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- Establishing the Foundation for Human-in-the-Loop Automation
- Unlocking SAP-Heavy Enterprise Scenarios
- Governance and administration
- Smarter AI Assistance
- Looking Ahead
As we begin 2026, January marks an important moment in the evolution of Blue Prism Next Generation - focused on reinforcing core platform capabilities and laying the groundwork for what comes next.
Below is a summary of the key platform enhancements delivered towards the end of the year 2025 and available to our customers as we enter January 2026, and why they matter for enterprise automation teams.
Establishing the Foundation for Human-in-the-Loop Automation
In December, we introduced configurable, role-based Forms, enabling the first built-in Human-in-the-Loop (HiTL) capabilities within Blue Prism Next Generation.
These forms allow users to trigger automation flows directly on submission or create work queue items for the digital workers to take action. This marks an important step toward enabling human and digital workers to collaborate in a single orchestration layer - setting the stage for more sophisticated human-machine collaboration in future releases.
Unlocking SAP-Heavy Enterprise Scenarios
Customers have welcomed the delivery of this native SAP automation support, which removes a key adoption barrier for SAP-centric organizations. For many enterprises, SAP remains a core, mission-critical system and first-class SAP support is essential to confidently automate complex, enterprise-grade application landscapes.
With SAP Spy Mode now available, customers gain greater confidence that Next Generation invests in UI-based automation and supports regulated, mission-critical enterprise systems where direct API access may be limited or unavailable.
Progress towards a fully web-based automation experience with Automation Studio extended to include built-in commenting for processes and objects, with timestamped edits to support collaboration, traceability and accountability.
Alongside this, we continued to improve the operational experience with:
Improved operational visibility, including a new System Health dashboard and enhanced Control Center session log filtering.
Governance and administration
Administrators can now self-configure SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) using their own identity providers, removing reliance on support and accelerating secure enterprise integrations.
Smarter AI Assistance
The Product Help on Blue Prism Assistant has been enhanced with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), improving accuracy, relevance, and contextual understanding of responses grounded in official documentation. This helps users resolve questions faster and with greater confidence, directly within Next Gen.
Looking Ahead
As we move further into 2026, these foundations position our platform to confidently support more advanced orchestration, agentic workflows and enterprise-scale automation.
