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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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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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Ability to lock certain account styles instead of locking everything

It is critical that companies have the ability to lock certain account styles. Right now, you can only lock ALL account styles in your system, without being able to lock some but not others. This is crucial for auditing purposes. For example, I wa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration

Allow for multiple separate instances of Envizi on internet tabs

This is hard to explain, but when I have Envizi open on two separate internet windows/tabs, I run into an issue where I'm trying to look at two different accounts. When I have two internet windows of Envizi open to review two separate accounts, ca...
5 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration

Allow for account numbers to be used as input to calculation logic in virtual accounts

At the moment when creating a virtual account, users can only adopt 'data types' as metrics for input in formulas/calculation logic. It would be great to allow for more flexibility, using not only data types but also account numbers (more granular...
5 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Set Financial Years for Classification Groups

Currently Envizi only allows the financial year to be defined at the Organisation level and this is applicable for all data reported across the platform. However, some customers have complex organisational structures and within this, different bus...
5 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Not under consideration

Support custom exchange rates set by a customer or ingested from another platform that the client is using.

Businesses who use Envizi for energy management, budget tracking and/or for its market-based emissions report and capabilities are often interested in the cost of RECs and equivalents. These businesses are looking to budget and forecast cost using...
9 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future 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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration

Add Canadian Emissions factors from IEA/National Inventory to the product

Envizi advertises that we leverage emissions factors from IEA and customers purchase Envizi expecting that the product will manage all factors available. There are factors within IEA that Envizi does not leverage and customers do not understand wh...
5 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 3 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Planned for future release

Allow organizational preferences on data presentation

Without the ability to customize Envizi for all of our global users, I have tried to make the metric system the default for how data is displayed. The data continues to show in the imperial system across the platform which is causing issues. We ne...
5 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Future consideration