What's new in IBM Business Automation Workflow 24.0.1.0

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Learn about the new features in IBM® Business Automation Workflow 24.0.1.0.
Tip: For the new features of Business Automation Workflow and Workflow Process Server in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, see What's new in 2024.0.1.

For information about features that are deprecated or removed in Business Automation Workflow 24.0.1.0, see Deprecated and removed features of IBM Business Automation Workflow. For known limitations, see Business Automation Workflow 24.x known limitations.

Update to Business Automation Workflow 24.0.1.0 to experience all the highlights, such as these added abilities and improvements.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in process applications and case solutions

  • Leverage powerful enterprise-grade foundation models such as the IBM Granite™ family, Llama, and Mixtral to reduce your total cost of ownership (TOC) by automatically generating content. Use cases include advertisement, job or product descriptions, email templates, and triaging support tickets with notifications and redirects. Automate labor-intensive content generation as part of your business-critical workflow automations with state-of-the-art AI. New information Learn more...
  •  Technology preview  Use the guided experience with the new IBM Workflow Assistant powered by watsonx.ai™ to find, understand, and complete tasks in Workplace. The assistant helps you filter tasks, ask questions about tasks, create task summaries, manage teams, and generate content such as emails, feedback, and descriptions.

If you're interested in participating in the technology preview, contact your IBM representative to sign up. Limited seats are available.

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Easily move your inflight instances from Business Automation Workflow to Cloud Pak for Business Automation

  • When you move from Business Automation Workflow 24.0.1.0 (Standard edition) to Cloud Pak for Business Automation 24.0.1, you can now use your process and case instance databases from the traditional environment and continue running and completing your inflight instances in Cloud Pak for Business Automation without any loss of data. New information Learn more...

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Integration enhancements for process applications and case solutions and their external systems

  •  Containers:  Discover and invoke web service operations of document literal wrapper style even when the input message does not reference the external service’s operation name. New information Learn more...

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CI/CD pipeline enhancements for deployment of snapshot packages

  • Integrate Business Automation Workflow with JFrog artifactory to enable developers to store snapshot packages in a centralized repository and monitor builds and deployments in real time. New information Learn more...
  • Workflow export and deployment packages can now include artifacts with file types that explicitly indicate their content. This enhancement facilitates CI/CD pipeline scanning tools to accurately identify the content type of each artifact. New information Learn more...

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Build process applications and case solutions more easily in Process Designer

  • You can now use new customizable task pages that are based on the common UI framework shared by case, process tasks and Workplace. These pages include customizable task lists that provide additional filters based on case data. The additional filters can help users focus on relevant tasks instead of manually searching through the entire list of tasks. New information Learn more...
  • You can now use common case operations, including file documents to a case, find activities for a case, get the current case stage, and get related cases more easily as part of your workflows to improve your productivity when you build your process or case pages. New information Learn more...

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