IBM Knowledge Catalog for Cloud Pak for Data is an enterprise data catalog that is deeply integrated with a data governance framework. Its primary function is to help organizations discover, curate, categorize, and share data assets, making them "business-ready." It allows users to apply data quality rules, business glossaries, and governance policies to ensure that data scientists and analysts can find, understand, and trust the data they use for AI and analytics projects. This creates a single, governed source of truth for data consumption.

A. Watson Machine Learning for Cloud Pak for Data: This service is for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. It consumes business-ready data but does not primarily create or deliver it.

B. IBM Data Catalog for Cloud Pak for Data: This is a generic term. The specific, branded IBM product that provides these capabilities within Cloud Pak for Data is the IBM Knowledge Catalog.

C. Watson Machine Learning Accelerator on Cloud Pak for Data: This component focuses on accelerating the computational performance of deep learning model training, not on data governance or making data business-ready.

1. IBM Cloud Pak for Data Documentation - IBM Knowledge Catalog overview: "IBM Knowledge Catalog provides a secure enterprise catalog management platform that is supported by a data governance framework. A catalog connects data with the knowledge of the people who use the data to create a single

governed source of truth for your enterprise... Data scientists

data engineers

and business analysts can use the assets in the catalog to meet their business goals."

Source: IBM. (2023). IBM Knowledge Catalog overview. IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.8 Documentation. Section: "Overview of IBM Knowledge Catalog".

2. IBM Cloud Pak for Data Documentation - Watson Machine Learning overview: "You can use IBM Watson Machine Learning to build

run

and manage AI models and to score data to generate predictions and insights." This confirms its role is in model management

not data curation.

Source: IBM. (2023). Watson Machine Learning overview. IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.8 Documentation. Section: "Overview".

3. IBM Cloud Pak for Data Documentation - Watson Machine Learning Accelerator overview: "Watson Machine Learning Accelerator is a deep learning service on IBM Cloud Pak for Data that enables an organization to scale to thousands of training runs." This highlights its focus on performance and scale for training

not data preparation.

Source: IBM. (2023). Watson Machine Learning Accelerator. IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.8 Documentation. Section: "Overview".