Services
You can install numerous services on IBM® Software Hub based on your business needs.
Many IBM-provided services are listed in the Services catalog in the web client. However, some IBM services are not listed in the Services catalog.
Review the service documentation to determine which licenses you can purchase to access the service.
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 has one of the following statuses:
- Ready to provision (Available)
- The service is installed, but an administrator must deploy an instance of the service before you can use it.
- Ready to use (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.
- Stopped
- The service is installed by cannot be used because it was shut down to conserve resources. An instance administrator must restart 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.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| AI Factsheets |
Capture model details and lineage to increase transparency for AI governance. |
| IBM Match 360 |
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. |
| Orchestration Pipelines |
Create end-to-end flows of machine learning pipelines to create models and customize various functions. |
| Synthetic Data Generator |
Create flows to generate synthetic data that mimics real data without the privacy concerns of using real data. |
| Voice Gateway |
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 for Voice Interaction |
A bundle of services that deliver a Watson-based voice automation system. |
| Watson Discovery |
Find answers and uncover insights in your complex business content. |
| Watson Machine Learning |
Build and train machine learning models with tools for all skill levels. Deploy and manage models at scale. |
| Watson OpenScale |
Infuse your AI with trust and transparency. Understand how your AI models make decisions to detect and mitigate bias. |
| Watson Speech services |
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 |
Unleash the power of your data. Build custom models and infuse your business with AI and machine learning. |
| watsonx.ai™ |
Train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI solutions with foundation models. |
| watsonx Assistant |
Build conversational interfaces into any app, device, or channel. |
| watsonx™ BI |
Get instant, explainable insights from your data—powered by AI and grounded in your business logic. |
| watsonx Code Assistant™ |
Use pre-trained models based on specific programming languages to generate code and content with trust, security, and compliance. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed |
Accelerate Playbook creation in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with generative-AI powered content recommendations. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z |
Increase developer productivity with AI-generated code recommendations for modernizing mainframe applications. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z Agentic |
Increase developer productivity with AI-generated explanations enriched with additional application-level insights to help them understand programs or code segments. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z Code Explanation |
Increase developer productivity with AI-generated code explanations, which can be saved or inserted as comments directly into the application code. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z Code Generation |
Accelerate code generation and increase developer productivity with AI-generated code. |
| watsonx.governance™ |
Accelerate responsible, transparent, and explainable AI workflows for generative AI models and machine learning models. |
| watsonx Orchestrate |
Streamline repetitive work so that you can focus on the work that matters. |
Analytics
The following table lists analytics services provided by IBM.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark |
Automatically spin up lightweight, dedicated Apache Spark clusters to run a wide range of workloads. |
| Cognos Analytics |
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 |
Simplify the process of preparing large amounts of raw data for analysis. |
| DataStage |
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 |
Run fast analytical queries against object stores or HDFS with a cloud-native, distributed SQL query engine. |
| Decision Optimization |
Evaluate millions of possibilities to find the best solution to any given problem. |
| Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop |
Explore data or build and deploy models on your Apache Hadoop cluster. |
| IBM StreamSets |
Build streaming data pipelines to act on time-sensitive data and enhance real-time decision making. |
| Planning Analytics |
Easily create more accurate plans, budgets, and forecasts using data from across your business. |
| SPSS Modeler |
Create flows to prepare and blend data, build and manage models, and visualize the results. |
| watsonx.data™ intelligence |
Create an intelligent data foundation to accelerate data insights. |
Dashboards
The following table lists dashboard services provided by IBM.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| Cognos Dashboards |
Build interactive visualizations to explore, analyze, and present your data. |
Data governance
The following table lists data governance services provided by IBM.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| Data Privacy |
De-identify sensitive data to preserve privacy while maintaining the utility of the data. |
| Data Product Hub |
Curate and share data within your organization to enable your data-driven teams to work faster and more efficiently. |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog |
Organize and govern data. Automatically discover, classify, profile, and protect your data so users can find trusted data fast. |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium |
Enhance your data governance ecosystem with generative AI-enabled automation. |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard |
Start your data governance journey with generative AI-enabled automation. |
| IBM Manta Data Lineage |
Increase data transparency and trust with an interactive visualization of your data supply chain. |
| MANTA Automated Data Lineage |
Import metadata from data sources that are not natively supported in IBM Knowledge Catalog, IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium, or IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard. |
| Product Master |
Aggregate, govern, and syndicate trusted product information across your organization. |
Data management
The following table lists data management services provided by IBM.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| Data Gate |
Extract, load, and synchronize mission-critical Db2 for z/OS data for high volume transactional or analytic applications. |
| Data Replication |
Integrate and synchronize your data using near-real-time data delivery with low impact to sources. |
| Data Virtualization |
Query many data sources as one. |
| Db2 |
Relational database that delivers advanced data management and analytics capabilities for transactional workloads. |
| Db2 Data Management Console |
Administer, monitor, manage, and optimize your Db2 databases from a single web-based console. |
| Db2 Warehouse |
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 |
An integrated portfolio of databases and tools that extend PostgreSQL for enterprise workloads. |
| Informix |
A database that integrates TimeSeries, Spatial, NoSQL, and SQL data together with easy access via MQTT, REST, and MongoDB APIs. |
| MongoDB |
Scalable, NoSQL database for enterprise deployments. |
| Unstructured Data Integration |
Ingest, cleanse, transform, and enrich unstructured data so that you can use it in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic workflows. |
| watsonx.data |
Simplify your data management operations with a flexible data store that's optimized for analytics and AI workloads. |
| watsonx.data Premium |
Get your enterprise data AI ready, no matter how it's structured or where it lives. |
Developer tools
The following table lists developer tool services provided by IBM.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data |
Control and administer the repository of software packages that data scientists use in Jupyter notebooks. |
| RStudio® Server Runtimes |
Optional development environment for working with the R programming language. |
| Watson Studio Runtimes |
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.
| Service | Details |
|---|---|
| OpenPages |
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.