Managing data for AI and analytics at scale
With an Open Data Lakehouse Aprroach
 
 
It’s no secret that the amount of data-driven enterprises has exploded over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, data intelligence for these enterprises is difficult due to a lack of observability, lineage information, and catalogs.
Lack of observability leads to fragmented and incomplete data that make analysis weak at every level. IBM watsonx.data supports a range of standard technologies for moving, handling, and accessing data. 
This eBook explores how companies can manage data used for broad-based AI. It then dives into analytics use cases - in the context of a data warehouse and the more dynamic context of a data lake.
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