The world of enterprise data is evolving at an incredible pace, and businesses are grappling with increasingly complex data landscapes. This demands more from their database systems than ever before.

IBM Corp. is adding artificial intelligence capabilities to its Db2 relational database management system that should help make the 36-year-old software more useful in today’s data-driven world.

Despite the attention given to new big data management technologies, Db2 remains one of the most widely used database management systems in the world and a fundamental component of many enterprise ...