Palantir (Pty) Ltd
Project Management in Sandton

Palantir (Pty) Ltd has been providing custom developed software and consulting services to many South African companies since 2001, including some of the biggest financial companies. Delivery is focused on the most important business requirements first, seminars, getting them into testing as quickly as possible.To other software development companies we offer mentoring services, and quality improvement workshops. Palantir has recently released Signate 2010, it's flagship document management software.Palantir offer a wide range of services around software development, driving projects with a focus on actual customer requirements together with constant feedback. We are also interested in assisting with product incubation.

We deliver innovative and well-engineered solutions, delivered by passionate, talented staff who understand both software and financial services. Our 3 Executive Directors have over 65 years of combined experience in software development, with almost 40 of those years being in treasury, asset management, and capital markets. Their expertise and insight will ensure that your software solutions will exceed all expectations. Our delivery teams are small, but carefully selected from the best in the field: all high-performance, high-impact individuals. All of them are required to acquire certifications and qualifications in financial services in order to ensure they are able to deliver effective solutions and ask the right questions from the very first moment. They deliver new customer value, and either meet new needs, or old needs in new ways. Innovation provides a multiplier effect to your investment. Innovation is what separates the mundane from the delightful. Every single Palantir employee is constantly challenged to deliver on our innovation promise, and we have a proven history of delivering original solutions for ingenious companies. The very best software developers are 10 times more productive than their similarly experienced peers. These developers are the biggest bargains in the software field. We then make them even more effective and productive by careful tool, process, and technique selection. This delivers excellent results, as our history attests. We only hire people who are truly passionate about software. We love software, the malleability of it, software is both a creative and liberating art and is also at the same time a rigorous engineering discipline. Our people are craftsmen who put their heart and soul into their solutions. For us, the Palantir signature on a system is a mark of pride. Palantir has put a Continuing Professional Development Programme in place for it’s technical staff. They are required to achieve a certain amount of learning each year to ensure they stay current. This initiative is part of our focus on making Software Engineering a truly professional discipline. Our staff are expected to continually be improving their skills and abilities. It is supportable, documented, and rigorously tested. Software engineering is all about the management of complexity, and our first focus is on restricting unnecessary complexity. Our reliability focus operates on several levels: people, process, tools, metrics, and hardware are all controlled to deliver software you can depend on. At Palantir we are ruthless about our engineering discipline. It is not enough to have the best people and give them the best tools, these teams need to be doing effective work, and need to know immediately if they are off-track, so that they can correct their course. Palantir’s relentless focus on excellent software engineering results in software that is easy to deploy, test, and support. We have established solutions to problems most teams aren’t even aware they have.