Getting started with watsonx.data intelligence

With watsonx.data intelligence, you can curate, manage, and utilize data by leveraging the power of AI to simplify data delivery across hybrid ecosystems. Discover, trust, and access meaningful data by unifying governance, quality, lineage, and sharing, providing consumers with reliable data products.

A data governance framework ensures that data access and data quality are compliant with your business rules and standards. Use this framework to enrich your data assets with metadata. Visualize your data dependencies in a transparent way on a lineage graph. Find, create, and share data products across your organization.

Watsonx.data intelligence also provides fine-grained control of the tasks that each user can perform. By using a combination of user roles and permissions and collaborator roles, you can control the actions that users can perform.

With watsonx.data intelligence, you can:
  • Apply a data governance framework by implementing tools that classify and categorize data
  • Measure data quality based on predefined and custom quality dimension
  • Curate data at scale
  • Track data lineage to understand where your data comes from, how it transforms, and where it moves over time, identify potential risks in your data, and check your data for compliance with various regulations
  • Manage the data community
  • Create data products that are accurate, maintain currency, and drive meaningful insights

Checking whether the service is installed

An administrator must install watsonx.data intelligence.

To check whether the service is installed:

  1. From the navigation menu, select Services > Services catalog.
  2. Search for watsonx.data intelligence.

If the service is installed and ready to use, the tile in the catalog shows Ready to use.

Accessing the service

Data Fabric This service is available from the Data Fabric experience.

To access your catalogs, open the navigation menu and select Catalogs > View all catalogs.

To access your data governance artifacts, open the navigation menu and select Governance.

To curate data and manage its quality, open the navigation menu and select Projects > All projects. Select a project or create a new one. On the Assets tab, click New asset and select the appropriate tool.

To view and work with data lineage, open the navigation menu and select Data > Data lineage.

To work with data products, open the navigation menu and select Data > Data products.

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