IBM Data Catalog is now generally available

We are excited to announce that IBM Data Catalog is now generally available!

When you sign up for Data Catalog, you have a choice of two plans: Lite or Professional. Here are the key highlights:

Lite

The Lite Plan is the free starter plan. You can create one catalog for all your assets, run automatic data discovery on up to five connections, collaborate with other users, add your assets to projects, and work with other Watson Data Platform apps, such as Data Science Experience and Data Refinery. However, profiling, data governance, and business glossary capabilities are not available in the Lite plan.

Professional

With the Professional plan, you have full access to all Data Catalog capabilities. You can create an unlimited number of catalogs and run as many discovery connections as you need. In addition, you can profile and classify your data, and control who can access your data with automatic governance enforcement. You can manage business terms in a business glossary to facilitate the use of a common vocabulary and relate terms to your catalog assets.

This is only the beginning: we’re adding new features and capabilities weekly!

If you’re a Beta customer, you have until January 31, 2018 to switch to one of the new plans.

Read our announcement for details about these plans, support for the Beta plan, and how to switch from your Beta plan to one of the new plans. Or ask us a question by clicking on the chat icon in the lower right corner when you are signed in to Watson Data Platform.

Ready to sign up or find out more about IBM Data Catalog? Go to ibm.com/cloud/data-catalog