The watsonx Platform

Inputs

Data Sources

Cloud & On Premise
Databases & Warehouses
Streaming & Real-time

Enterprise Systems

ERP / CRM / HCM
Mainframe & Legacy
Custom Applications

Documents & Content

PDFs & Contracts
Emails & SharePoint
Images & Scans

APIs & Services

REST / GraphQL
Microservices
IoT & Edge Devices
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Risk and Compliance

AI asset inventory • Risk assessments

Regulatory compliance (EU AI Act)

Lifecycle Transparency

Model and agent fact sheets

Third-party model governance

Observability and Guardrails

Drift and bias • Content safety

Agentic AI monitoring

watsonx.data watsonx.data

Open Data Lakehouse

Fit-for-purpose query engines • Vector search

Open formats • Separated storage and compute

Data Integration

Batch, streaming, replication pipelines

AI pipeline authoring • Observability

Data Intelligence

Governance • Quality • Lineage

Self-service data products

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Model Access

Open and proprietary models

Model gateway • Bring your own model

AI Development Studio

Prompt engineering • RAG • Fine-tuning

Synthetic data • Evaluation tools

AI and Agent Ops

Agent lifecycle (build, test, deploy)

Auto AI • Auto RAG • Deployment

watsonx Orchestrate watsonx Orchestrate

Build Agents

No-code, low-code, pro-code

Tool integration (MCP, APIs)

Domain Agents

Prebuilt for HR, Finance, Supply Chain

Multi-agent orchestration

Govern and Monitor

Observability • Guardrails

Policy enforcement

Automation Automation

App Development and Integration

App modernization • Cloud-native

Hybrid integration • API management

Infrastructure and Security

Provisioning • Configuration

Identity • Compliance • Network

Technology Business Management

Observability • FinOps

IT financials • Asset management

Hybrid Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Open Hybrid Cloud Platform

Containers • Enterprise Linux

Automation • AI platform

AI-Ready Infrastructure

Mission-critical compute

Cloud services • Storage

Flexible Delivery

As-a-service • On-premises • Edge

GPU acceleration

Outputs

Customer & Employee

AI assistants & chatbots
Automated workflows
Personalized experiences

IT & Operations

Proactive monitoring
Automated remediation
Code modernization

Business Value

Cost optimization
Security & compliance
Generative AI apps

Data & Analytics

Self-service analytics
Real-time insights