The next generation of intelligent workflow automation has arrived.
We're excited to announce the general availability of IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) 26.0.0.0—our latest major release designed to help organizations automate faster, work smarter, and modernize with confidence.
This release brings together AI-powered workflow automation, intelligent document processing, simplified modernization, and greater deployment flexibility to help businesses accelerate operations while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance. Whether you're building new workflow applications or modernizing existing ones, BAW 26.0.0.0 provides the tools to move from automation to truly intelligent work.
✨ What’s New
We're continuing to evolve IBM Business Automation Workflow with new AI-powered capabilities that help users prioritize, understand, and complete work more effectively.
🤖 Unlock Smarter Workflow Automation with AI
Bring AI directly into your business processes to improve productivity, streamline decision-making, and enable intelligent automation at every stage.
Manage work with AI Agents
Empower AI agents to securely discover, initiate, and manage workflows, cases, and tasks through standardized MCP interfaces—opening new possibilities for agentic workflow automation.
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Process documents with generative AI
Transform document-heavy business processes by extracting information, classifying documents, analyzing images, and applying business policies to accelerate decisions and reduce manual work.
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Interact with documents in natural language
Help users quickly find information, summarize content, and interact with workflow documents using natural language—all without leaving their work environment.
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Choose your own AI Model
Connect seamlessly to multiple Large Language Models through a centralized AI model gateway, giving you the flexibility to choose the right model while maintaining governance and security.
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Use the Built-in Foundation Model
Run AI capabilities within your own environment using the integrated watsonx.ai Lightweight Engine, helping meet security, compliance, and data residency requirements without relying on external services.
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🛠 Build Faster. Deliver More.
Accelerate application development with new capabilities designed to simplify workflow creation and improve developer productivity.
Microsoft Exchange Connector
Automate email-driven business processes by enabling workflows to seamlessly send and retrieve emails from Microsoft Exchange.
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Streamlined Case Builder
Design modern case management applications through a simplified authoring experience that reduces complexity while improving productivity.
☁️ Modernize and Deploy with Confidence
Run IBM Business Automation Workflow wherever your business needs it.
BAW 26.0.0.0 now supports deployment on leading managed Kubernetes platforms, including:
Combined with supported migration and upgrade paths, organizations can modernize existing workflow applications while reducing operational risk.
🔄 Modernization & Operations
Managing enterprise workflow environments is now easier than ever with enhancements focused on resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.
Highlights include:
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Incremental migration of in-flight process instances to containers
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IBM Turbonomic integration for intelligent resource optimization
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Separate log files for individual process applications
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Usage Metering Service for improved product visibility
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Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) support for increased application availability during maintenance
⚡ Enhance Everyday Productivity
Small improvements can make a big impact across enterprise operations.
Default Saved Searches
Give teams a better search experience with enhanced shared search management and administrator-defined default searches.
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Faster Search Performance
Benefit from improved indexing within the Federated Data Repository, delivering quicker access to workflow and case information at scale.
🌍 Deliver Business Value Across Every Industry
IBM Business Automation Workflow 26.0.0.0 helps organizations transform critical business processes across industries.
Financial Services
Accelerate lending and onboarding through AI-powered document understanding and intelligent workflow automation.
Healthcare
Improve patient experiences by reducing manual data entry and enabling faster access to critical information.
Manufacturing
Increase operational efficiency by automating maintenance, inspections, and production workflows with AI-powered agents.
Government
Modernize citizen services with intelligent case management and document-centric automation.
Retail
Deliver faster order fulfillment and more responsive customer service through intelligent workflow routing and automation.
👉 Let’s Connect
Interested in seeing what this could look like for your organization?
Join the July User Connect Session - Register Now!
Book a demo: https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/signup?formid=urx-32021
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For a complete list of What's New in IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW) 26.0.0.0 and IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) 26.0.0, please visit our release documentation below:
If you have any questions or want to learn more, feel free to reply, we’re here to help.