Organize extension services
While the Collect rung of the AI ladder is about putting your data in the appropriate persistence store and enabling easy access, the Organize extension services are all about building a trusted analytics foundation. This entails data prep, data transformation, data governance, data privacy, master data management, and life cycle management of data across the enterprise. While Cloud Pak for Data includes a set of rich capabilities for data prep, data governance, and data privacy as part of the base offering, the rest of the Organize rung is available through the following four extension services (AKA cartridges):
DataStage
Data integration is a critical facet of any enterprise, and it is becoming even more important given the increasing scale and distributed nature of enterprise data assets (often spread across multiple clouds and data centers). IBM DataStage is an enterprise-leading Extract Transform and Load (ETL) offering that has thousands of customers...