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Check back often to learn about new features and updates for Data Product Hub.
Week ending 10 Jan 2025
Data Product Hub has achieved SOC2 Certification
08 Jan 2025
IBM Data Product Hub as a Service obtained SOC2 (System and Organization Controls) certification.
Week ending 13 Dec 2024
Deprecation of IBM Cloud Object Storage Lite Plan
13 Dec 2024
The Cloud Object Storage Lite plans that you provisioned prior to 1 July 2024 are deprecated as of 15 December 2024. At some point existing Cloud Object Storage buckets might be removed. To retain your Data Product Hub data, you must upgrade your Cloud Object Storage service to the Standard plan. The data stored in Cloud Object Storage includes uploaded data contracts, visualizations for items in a data product, and data associated with projects. If you do not upgrade your Cloud Object Storage plan to Standard, your data might be permanently deleted. The Standard Plan offers a Free Tier allowance that allows free storage for up to 5GB per month. For more information, see Cloud docs: How do I upgrade a service instance from a Lite Plan to a Standard Plan?. You might need to upgrade your IBM Cloud account before you can switch to the Standard plan.
Data Product Hub available from the Sydney, Australia region
9 Dec 2024
The Sydney, Australia (au-syd) data center has been added to the regions for Data Product Hub. Data Product Hub is now available in US (Dallas) and Australia (Sydney).
Week ending 8 Nov 2024
Monitor your insights with dashboards
7 Nov 2024
Both administrators and data producers can now use the Insights dashboard to monitor their data products and community activity. The Insights dashboard provides a comprehensive, centralized overview of open tasks, delivered data products, community resources, and more. By delivering real-time metrics, the Insights dashboard provides detailed data insights at scale, increases workflow efficiency, and helps ensure transparency across all data community. For details, see Managing your Insights dashboard.
Create custom business domains to organize your data products
7 Nov 2024
Improve your data community's organization and optimize your data products' searchability by creating custom business domains. With new, custom business domains, you can easily organize your data products into intuitive categories and curate your community for your business needs. You can also create subdomains that further refine your data community's organization and empower data consumers to easily find the data products they need. For more information, see Managing business domains.
Add custom properties to data products
7 Nov 2024
You can now create and add custom properties to data products to optimize searchability, classification, and organization. By adding custom properties, you can structure information and curate your data product to meet specific business needs. For details, see Managing custom properties.
Enhance and update your published data products
7 Nov 2024
To further enhance and improve data products, you can now create new versions of your published data products. When creating a new version, you can add or delete data assets, change the available delivery methods, and manage the access level. By continuously creating new versions of published data products, you can help ensure data accuracy and currency. For more details, see Creating new versions of data products.
Preapprove data consumers for data products requiring approval
7 Nov 2024
For data consumers who frequently access data products requiring approval, you can now create a list of preapproved users or user groups. By defining a preapproved list, you streamline the subscription process for both data consumers and producers and improve efficiency in delivering data products. For more information, see Completing your data product.
Send notifying comments for requests for new data products
7 Nov 2024
You can now send notifying comments for requests for new data products from your Task inbox. The approver for a data product request can enter a comment or question for the requester. The requester receives a notification
under the Notification bell icon 
or by email. The approver is also notified when the requester responds. Previously comments
were recorded in the feed for the task, but there was no notification, so comments could go unnoticed. For more information, see Managing your task inbox as a producer and Managing your task inbox as a consumer.
Week ending 4 Oct 2024
Add an embedded preview to data products
3 Oct 2024
To ensure a continuous, focused flow and enhance browser organization, you can now embed a preview of your data contents when creating data products from URLs. This preview allows you to open and view the data product contents directly within Data Product Hub, rather than be redirected to another browser tab. For more details, see Creating a data product from URL.
Week ending 30 Aug 2024
Use a complex SQL query to create a data product
29 Aug 2024
You can now create a data product by using complex SQL that allows you to query temporary and transient tables. A Snowflake connection is required to use complex SQL to create data products. For more information, see Creating a data product from a complex query.
Week ending 16 Aug 2024
New service plan added: Lite plan
13 Aug 2024
You can now provision an instance of Data Product Hub using a Lite plan. The Lite plan provides a free trial to Data Product Hub and introduces users to the data community. For more information, see Data Product Hub service plans.
