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Maybe this demo reel makes sense to their target customers, but it made very little sense to me. Not sure if it really tells a story to members of the general population.

Also, I personally felt that the "eye candy" wasn't so impressive. Looked like any other ERP/B2B system out there. Aside from the criminal clip art and the maps, it might as well have been.

Music was grating after 30 seconds as well.

Still dig the company name though.

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This demo reel was culled from our myriad online workflow demos. You can find them linked off of our main website or directly on the two analysis blogs:

http://www.palantirtech.com/government/analysis-blog http://www.palantirfinance.com/analysis-blog/

or from the pfinance splash reel:

http://www.palantirfinance.com/

Seen as part of the demos they were pulled from, it will make more sense.

I liked it OK, but strongly suggest you either use a player with a volume control or process the volume on the music before you make the flash, especially if you're going to use dance music that stays pinned in the red :)

The key points about the visualizations are twofold:

- They're good, interactive, snappy, and compelling. - They're general purpose tools backed by real data, where the data is application specific, not the tools.

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