This month IBM is radically simplifying the enterprise data stack, introducing software that unifies, governs, and activates the unstructured enterprise data necessary to power AI agents and other advanced AI applications.

The two new products include IBM watsonx.data integration and IBM watsonx.data intelligence. Select capabilities from both products will also be available through watsonx.data, IBM's hybrid, open data lakehouse for managing the entire data-for-AI lifecycle in a single experience. 

The new software is hybrid and open, connecting with third-party data stacks to provide flexibility, interoperability, and drive innovation from across the ecosystem. The new products can enable 40% more accurate AI than conventional RAG, according to testing with watsonx.data.[1]

IBM client Lockheed Martin recently leveraged the transformed watsonx.data, enabling 70,000 engineers, scientists, and technicians to retrieve answers and information from millions of documents using natural language. "We are rapidly accelerating our innovation and efficiency, to get solutions out of the lab and into the field, helping create a safer, more secure world," says John Clark, senior vice president of Technology and Strategic Innovation at Lockheed.

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