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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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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
3 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 4 Not under consideration

Round to whole numbers when viewing electricity records

When viewing electricity records in Envizi, there is not a consistent approach as to how Envizi displays the values. It seems to just display them based on what was entered, and if two or three or four decimal places were entered, these are shown....
7 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Not under consideration

Make 'Partner Portal' an option for key clients

We have some business discussions with regulatory and advisory bodies. These organizations want to take a 'supervisory' role with Envizi. For example, using Envizi to review gaps and data quality for reporting members' ESG. To ensure best practice...
3 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Not under consideration

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

Power Report time period are currently relative even by filtering of calendar year. Offer calendar year as January -December

Recent support case showed that client needed an actual client year for January - December for an audit. Using relative time period of 1 year gave too little information that was needed and 2 years gave too much information than needed.
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Not under consideration

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

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

Ability to use multiple tabs in a browser

Tabbed browsing was developed almost 20 years ago. But Envizi does not support it, and this is very frustrating. For example, to compare two dashboards / properties / etc. You can use a different browser, or a combination of regular and incognito,...
about 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 2 Not under consideration

Logout due to inactivity is too short

I constantly find myself having to log back into Envizi after being logged out due to a short time period of inactivity of approx 15 mins, this slows down my productivity and above all else is annoying. This should be something that each user can ...
5 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Base Platform 1 Not under consideration