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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.


ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

PINNED SQL statements in Dashboard Widgets
I think using SQL statements in widgets would be great to leverage the entire potential of the data uploaded to IBM Process Mining. Lots of important and helpful information cannot be displayed today as it's only SQL-like. I don't think that using...
PINNED Filter UI enables having OR between filters (not just AND)
Users want to filter cases for client1 OR client2. They can't without creating a custom filter with javascript -- which they don't like at all

IBM Process Mining

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Process minig - additional field with hint or explanation

Process mining - additional fields with hint or explanation In the tab Data&Settings/KPIs/KPI benchmarks/Edit process KPIs or Edit activity KPIs are parameters: "Case duration thresholds", "Case cost thresholds", "Activity throughout threshold...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task mining - adding an option of record all activities

Task mining - adding an option to record all activities (settings tab) Before you start recording, by default you have to provide a list of applications and websites. If the user will use applications that are not on the list during recording (e.g...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Not under consideration

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension

Task mining - solving a problem with a chrome browser extension Due to the need to have an extension for the chrome browser, there are problems with access from the organization. This results in the inability to record user activity in the browser...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Is a defect

Process mining - exclude weekends option

Process mining - exclude weekends option Adding "exclude weekends" in the data cleansing tab. Example use: After mapping the data it should be possible to not counting processing time during weekends (because people don't work during weekends) An ...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Process mining - additional suggestions (guidelines) for errors

Adding hints to help resolve a given error Adding, in the form of a comment or an additional box, information on how to solve the error (e.g. No such column "eventlog.endtime_ts"), such as providing the exact path to the tab, step or file where yo...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

IBM Process Mining to enable custom calendar creation

We suggest IBM Process Mining enable users for using custom calendars for intervals calculation. For example, there are scenarios where there are certain filters and event identifiers that have different working hours. For example, in support case...
7 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 2 Functionality already exists

Analytics - Matrix with possibilities for handling more than 3 values

Currently, we can use the chart with a cardinality of 3. We can see templates using two and working perfectly, We aim to improve the user experience by having a dynamic component that accommodates more than three values and displays multiple metri...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Analytics -> Elastic Pie Chart to allow toggle to display percentage

Percentage is something that is very important in Pie Charts, visualizing the percentages would be something really helpful in a lot of different situations. Currently, we have to enable percentages via Custom Configurations but that's something n...
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task Mining - recognition of task variants

Group user tasks into different execution patterns (e.g., 3 ways to approve an invoice) and identify best practices
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Textual summaries of processes

Automatically generate textual summaries of process analysis (e.g. "Process X takes 12 days on average, 4 variants and 2 bottlenecks have been identified)
8 months ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration