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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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Writing tags in capital first letters

When adding new tag then first letters of each word are automatically converted to a small writing (B into b). This mechanism is awkward when personal names are used in tags. All other glossary entries are allowed to write in capitalising labels, ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Add labels to Milestones and Activities to identify types of waste for those selected as NVA

Waste removal is a primary goal of LEAN for process improvement. As Blueworks Live aligns to this goal by allowing categorizing activities as Value Add or Non-Value Add, it would be good to further categorize the Non-Value Add activity into its ty...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

To be able to tag other Blueworks users when you add a comment to a process diagram.

All users would benefit from being informed that there is a comment for their attention, because presently the comments are not always picked up by the required users immediately. This could work by allowing the commentator to tag the required Blu...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Export option

add pdf export option in case process owners want to print process map to make larger prints e.g posters
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

In the Glossary report, we need the field "Where Used" Added

In the glossary report that can be exported to excel, there is no field called "Where Used" that shows each map where the glossary term appears. It is available in the view but not available in the excel export. The excel report is essentially use...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Extract report from playback feature

Is there any way we can extract the process from playback feature in blueworks in multiple forms like pdf, excel etc along with word doc which is already existing.
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 2 Future consideration

Separate ability to set user access rights from "Manage and Edit Space"

It is not possible to allow users the ability to create their own sub-spaces, but prevent them from assigning their own user/group permissions. this results in lots of support calls when users or their colleagues cannot see content. Compounded by ...
over 1 year ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

Increase storage space

Our users have been using a lot of storage space for their process maps to the point where we ran out of storage space. About 99% have been images pasted directly into the Documentation tab and 1% have been documents. No videos are uploaded. My un...
almost 2 years ago in Blueworks Live 1 Future consideration

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