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If you’re new here, Product Club is a monthly virtual meetup that focuses on Automation Anywhere's latest product innovations. It offers a place for community members to stay informed, connect with product leaders, and gain insights into the latest innovations in the world of intelligent automation.

This September, we explored “Agentic Orchestration with Next-Gen Process Composer,” diving into how Automation Anywhere’s latest innovations elevate process orchestration, streamline development, and enhance the developer experience with advanced agentic process automations.

Before we get started, let’s meet the session hosts (and feel free to connect with them on LinkedIn to continue the conversation!):

Nishikanth N, Director, Product Management

Lu Hunnicutt, Pathfinder Community Manager

Now, let’s get a rundown of the session:

The session began with an overview of Agent Process Automation (APA) and how Automation Anywhere is recognized as a leader in this space, blending rule-based automation with cognitive intelligence. Nishikanth highlighted the power of APA to automate both predictable and reasoning-based tasks, driving up to 10x business impact and covering up to 80% of organizational processes.

We then explored the foundation of the new NextGen Process Composer—a reimagined orchestration tool that simplifies complex workflows, supports BPMN-style modeling with swim lanes, parallel processing, and multi-agent orchestration. This unified editor experience aligns RPA bots, APIs, AI agents, and human collaboration into seamless end-to-end automations.

During the demo:

Nishikanth demonstrated the new Process Composer interface, showcasing its flexible canvas with swim lanes for organizing flows by roles or departments, free-form node movement, iterative building with unlinked nodes, and enhanced navigation tools like mini-maps and zoom. The revamped property panel and expression builder simplify variable mapping and error handling within the editor.

A key highlight was the ability to navigate and edit all automation assets—bots, APIs, subprocesses—directly within the Process Composer without losing context, thanks to breadcrumb navigation and in-editor file access. Templates and prebuilt flows speed up development, and version 37 introduced in-editor check-in/check-out for streamlined process lifecycle management.

What’s coming on the roadmap

Nishikanth shared the roadmap for versions .38 to .41, including trigger-based event execution, intermediate events for pausing/resuming processes, enhanced annotations and contextual help, in-editor creation of bots and APIs, historical execution insights with variable tracking, export options (PDF, image, BPMN), simulation and testing capabilities, improved debugging, exception handling within processes, and version comparison tools planned for next year.

Session Q&A

Q: Can existing learning instances be reused in new processes for document automation?
A: Yes, you can create new processes and map steps to existing learning instances.

Q: Can notes or comments be added in the new flexible mode?
A: Yes, annotations are planned and highly requested, with roadmap prioritization.

Q: Is Process Composer available now?
A: Yes, version 37 with Process Composer 2.2 is available for both cloud and on-prem customers.

Q: How is exception handling managed?
A: Currently within individual automations; process-level exception handling is planned.

Q: Can Process Composer be used for RPA as well as APA?
A: Yes, it supports simple RPA processes and complex agentic automations with AI agents.

Q: Are there additional licenses required?
A: No extra licenses needed to start; advanced features may require additional licenses.

Q: What’s new with AI agents in version 38?
A: Goal-oriented autonomous AI agents with tool selection and multi-agent orchestration.

Q: Will Process Composer work on-prem?
A: Yes, available on-prem now with cloud release timelines shared.

Q: Will AI agent templates be available?
A: Yes, prebuilt AI agent templates will be provided.

Next Steps

Don’t miss the next Product Club session! Subscribe to our Events page to stay connected and informed on the latest automation innovations with Automation Anywhere. For more details on NextGen Process Composer and agentic orchestration, check out the detailed docs listed below.

Next-Gen Process Composer - Overview

Get familiar with Next-Gen Process Composer

APA Leader Masterclass - Training Course