IBM Unveils watsonx.data Tools to Advance AI Integration for Enterprises

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June 4, 2025

Details

  • IBM introduced watsonx.data integration and watsonx.data intelligence, releasing June 11, 2025, to help enterprises unify and govern unstructured data for AI applications.
  • The new products work alongside IBM’s watsonx.data lakehouse and integrate seamlessly with third-party platforms, including Meta’s Llama Stack.
  • Internal tests indicate these tools can improve AI accuracy by 40% over traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by connecting AI models to sources such as documents and videos.
  • Lockheed Martin has implemented watsonx.data, empowering 70,000 employees to search millions of documents using natural language queries.
  • Additional features include the upcoming watsonx BI analytics agent (available June 2025) and integration with NoSQL/vector databases via IBM’s DataStax acquisition.

Impact

IBM’s latest data stack directly tackles enterprise challenges in leveraging unstructured proprietary data for AI, an area 72% of CEOs deem essential to extracting AI value. The practical boost in accuracy and productivity, as seen with Lockheed Martin, strengthens IBM’s foothold in AI infrastructure and signals growing enterprise momentum for operational AI adoption.

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