IBM Project DataWorks: Joining Multi-Sourced Data for AI-based Analytics

IBM's aggressive push into the data analytics market continued today with the announcement of Project DataWorks, a Watson initiative that IBM said is the first cloud-based data and analytics platform to integrate all types of data and enable AI-powered decision-making. Project DataWorks is designed to lower the complexity for business managers and data professionals to collect, organize, govern, secure and generate insight from multi-sourced, multi-format data. The goal: become what IBM calls "a cognitive business." "It's a system that will on-board data, tools, users, apps, all in a scalable and governed way," Rob Thomas, VP of Products, IBM Analytics, told EnterpriseTech. "The purpose is simple: we are preparing all data within a company for use by AI. We're helping people leap in to the future around AI and machine learning."