3 posts tagged “Cloud Pak for Data”
A six-part series on IBM's own answer to the MAS 9 native-analytics ceiling: watsonx.data's open Iceberg lakehouse, fit-for-purpose query engines, MIF/Kafka extraction, medallion architecture, watsonx.ai and RAG, closed-loop write-back, and an honest head-to-head with Databricks.
Surendra KattaJul 19, 2026Part 0 of 6
MAS 9 native analytics has a real ceiling. This post names it, then makes the honest IBM-native case for watsonx.data — open Apache Iceberg, fit-for-purpose engines, and a bridge to watsonx.ai your MAS AI Service license already opened.
Surendra Katta
The three IBM-sanctioned ways to move Maximo data into watsonx.data — MIF REST/JSON over OSLC, the Kafka source connector, and MAS 9.1's asynchronous bulk export — plus the Cloud Pak for Data fabric and the SaaS constraint that decides which ones you can actually use.
Surendra Katta