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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 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
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...

IBM Process Mining

Able to remove filters from process page in dashboard page

Complicated rules on which filters can apply where - eg. Across to the dashboard We must go back and forward to apply filters in process and dashboard rather than being able to remove them in dashboard if they were set in process
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 0 Planned for future release

More dashboard elements allowed

Currently only 8 dashboard elements are allowed we should be able to have more like our competitors do
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Process Mining to allow widget to display a list of case IDs on metrics creation

IBM Process Mining to allow widget to display a pop-up and list of case IDs on metrics creation. Users want to, after a widget is created that a pop-up appears when on the table cells. See the following example: - In a table widget with severities...
about 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize LogoutRequest xml for SSO (Public)

Some Identity Providers may not be able to handle Logout requests when used as SSO for IBM Process Mining. The idea is to have the ability to customize the LogoutRequest xml generated by the application to ensure that logouts are properly handled.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Task Mining - suggestions for automating micro-tasks

Automated prompts, for example: “this task takes an average of 3 minutes and occurs 100 times a day - it's worth automating.”
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Built-in root cause analysis

Automatic detection of the causes of process problems (e.g., delays, errors, bottlenecks) and recommendation of corrective actions.
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 1 Functionality already exists

Integration with RPA tools in real time

Enabling automatic detection of locations where robots can replace manual labor and immediate implementation of automation, such as in UiPath or Automation Anywhere
over 1 year ago in IBM Process Mining / Submitted 0 Future consideration

Alphabetization in ONLY SOME of the dropdown lists, which can have a huge list of variables

Some filters go by execution but with a long and vast list of process steps or attributes it makes it impossible to type ahead and search for specific action. Also when editing a filter the type ahead is disabled
over 3 years ago in IBM Process Mining 1 Future consideration