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Meet the latest evolution of watsonx.data

Our enhanced hybrid, open lakehouse goes beyond simple access, delivering seamless data integration, enrichment and governance so you can improve the accuracy of your AI by up to 40%.1

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Data management made easy

Built for gen AI

Unify structured and unstructured data to improve gen AI accuracy and performance.
No code? No problem.

No-code, low-code and pro-code user experiences foster self-service access to data insights for your entire team.
Balance workloads, slash costs

A unique multi-engine architecture optimizes for price and performance so you can keep up with growing data volumes without busting your budget.
Works however you work

Run anywhere: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud or on premises.
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Simplify your data lifecycle for better AI

Fast, flexible and trustworthy

With IBM® watsonx.data®, you can automate the ingestion, enrichment and delivery of unstructured data at scale and unify it with structured data. The result? Context-aware and accurate AI that fuels confident decision-making.

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Contextualized data makes everyone smarter

Watsonx.data integration features a unified control plane that allows you to integrate both structured and unstructured data using a mix of styles—including batch, real-time streaming and replication—so you’re not wasting time and money toggling between tools.

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Trustworthy by design

Watsonx.data maintains end-to-end document lineage through all transformations and downstream derivatives. In addition, it ensures that data protections and user access restrictions are consistent throughout the data lifecycle. 

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Break silos, build flow

Built with the best of open source, watsonx.data unifies your data estate and extends your existing stack so you can avoid vendor lock-in and innovate with the best available technology. 

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Fast, flexible and trustworthy

With IBM® watsonx.data®, you can automate the ingestion, enrichment and delivery of unstructured data at scale and unify it with structured data. The result? Context-aware and accurate AI that fuels confident decision-making.

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Contextualized data makes everyone smarter

Watsonx.data integration features a unified control plane that allows you to integrate both structured and unstructured data using a mix of styles—including batch, real-time streaming and replication—so you’re not wasting time and money toggling between tools.

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Trustworthy by design

Watsonx.data maintains end-to-end document lineage through all transformations and downstream derivatives. In addition, it ensures that data protections and user access restrictions are consistent throughout the data lifecycle. 

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Break silos, build flow

Built with the best of open source, watsonx.data unifies your data estate and extends your existing stack so you can avoid vendor lock-in and innovate with the best available technology. 

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Become gen AI-ready

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Seamless, easy-to-use

A single, intuitive interface puts you in command of the entire data for AI lifecycle, so you can manage all your structured and unstructured data and scale accurate gen AI apps.
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More than a lakehouse

An integrated data fabric and data lakehouse architecture empowers you to unify, enrich, and deliver AI-ready data across data zones with integrated data access controls and governance.
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Right engine, right price

Reduce data warehouse costs by pairing individual workloads with fit-for-purpose engines such as Apache Spark™, Presto and Presto C++.
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Maximize your mainframe data

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By the numbers 40%

Achieve 40% more accurate AI than conventional RAG with watsonx.data.1

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Workload optimization can reduce your data warehouse costs by as much as 50%2

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A new era of AI takes off

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Simplifying the user experience

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Footnotes

1 Based on internal testing comparing the answer correctness of AI model outputs using watsonx.data Premium Edition retrieval layer to vector-only RAG on three common use cases with IBM proprietary datasets using the same set of selected opensource commodity inferencing, judging and embedding models and additional variables. Results can vary.

2 When comparing published 2023 list prices normalized for VPC hours of watsonx.data to several major cloud data warehouse vendors. Savings might vary depending on configurations, workloads and vendor.