Discover what’s new in IBM Blueworks Live. The June 2026 release introduces powerful AI‑driven capabilities to dramatically speed up process modeling, alongside a modernized design experience and enhancements that improve reuse, governance, and lifecycle control. Together, these updates help organizations move faster from idea to execution while maintaining enterprise‑grade consistency and compliance.
Key Features and Highlights
🔹 Generate process maps with AI: from text and images (technology preview)
Blueworks Live IQ takes a major leap forward in simplifying process design with new AI‑powered generation capabilities:
- Generate process blueprints from text by simply describing a process in natural language or pasting meeting notes. AI automatically creates structured BPMN diagrams with activities, gateways, swimlanes, and milestones.
- Generate process blueprints from images, enabling organizations to convert legacy diagrams, screenshots, or whiteboard sketches into fully functional process models.
- Refine your process blueprints with simple prompts, describing the desired changes in the chat assistant and let Blueworks Live IQ itself recommend best practices to introduce in your process.
Blueworks Live IQ evolves into an interactive co‑designer. These capabilities significantly reduce manual effort, accelerate large modeling initiatives, and simplify migrations from legacy tools: helping teams move from documentation to actionable processes in minutes.
🔹 Tailor AI to your organization with custom guidelines
Organizations now gain greater control over how AI operates within their environment:
- Define custom AI guidelines that align with internal standards, operating models, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure that AI recommendations and co‑design consistently reflect company policies and best practices, enabling governance at scale.
This capability ensures that AI is not only powerful but also compliant, contextual, and aligned with your rules.
🔹 Modernized experience for process design (technology preview)
As part of the ongoing platform modernization, Blueworks Live introduces a redesigned interface for creating and editing process blueprints:
- Cleaner, more intuitive layout for improved usability and more flexible process design.
- Enhanced zooming and scrolling for smoother navigation across complex diagrams.
- Improved visual clarity to support better design accuracy and collaboration.
This preview provides a glimpse into the future of process modeling in Blueworks Live IQ. Click on "Switch to modern experience" to switch to the modernized view, with the flexibility to switch back to the classic experience when needed.
🔹 Your ideas in the product: customer-driven enhancements for reuse, governance, and lifecycle management
This release also delivers a set of highly requested capabilities that strengthen efficiency and control across the platform:
- Export process blueprints as PDF files: easily generate high‑quality PDF exports directly from the interface, with options to include diagrams and detailed activity properties for improved sharing and documentation.
- More flexible workspace governance: enable governance selectively across spaces without enforcing a single global process app, allowing organizations to apply stricter controls only where needed.
- Improved artifact lifecycle management and automated expiration: set expiration dates for process artifacts and automatically archive them when they expire; a new admin view provides full visibility into active and archived artifacts, helping maintain a clean, compliant, and well‑organized environment.
Together, these enhancements help organizations scale process management practices while maintaining control, consistency, and operational efficiency.
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