What is IBM Cloud Pak for Data?
IBM Cloud Pak™ for Data is a fully-integrated data and AI platform that modernizes how businesses collect, organize and analyze data and infuse AI throughout their organizations. Built on Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform, IBM Cloud Pak for Data integrates market-leading IBM Watson® AI technology with IBM Hybrid Data Management Platform, data ops, and governance and business analytics technologies. Together, these capabilities provide the information architecture for AI that meets your ever-changing enterprise needs. Deployable in just hours and easily extendable with a growing array of IBM and third-party microservices, IBM Cloud Pak for Data runs across any cloud, enabling organizations to more easily integrate their analytics and applications to speed innovation.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data lowers your total cost of ownership, accelerates innovation based on open-source technologies, and fully supports multicloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud™ and private clouds.
Make your data ready for AI
As organizations accelerate their digital transformations to better predict and shape future outcomes, empower higher value work and automate experiences, the need to embrace AI is growing ever more critical. But to implement AI successfully, companies need to overcome three major challenges: data complexity, skills and trust. This process starts with good, clean and secure data. Data that is readily deployable to generate insights and set the foundation of AI-driven business.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data delivers a prescriptive, cost-effective approach to climb the AI ladder
Collect your data
Make all your data accessible — securely at its source — without the need for migration
Organize your data
Create a trusted, business-ready analytics foundation that can automate data preparation, policy, security and compliance
Analyze your data
Build, deploy and manage machine-learning models that scale throughout your organization and automate the end-to-end AI lifecycle
Infuse AI
Operationalize AI throughout your business with trust and transparency, transforming your business processes and experiences to become more intelligent and adaptable
Benefits
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Eliminate data silos, connect all data
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Automate and govern the data and AI lifecycle
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Operationalize AI with trust and transparency
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Avoid lock-in, run anywhere with agility
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Extend your platform with additional services
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Deploy a complete private cloud system in less than 4 hours
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Features
Single, unified platform
Speed time to value with a single platform that integrates data management, data governance and analysis for greater efficiency and improved use of resources. Help enable self-service collaboration across teams.
Best-in-class data virtualization
Query data more easily and more securely across multiple sources, on cloud or on premises. Exploit the combined processing power of those sources for massive query acceleration. Achieve the speed and scalability your business needs for today's and tomorrow’s workloads.
Built-in data governance
Efficiently respond to changing regulations with embedded, sophisticated governance capabilities; these include automated discovery and classification of data, masking of sensitive data, data zones and data lifecycle management.
Unified data and AI services
Manage end-to-end data workflows to help ensure that data is easily accessible for AI. Make sure that your data is high-quality to deliver accurate, automated insights and decisions. Seamlessly build and manage machine-learning models across development and production in a collaborative environment.
Cloud-native agility
Accelerate application development and deployment with a multicloud data platform that is agile, resilient and portable. Benefit from Kubernetes containerization to provision and scale services in minutes instead of months, inside a more secure, governed environment.
Extensible APIs and ecosystem
Use best practices to your advantage to accelerate implementations and deliver significant business value. Benefit from built-in models and accelerators for various industries including finance, insurance, healthcare, energy, utilities and more.
Industry accelerators
Benefit from a broad ecosystem of complementary hardware, software and services through a growing service catalog. Provision preferred data services flexibly and rapidly, and customize data workflows to your individual needs.
Continuous intelligence
Develop real-time streaming applications and deliver continuous intelligence across your business. With IBM Streams on IBM Cloud Pak for Data, you can enable continuous and rapid analysis of massive volumes of data in motion or at rest. This can help you gain business insights faster and make more-informed decisions.
All in one
Deploy a hyper-converged system with all necessary software in less than 4 hours — no assembly required. Under an intuitive dashboard, you can dynamically scale compute, storage and software with on-demand plug-and-play operations.
Take a product walkthrough
IBM Cloud Pak for Data can help you unlock the value of your data and create an information architecture for AI. This product walkthrough offers step-by-step demonstrations on how to collect, organize, analyze and infuse AI into your data with a scalable, Kubernetes platform.
What clients and analysts are saying
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“What makes it especially attractive is that it enables us to develop and deploy new models quickly that brings AI to the data, rather than the other way around.”
- — Abdulaziz Al Khalifa, CEO, Qatar Development Bank
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“It's a very exciting product. You have a lot of things that a lot of different companies are doing, molded into one technology suite.”
- — James Wade, Director of Application Hosting, GuideWell (Video, 02:12)
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“With IBM Cloud Private for Data, IBM has pre-integrated capabilities that allow clients to be productive in a week or less.”
- — The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Insight Platforms, Q1 2019
What our partners are saying

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What’s new

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