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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. 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

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Masonry digital-twin monitoring loop

Problem: A one-time geophysical survey of a dam or cathedral is a snapshot; deterioration is a movie. The military learned this with persistent surveillance — one image is trivia, a time series is intelligence. Heritage and infrastructure owners c...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Legacy FTG data-retargeting agent

Problem: Over a million line-kilometers of airborne full-tensor gravity gradiometry have been flown for oil and gas (Bell Geospace alone). Most of it was processed once, for hydrocarbons, and shelved. The same data can map aquifers, geothermal sys...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Infrasound blast-compliance monitor

Problem: Quarries, mines, and construction blasting generate disputes — neighbors feel damage, operators claim compliance. The global infrasound and seismic arrays built for nuclear-test monitoring proved that distant blasts can be detected, locat...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Critical-minerals survey coordinator for junior explorers

Problem: The U.S. wants domestic critical minerals, but the public mapping that junior explorers depend on is being gutted — Earth MRI effectively falls from $74M to $16M/year, state surveys face ~50% cuts. Majors can fly their own $1M+ FTG survey...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Historic-masonry void survey planner

Problem: Cathedrals, colonial forts, and ancient stone structures develop hidden voids, delamination, and water ingress that visual inspection misses. The geophysical toolkit exists — microgravity, GPR, electrical resistivity, even muon tomography...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

GRACE groundwater agent for water districts and farmers

Problem: Aquifers are invisible and depleting — GRACE satellites showed groundwater reserves under desert cities falling by roughly two-thirds since measurement began. But GRACE data is coarse, technical, and out of reach for the water districts a...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Humanitarian demining survey planner

Problem: Landmines still kill civilians decades after wars end. The best detection tech — GPR fused with metal detection and infrared, per DARPA's AN/PSS-14 program — was built for soldiers, and GAO documented how Army mine-detector production col...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

GPS-denied gravity-navigation fallback for emergency response

Problem: GPS jamming is now routine in conflict zones and spreading (Baltic aviation incidents since the Ukraine war). Emergency responders operating where GPS is denied or spoofed lose positioning — and with it, coordination. Idea: An Orchestrate...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Dig-safe GPR survey orchestrator

Problem: Excavation strikes on unmapped utilities kill workers and rupture lines every year. GPR — born as a military tunnel/mine detector and civilian since the mid-1970s — is the right tool, but hiring a GPR survey is a fragmented, expert-only p...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Declassification-pipeline tracker: military sensors → civilian markets

Problem: Full-tensor gravity gradiometry lost ~20 years to classification (1973 military → 1994 commercial). Nobody watches the pipeline systematically, so small firms learn about newly available sensor technology years late and miss the adoption ...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted