IBM watsonx.data

IBM watsonx.data is an open, hybrid data foundation that helps organizations connect, understand, govern and optimize real-time AI-ready data across hybrid environments. It works across cloud, multicloud, SaaS, client-managed VPC and on-premises environments, deployable as SaaS, self-managed software, or BYOC, and optimizes AI, BI, analytical and operational workloads with a multi-engine architecture (including Presto, Spark, OpenSearch and Cassandra). It applies consistent governance, access controls, policies, lineage and data quality across distributed data and workloads, and supports OpenRAG to ground AI agents in governed enterprise knowledge. IBM was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms and a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools.