IBM Data Product Hub:
Vision and roadmap
Jenna Lau-Caruso
IBM, Software Architect
Steve Haertel
IBM, Senior Software Developer
21-24 October 2024
Mandalay Bay | Las Vegas, USA
Agenda
03 Challenges
04 Data Product Hub
05 What is a data product?
08 Vision
15 Wrap-up
20 Appendices
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Challenges
with
traditional Lack of trust in data Inefficient data
request fulfilment
Administrative
overheads
data sharing • Decisions based • Longer lead times • Diverts resources
on outdated data for data delivery from analysis and
due to manual delays data-driver insights generation
data copying. outcomes • Burdens data
providers and
• Security, • Effort duplication
consumers with
governance, hinders data
having to manage
compliance risks provider processes and
productivity compliance for
• Poor data quality
• Higher data repeated data
and reliability
operating costs extraction and
transfer
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Data Product Hub
Data Product Hub is a standalone platform that creates business ready data products
for AI and analytics. This modern data concept helps users seamlessly share, find,
understand, and access curated data products, no matter where the underlying data
lives.
Internal Marketplace Manage Data as a Product Open Ecosystem of Tools
Discover data products with ease. Sharing data in a large-scale Onboard assets from virtually any
manner requires a special level of tool, IBM or 3rd party, into a single
compliance. hub and transform them into data
Create a single pane of glass for
products for easy discovery and
self service data consumption.
access by data consumers.
Data products are optimized for
large-scale discovery and delivery
to consumers across an Adapt to an organization’s existing
organization. technology stack.
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A data product is a managed, governed collection of data assets
designed to be readily used by data consumers for their critical data
workloads.
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Data assets from a source/catalog
Social metadata
Business metadata
Operational metadata
Technical metadata
Connection to source
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Anatomy of a Data product
Query Additional
business
Delivery
asset
method(s)
metadata
Data Additional
business
Delivery
Additional
business
Access
control
Contracts & Social
asset
method(s) SLAs metadata
metadata metadata policies
Additional
Notebook business
metadata
Delivery
method(s)
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Hub community access
Data product
Data product
Data product
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Masking through data virtualization
Items Category PII
Id 1 Mauris posuere libero Value
Id 2
Items Mauris posuere libero
Category Value
PII
3
Id 1 Mauris posuere libero Value
XXX
4
Id 2 Mauris posuere libero Value
XXX
5
Id 3 Mauris posuere libero Value
XXX
6
Id 4 Mauris posuere libero Value
XXX
Id 7 Mauris posuere libero Value
Id 8 Mauris posuere libero Value
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Social aspect
Subjective Rating Review Use case application
Subjective Rating Review Use case application
Domain Key features
Recommended usage Origin
Data asset Data asset
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Dashboard of insights
60 40 32 20 15 10 Finance 60%
50 30 16 55 6 10 Healthcare 60%
55 30 12 18 15 15
HR 55%
20 30 30 12 30 10
Compliance 52%
Finance HR Compliance
In progress 100
Not yet used
75
Building
Action
required 65% 50
Data shares 25
0
Completed Succeeded
April May June July
Sales Providers Customers
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Data
product v1.0.0 v2.0.0 v2.1.0
lifecycle
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Can the I’d like to see a report about the demographic
experience be trends of our feature product sales.
conversational?
Could a non-technical
user get the data they Certainly. Do you have a particular location or
need by just asking in timeframe in mind?
plain language?
Could the system
intelligently figure out All locations, in the last 90 days.
the optimal data
product, given a specific
set of requirements?
I’ve got just the data product for you!
Feature Product Sales [Format: BI Report, Date Range:
January 1st, 2024 to March 31st, 2024]
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Watsonx.bi insights Cognos Analytics
Dashboard of insights directly viewable Describe the data you need and receive visualizations
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IBM data product podcast
Datography
Contacts
Grzegorz Przybycień Spurthi Kommajosula
Lead Product Manager Product Manager
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[email protected] [email protected]
Gene Azad Lenexa Gonsalves
Product Manager Product Manager
— —
[email protected] [email protected] Aman Varma Manana Hakobyan
Technical Product Manager Product Manager
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Q&A
Jenna Lau-Caruso
IBM, Software Architect
Steve Haertel
IBM, Senior Software Developer
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Thank You
Jenna Lau-Caruso
IBM, Software Architect
Steve Haertel
IBM, Senior Software
Developer
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Extra slides for informational purposes
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IBM’s Data Product Platform
Data Providers DATA MARKETPLACE Data Consumers
Target Systems
Data Product
Governance
Product Studio Product Store
Prompts, Models, Features, Pipelines
• Browse assets • Browse products
• Create products Data Product Hub • Subscribe to products
• Define access/terms • View terms
• Track usage • Sample/manipulate data
• Field questions Data Exchange • Ask questions
Data Product Hub
AI / ML
sits on top and works Knowledge Catalog
Data Assets
With Descriptions, Shema, Statistics, Quality, Lineage
with your existing
tools (IBM or 3rd
Data Fabric
Data & Metadata
)
Governance
Orchestrate / Observe
Schedule, Test, Execute, Monitor, Alert, Remediate
Watson Pipeline
party
Master Data Management
Transform
DataStage
Clean, Master, Deduplicate, Transform, Model
Watson Query
watsonx.data
Connectivity
Connect, Access, Query, Ingest, Stream, Store
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Source Systems and Data
Connection
Functional credentials
Admin
Personal credentials
Data product Database
Producer with Query
Consumer
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