Governance and Catalog

An intelligent data catalog for the AI era

IBM® watsonx.data intelligence provides data governance software (formerly IBM Knowledge Catalog) that provides a data catalog to automate data discovery, data quality management and data protection - for both structured and unstructured data.

The enterprise metadata repository activates information for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning supported by active metadata. Find, understand, manage, curate and access data, knowledge assets and their relationships, wherever they reside, on cloud or on-premises.

Governed catalogs

Using advanced data classification and masking functions, data protection rules support secure data handling through data lineage tracking and comprehensive audit trails.

Data protection rules

Knowledge accelerators

Facilitating the swift deployment of data governance and analytics frameworks, ready-to-use vocabularies help ensure a consistent approach to data quality and compliance, saving time and effort.

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LLM-powered metadata enrichment

Built on trusted IBM Research® models, automatically analyze and enhance technical metadata with more context, labels or descriptions, across thousands of assets concurrently.

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Intelligent search

Expands and enhances user queries by using AI to quickly surface crucial information and insightful answers that are directly relevant, and based on semantic meaning.

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Enhanced governance, quality and security

Manual processes, low data literacy and growing data volumes hinder data and AI initiatives. A DataOps practice with a data catalog tool can drive agility and speed by delivering high-quality, trusted enterprise data and enabling collaboration.

Improve data quality
Improve data quality
Manage data privacy
Manage data privacy
Outline data policy
Outline data policy
Access data quality
Access data quality

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Improve data quality

Interprets data in the business context that it is used. You can discover and assess data quality for millions of assets, wherever the data resides.

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Manage data privacy and compliance

Enable data privacy and define data policies that describe how data can be used and handled.

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Govern data lakehouses

Discover how it can be used as a central hub for sensitive data policies that can then be enforced within IBM® watsonx.data™.

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Enable self-service discovery and analysis

Empower data citizens with quick access to quality data. Share insights and awareness of trusted data to drive monetization. Deploy data for AI, reducing costs and speeding time to value.

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Improve data quality

Interprets data in the business context that it is used. You can discover and assess data quality for millions of assets, wherever the data resides.

Data quality (1:14)

Manage data privacy and compliance

Enable data privacy and define data policies that describe how data can be used and handled.

Watch video tutorial

Govern data lakehouses

Discover how it can be used as a central hub for sensitive data policies that can then be enforced within IBM® watsonx.data™.

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Enable self-service discovery and analysis

Empower data citizens with quick access to quality data. Share insights and awareness of trusted data to drive monetization. Deploy data for AI, reducing costs and speeding time to value.

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Benefits

>70%

Knowledge accelerators

More than 70% cost savings in manual labor for regulatory compliance.

>90%

LLM-based metadata enrichment

More than 90% reduction in time and effort for mapping business terms to data and generating asset names and descriptions.

~55%

Intelligent search

Time spent searching for data decreased by approximately 55%.

Webinars

Data Intelligence made simple: natural language insights with MCP

December 4th

Simplify data access with Text2SQL for your Data Product Marketplace.

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Explore how IBM is reshaping data discovery, access and management with AI-powered Intelligent Search and the Data Intelligence Assistant.

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Discover how IBM watsonx.data intelligence uses Gen AI to simplify data governance and improve data access.

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Learn how IBM automates data quality and helps track lineage to ensure trusted, compliant data.

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Resources

Read the ebook 'Data governance for data-driven organizations' to explore how trusted governance accelerates analytics success.

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Discover how Data and AI governance work together to strengthen compliance and drive innovation.

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See why IBM is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for data and analytics platforms.

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Review the CODB Report 2025 to understand market insights shaping governance and catalog strategies.

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Take the next step

Try now and activate business-ready data for AI and analytics with intelligence backed by active metadata management.

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Disclaimer

* Examples presented are illustrative only. Actual results will vary based on client configurations and conditions and, therefore, generally expected results cannot be provided.