IBM watsonx.data Technical Sales Workshop

Watsonx.data is a core component of watsonx, IBM’s enterprise-ready AI and data platform designed to multiply the impact of AI across an enterprise’s business.

The watsonx platform is comprised of three powerful components: the watsonx.ai studio for new foundation models, generative AI and machine learning; the watsonx.data fit-for-purpose data store that provides the flexibility of a data lake with the performance of a data warehouse; plus the watsonx.governance toolkit, to enable AI workflows that are built with responsibility, transparency, and explainability.

This workshop covers the IBM watsonx.data L3 badge lab, highlighting some of the core components and capabilities of IBM watsonx.data. This workshop also covers additional labs that can help integrate different products.

The watsonx.data component (the focus of this lab) makes it possible for enterprises to scale analytics and AI with a data store built on an open lakehouse architecture, supported by querying, governance, and open data and table formats, to access and share data. With watsonx.data, enterprises can connect to data in minutes, quickly get trusted insights, and reduce their data warehouse costs.

This IBM watsonx.data hands-on lab introduces you to some of the core components and capabilities of IBM watsonx.data. By completing this lab, you will gain the experience needed to demo these capabilities to clients.

Specifically, you will get hands-on experience in the following areas:

• The watsonx.data web-based user interface (UI), including infrastructure management, data management, running SQL statements, and managing user access
• The Presto web interface and the Presto command line interface (CLI)
• MinIO object storage
• Ingesting data into watsonx.data
• Creating schemas and tables
• Running queries that combine data from multiple data sources (data federation)
• Offloading tables from Db2 into watsonx.data
• Rolling back a table to a previous point in time

After completing these labs in a workshop session, you'll be able to earn the IBM watsonx.data Technical Sales Intermediate badge based on a quiz about this workshop.