We are pleased to announce that IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation version 23.0.2 is available today. The new release includes the following bundled products:

• Business Automation Workflow 23.0.2

• Business Automation Insights 23.0.2

• FileNet Content Manager 5.5.12

• Operational Decision Manager 8.12.0.1

• Automation Decision Services 23.0.2

• Business Automation Navigator 23.0.2

• Business Automation Studio 23.0.2

• Business Automation Application 23.0.2

• Robotic Process Automation 23.0.12

• Process Mining 1.14.3

Release Highlights

Entitlement to IBM Storage Fusion Essentials

Entitlement to Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) 23.0.2 provides clients with entitlement to IBM Storage Fusion Essentials. This offers customers entitlement to storage without purchasing an additional storage license, and includes support for Block, File and Object Storage. Included in Storage Fusion Essentials through CP4BA entitlement:

• Fusion Data Foundation internal deployment mode up to 12TB per cluster. This includes compression, cluster-wide encryption and cross-availability zone HA.

• No usage time limit

• Fully supported by IBM

• Customers may choose to purchase IBM Storage Fusion Advanced for the following additional features:

• Capacity requirements above 12TB per cluster

• External mode deployment

• Backup

• Disaster Recovery

• Global Data Platform (Storage Scale)

• Data Catalog

• Advanced encryption with external key management

Federal Market

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) are now supported for all components except Business Automation Insights and IBM Enterprise Records. Supporting FIPS means meeting strict federal security standards. It involves using validated encryption like AES for secure data handling, ensuring safe storage and transmission. This compliance also entails secure key management and rigorous testing, ensuring customers' sensitive information remains protected.

AWS Marketplace

CP4BA is available on the AWS Marketplace. To read more about our initial launch, click here.

Enhancements

Business Automation Workflow

Enhancements available in Business Automation Workflow 23.0.2 include, but are not limited to:

• Complete work more efficiently by turning on task prioritization in Workplace

• Mexican Spanish (es_MX) is now available as a locale option with the appropriate format of dates, times, and currency data in Workplace and Process Portal.

• Search for and work with variables in client-side human services with the new variables filter

• Efficiently define the input and output data mapping of client-side human services by using an intuitive graphical data handling without having to use JavaScript.

• Enable rich text activity description in your client-side human services to format and stylize user task descriptions.

Kafka Support:

• Enabling Kafka support via scripts/UI

• Publish, discover and trigger Kafka based workflow automation services using Kafka message events

Business Automation Insights

The following new capabilities are available in Business Automation Insights 23.0.2:

• Enrich Business Performance Center features for more comprehensive dashboards

• Simplified creation of drill-downs; introduced the possibility to mix chart types in the same drill down, and to use any chart type in the final layer. (A drill-down is a multi-layer chart that allows you to explore a data set, by navigating up and down into nested layers, each layer being defined by a data field.)

• User interface to support duration formatting

• Alerts for critical events are more flexible

• Ability to trigger alerts when no user session is open, and to consume these alerts from a predefined Kafka topic for forwarding to other applications.

• New samples are available for forwarding to Slack or to email.

Business Automation Insights 23.0.2 is a new standalone product as of today. Read more in our announcement here.

FileNet Content Manager

• Nextgen Content Based Search using the Elastic Search and Open Search engines

• Validation of content during ingestion

• Ability to rotate access credentials to AWS S3 storage

• Ability to download large content (>2GB) using the GraphQL API

• Process Engine Java API support of OIDC token authentication in CP4BA config

• Support of IBM Semeru 17.0.8.1 across all components and tools

Security enhancements:

• Support of the FIPS 140-2 cryptographic standard across the Content Services components (CPE, CSS, GQL, ICN, TaskMgr, External Share, CMIS, IER, ICC FES)

• Re-qualification of GB18030

Operational Decision Manager

• New features for default values and resizing in decision tables

• Support for events from XML binding to Business Automation Insights

• Support for custom test implementation

• Reduced footprint on install

Automation Decision Services

• Configure decision runtime to emit events and business data to an external Kafka instance.

• Execution of Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) models is now supported. A new Embedded PMML runtime and provider is available to process the execution.

Business Automation Application

• Efficiently search for and work with variables in Application

Designer with the new Variables filter.

• Efficiently define the input and output data mapping of your application flows by using an intuitive graphical data handling without having to use JavaScript.

Business Automation Navigator

• Memory reduction and elimination of temp files for large document uploads

• Option to disable insecure CSP directives

• New DocuSign and Sharepoint Online plugins

Business Automation Studio

• Improve publish capabilities for Workflow AutomationDocu

Learn More

Documentation

Sign up for our Jan 9th webinar “What’s New and What’s Next for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation”