New Features in ADONIS 17.2
Get ready for the next step in your ADONIS journey! ADONIS 17.2 is a minor update to ADONIS 17.0 that brings new capabilities for both users and administrators.
For users, key improvements include enhanced integration with AI systems through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and simplified linking of ADONIS process models and Process Mining Essentials (PME) projects.
For administrators, this release brings several powerful enhancements: Ollama and GPT-5 support for the AI Assistant, super admins with unrestricted system access, automatic audit log files for continuous tracking of administrative actions, and more.
Additionally, this release includes fixes for issues discovered since the release of ADONIS 17.0.
New Features for All Users
MCP Services
ADONIS 17.2 now includes a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, making it easier to connect with AI systems.
MCP is an open standard that enables AI applications to connect with external tools like ADONIS. This allows information and capabilities to be exchanged smoothly between ADONIS and systems such as large language models (LLMs), reducing the need for complex custom integrations.
Agent-based access: To use MCP, an agent is required that connects to the ADONIS MCP server and communicates with the AI system. Typically, such an agent is developed or provided by the customer.
LLM subscription: Integrating with an LLM usually requires a subscription to the chosen LLM provider (e.g., OpenAI).
Preconfigured tools: ADONIS comes with a set of ready-to-use tools that let you find models and objects by name and description, view their properties, and execute saved searches via natural-language prompts.
Extensibility: Additional tools can be configured to expose any functionality of the ADONIS REST API by BOC Solution Engineers as part of customising projects.
Context-sensitive execution: All tools operate in the context of the user account under which the MCP requests are executed, ensuring that permissions and repository restrictions are respected.
This new integration capability makes it easier to connect ADONIS to LLMs and other AI technologies for tasks such as natural-language queries, context-aware reporting, or AI-assisted analysis.
Customers who can provide their own agent (e.g., via internal developers) can enable MCP services in ADONIS and use the preconfigured tools immediately. For additional requirements or to extend MCP capabilities with custom tools, contact your ADONIS consultant. They can help assess your needs and initiate a customising project to configure the necessary tools for your use cases.
Process Mining Essentials: Managing Connections with ADONIS Models
The ADONIS Process Mining Essentials (PME) add-on now makes it easier to manage connections between your process mining projects and ADONIS models.
Establish a connection
Previously, connecting a process model to a PME project required steps on both sides: first retrieving the project ID from PME, and then pasting it into ADONIS.
Now, you can establish the connection directly in ADONIS. Simply open the properties of your 
Business Process Diagram, go to the Process automation chapter, and click 
Connect. Select the PME project, confirm, and you're all set!
Open in ADONIS
Once a connection is established, you can directly jump from ADONIS PME to the linked ADONIS model. This allows quick access to the Insights dashboard of the model in ADONIS.
Disconnect project
Want to unlink a PME project from your ADONIS model? Easy! Just click 
Disconnect and you're free to connect a new model.
PME is an optional, licensable add-on module for ADONIS 17.0 or higher available on the "ADONIS Marketplace". It is only available in the ADONIS Enterprise Edition.
For information on how to use PME, please refer to the "ADONIS Process Mining Essentials (PME) Guide".
New Features for ADONIS Administrators
Enable MCP Services
In the ADONIS Administration, you can activate access to the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. To do this:
Enable access to the ADONIS REST API
Activate the MCP services
Optionally, configure IP restrictions to limit which IP addresses can access the MCP server
Once access to the MCP server is enabled, a local agent is required to manage communication between your chosen LLM and ADONIS. This agent is an independent component and is not provided out of the box.
With a properly configured agent, you can use the MCP services in ADONIS. For example, you can ask your agent questions in natural language, which are then processed using the preconfigured MCP tools.
For details on enabling the MCP services, please refer to the section "MCP Services" in the Administration Help.
Guidance on using the MCP services and a reference implementation in Python for creating an agent is available via the BOC Developer Portal.
AI Assistant: Ollama Support and GPT-5 Availability
ADONIS 17.2 extends the capabilities of the AI Assistant with two major enhancements: support for Ollama and the latest OpenAI large language model, GPT-5.
