IBM is making waves in the Cloud Innovation. At our Data Analytics Meetup, Tom Ericsson, explores the transformation that IBM has taken with its recent announcement of moving from Bluemix to Cloud.

1. IBM Cloud
https://youtu.be/oCIZybdR_Y8

2. The day before yesterday…
“Today we are excited to announce that we are merging the Bluemix brand with
IBM Cloud brand since they’ve grown to be synonymous. All the Bluemix products,
services, support etc that you know and love will continue being offered with no
changes, except for a simpler name … IBM Cloud.
We’ve simplified our user experience, introducing the new IBM Cloud Lite account
that never expires – it gives users access to try services with no time restrictions.”

3. Data
• Data resides in silos
• Detailed data was never stored
• Unstructured and external data wasn’t considered
• Difficult to access
Governance
InfrastructureSkills
Why do companies struggle to deliver value?
• Data Science skills are in low supply and high demand
• Nurturing new data professionals is challenging
• If the data isn’t secure, self-service isn’t a reality
• Understanding lineage and getting to a system of truth
• Need an environment that enables a “fail fast” approach
• Discrete tools present barriers to progress

4. The World We Are Coming From…

5. …And Where We Are Going
Forrester Wave
2017
Insight Platforms-As-A-Service

6. Watson Data Platform
Watson Data Platform enables data-driven professionals to work together in a simpler way to quickly find new and
unexpected insights that deliver business-changing results. The Watson Data Platform features embedded, cognitive-
assisted machine learning. It provides user-specific tools and data, and analytic services on the IBM Cloud.

7. Watson Data Platform
an integrated platform of tools,
services and data
that helps companies accelerate
their shift to become data-driven
organizations
Drive governance policy
effectiveness while tracking how
data is used and its value to the
company
Data Steward
Access powerful tools to prepare
data to tease out the insights
they’re looking for, without IT
involvement
Data Scientist
App Developer
Make the insights immediately
actionable and add intelligence to
apps in straightforward manner
Data Engineer
Easily build data pipelines that
power dashboards and data
platforms while ensuring high
quality

8. IBM Watson Data Platform Partner Ecosystem
The Open Community To Innovate Faster With Data

9. The IBM foundation for data innovation
Watson Data Platform
Healthcare Financial
Services
Logistics
Cloud Infrastructure
A highly scalable, security
enabled infrastructure
Data
Tools to prepare data
for cognitive
AI
Cognitive building blocks
for developers
Applications, solutions
and services
Targeted solutions for
enterprise businesses
Ingestion
Conversation
API
Storage Analytics Deployment Governance
Visual Recognition
API
Discovery
API
Speech
API
Compare and
Comply
API
Document
Conversion
API
DLaaS
API
Nat Language
Understanding
API
Nat Language
Classifier
API
Tone
Analyzer
API
Personality
Insight
API
…more
Cloud Integration
Networking Compute Security Virtual Compute …moreObject Storage
Cognitive Micro-services DevOps Tooling
Public Hybrid Private
Dedicated Compute
Data
Science
Virtual agentIoT

10. Persist
Analyze
Ingest Deploy
Projects | Data | Assets | Pipelines | APIs
Intelligent governance | Policy enforcement
Making data into insights is a team sport
Watson Data Platform
Our Core Tenets
1. Intelligent by Design
2. Collaborative for data
Professionals
3. Self-service access to
trusted data
4. Best in class streaming and
real-time analytics
5. Open and Extensible
Collaborate
Data steward Data scientistData engineer Developer
Find Share

11. Watson Data Platform / July, 2017 / © 2017 IBM Corporation

12. Watson Data Platform / July, 2017 / © 2017 IBM Corporation

13. Watson Data Platform
Key Components
Data Catalog
Today, data scientists spend 80% of
their time searching for and preparing
the data they need.
Data Science Experience
Solve your toughest data challenges
with the best tools and the latest
expertise in a social environment built
by data scientists.
Data Refinery
A self-service data preparation for data
scientists, data engineers, and business
analysts. With it, you can quickly
transform large amounts of raw data
into consumable, quality information
that’s ready for analytics.
Dashboards
Visualize, collaborate and share your
insights across your organization.

14. Data Catalog
Watson Data Platform
Discover
Intelligent discovery of data, advanced classification and
profiling to provide context
Govern
Powerful governance policy tools to control and protect
access to data with visibility to data use
Catalog
A rich metadata index of all data, with social
collaboration and enhanced findability
Unlock tribal knowledge to unleash your data
professionals

15. Data Science Experience
Watson Data Platform
Learn
Built-in learning to get started or go the distance with
advanced tutorials
Collaborate
Community and social features that provide meaningful
collaboration
Create
The best of open source and IBM value-add to create
state-of-the-art data products
Making data science a team sport

16. Data Refinery
Watson Data Platform
Wrangle
Interactively explore, resolve quality issues, enrich,
classify, standardize, summarize and join data
Adapt
Connect to 30+ cloud and on-premises stores and scale
on demand with cataloging and governance
Flow
Create data flows visually, schedule for repeatability,
monitor and notify
A Breakthrough Approach to Explore and
Prepare Data

18. Democratized data and analytics
Watson Data Platform
to organize, find and
understand data that enables
every project team to
quickly discover and use
data they can trust
including open source
notebooks and tools, shapers
and data visualizations that
enable the team to quickly
investigate any volume of
data
enable team collaboration
ensuring the enterprise builds
upon the insights its
members develop and
springboards from those that
peer organizations and
experts share.
Projects and
communities
Common tools Catalog
enabling regulatory compliance
with automatic policy
enforcement that enables data
professionals to focus on
delivering valuable insights
rather than managing and
organizing data
Enterprise grade
governance
to disparate data sources that
makes it easy to connect to
and gather data from
anywhere without friction
Data access

19. How does WDP help fulfill the promise of your data?
Watson Data Platform
Data
Puts every important data source at the fingertips of the
teams that need it wherever resides
Enforces your policies without getting in the way of
delivering insights
Makes the most of the data professionals you have
and helps them grow and learn from each other as
a team
Delivers the foundation for your first data project through
to the complete transformation of your business
Governance
InfrastructureSkills

20. See how a small startup
brought energy efficiency
to NYC with WDP
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data-platform/blocpower/
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leadership series:
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gs/bluemix/tag/ibm-data-
catalog/
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21. THANK YOU
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@Tom_Ericsson
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