What's new in IBM Business Automation Workflow 25.0.1.0

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Learn about the new features in IBM® Business Automation Workflow 25.0.1.0.
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 25.0.1 External link opens a new window or tab.

For information about features that are deprecated or removed in Business Automation Workflow 25.0.1.0, see Deprecated and removed features of IBM Business Automation Workflow. For known limitations, see Business Automation Workflow 25.x known limitations External link opens a new window or tab.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in process applications and case solutions

  •  Technology preview Streamline workflow creation by using the AI-powered Authoring Assistant embedded in Workflow Center. The assistant guides you through planning and automatically generates processes and business objects, helping you build workflows faster and with less complexity. New information Learn more...
  • Boost productivity, streamline operations, and accelerate decision-making across teams with the updated AI-powered Workplace Assistant. The assistant has a more extensive understanding of natural language commands, can summarize processes and cases, and performs multi-step actions such as bulk task reassignment. New information Learn more...
  • Business Automation Workflow now supports integration with AI agents, such as IBM watsonx™ Orchestrate®, through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how AI agents interact with tools and data sources. It provides a consistent way for agents to access tools through MCP servers, enabling seamless integration with business automation capabilities. New information Learn more... External link opens a new window or tab
  •  Containers  Enhance your workflows with agentic AI by invoking watsonx Orchestrate agents using natural language. This capability enables autonomous task execution, automating manual steps to increase task completion, improve efficiency, and deliver better business outcomes. New information Learn more... External link opens a new window or tab

Enhance Business Automation Workflow on containers

  • Add Business Automation Insights as an optional component to your Business Automation Workflow standalone container deployments under a Business Automation Workflow license. It also supports Intelligent Task Prioritization and Workforce Insights, helping transform raw event data into actionable intelligence for smarter, data-driven decisions. Learn more...
  • You can now add or remove optional components to an existing Business Automation Workflow on containers deployment by using configuration scripts. Using these scripts reduces the risk of causing problems to the deployment. New information Learn more...

Move your inflight instances from Business Automation Workflow traditional to containers

You can now move inflight process and case instances from a traditional Business Automation Workflow environment to a containerized deployment, accelerating your move to cloud-native architectures while preserving existing workflows and data. Moving instances is supported for Oracle and Db2® databases, and containerized Business Automation Workflow thats runs on Rancher and Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform.

Build process applications and case solutions more easily in Process Designer

  •  Containers  You can now publish MQ-based automation services directly from Process Designer. These services are easy to discover and invoke from other workflow automations, enabling asynchronous interactions between loosely coupled components. This enhancement increases integration flexibility and supports dynamic, event-driven automation scenarios. It also allows you to chain transactional service flows across multiple workflows, enabling end-to-end processing without tight coupling or synchronous dependencies. New information Learn more... External link opens a new window or tab
  • Quickly build UIs in client-side human services with enhanced scripting support, including a code completion picker to easily reference other views, validation for code that references other views, and automatic refactoring when control IDs are changed, ensuring that all references are updated. New information Learn more...
  • Build cases more easily with an improved user interface. Enhancements include direct links to JavaScript API documentation from each case view and the ability to expose case and activity properties as business data directly from the property definition panel.

Work efficiently with tasks, workflows, and cases

Save and reuse custom case searches with preferred filters, sort order, and display settings. You can also view additional case details by expanding rows in the case list view. New information Learn more...