What's new in IBM Blueworks Live
Learn about the new features and capabilities added to IBM Blueworks Live in the latest release and other releases this year. These updates are part of Blueworks Live's ongoing effort to deliver an intuitive, efficient, and AI-integrated user experience, and improve performance and usability.
To learn more about the changes that happened in previous years, see Previous releases of IBM Blueworks Live.
March 2026
This release delivers significant performance enhancements to Blueworks Live IQ and improved governance controls. This release also provides expanded API flexibility and more granular control over account customization for administrators.
New features and enhancements include:
- Improvements to Blueworks Live IQ assistant [technology preview]
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Blueworks Live IQ now provides a more robust and seamless conversational interface, which helps generating faster and more reliable insights from your process maps.
Key improvements include:- Faster delivery of insights and recommendations.
- Improved visual structure of AI responses for a cleaner and more professional output.
- The ability to generate data‑driven business cases that support stakeholder alignment and informed decision‑making.
- Modernized Login page
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As part of the ongoing user interface modernization, the login page now reflects the new design that was introduced in the Administration console in a previous release.
- Improved governance to maintain workflow continuity
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This release introduces smarter logic for workflow continuity. To ensure that work does not stall when a user is archived, their assigned workflows in process apps and work instances are automatically reassigned to the process app owner. If the owner is no longer available, the assignment is redirected to the account administrator.
- Enriched options for account-level management
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- In the Customization tab of the admin console, you can now select Admins and Editors as the user types who are able to copy spaces to other Blueworks Live accounts.
- Custom number properties now support a length of up to 15 digits, which allows for more precise data capture and better alignment with external financial or tracking systems.
- API updates and deprecations
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Blueworks Live API now provides better filtering and performance.
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An improved Activity API (
GET /bwl/activities) is now available to retrieve detailed information about account activities with advanced filtering capabilities.
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Planned change: A rate limit of 200 requests per hour will be applied to the
GET /blueprints/{blueprint-id}/exportendpoint in a future release. Review your integration patterns now to prepare for this upcoming change. -
Important: Deprecation noticeThe Export process diagrams to BPMN 2.0 format (
GET /BpmnExport) API is deprecated. Use the Export a revision of a BPMN 2.0 process (GET /export/process) API instead to ensure future compatibility.
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- Documentation updates
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A new series of tutorials is available to discover Blueworks Live IQ capabilities:
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Identify process
improvements: Go through an end‑to‑end process assessment scenario where you learn how to
prompt the AI assistant, interpret its structured assessment, and refine insights to uncover
bottlenecks, inefficiencies, benchmark comparisons, and automation opportunities.
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Verify process
completeness: Analyze your process blueprint to find potential gaps such as missing metadata,
understand why these gaps matter, and get AI‑assisted suggested values to help fix the process.
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Build a business case:
Create a structured business-case that uses insights from Blueworks Live IQ analysis to formalize your targeted process
improvements plan.
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February 2026
The latest release of IBM Blueworks Live introduces Blueworks Live IQ, an AI‑powered assistant that helps teams understand, analyze, and optimize their business processes with greater speed and confidence. This capability is released as a technology preview and is available to users with an Editor license. This release also delivers improvements to the Export a blueprint API.
- Blueworks Live IQ assistant [technology preview]
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Integrated into the Blueworks Live AI assistant chat, Blueworks Live IQ provides industry‑aligned recommendations and context‑aware insights based on your process maps and metadata, all from a simple conversational interface. The assistant is available from process blueprints for users with the Editor user type.
With Blueworks Live IQ, you can:- Conversationally assess and explore process models, making advanced analysis more accessible to both business and technical audiences.
- Identify bottlenecks, delays, and inefficiencies more quickly, reducing manual analysis effort.
- Uncover missing or inconsistent metadata and receive suggested values to help you maintain complete, high‑quality process blueprints.
The Blueworks Live IQ assistant enables users to move beyond static process maps to dynamic, insight-rich workflows, which represents a significant step forward in how organizations analyze and optimize their processes.
Note: Blueworks Live IQ is being deployed gradually across countries, so it might not be available immediately. - Exporting process blueprints as PDF files with the Export a blueprint API
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You can now select PDF as an output format when you export a process blueprint with the
blueprints/{blueprint-id}/exportAPI. All existing export options for .docx are also available for PDF, such as including process diagrams, activity numbering, and custom footers. This enhancement enables a more seamless experience when generating static process documentation.
- Documentation updates
- API documentation has fully migrated to IBM API Hub, IBM's dedicated platform for centralized
API documentation and resources. The previous documentation section within IBM Docs is still
available for review, but is no longer updated and might be removed in the future. Find the latest
updates and documentation for Blueworks Live on IBM API Hub
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