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).


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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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Workspace Business Automation Workflow
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Created on Sep 26, 2025

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Integrating Kibana dashboards in IBM BPM (now IBM BAW - Business Automation Workflow) Process Portal

Adding Kibana dashboards to the IBM BPM (now IBM BAW - Business Automation Workflow) Process Portal can be a powerful integration,

 Why It Could Be a Good Idea

Enhanced Visualization

IBM BPM has built-in reporting tools (like Process Performance dashboards), but they’re often limited in flexibility. Kibana offers:

  • Custom dashboards
  • Advanced filtering
  • Real-time log and metric visualization
  • Integration with ElasticSearch, which can index large volumes of data quickly

You can use this to monitor:

  • Process performance
  • Task durations
  • SLA violations
  • System-level metrics (e.g. latency, exceptions, throughput)

 

Operational Intelligence

If you’re already logging BPM events (via Event Emitters, custom logging, or IBM ODM rules) to ElasticSearch, Kibana can give:

  • Near real-time insights
  • Correlation across systems (e.g. BPM + database + API logs)
  • Alerting using Elastic Watcher (or external tools)

 

3. Cross-Team Benefits

Business users, dev teams, and ops can all benefit:

  • Business: Track KPIs, SLAs, process bottlenecks
  • Ops: Monitor server health, failures
  • Dev: Debug process issues using correlated logs

 

⚙️ How to Integrate Kibana with IBM BPM Portal

1. Embed Kibana Dashboards

You can embed Kibana dashboards inside the Process Portal UI (custom page) via an iframe, assuming authentication is managed:

  • Embed in custom coach views or custom dashboards
  • Use a reverse proxy or SSO layer to secure access

2. Export BPM Data to ElasticSearch

You need data in ElasticSearch. Options:

  • Use IBM BPM REST APIs to export process/task instance data regularly
  • Create event listeners or custom Java components to push logs directly
  • Use Kafka connectors (if you log to Kafka) to stream into ElasticSearch

3. Security & Access

Make sure to handle:

  • SSO between BPM and Kibana
  • Role-based access control on dashboards
  • Secure data transmission
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