IBM Think 2024: Concert, Watson X, Data Hub
Key Points
- The 100th episode of IBM Tech Now celebrates major announcements from IBM Think 2024, highlighting new AI‑driven tools for enterprises.
- IBM Concert, built on Watson X, creates a unified, 360° view of an organization’s applications and delivers generative‑AI insights, natural‑language queries, and tailored optimization recommendations.
- IBM’s Global AI Adoption Index shows 42% of large enterprises have deployed AI while 40% remain stuck in the “sandbox,” prompting IBM to roll out enhanced Watson X assistants—including a Code Assistant for Enterprise Java, a faster knowledge‑transfer interface, and code‑explanation capabilities—to address skills gaps, data complexity, and trust issues.
- The newly announced Data Product Hub provides a streamlined, secure platform for internal data producers and consumers to share data products, accelerating data‑driven outcomes across the enterprise.
Full Transcript
# IBM Think 2024: Concert, Watson X, Data Hub **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk7EWGNm_iE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk7EWGNm_iE) **Duration:** 00:04:13 ## Summary - The 100th episode of IBM Tech Now celebrates major announcements from IBM Think 2024, highlighting new AI‑driven tools for enterprises. - IBM Concert, built on Watson X, creates a unified, 360° view of an organization’s applications and delivers generative‑AI insights, natural‑language queries, and tailored optimization recommendations. - IBM’s Global AI Adoption Index shows 42% of large enterprises have deployed AI while 40% remain stuck in the “sandbox,” prompting IBM to roll out enhanced Watson X assistants—including a Code Assistant for Enterprise Java, a faster knowledge‑transfer interface, and code‑explanation capabilities—to address skills gaps, data complexity, and trust issues. - The newly announced Data Product Hub provides a streamlined, secure platform for internal data producers and consumers to share data products, accelerating data‑driven outcomes across the enterprise. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk7EWGNm_iE&t=0s) **IBM Think 2024 Highlights** - The podcast celebrates its 100th episode by recapping major IBM Think 2024 announcements, notably the launch of IBM Concert for AI‑driven 360° application insights, a new class of Watson X assistants, and a Data Product Hub. ## Full Transcript
big announcements out of think 2024
including IBM concert a new class of
Watson X assistants and data product Hub
all on this episode of IBM Tech
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now I just want to start off this week
by saying how thrilled we are to bring
you the 100th episode in our IBM Tech
now series for those of you who have
been watching since the beginning you
know we've come a long way and we're
grateful for each and every one of you
who Tunes in and what could be more for
100th episode than to cover some of the
announcements coming out of IBM's big
annual conference think
2024 the first announcement I want to
cover is the introduction of IBM concert
which helps you get a full 360 degree
view of your applications and provides
generative AI insights that help you
understand your application landscape
powered by Watson X concert connects to
your existing supported applications and
tool sets and creates a single view of
your applications providing visibility
into your predefined application
topology this can eliminate the need to
sift through multiple siloed dashboards
conert can also provide generative AI
driven operational and strategic
suggestions to enhance your
application's performance and resilience
these recommendations are tailored to
your specific application architecture
empowering you to make informed
decisions that can help Drive Real
Results you can even ask questions using
natural language to deepen your
understanding and explore the potential
impact on your application
by leveraging generative AI to provide a
detailed view of your application
landscape IBM concert can help unlock
new opportunities for optimization and
Innovation letting your applications
operate at Peak Performance to learn
more about IBM concert check out the
link in the description of this video
next up IBM's annual Global AI adoption
index recently found that while 42% of
Enterprise scale companies surveyed have
implemented AI in their business another
40% of companies have yet to deploy
their models for the company stuck in
the sandbox 2024 is the year of
overcoming barriers to entry such as the
skills Gap data complexity and perhaps
most importantly trust to address these
challenges IBM is announcing several
upcoming updates and enhancements to its
family of Watson X assistants the AI
assistant updates include the
announcement of Watson X code assistant
for Enterprise Java applications a
transformation in how users interact
with Watson X assistant for Z to quickly
transfer knowledge and expertise and an
expansion of the Watson X code assistant
for service with code explanation to
help clients understand and document
applications through natural languages
to learn all about these updates and
enhancements hit the links
below finally to wrap things up today
we're excited to announce data product
Hub a data sharing solution to help
accelerate Enterprises data driven
outcomes by streamlining data sharing
between internal data producers and
consumers data product Hub enables an
approach called managing data as
products data producers will be able to
manage and publish these data products
which are curated collections of data
sets reports notebooks ml models and
other data derivatives tailored to
address specific business needs these
data products are designed to be easily
discoverable governed and reusable
ensuring that business analysts line of
business users data scientists and other
data consumers can find and utilize the
data they need in minutes not weeks data
product Hub will be deeply integrated
with IBM Watson x. data which is a data
store built on an open data Lakehouse
architecture it'll also be integrated
with thirdparty dat lak houses and
Source systems this will enable
Enterprises to bring in data wherever it
may reside to simplify the onboarding
and sharing of data products to learn
more about data product Hub hit the link
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today to celebrate the 100th episode of
IBM Tech now if you're interested in
learning more about the topics I've
covered make sure you explore the links
in the description of this video we
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