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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.

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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...

IBM Envizi - ESG Suite

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Add Grouping/Versioning Functionality ----> Allows User Self-Customization

Currently, admin users cannot create surveys themselves within Envizi. They must supply an Excel-based survey template to IBM, who then create the survey, on the client's behalf. I have been informed that the reason for this is that IBM must ensur...

Support of Czech language

It is mandatory requirement of Czech customers to have a local language support for Envizi. Question about local language support is raised in every customer meeting. We can run local initiative and translate it based on provided documentation - I...
9 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 7 Planned for future release

Enable Excel formats for standard reports

Standard reports are, for the most part, only available to be downloaded in CSV format. This often causes issues when importing into Excel with data sets using non-English characters. It relates to, I think, encoding issues with UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 v...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite 3 Future consideration

Require the MBE report to be extended beyond 5 years

The market based emissions preferences only allow up to 5 years - our baseline year is 2019 so require the ability to have more than 5 years available. We have rasied this as an issue with our implementation team and the support team and have been...
about 1 month ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 1&2 GHG Accounting & Reporting 0 Under review

Option to have custom 'Quick Link buttons' for clients or partners

Some of our IBM Business Partners have their own sustainability platforms. These can complement Envizi functionality. We have client and partner interest in positioning these complementary tools together, seamlessly. The best way to do this is wit...
3 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 3 Functionality already exists

50GB attached file storage limit is too limiting

We currently show a 50GB storage limit for attachments and our SD says that it is considered a material breach if it is exceeded. During a conversation with a prospect, they believed that their .pdf invoice storage is around the 50GB mark already ...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Future consideration

Allow better precision of data in the Universal Connector template

We are unable to load small tCO2e figures into the Accounts using Universal Connector template if the precision of the figures are for example six decimal places. I think the Universal Connector template only allows figures up to four decimal plac...
11 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Data Connectors & Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Add New Emission Factor Libraries for Scope 3

We currently have potential clients who are mature enough to use average-method data for Scope 3 but not mature enough to have custom emission factors available from LCAs. The lack of appropriate emission factors for Scope 3 is preventing them fro...
9 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Future consideration

Specific date Tag Effective From and Effective To Date

It would increase the accuracy of data reporting if you could select a specific date i.e. 04/02/2024 on the 'Effective From' and 'Effective To' date when using Tags. Currently, you can only select the month and year. i.e. February 2024
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 4 Not under consideration

Translation capability for purchased goods and services

Businesses working with a global supply chain need help to classify this data from a wide range of different languages, to inform the NLP categorization capability. The NLP using just English does not have suitable functionality for global clients.
7 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Functionality already exists