Support for Ollama
You can now connect the AI Assistant to Ollama as an additional AI provider, alongside OpenAI and Azure OpenAI. This gives you the flexibility to integrate a locally hosted language model, improving data privacy and control.
To set up the Ollama integration, you need:
The model name
The endpoint URL of your Ollama instance
(Optional) your API key for cloud-hosted or secured local instances
Once the configuration is complete, the AI Assistant is ready to use with Ollama.
Support for GPT-5 (OpenAI)
When using OpenAI as your AI provider, you can now select GPT-5 as the AI model. GPT-5 offers improvements in reasoning, accuracy, and text understanding compared to earlier models, and can result in higher-quality outcomes for process analysis and design. Because GPT-5 is a more advanced reasoning model, response times and usage costs may vary compared to models from the GPT-4 series.
For information on how to enable and configure the AI Assistant, please refer to the section "AI Assistant" in the Administration Help.
Super Admins
Super admins have unrestricted access to the entire system, including all tool components and database contents. This enables them to perform all administrative tasks without limitation.
One such super admin account (the user Admin) is created automatically during ADONIS installation. To correlate administrative actions to specific individuals and track them in the audit log, additional users can be designated as super admins.
These users can then temporarily activate super admin mode to access to administrative functions and disable it again when it is no longer required.
For details on configuring administrators in ADONIS, including super admins, global administrators, and sub-administrators, please refer to the section "Configure Users as Administrators in ADONIS" in the Administration Help.
Audit Log Files
ADONIS now automatically records administrative actions in log files. Audit entries are written to *_audit.log files located in the default /logs folder within the application server installation directory. This functionality is always active and cannot be disabled.
By default, sensitive data (such as user names and user properties) is encrypted in the audit logs. If needed, however, audit data can be deanonymised. Audit log files are also automatically included in the support information package (SIP).
The existing audit log that can be enabled manually in the ADONIS Administration and exported as CSV remains available for now, but will be removed with ADONIS 18.0.
For details on the new audit log files, please refer to the section "Audit Log Files" in the Administration Help.
OIDC: Preauthorized Scopes
ADONIS can act as an OpenID Provider (OP) and, in this role, authenticate users for external applications (OIDC clients), allowing them to sign in with their ADONIS credentials.
New in ADONIS 17.2: When configuring such client applications, it is now possible to define preauthorized scopes. These specify which data or functions the application is allowed to access, without requiring the user to approve them each time.
If all requested scopes are already preauthorized and the user is signed in, access is granted automatically (without an additional consent dialogue). Only if a scope is not preauthorized will the consent dialog still appear.
For details, please refer to the section "Authentication > OIDC" in the Administration Help.
Process Mining Essentials: Automatic Configuration
Setting up the add-on ADONIS Process Mining Essentials (PME) is now faster and more convenient.
When accessing the PME settings, ADONIS checks all required parameters and indicates whether the required configuration is 
valid or 
invalid.
If needed, simply click Configure automatically, and ADONIS will apply all missing settings in the background.
This improvement simplifies setup, especially for customers migrating from earlier ADONIS versions. In new installations of ADONIS 17.2 or higher, the required settings are already preconfigured.
For information on how to enable PME, please refer to the section "Activation and Setup" in the ADONIS Process Mining Essentials Guide.
Migration from an Earlier Version of ADONIS to ADONIS 17.2
Changes to Software Requirements
Please note the following changes to the software requirements for running ADONIS when migrating from previous versions.
No longer supported
Tomcat 8 and Tomcat 9
Java 8 and Java 11
Oracle Database
Added support for
Tomcat 10.1 and Tomcat 11
Java 17 and Java 21
Upgrade ADONIS
The Installation Manual contains a number of migration guides that will help you upgrade ADONIS from an older version to version 17.2. Each guide contains all the steps that need to be taken, with everything explained in detail:
Migration from All Other Versions to ADONIS 17.2
If you are using ADONIS 13.0 or earlier, please contact your ADONIS consultant for assistance with the required steps.
Install Hotfix
You are already using ADONIS 17.2 and want to install a hotfix? Here are step-by-step instructions: