IT Service Management
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Summary of IT Service Management (ITSM) – Yokohama Release
IT Service Management (ITSM) on the ServiceNow AI Platform enables organizations to efficiently manage and resolve IT service requests, incidents, problems, and changes through automated workflows. This solution is designed to improve agent productivity, accelerate issue resolution, and enhance user satisfaction by leveraging AI-powered recommendations and enterprise chatbot automation accessible via mobile and web interfaces.
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Built on the cloud-native ServiceNow AI Platform, ITSM integrates a shared data model, AI, and workflow automation to reduce unplanned work and minimize business disruptions. It serves as a foundational element for digital transformation by streamlining IT service delivery and boosting operational efficiency.
Key Features
- Enhanced Service Experience: Automate support for common requests using virtual agents with natural language understanding (NLU), enabling conversational and consistent customer service.
- Consolidation of IT Services: Unify multiple IT tools into a single cloud-based system of action, improving resource management, performance tracking, and providing a reliable source of real-time data.
- Improved IT Productivity: Use machine learning and virtual agents to automate routine tasks such as incident categorization and assignment, freeing IT staff to focus on strategic work while delivering 24/7 support.
- Visibility into Processes and Services: Leverage built-in dashboards and analytics, including Performance Analytics, to monitor service quality, identify trends, forecast demands, and pinpoint automation opportunities.
- Mobile Connectivity: Empower IT staff with the ITSM mobile agent app available on iOS and Android, enabling real-time access to assignments, approvals, and notifications anywhere.
- Edge Encryption for ITSM Virtual Agent: Offers enhanced data security by managing encryption and keys on your intranet, requiring careful planning and administration to implement securely.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Increase agent efficiency and reduce resolution times through AI-driven automation and virtual agents.
- Consolidate disparate IT management tools to simplify operations and improve service consistency.
- Gain actionable insights and predictive analytics to proactively manage IT services and optimize performance.
- Maintain secure data handling with edge encryption capabilities for sensitive interactions.
- Support mobile workforce needs with robust mobile applications for instant service management and approvals.
Getting Started and Support
ServiceNow customers can begin by setting up Incident Management to handle service interruptions and explore additional ITSM applications such as Change Management and Problem Management. Learning resources, community forums, and official training courses are available to accelerate adoption and proficiency. Licensed customers can access NOW Support for technical assistance.
Use IT Service Management (ITSM) to manage and resolve IT service requests, incidents, problems, and changes through automated workflows on the ServiceNow AI Platform.
The ITSM solution can help increase your agents' productivity, resolve issues quickly, and improve user satisfaction. Also, powered by platform native AI, you can quickly accelerate technology changes and view recommended actions for incoming tickets or requests and drive self-service and automation through enterprise chatbot technology. The ServiceNow AI Platform® also provides users access to ITSM via mobile or web-portal interfaces.
Transform the impact, speed, and delivery of IT services
The ServiceNow AI Platform was built for the cloud and has its own shared data model, AI, and workflow automation that are leveraged by many IT applications. The combination of the ServiceNow platform and applications helps you increase productivity by automatically identifying and resolving issues, which reduces the negative business impacts of unplanned, non-strategic work.
View and download the full infocard for a highlight of ITSM features.
| Enhance the service experience Automate support for common requests with virtual agents powered by natural language understanding (NLU). Engage users with natural, human conversation to provide consistent good customer service experiences. |
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| Consolidate IT services Rapidly consolidate existing tools to a single system of action in the cloud. |
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| Improve IT productivity Use machine learning algorithms and virtual agents to automate routine tasks and increase the productivity of agents. |
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| Gain visibility into processes and services Get full visibility into any process or service with built-in dashboards and analytics providing real-time, actionable information to improve service quality. |
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| Provide mobile connectivity Enable employees to find answers and get work done from a modern mobile application. |
Enhance the service experience
Automate routine agent interactions and increase the speed of resolution from the Employee Center portal. With supervised machine learning, you can automate incident categorization and assignment and eliminate bottlenecks created by manual incident triaging. Meet increasing demands without further adding staff and empower existing IT staff to focus on more meaningful work. For more information on the Employee Center portal and the features, see .
Consolidate IT services
Reduce the number of separate tools your company uses to provide a consistent service experience regardless of the issue or the request. Consolidating IT services enables you to better manage and allocate resources and track performance. You can have a single reliable source of information where performance is monitored in real time and data is easy to capture and report.
Improve IT productivity
Accelerate resolution with built-in machine learning. Chatbots provide immediate resolution to common questions. With ITSM Virtual Agent in action, you can have employees with 24*7 support service. Service desk agents can take advantage of machine-learning automation to resolve incidents and recommend resolutions for agents based on similar incidents solved in the past.
Gain visibility into processes and services
Make smarter decisions with real-time analytics across the entire IT value chain. Get new insights into service performance using data trends and forecasts. With Performance Analytics, you can anticipate trends based on current conditions and past performance and identify areas where automation can increase efficiency.
Provide mobile connectivity
Stay connected and access information in real time using the ITSM mobile agent. You can access work assigned to you or your group, receive push notifications, and approve or reject change requests and requested items. The ITSM mobile agent is available on the iOS platform from the Apple App Store or on the Android platform from the Google Play Store.
Edge Encryption for ITSM Virtual Agent within ITSM
Edge encryption provides you with direct control over your data security. Encryption and key management are performed on your intranet between your browser and your ServiceNow instance.
See Understanding Edge Encryption.
Because edge encryption is enabled on a proxy server on your side of the network, there is significant planning, network administration and management, and setup required.
See Planning for Edge Encryption.
To install edge encryption, see Edge Encryption installation.
Get started
- Get answers to common questions and connect with other ITSM users in the ServiceNow ITSM community.
- Learn about the ITSM packages on the ServiceNow Products website.
- Take an ITSM course. To sign up, go to ServiceNow training and certification.
- Set up an Incident Management to start managing service interruptions. For more information, see Incident Management.
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Get help
- Ask questions and share knowledge in the ServiceNow ITSM community.
- Open a support case in NOW Support (licensed customers only).
Applications and features
- Machine learning solutions for IT Service Management
- Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM)
- Asset Management
- Benchmarks
- Change Management
- Coaching
- Collaboration services
- Continual Improvement Management
- Contract Management
- DevOps Change Velocity
- DevOps Config
- Digital Product Release
- Digital End-User Experience
- Digital Portfolio Management
- Expense Line
- Employee Center
- Incident Management
- Incident Communications Management
- ITSM Virtual Agent
- ITSM Mobile Agent
- ITSM Success Dashboard
- ITSM Platform Analytics Solutions
- ITSM Predictive Intelligence Workbench
- On-call scheduling
- Operational Technology Incident Management
- Operational Technology Change Management
- Procurement
- Product Catalog
- Problem Management
- Recommendation Framework
- Release Management
- Request Management
- Service Operations Workspace for ITSM
- Service Portfolio Management
- Service Builder
- Site Reliability Operations
- Task Outage
- Task Intelligence for ITSM
- Vendor Management Workspace
- Walk-up Experience
- Workforce Optimization for ITSM