Automation 360 v.34 Release Notes

Release date: 27 September 2024

Important: These release notes are applicable only to Automation 360 v.34 release for Cloud-Sandbox environment (Build 26332). The v.34 release for On-Premises is not yet generally available (GA), so the content on these pages is subject to change until the On-Premises GA.

Review the top features in this release and view other new features and exciting enhancements for Automation 360 v.34 release (Build 26332).

Highlights of this release

Here are the top features in the v.34 release:

Create automations faster with Autopilot BPMN support
In our previous Automation 360 v.33 release, we announced Autopilot, leveraging generative AI to build automations fast. In this release (v.34), we’ve made it faster by importing your existing business process model and notation (BPMN) documents and using Autopilot to automatically create related outlines of processes and tasks, including structure and logic. This drives faster time-to-development and more value from existing BPM tools and BPMN outputs.
Note: This feature is only available to cloud customers and requires the Automator AI Platform Base license. See Automator AI Platform Base.

Autopilot transformer flow with bpmn

See Autopilot workflow for BPMN.

Use third-party RAG in AI Agent Studio for grounded automations
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps generative AI models create more meaningful outputs and mitigate hallucinations by using your company data to augment LLMs. With our open architecture, you can now use the RAG functionality of AWS Knowledge Base and Google Vertex AI data stores when building AI Skill templates. RAG gives AI Agents relevant knowledge to make them smarter so they can more effectively automate your key business processes, resulting in:
  • Higher productivity and efficiency, with less time spent on tedious data entry and manual data analyses.
  • Faster identification of anomalies, opportunities, and risks based on your actual data.
  • Higher return on automation by automating more complex business processes that require your data.
Note: This feature requires the Enterprise Platform license. For information about supported version for this feature, see Enterprise Platform.

Create Model connections using Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI RAG capability

See Create Grounded Model connections with Amazon Bedrock RAG capability | Create Grounded Model connections with Google Vertex AI RAG capability.

Execute AI Agents faster with AI Skills support now in API Tasks
AI Agent Studio gets even better in this release with the ability to execute AI Skills in API Tasks. You get our most modern task execution infrastructure in API Tasks and faster execution of AI Agents using AI Skills. This reduces the cost and improves the performance of automations while enabling you to integrate with generative AI models in a scalable, safe, and governed manner.
Note: This feature is only available to cloud customers and requires the Enterprise Platform license. See Enterprise Platform.

AI Skills package integration with API Tasks

See Use AI Skills in API Tasks.

Ensure responsible use of AI with analytics and governance features
With new governance features, you can now ensure responsible and compliant use of AI. Code analysis enhancements allow you to monitor and enforce your AI use policy with user notifications for immediate remediation before check-in. New AI dashboards provide complete visibility on usage, and AI analytics provide real-time data to quickly contain and remediate any incidents.
Note: This feature requires the Enterprise Platform license. For information about supported version for this feature, see Enterprise Platform.

AI governance dashboard

See AI governance dashboard.

New code analysis rule for AI governance

See AI governance code analysis rule.

Direct scheduling of automations is now faster and easier
Schedule process automations in less time and with less effort using new process first capabilities that enable direct scheduling of processes. This eliminates the need to create shell bots for scheduling and creates a more intuitive, user-friendly interface that enables you to focus on driving value, adoption, and productivity through automation.

See Schedule process automation | Run process automation.

Track real-time value gains from API Tasks with new analytics dashboards
Real-time dashboards in CoE Manager show the savings realized through API Tasks. This is a one-click way to view the time and cost benefits of automation, which you can then easily share with your organization.

ROI for API Tasks

See ROI tracking| Configuring automation types for measuring benefit.

Meet regional compliance requirements with new data sovereignty options for Document Automation
Document Automation puts generative AI to work to accurately process documents at scale but which can become complex as your organization works and automates across the globe. You can now select specific regions for generative AI services to ensure compliance with local data sovereignty rules and regulations. Beyond just US and EU regions, there’s now more flexibility and control to specify Australia, Canada, Japan, and India for generative AI processing.

Regional compliance with new data sovereignty options

See Document Automation settings.

Release updates

Date Update
27 September 2024 Cloud-Sandbox release
Note: For documentation on previous builds of this release, see the PDFs available on this page: Automation 360 Release Notes (build versions).

What's new and changed in each product

Navigate to the following pages for details on all the updates (what's new, changed, fixed, and limitations) in each product:

AI Agent Studio v.34 release
Automator AI v.34 release
Automation Workspace v.34 release
CoE Manager v.34 release
Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users v.34 release
Bot Insight v.34 release