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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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Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting

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Inform customers when Power Reports require configuration in order to use them

Why it would be useful? Customer had no idea that Power reports had to be turned on to use them. It's likely other customers experience this same issue. Who would benefit? All customers who might learn of the availability of Power reports but unaw...
about 2 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

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...
8 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Future 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.
6 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Incorporate Scope 3 Categories into Account Styles or Data Types

In multiple cases, often the same emission factor and data type is used to calculate emissions in multiple Scope 3 categories. For example - DEFRA's factor: Passenger travel - land: National Rail may be applicable for both business travel (Cat 6) ...
4 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Future consideration

List of EF descriptions

When users are trying to create a account and assign data types, they do not have an understanding of the granularity of emission factors available. Whilst we understands that the emission factors themselves are potentially licensed, users need to...
11 months ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Need solution for financial services companies scope 3 emissions associated with the reporting company’s investments in the reporting year, not already included in scope 1 or scope 2.

assessing and setting targets for financed emissions involves multiple complexities arising from differences between sectors, geographic variation, shifting counterparty plans, changing industry standards, and a nascent and rapidly evolving data e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Envizi - ESG Suite / Scope 3 GHG Accounting & Reporting 1 Not under consideration