Week ending 26 July 2024
Download data extract delivery method
26 July 2024
You can now add file extracts from your data source to a data product using the download data extract delivery method. The data extract delivery method requires two connections, one for connecting to the database you are extracting from (the source) and another connection for delivering the file to the consumer (the target). For more information, see Working with delivery methods. To find the connectors that can serve as source and target connections, see Delivery methods for connectors.
Week ending 12 July 2024
Customizable queries
12 July 2024
You can now curate a data product to contain specific parameters and values by using customizable queries. By using customizable queries, data products can be reused more frequently and consumers receive the specific data that they need. For more information, see Creating a data product from a customizable query.
Week ending 19 June 2024
Data Product Hub is generally available on IBM Cloud
19 June 2024
You can provision an instance of Data Product Hub from the IBM Cloud catalog. For more information, see Provisioning the Data Product Hub service.
Week ending 7 June 2024
New data product creation method: Add from catalog
7 June 2024
You can now create data products by adding assets from a catalog in IBM Knowledge Catalog. With IBM Knowledge Catalog, you can run metadata enrichment on your data assets, which adds important information describing the asset's contents and data quality. For details, see Creating a data product from a catalog.
New data product creation method: Add from project
7 June 2024
You can now create data products by adding data assets from a project. You can use this method to create a data product containing a query or if you do not have access to IBM Knowledge Catalog. For details, see Creating a data product from a project.
Week ending 17 May 2024
New delivery method added: the Flight service
17 May 2024
You can now create and deliver data products with the Flight service. With the Flight service, you receive real-time read and write access to data sources and you no longer need a connection asset to data sources requiring personal credentials. For more information, see Working with delivery methods.
Week ending 3 May 2024
Setting up notifications
3 May 2024
You can set up notifications to alert you about overdue tasks, status updates on requested data products, and access to data products requiring approval. These notifications can be delivered on-screen or sent to your email. For more information, see Managing your notifications.
Week ending 5 April 2024
Sharing connections
5 April 2024
You can share connections with community members who have the Editor or Admin role. They can use the connection to create and deliver data products. Be cautious when you share connections since you are sharing your credentials. For more information, see Sharing a connection.
Data products that require approval
5 April 2024
Producers can restrict access to data products by requiring an approval for the subscription. One or more community members are designated as approvers. The consumer provides a business justification for the subscription, which is tracked in the Task inbox. Access to the data product is Approved or Rejected by the approver. See Completing your data product and Subscribing to a data product that requires approval
Requesting a new data product
5 April 2024
Consumers can curate data to their business needs by creating and submitting a data product request. The consumer indicates the data requirements, terms of usage, and a delivery method for the request, which is then submitted to producers for review and approval. If approved, the producer creates the data product and delivers it to the consumer upon completion. See Requesting a new data product.
New connectors added: Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Microsoft Azure File Storage
5 April 2024
Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and Microsoft Azure File Storage connectors are now available for creating and delivering data products. See Connectors for Data Product Hub.
Week ending 23 February 2024
Edit and delete connections
23 February 2024
You can now Edit and Delete connections from the list of the data source connections that you own. The Admin or Editor role is required to manage connections. For more information, see Managing data source connections.
Rotate the Service API key
23 February 2024
An Admin can now rotate the Service API key to provide a more secure deployment of Data Product Hub. The Service API key is stored on IBM Cloud. For more information, see Managing the Service API key.
Edit the name and business domain for a data product
23 February 2024
You can now edit the name and business domain for a published data product. Click the Pencil icon 
to edit. Click the
checkmark to save your changes.
Week ending 02 February 2024
Connections list
01 February 2024
You can now view a list of the data source connections that you created. The Admin or Editor role is required to list connections. For more information, see Viewing data source connections.
Week ending 01 December 2023
Closed beta release of Data Product Hub
1 December 2023
This is a closed beta release available to internal IBM users and to authorized external users.
Week ending 3 November 2023
Experimental release of Data Product Hub
2 November 2023
This is an experimental release of Data Product Hub. It is being distributed internally with limited availability.