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Digital Business Automation Ideas


This is an IBM Automation portal for Digital Business Automation products. 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Please use the following category to raise ideas for these offerings for all environments (traditional on premises, containers, on cloud):
  • Cloud Pak for Business Automation - including Business Automation Studio and App Designer, Business Automation Insights

  • Business Automation Workflow (BAW) - including BAW, Business Process Manager, Workstream Services, Business Performance Center, Advanced Case Management

  • Content Services - FileNet Content Manager

  • Content Services - Content Manager OnDemand

  • Content Services - Daeja Virtual Viewer

  • Content Services - Navigator

  • Content Services - Content Collector for Email, Sharepoint, Files

  • Content Services - Content Collector for SAP

  • Content Services - Enterprise Records

  • Content Services - Content Manager (CM8)

  • Datacap

  • Automation Document Processing

  • Automation Decision Services (ADS)

  • Operational Decision Manager

  • Robotic Process Automation

  • Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

  • Blueworks Live

  • Business Automation Manager Open Edition

  • IBM Process Mining


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Blueworks Live

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Add in capability for customized process scoring like your CBM.ai tool and heatmapping

There are many links between IBM's CBM.ai (Component Business Model) tool and BWL. Combining them would provide a more comprehensive process view to your users driving efficiencies and visibility gains. We leveraged CBM.ai to develop 17 criteria t...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Adding a field to capture projects and associated value/effort/budget fields

We are leveraging BWL to show our value streams and L2 PCF process groups in a single Discovery View and using the task data tabs to capture a high-level overview of our landscape. Having a field to capture projects (like the problems section but ...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Allow images (that's stored in a SharePoint and added to Documentation with a link) to appear in Word Doc export

Our company does not have a public repository or SharePoint where we can store images/docs. Because we have used all the storage space in BWL before, a SharePoint has been set up to act as a repository for images and documentations. Users get a li...
about 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

CMMN

Please add support for CMMN to the current support for BPMN to the Blueworks tool.
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To have option to have collaboration window to insert sticky notes

To have option to have a collaboration window for the users to insert the sticky notes with their comments , ideas & feedback. we should have option to insert multi color notes. also there should be option for all users to comment on other per...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Expand / Shrink - Activity Box and Annotation Box

Activity box and Annotation box are in fixed size now in BWL. We have received many requirements now to expand or shrink the activity and annotation box based on the content.For small content, the boxes seems very big and for large content, these ...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Use Zoom Slider to Zoom In as Well as Out

Start Zoom slider in middle rather than to far right to allow zooming further in as well as all the way out. If browser zoom is used, everything is made larger including BwL header & footer which takes up needless additional space. Only proces...
about 4 years ago in Blueworks Live 3 Future consideration

Change of displayed information in Process Export file (xls)

Bring the following information in all sheets of the process export (Microsoft Excel Process Data (.xls) in order to have identification keys between the exported sheets, by:Option A (preferred):- Add the Item ID (similar to Artifact ID from Space...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

The Process Summary is a really awesome feature in Blueworks! But, the "print" option is limited and could be much better.

The Process Summary is a really awesome feature in Blueworks! But, the "print" option is limited and could be much better. Why not include it in the available exports? - Word, as a page- PowerPoint, as a slide- Excel, as a tab- Print, allow select...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Ability to Control the Order of Lists such as Hyperlinks Associated with Policies

Currently there is no way to control the order of lists like hyperlinks associated with policies. They only appear in reverse order that they are added.
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration