Envizi Sandbox AddOn
The Sandbox Environment is a standalone instance of Envizi that clients can use for internal testing without impacting their primary reporting environment.
Clients may use the Sandbox Environment to test changes to configuration and settings before implementing these changes in their production environment. Note that the Sandbox Environment does not support the testing or approval of SaaS code changes or software updates, nor is it intended to be used as a secondary reporting environment.
All Envizi Components and AddOns in the production environment are available in the Sandbox Environment with the exception of the following:
Emissions Management – Scope 3 Supply Chain Intelligence Component
The Energy Star and GRESB API integration which is part of ESG Reporting – Building Ratings and Benchmarks Component
Single-Sign-On AddOn (authentication to the Sandbox Environment is restricted to basic authentication only)
Planning Analytics AddOn
Specific changes are made to the Sandbox Environment to differentiate it from the production environment, such as prominent changes to branding, and prefixes added to reference identifiers such as account numbers and usernames.
The Sandbox Environment is initialized with the settings, preferences, and configuration from the production environment including a client-nominated period of historical data (up to a maximum of five (5) years for Account data and two (2) years for Meter data).
The Sandbox Environment does not dynamically synchronise with the production environment. Clients may request a refresh of the Sandbox Environment via IBM Technical Support, which removes the current environment and transfers a copy of the current production environment into the Sandbox Environment. The refresh can only be requested one time per calendar quarter.
Note that the configuration items below cannot be copied and must be recreated each time the Sandbox is initialised or refreshed:
Data Flow Automation services and pipelines
Custom PowerReports
Scheduled Reports