Services and integrations

You can extend the functionality of the platform by provisioning other services and integrating with other cloud platforms.

• Provision instances of services from the Services catalog. Add service instances to the IBM Cloud account to add functionality to the platform. You must be the owner or be assigned the Administrator or Editor role in the IBM Cloud account for IBM watsonx to provision service instances.

• Integrate with other cloud platforms. Allow users to easily create connections to data sources on those cloud platforms. You must have the required roles or permissions on the other cloud platform accounts.

• View regional availability and limitations. Get information about where services are available by region.

• To integrate with data sources, you can create many types of connections to work with a broad array of data sources. Refer to Securing connections to create secure connections for data sources that are not externalized to the internet.