IBM watsonx.data intelligence

The IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is useful for data collection and storage within our company. It makes it simple to upload and access data when it is needed. We use this software for all of our data management needs. It is helpful to address issues with excessive amounts of data or needing to store documents for a specific amount of time.

The IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog is most well suited for large companies. With large companies storing data for a long amount of time, this can be helpful to allow all team members to find documents with ease. It would be less appropriate for storage that is deleted very often or does not needs to be saved for long amounts of time.

We use it to perform data discovery in various databases (Oracle, SAP, SQL, Cloud) and manage the corporate data catalog, in addition to applying personal data governance rules to comply with LGPD and GDPR. The tool contributed to the implementation of data governance policies and the data privacy program, mainly with the ease of discovering personal data.

It's great for data discovery and analyzing the quality of that data, and it's great for managing that catalog with strong rules and policies. It has an easy policy management and data governance rules and has a very good graphic tool to show the integration between business terms and physical data not good for managing data privacy and mapping personal data handling processes

Data Catalogue is still not a widely adopted concept particularly because of the maturity level of information technology as a concept in capital intensive industries. I can speak particularly for the Energy sector where there is a gradual shift towards managing data as a service. Efforts are being made to look at the holistic system capabilities and IBM Watson Knowledge Catalogue definitely made the cut.

I think clients who are already on the IBM Ecosystem will immensely benefit from this tool. Also, it depends on the long term strategy of the organization. If the long term goal is to develop an Operations Business Intelligence Platform then tools provided by the IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog platform will be really good.