Watsonx.data: Your Enterprise-Grade Data Lakehouse Solution

Watsonx.data is a powerful, governed data store optimized for analytics and AI workloads, designed to help enterprises scale their capabilities while reducing costs. It offers a single point of access to your data, streamlining data management and improving data trustworthiness.

Key Features

• Open, Hybrid, and Governed Data Store: Access and share data seamlessly across diverse environments.
• Multi-Engine Support: Leverage Presto, Spark, Db2, and Netezza query engines for optimal performance and cost efficiency.
• Vendor-Agnostic Data Formats: Store data in Parquet, Avro, and Apache ORC formats.
• Shared Metadata Layer: Access all data through a single point of entry using Apache Iceberg.
• Built-in Governance, Security, and Automation: Enhance data trust and compliance.
• Semantic Automation with watsonx.ai: Discover, augment, refine, and visualize data and metadata.
• AI Model Lifecycle Management: Build, train, tune, deploy, and monitor AI models directly from the lakehouse.
• Simplified Data Engineering: Streamline data pipelines and transformations using SQL, Python, or a conversational interface.
• Self-Service Data Access: Empower users with secure and compliant access to data.

Benefits

• Cost Reduction: Reduce data warehouse costs by up to 50%.
• Improved Efficiency: Streamline data management and accelerate insights.
• Enhanced Data Trust: Benefit from built-in governance and security features.
• Scalability and Flexibility: Handle vast amounts of data and diverse workloads.
• AI-Powered Insights: Leverage AI models for enhanced data discovery and analysis.

Use Cases

• Large-scale analytics and AI initiatives.
• Data warehousing modernization and cost optimization.
• Building and deploying trusted AI models for mission-critical applications.
• Improving data accessibility and collaboration across teams.

Watsonx.data empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data for enhanced analytics and AI-driven decision-making.