IBM Knowledge Catalog, included in IBM Cloud Pak for Data Enterprise Edition, is now available to run on IBM Power Architecture starting with version 5.2.0.
Overview of IBM Knowledge Catalog on IBM Power
IBM Knowledge Catalog provides the methods that your enterprise needs to automate data governance so you can ensure data accessibility, trust, protection, security, and compliance. This blog explains the features of IBM Knowledge Catalog that are now available on IBM Power.
IBM Knowledge Catalog connects people to the data and knowledge that they need. The platform is supported by a data governance framework to ensure that data access and data quality are compliant with your business rules and standards. IBM Knowledge Catalog delivers automated enrichment of data assets with business metadata to align company policies and vocabularies to data in support of AI, analytics, and compliance use cases.
IBM Knowledge Catalog provides features to manage governance artifacts, such as business terms, data classes, or classifications, that can be applied to data assets. Governance artifacts are organized in categories and subject to approval workflows. Collaborators in categories can create governance artifacts, import artifacts from files, or import artifacts from IBM Knowledge Accelerators. Additionally, governance artifacts can be extended with custom properties and relationships.
Projects
Projects in IBM Knowledge Catalog are collaborative workspaces where teams can organize and manage data-related tasks.
Key features and capabilities include:
- Collaborative environment: Enables data scientists, analysts, and engineers to work together on data preparation, modeling, and analysis.
- Asset management: Supports structured organization of data assets, notebooks, scripts, and models.
- Role-based access control: Assigns roles (such as Admin, Editor, Viewer and so on) to manage permissions within the project.
- Version control: Tracks changes to assets and supports rollback to previous versions.
- Integration with IBM Watson Studio: Seamlessly connects with AI and ML tools for model development and deployment.
Catalogs
Catalogs are centralized repositories for organizing, discovering, and governing data assets.
Key features and capabilities include:
- Metadata enrichment: Automatically extracts and enriches metadata for better asset understanding.
- Search and discovery: Provides powerful search capabilities with filters, tags, and business terms to locate relevant data quickly.
- Asset rating and reviews: Enables users to rate and comment on assets to promote trusted data.
- Custom metadata and tags: Allows organizations to define custom attributes for better classification and retrieval.
Data source connectors
You can add connections to a broad array of data sources in projects and catalogs. Source connections can be used to read data; target connections can be used to load (save) data.
Key features and capabilities include:
- Broad connectivity: Supports connections to databases (such as IBM Db2, Oracle, SQL Server), cloud storage (such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) object storage, Microsoft Azure Blob), and big data platforms (such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Hive).
- Secure authentication: Uses credentials, tokens, or identity and access management (IAM) roles to ensure secure access.
- Automated scanning: Periodically scans connected sources to discover and classify new data assets.
- Custom connector support: Allows creation of custom connectors for proprietary or less-common systems.
- Real-time and batch access: Supports both real-time queries and scheduled data ingestion.
Enterprise governance
Enterprise governance is the set of processes and practices by which you align with your strategic objectives, assess and manage risk, and ensure that your company's resources are used responsibly.
Key features and capabilities include:
- Policy management: Defines and enforces data usage policies across the organization.
- Data stewardship: Assigns stewards to oversee data quality, classification, and compliance.
- Business glossary: Provides a centralized glossary to standardize terminology and definitions across departments.
- Audit and compliance reporting: Tracks data access, usage, and policy violations for regulatory reporting.
Not currently supported on IBM Power
The following IBM Knowledge Catalog features are not currently available on Power:
Also, migration from IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) to IBM Knowledge Catalog on Power is not yet supported.
Conclusion
The introduction of support for IBM Power in IBM Knowledge Catalog 5.2.0 is a strategic move within IBM’s broader enablement and modernization initiative for IBM Power systems. It reflects IBM’s commitment to deliver a consistent, enterprise-grade data governance experience across diverse IT environments, including mission-critical workloads running on Power.
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