Migrate from Express and Business Editions to Work.AI
Why new software got into play?
In June 2020, WorkFusion decided to sunset Intelligent Automation Cloud Express and Business Editions. The Recorder capability is available in the WorkFusion platform v10.1.6+ with no additional steps to migrate Business Processes (BPs) from Business Edition v2.4.1 or v2.4.2 to the WorkFusion platform v10.1.6+.
Work.AI Developer (previously Intelligent Automation Cloud Developer) is the successor of Express and Business Editions in that it serves as a development environment for the Automation Engineer and Low-Code Developer personas. Developer is part of Work.AI. That means, if your company already has a contract to use the Work.AI platform, no additional licenses are required to download and you can utilize Work.AI Developer for any number of users.
Think of Developer as a personal workstation installation of a simplified Work.AI environment. You can deploy the output from Developer to the server-based Work.AI platform.
Why migrate?
WorkFusion recommends migrating from Business or Express Editions to Work.AI comprising Developer. Advantages are as follows:
Work.AI is WorkFusion's flagship product. With it, your company gets the full range of automation benefits.
Having Production in a single centrally-managed environment is safer in terms of IT support and software updates.
With Work.AI, you get access to Analytics dashboards that provide valuable metrics for automation management. You can control volumes, STP, manual work, resource consumption and planning, ROI calculations, and other aspects of your business more efficiently if they are data-driven.
Business and Express Editions are obsolete products. WorkFusion provides no updates—whether in terms of features or bug fixes. However, since Work.AI Developer with Recorder is available in Work.AI, you can get advanced features and bug fixes with patches or new versions of the Work.AI platform or Developer.
Up-to-date platform versions are compliant with the latest security requirements and safe from recent vulnerabilities.
Get to know product versions compatibility
| Express or Business | SPA v9.x | Developer v10.x | WorkFusion platform v10.x |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4.2 | 9.4 | 10.1.6+ | 10.1.6+ |
| 2.4.1 | 9.4 | 10.1.6+ | 10.1.6+ |
| 2.4.0 | 9.4 | 10.1.6+ | 10.1.6+ |
To ensure smooth migration to the latest Developer and Work.AI, our engineers tested all Business Processes with Bot Tasks created with RPA Recorder in v2.4.0, v2.4.1, v2.4.2 Express or Business Editions. The tests confirmed that the tasks work as is in the WorkFusion platform v10.1.6+.
It doesn't matter how Bot Tasks are created—with the recording capability or dragging and configuring actions. Any Business Processes verified to work in Control Tower in v2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2 execute flawlessly in Control Tower starting from the WorkFusion platform v10.1.6+.
Keep in mind that bringing Business Processes from a newer environment to an older one may be problematic out of the box. For example, a Business Process exported from Control Tower v10.2.4 will fail during import to v10.2.3.
To avoid such issues, use the same versions or at least migrate from an older to a newer version. For example, export from v10.2.3 > import to v10.2.4 will work.