Services
IBM Cloud Pak for Data includes numerous services that you can use to extend the functionality of Cloud Pak for Data.
Many IBM-provided services are listed in the Services catalog in the Cloud Pak for Data web client. However, some IBM services are not listed in the Services catalog. These services are indicated with an asterisk (*).
Some services are included in your purchase of Cloud Pak for Data. Other services are separately priced.
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.
Each service description includes links to the documentation for installing and using the
service.
Restriction: Only an administrator can install services.
What services are installed?
Restriction: This information applies only to services that are in the catalog. Some
services are not listed in the Services catalog.
If a service is already installed, it has one of the following statuses:
- Available
- The service is installed, but an administrator must deploy an instance of the service before you can use it.
- 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.
If the service that you want to use is not installed, click Deploy to see
the instructions for installing the service.
Remember: Only an instance administrator
can install services.
IBM services
Services are grouped together based on their function.AI
The following table lists AI services provided by IBM.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| AI Factsheets | Included with Cloud Pak for Data |
Use AI Factsheets to organize and track lineage events, facts, and details for each of your machine learning models' lifecycle, and increase transparency for model governance needs. |
| IBM Match 360 with Watson | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | 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 * | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Use Orchestration Pipelines and create end-to-end flows of machine learning pipelines to create models and customize various functions. |
| Synthetic Data Generator | Separately priced | Use Synthetic Data Generator to create flows that blend data, develop models, and visualize results. |
| Voice Gateway * | Separately priced | 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 * | Separately priced | A bundle of services that deliver a Watson-based voice automation system. |
| Watson Discovery | Separately priced | Find answers and uncover insights in your complex business content. |
| Watson Machine Learning | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Build and train machine learning models with tools for all skill levels. Deploy and manage models at scale. |
| Watson Machine Learning Accelerator * | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | A platform that delivers accelerated deep learning for data scientists. |
| Watson OpenScale | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Infuse your AI with trust and transparency. Understand how your AI models make decisions to detect and mitigate bias. |
| Watson Speech services | Separately priced | 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 | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Unleash the power of your data. Build custom models and infuse your business with AI and machine learning. |
| watsonx.ai | Separately priced | Train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI solutions with foundation models in IBM watsonx.ai. |
| watsonx Assistant | Separately priced | Build conversational interfaces into any app, device, or channel. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat® Ansible® Lightspeed | Separately priced | Accelerate Playbook creation in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with generative-AI powered content recommendations. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z | Separately priced | Increase developer productivity with AI-generated code recommendations for modernizing mainframe applications. |
| watsonx Code Assistant for Z Code Explanation | Separately priced | Increase developer productivity with AI-generated code explanations, which can be saved or inserted as comments directly into the application code. |
| watsonx.governance | Separately priced | Accelerate responsible, transparent, and explainable AI workflows for generative AI models and machine learning models. |
| watsonx Orchestrate | Separately priced | watsonx Orchestrate |
Analytics
The following table lists analytics services provided by IBM.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Automatically spin up lightweight, dedicated Apache Spark clusters to run a wide range of workloads. |
| Cognos Analytics | Separately priced | 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 | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Simplify the process of preparing large amounts of raw data for analysis. |
| DataStage | Separately priced | 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 | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Run fast analytical queries against object stores or HDFS with a cloud-native, distributed SQL query engine. |
| Decision Optimization | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Evaluate millions of possibilities to find the best solution to any given problem. |
| Execution Engine for Apache Hadoop | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Explore data or build and deploy models on your Apache Hadoop cluster. |
| Planning Analytics | Separately priced | Easily create more accurate plans, budgets, and forecasts using data from across your business. |
| SPSS Modeler | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Create flows to prepare and blend data, build and manage models, and visualize the results. |
Dashboards
The following table lists dashboard services provided by IBM. There are currently no dashboard services provided by third-party vendors.
| Service | Provided by | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognos Dashboards | IBM | Separately priced | Build interactive visualizations to explore, analyze, and present your data. |
Data governance
The following table lists data governance services provided by IBM.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Data Privacy | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | De-identify sensitive data to preserve privacy while maintaining the utility of the data. |
| Data Product Hub | Separately priced | Curate and share data within your organization to enable your data-driven teams to work faster and more efficiently. |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Organize and govern data. Automatically discover, classify, profile, and protect your data so users can find trusted data fast. |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium | Separately priced | Enhance your data governance ecosystem with generative AI-enabled automation. |
| IBM Knowledge Catalog Standard | Separately priced | Start your data governance journey with generative AI-enabled automation. |
| MANTA Automated Data Lineage | Separately priced | Import metadata from data sources that are not natively supported in Cloud Pak for Data. |
| Product Master | Separately priced | Aggregate, govern, and syndicate trusted product information across your organization. |
Data sources
The following table lists data source services provided by IBM.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Data Gate | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Extract, load, and synchronize mission-critical Db2 for z/OS data for high volume transactional or analytic applications. |
| Data Replication | Separately priced | Integrate and synchronize your data using near-real-time data delivery with low impact to sources. |
| Data Virtualization | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Query many data sources as one. |
| Db2 | Separately priced | Relational database that delivers advanced data management and analytics capabilities for transactional workloads. |
| Db2 Data Management Console | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Administer, monitor, manage, and optimize your Db2 databases from a single web-based console. |
| Db2 Warehouse | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | 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 | Separately priced | An integrated portfolio of databases and tools that extend PostgreSQL for enterprise workloads. |
| Informix | Separately priced | A database that integrates TimeSeries, Spatial, NoSQL, and SQL data together with easy access via MQTT, REST, and MongoDB APIs. |
| MongoDB | Separately priced | Scalable, NoSQL database for enterprise deployments. |
| Virtual Data Pipeline | Separately priced | Access all the data you need for analytics and application testing without impacting production databases. |
| watsonx.data | Separately priced | Simplify your data management operations with a flexible data store that's optimized for analytics and AI workloads. |
Developer tools
The following table lists developer tool services provided by IBM.
| Service | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Anaconda Repository for IBM Cloud Pak for Data | Separately priced | Control and administer the repository of software packages that data scientists use in Jupyter notebooks. |
| RStudio® Server Runtimes | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | Optional development environment for working with the R programming language. |
| Watson Studio Runtimes | Included with Cloud Pak for Data | 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 | Pricing | Details |
|---|---|---|
| OpenPages | Separately priced | 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.