Setting up the Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning services

The Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning services are provisioned automatically with a Lite plan when you sign up for Cloud Pak for Data as a Service. To set up Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning for an organization, you upgrade the service plans. You must also set the number of authorized users for Watson Studio.

  1. Upgrade the services.
  2. Set the number of authorized users for Watson Studio.

Step 1: Upgrade the services to the appropriate plans

Required permissions You must be the IBM Cloud account owner or administrator.

To upgrade the services:

  1. Determine the Watson Studio service plan that you need. The features and compute resources of Watson Studio vary across the service plans. See Watson Studio service plans.
  2. While logged in to Cloud Pak for Data as a Service, from the main menu, click Services > Service instances.
  3. Click the menu next to the Watson Studio service and choose Upgrade service.
  4. Choose the plan you want and click Upgrade.
  5. Repeat the steps for the Watson Machine Learning service. The compute resources and number of deployment jobs vary across the Watson Machine Learning service plans. See Watson Machine Learning service plans.

Make sure that object storage is configured to allow these users to create catalogs and projects. See Setting up IBM Cloud Object Storage for use with Cloud Pak for Data as a Service).

All users in your IBM Cloud account with the Editor IAM platform access role for all IAM enabled services or for Cloud Pak for Data can now create projects and use all the Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning tools.

Step 2: Set the number of authorized users for Watson Studio

You must set the number of authorized users in your account. Authorized users are project collaborators who have the Admin or Editor role. Project collaborators with the Viewer role are not counted as authorized users.

The Watson Studio Standard and Enterprise plans include a set number of authorized users and you pay extra for each additional authorized user. See Watson Studio plans.

Required permissions You must be the IBM Cloud account owner or administrator.

To set the number of authorized users for Watson Studio:

  1. From the Cloud Pak for Data as a Service main menu, select Administration > Authorized Users.
  2. Adjust the number on the Authorized Users screen.

For more information, see Managing authorized users for Watson Studio.

Next steps

Finish the remaining steps for setting up the platform.