IBM's Cognitive Fabric is a foundation that allows organizations to leverage all types of analytics and harness all data. It segments data into different zones - an information ingestion zone to bring in operational data, an exploration zone to analyze and archive data, an information governance zone to manage data, and an enterprise zone for real-time analytics, data warehousing, and business intelligence applications. The Cognitive Fabric aims to help organizations answer questions about what is happening, why it happened, what could happen, and what actions should be taken by using predictive analytics, decision management, discovery and exploration, and reporting and analysis capabilities.

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Systems Security
On premise, Cloud, As a service
Storage
IBM Watson Foundations
IBM Big Data & Analytics Infrastructure
New/Enhanced
Applications
All Data
Real-time
analytics
zone Enterprise
warehouse
data mart
and analytic
appliances
zone
Information governance zone
Exploration,
landing and
archive zone
Information
ingestion and
operational
information
zone
What could
happen?
Predictive analytics
and modeling
What action
should I take?
Decision
management
What is
happening?
Discovery and
exploration
Why did it
happen?
Reporting, analysis,
content analytics
Cognitive
Fabric
A foundation for leveraging all analytics and harnessing all data