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United Airlines to deploy Palantir Foundry

By TechTaffy Desk

Palantir Technologies have inked a long-term relationship with United Airlines to deploy Palantir Foundry data integration platform for enterprise-wide data initiatives, across a range of critical business units as their central platform.

United is the first major US airline to deploy Foundry across its enterprise as part of its broader digital transformation effort, says Palantir in a statement.

The two companies have been working on a range of projects for the past year to bring together United’s data sources in an integrated platform.

[Image courtesy: United Airlines]

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