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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Pinned ideas

PINNED Power BI capability alignment between Desktop vs embedded solution
Requesting Customer: Fraser Property but this would benefit all customers using Envizi Power BI capability Business Impact: The Frasers Property Team have recently explored the use of the embeded PowerBI functionality and have found that there are...

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We'd like to be able to use PowerReports with updated data in real time

We have been using PowerReports for reporting and find them helpful, but not having them update for 24 hours after the underlying data is updated is very frustrating and slows down our process greatly.
7 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Not under consideration

Create a "No Accruals" accrual methodology to apply at the configuration level

Currently, if you want to turn off accruals, you have to use specific account styles that do not utilize accruals. If a client doesn't want to use any accruals, every account style would need to be customized. Instead, allow functionality to turn ...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Reconfigure PowerReports to allow reporting at waste type level rather than only at waste account level.

Current configuration for PowerReports allows analysis at waste account level. However, we have 20+ waste streams at the waste type level. Currently, the only way to view this more granular data is to run an extract report in Excel and work with p...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Not under consideration

Closing periods for different parts of the organisation

Currently when you close or lock certain aspects of reporting it closes all areas rather than limiting to just those specific accounts. Therefore you cannot access or change some areas whilst also limiting access to completed accounts. We want to ...
11 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration

Allow a word search bar in the Sustainability Portfolio Performance power report.

Why: In the Sustainability Portfolio Performance report, there is a section to see your organization as a whole, but to select one single location, you have to scroll through your entire list of sites to find the one you are looking for. Adding a ...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1

Select All available upon horizontal scrolling

QoL improvement - make select all available upon horizontal scrolling. Option disappears when user scrolls horizontally (see attached photo)
8 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration

Flag status for provisional data

Add an option to flag accounts or even data types as provisional when the data is in question or prior to final review. For example, we know we need to revise our scope 1 purchased goods and services and would like to flag that category while we a...
12 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Planned for future release

Watsonx.data to store ESG data required for auditing purposes

All organizations reporting on ESG internally or externally are storing data into data warehouses which is expensive, but they are doing that because the organizations have data warehouses for other applications and its just easier to store compli...
8 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Not under consideration

Power Report - Partner Functionality Improvements

ISS add value to customers in loading, managing and quality checking customer data and reporting on energy management with valued insight and then acting on those insights to reduce customer energy consumption. Our use of Envizi hinges on our abil...
over 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration

Ability to customize the notification mails going from Envizi

Currently, there's a defined template provided by Envizi for the notification and there's not much flexibility in updating the body of the mail or branding of the mail.
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Functionality already exists