{"id":1008551,"date":"2026-05-18T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008551"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T06:05:36","slug":"palantirs-top-exec-says-saas-is-dead-but-why-not-software-engineering-says-it-means-engineers-can-go-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/palantirs-top-exec-says-saas-is-dead-but-why-not-software-engineering-says-it-means-engineers-can-go-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Palantir\u2019s top exec says SaaS is dead, but why not software engineering; says it means: Engineers can go and \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional \u201cSoftware as a Service\u201d (SaaS) business model is officially dead, a top executive at data analytics giant Palantir has declared. Danny Lukus, a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies, claims that the rise of generative AI has made the old, expensive method of buying and configuring mass-market software completely obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Forbes, Lukus noted that while SaaS might be on its deathbed, the news isn&#8217;t bad for software engineering. Instead, AI tools mean forward-deployed engineers can now build highly customised, ultra-specific corporate software in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional \u201cSoftware as a Service\u201d (SaaS) business model is officially dead, a top executive at data analytics giant Palantir has declared. Danny Lukus, a deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies, claims that the rise of generative AI has made the old, expensive method of buying and configuring mass-market software completely obsolete. According to a report by Forbes, Lukus noted that while SaaS might be on its deathbed, the news isn&#8217;t bad for software engineering. Instead, AI tools mean forward-deployed engineers can now build highly customised, ultra-specific corporate software in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}