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Overview of Product
Watsonx.data Intelligence delivers advanced data governance capabilities through a modern data catalog (formerly IBM Knowledge Catalog). It empowers enterprises to automate data discovery, ensure data quality, and enforce data protection across diverse environments. By leveraging active metadata, it transforms your metadata repository into a powerful engine for AI, ML, and deep learning. Easily find, understand, curate, manage, and access all your data and knowledge assets—whether on cloud or on-premises—while maintaining governance and compliance.
Why Choose IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog?
Accelerate data discovery and governance with AI-powered search and automated metadata enrichment, significantly reducing manual effort.
Leverage prebuilt knowledge accelerators and shared glossaries to deliver consistent, trusted, high-quality data organization-wide.
Track end-to-end data lineage with governed catalogs, ensuring complete visibility into data flow and enhancing organizational trust.
Apply data classification, masking, and access policies to safeguard sensitive information while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Enable users to efficiently discover, access, and utilize trusted data through enriched metadata, intuitive search, and seamless, user-friendly interfaces.
Automate privacy rule enforcement and metadata tagging with advanced LLM models, ensuring robust protection of data enterprise-wide.
What the Numbers say?
>70% reduction in compliance labor costs
>90% faster metadata enrichment
~55% decrease in data search time
Features
Use AI-powered smart suggestions from IBM Watson® to quickly locate relevant data assets and enable faster decision-making across teams.
Interpret, assess, and monitor data quality in business context across millions of assets—regardless of format or location—for trusted and consistent performance.
Deploy on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments via IBM Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx.data for tailored scalability and control.
Efficiently organize, define, and manage enterprise-wide data for regulatory compliance and greater value.
Automate and enforce data usage policies to ensure privacy, security, and compliance through advanced controls and real-time enforcement.
Empower users with intuitive dashboards and trusted data access, enabling collaboration, AI-driven analytics, and faster secure self-service.
Key Facts
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is a leading solution for intelligent data governance.
Provides an end-to-end solution for data discovery, lineage, and governance.
Offers a 360-degree view of your data, ensuring transparency and trust at every step.
What The Users Say
Leading enterprises from a range of industries have trusted IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog to streamline their data management processes. By enhancing collaboration and promoting data quality, these organizations have seen marked improvements in their AI initiatives and business intelligence efforts. Join top companies in the quest for optimized data governance.
FAQs
IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is a metadata management and data governance tool that allows organizations to discover, curate, categorize, and govern data assets across hybrid cloud environments.
The catalog automates data classification and uses AI-powered recommendations to surface high-quality, trusted data assets, reducing search time and improving data usability for analytics.
Absolutely. It provides robust policy enforcement, including role-based access control, data masking, and approval workflows to ensure data is accessed securely and in compliance with internal rules.
Metadata enrichment involves automatically tagging data assets with context such as sensitivity, ownership, and relationships. This is done via AI-driven scanning and lineage tracing, boosting data quality and governance.
The catalog aids in compliance with standards like GDPR and CCPA by allowing organizations to manage sensitive data, apply consent policies, and track data lineage for auditing purposes.
Yes, teams can annotate datasets, assign stewards, share curated assets, and track usage metrics. This drives a data-first culture across departments.
Watson Knowledge Catalog supports structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across on-premise, cloud, and SaaS platforms, including Db2, Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon S3, and more.
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