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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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Allow Numbering and Analysis at Same Time

The process diagram functionality does not allow you to show the analysis and numbering at the same time. I would like to be able to keep the numbering while showing the analysis
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 0 Future consideration

Ability to Add a Property Tab (i.e. Opportunities) Next to Current Tabs, Details, Problems, Policies etc.

Currently you can add additional "properties" within the "Details" tab behind a task. However, you can't:1. Add a stand alone property tab next to Details, Problems, Policies, Documentation etc.2. Move added "properties" within the "Details" tab t...
almost 5 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Tags to reflect while exporting the diagrams (any format of export)

Tags to reflect while exporting the diagrams (any format of export) Currently while exporting the diagrams in word / excel the tag details are being captured in the sameHowever, Tags are not getting populated while exporting as PDF / PPT. Hence it...
over 6 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Future consideration

Add SIPOC information as an exportable format

A common communication tool for Six Sigma process improvement project is a SIPOC (suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers). This information is summarized in the View Process Summary menu option. We would like this to be a standard expo...
over 8 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Numbering Feature

Customer played around with the renumbering feature, and did not like the fact that they are only able to re-number the 2nd + digits, It would be a great feature to be able to reset numbers vs manually renumbering and be able to edit the entire nu...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

CMMN

Please add support for CMMN to the current support for BPMN to the Blueworks tool.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Show jpg or png from Documentation tab in Excel export

Currently when a process is exported to Word, the images uploaded in the Documentation tab in BWL are shown in the Word document. When the process is exported to Excel, a link to the image is provided in the Excel sheet 'Attachments'. It would be ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Not under 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...
over 3 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 4 Future consideration

Inset Image option in Process(white) Space

In BWL we can add images in Documentation or attachments only. Now we have requirements to add/insert any image in the white space. It will be helpful when we can insert any image in the process diagram space.
over 3 years ago in Blueworks Live 6 Not under consideration