Watsonx.data

Watsonx.data is a specialized data store tailored for enterprises to manage governed data and AI workloads effectively. Its purpose is to scale analytics and AI capabilities, allowing users to connect to various data sources, gain trusted insights, and reduce data warehouse costs. The tool optimizes all data, analytics, and AI workloads, featuring an open, hybrid, and governed data store that ensures secure data access and sharing. With a shared metadata layer, users can access data through a single entry point, while built-in governance, security, and automation enhance data trust. Watsonx.data supports various query engines like Presto, Spark, Db2, and Netezza, dynamically scaling to lower analytics expenses. It also enables data storage in vendor-agnostic open formats, simplifying data sharing across multiple engines. Additionally, the platform incorporates semantic automation to visualize and refine data using watsonx.ai models. Businesses can build, train, deploy, and monitor AI models with data from the lakehouse, complying with lineage and reproducibility requirements. Watsonx.data streamlines data engineering, transformation, and enrichment through SQL, Python, or an AI-powered conversational interface, supporting self-service access while ensuring security and governance.