Services
IBM Cloud Pak® for Data includes numerous services that you can use to extend the functionality of Cloud Pak for Data.
- IBM services
- Many IBM-provided services are listed in the Services catalog in the Cloud Pak for Data web client. However, some IBM services are not listed in the Services catalog. These services are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- Third-party services
- A few third-party services are listed in the Services catalog. You can find a complete list of third-party services in the Partners catalog on the IBM Cloud Pak for Data community.
Some services are included in your purchase of Cloud Pak for Data. Other services are separately priced.
Accessing the Services catalog
To access the Services catalog, open the navigation menu and select .
You can click on the service that you want to learn more about.
What services are installed?
If a service is already installed, it is marked as either Available or Enabled:
- Available
- The service is installed, but an administrator must deploy an instance of the service before you can use it.
- Enabled
- The service is installed and ready to use. Depending on the service, you might need to be given explicit access to the service before you can use it.
IBM services
Services are grouped together based on their function.AI
The following table lists AI services provided by IBM. For information on AI services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| AI Factsheets * | Included with Cloud Pak for Data |
Use AI Factsheets to organize and track lineage events, facts, and details for each of your machine learning models' lifecycle, and increase transparency for model governance needs. |
| IBM® Match 360 with Watson™ | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Build a 360-degree view of your customers by matching data from disparate sources to create a single, complete, and trusted version of the truth. |
| Voice Gateway * | Separately priced | Enable direct voice interactions over a telephone with a cognitive self-service agent, transcribe phone calls for real-time feedback, and integrate Watson services with a public or private telephone network. |
| Watson Assistant | Separately priced | Build conversational interfaces into any app, device, or channel. |
| Watson Discovery | Separately priced | Find answers and uncover insights in your complex business content. |
| Watson Knowledge Studio * |
Included with Watson Discovery |
Teach Watson the language of your domain. |
| Watson Machine Learning | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Build and train machine learning models with tools for all skill levels. Deploy and manage models at scale. |
| Watson Machine Learning Accelerator * | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | A platform that delivers accelerated deep learning for data scientists. |
| Watson OpenScale | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Infuse your AI with trust and transparency. Understand how your AI models make decisions to detect and mitigate bias. |
| Watson Pipelines * | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Use Watson Pipelines and create end-to-end flows of machine learning pipelines to create models and customize various functions. |
| Watson Speech services * | Separately priced | Quickly convert audio and voice into written text with
Watson Speech
to Text Convert written text into natural-sounding speech with Watson Text to Speech |
| Watson Studio | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Unleash the power of your data. Build custom models and infuse your business with AI and machine learning. |
Analytics
The following table lists analytics services provided by IBM. For information on analytics services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics Engine Powered by Apache Spark | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Automatically spin up lightweight, dedicated Apache Spark clusters to run a wide range of workloads. |
| Cognos® Analytics | Separately priced | Self-service analytics, infused with AI and machine learning, enable you to create stunning visualizations and share your findings through dashboards and reports. |
| Data Refinery | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Simplify the process of preparing large amounts of raw data for analysis. |
| DataStage® | Separately priced | Effortlessly deliver data at the right time to the right place with integration, transformation, and delivery of data in batch and real time. |
| Db2® Big SQL | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Run fast analytical queries against object stores or HDFS with a cloud-native, distributed SQL query engine. |
| Decision Optimization | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Evaluate millions of possibilities to find the best solution to any given problem. |
| Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Explore data or build and deploy models on your Apache Hadoop cluster. |
| Planning Analytics | Separately priced | Easily create more accurate plans, budgets, and forecasts using data from across your business. |
| SPSS® Modeler | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Create flows to prepare and blend data, build and manage models, and visualize the results. |
Dashboards
The following table lists dashboard services provided by IBM. There are currently no dashboard services provided by third-party vendors.
| Service | Provided by | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognos Dashboards | IBM | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Identify patterns in your data with sophisticated visualizations. No coding needed. |
Data governance
The following table lists data governance services provided by IBM. For information on data governance services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Data Privacy * | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | De-identify sensitive data to preserve privacy while maintaining the utility of the data. |
| Product Master * | Separately priced | Aggregate, govern, and syndicate trusted product information across your organization. |
| Watson Knowledge Catalog | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Find the right data fast. Discover relevant, curated data assets using intelligent recommendations and user reviews. |
Data sources
The following table lists data source services provided by IBM. For information on data source services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Data Replication * | Separately priced | Integrate and synchronize your data using near-real-time data delivery with low impact to sources. |
| Db2 | Separately priced | Relational database that delivers advanced data management and analytics capabilities for transactional workloads. |
| Db2 Data Gate | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Extract, load, and synchronize mission-critical Db2 for z/OS® data for high volume transactional or analytic applications. |
| Db2 Data Management Console | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Administer, monitor, manage, and optimize your Db2 databases from a single web-based console. |
| Db2 Warehouse | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Data warehouse designed for high-performance, in-database analytics. Runs on a single node for cost-efficiency or on multiple nodes for improved performance. |
| EDB Postgres | Separately priced | An integrated portfolio of databases and tools that extend PostgreSQL for enterprise workloads. |
| Informix® * | Separately priced | A database that integrates TimeSeries, Spatial, NoSQL, and SQL data together with easy access via MQTT, REST, and MongoDB APIs. |
| MongoDB | Separately priced | Scalable, NoSQL database for enterprise deployments. |
| Virtual Data Pipeline | Separately priced | Access all the data you need for analytics and application testing without impacting
production databases.
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| Watson Query | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Query many data sources as one. |
Developer tools
The following table lists developer tool services provided by IBM. For information on developer tool services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data | Separately priced | Control and administer the repository of software packages that data scientists use in Jupyter notebooks. |
| RStudio® Server Runtimes | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Optional development environment for working with the R programming language. |
| Watson Studio Runtimes | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Development tools that you can use to create notebooks and experiments that train compute-intensive machine learning models in Watson Studio analytics projects. |
Industry solutions
Industry solutions are designed to help alleviate industry-specific issues.
The following table lists industry solution services provided by IBM. For information on industry solution services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| OpenPages® | Separately priced | Identify, manage, monitor, and report on risk and compliance initiatives that span your enterprise. |
Storage
Storage services enable you to deploy cloud-native storage solutions on your cluster.
IBM does not currently provide storage services. For information on storage services provided by third-party vendors, see the Partners catalog.