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Discover, govern and protect high-quality data

An intelligent data catalog for the AI era

IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog is a data catalog tool that powers intelligent, self-service discovery of data, models and more. The cloud-based enterprise metadata repository activates information for AI, machine learning (ML) and deep learning. Access, curate, categorize and share data, knowledge assets and their relationships, wherever they reside.

You can deliver business-ready data to feed AI and analytics projects with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog for IBM Cloud Pak® for Data.

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Benefits

The core of your data and AI architecture

Reduce time to automate data discovery, quality and governance by up to 90%(1) with market-leading capabilities

Gain end-to-end governance

Create a common business glossary governance foundation. Customize to meet your requirements for better data understanding.

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Deliver quality data

Deliver timely, trusted, quality data with ML and automation. Help ensure a well-structured and maintained data lineage.

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Accelerate collaboration

Centralize management of external data connections to provide timely value to your organization and support better business decisions.

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Help protect and comply

Active policy management, role-based access control and dynamic masking of sensitive data help protect data to promote compliance and audit readiness.

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Features

Open, intelligent data cataloging

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Advanced discovery

Find relevant assets quickly and at scale based on intelligent recommendations from IBM Watson® and peers.

Operationalized quality

Track lineage and quality scores across structured data, unstructured data, AI models and notebooks.

Flexible deployment

Deploy on premises, on cloud, or fully managed as a service on IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

End-to-end catalog

Organize, define and manage enterprise data to provide the right context and drive value across needs like regulatory compliance and data monetization.

Automated governance

Protect data, manage compliance and audit-readiness, and maintain client trust with active policy management and dynamic masking of sensitive data.

Self-service insights

Consume and transform data at the speed of business with intuitive dashboards and flows that can be shared with peers or analytics tools.

Customer stories

Overcoming data privacy challenges

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Denmark's largest bank strategically evolves their data governance practice with IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog.

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Harnessing the power of data

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This African bank drives growth in challenging times with IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM DataOps solutions.

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Unleashing the predictive power of AI

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Wichita State University modernizes its infrastructure with IBM Cloud Pak for Data to help at-risk students.

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In the spotlight

Data privacy and AI protection

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Kick-start protection mapping, leveraging the foundation you may have already built for data privacy in the process.

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IBM DataOps methodology

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Learn the foundations of a DataOps practice and view a use case using IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog.

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Forrester Total Economic Impact report

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Discover how IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog services are contributing ROI up to 158% for your peers in the market.

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Search

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Global search

The global search bar is available all the time, no matter where users are in the navigation or what content they’re working.

Recommendations

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Search recommendations

As the user types, the drop-down shows a list of suggested search strings based on both the current user’s and previous users’ search strings.

Rules

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Data protection rules

Include classifications in the conditions for the data protection rules. For example, you can create a rule to deny access to certain users if the asset is classified as PII or confidential.

Workflow

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Workflow history

Users can view the full workflow activity history on any governance artifact including adds, updates and approvals.

Filtering

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Column filtering

Column filtering allows users to only analyze the data most relevant to their use case by scoping into or filtering out columns by name, column type or first N candidates.

Business terms

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Automatic business term assignment

Users can enable automatic business term assignment that is trained specific to your business’ terminology. It is continuously learning and improving based on users’ modifications.

Visualization

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Data quality visualization

Users can quickly visualize how their data quality has changed over time by data asset based on their specified time interval.

Preferences

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Saved preferences

Users can save time by having preferences saved to their account so that important details are preserved by the product no matter where you access it.

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IBM Knowledge Accelerators

Align concepts from industry regulations and standards with your business data to accelerate regulatory compliance.

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Footnote

“IBM Cloud Pak for Data enhances DataOps services to deliver business agility with cost savings and risk reduction,” Aliye Ozcan, May 2020