significant visual customization based on web development paradigms and has a wide range of
available features, but also requires more technical knowledge to build and maintain applications than
Workshop.
Carbon - ANSWERS💫✔️-- enables combining multiple resources or applications in Foundry to create
highly curated workspaces for operational users. By allowing you to combine analytical results such as
dashboards, applications built in Workshop or Slate, and out-of-the-box capabilities such as Object
Views and Object Explorer, it enables workflow builder to perform the "last mile" of customization to
create a highly tailored and usable experience for end users.
- can provide a focused experience for less technical users that need to carry out critical operational
workflows.
Map - ANSWERS💫✔️-application allows you to bring together and analyze objects and other data in a
geospatial context.
, Application Comparison - ANSWERS💫✔️-see PNG
Main Use Cases - ANSWERS💫✔️-Discovery, Analysis, Dashboards, and Applications.
Discovery - ANSWERS💫✔️-- enables users to find the right information or workflow.
- is primarily enabled through two core features: curated content hubs and search.
Analysis - ANSWERS💫✔️-enables users to answer a broad range of questions.
Dashboards - ANSWERS💫✔️-- are sets of pre-configured visualizations consumed primarily in a read-
only fashion by a broader set of consumer users.
- are often used to turn meaningful Analyses into recurring reporting or operational monitoring.
- are characterized by a large number of charts and other visualizations, but are not as customizable or
interactive as Applications (see below).
- are often parameterized such that users can filter down the visualizations to different subsets of data.
Applications - ANSWERS💫✔️-- are interactive custom operational interfaces intended for a specific user
group to solve a specific problem.
- are often more complex than dashboards and are oriented at enabling users to follow a specific and
on-rails workflow.
Workflow Styles - ANSWERS💫✔️-1. Exploratory
2. Workflow- specific
Exploratory applications - ANSWERS💫✔️-- do not need to be pre-configured by a "builder" user and are
used out-of-the-box by end users as soon as data has been modeled into the Ontology.
- the end-user defines their analytical path, and can answer a wide range of questions that are not pre-
determined.
- typically contain a set of search, visualization, and transformation features to enable this. Object-aware
