Employee Center

  • Release version: Washingtondc
  • Updated February 1, 2024
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  • ServiceNow Employee Center portal is a standard multi-department, dynamic portal for service delivery, and employee engagement.

    Employee Center portal also enables customers to easily scale their service solutions across departments, such as IT, HR, Workplace, Legal, and Procurement with digital workflows. This unified portal goes beyond the basic service delivery to provide a platform for communications, engagement, and content experiences with Employee Center Pro subscription.

    Watch this video to get a detailed understanding on Employee Center and its capabilities.

    The key attributes of the Employee Center portal are as follows:
    • Easily scalable to support multi-department service delivery.
    • Portal pages that can be customized to apply organization's specific theme and branding.
    • Unified browse for all content types using the unified taxonomy model.
    • Built-in extensibility points across widgets and pages that enables better enterprise service delivery and adoption.
    • Integrated workflows that automate common processes.
    • Create personalized and targeted content based on the audience.
    • Curated pages for popular topic listing.
    • Navigation that is focused on an employee-centric approach.
    • Intranet-like engagement and communication that has,
      • Actionable campaigns
      • Machine-learning driven recommendations
      • Enterprise search
    Figure 1. Employee center overview
    Employee center overview-ex layer for better employee experience

    Unified portal experience

    Improves employee productivity by reducing the time and effort employees spend looking for services, updates, and information. With the Employee Center portal, access to information and services across all departments are made simple and can be accessed through any device.

    Extensible service delivery platform

    Easily scales from single to multi-department service delivery use case that includes best-in-class home page and specialized widgets redesigned for multi-department tasking. Employee Center portal also provides curated experiences to drive employee driven content discovery, AI search, and unified browse for an enhanced user experience.

    Available to all customers

    There is no additional licensing cost associated with the Employee Center. All customers can use the Employee Center portal to start their employee portal journey with ServiceNow

    Employee engagement and communication

    Stay informed on news and events, find cross-enterprise answers, run campaigns, provide employees a platform to communicate and be engaged using the Employee Center Pro application. Employee Center Pro requires additional licensing. Employee Center Pro is available as a standalone offering and is included with the HR Service Delivery Professional or Enterprise offerings.

    Employee Center and Employee Center Pro functionality comparison

    Here is a list of functionalities available with Employee Center and Employee Center Pro licenses.

    Table 1. EC and EC Pro functionality comparison
    Functionality Employee Center Employee Center Pro
    Service catalog and Knowledge Base articles Yes Yes
    AI search Yes Yes
    Curated Experiences (taxonomy, dynamic topic pages) Yes Yes
    Chat (live agent, virtual agent, VA lite) Yes Yes
    Tasks and requests Yes Yes
    Employee profile Yes Yes
    Content recommendations (recommended for you) Yes Yes
    Cross-channel favorites Yes Yes
    Content Publishing (Content Library, Rich Content Editor, News articles) No Yes
    Content Experiences (Campaigns) No Yes
    Content Analytics No Yes
    Content Governance No Yes
    Enterprise search SharePoint Online Search Connector No Yes
    Integration-powered capabilities

    (App Launcher, (Approval Hub)

    No Yes
    Configurable approvals experience No Yes
    Manager Hub No Yes
    Organization chart No Yes
    Employee Forums (communities) No Yes
    Integrated experience and service feedback No Yes
    Employee Center Pro Kiosk No Yes

    Employee Center for IT Service Management

    Use Employee Center to streamline your IT ticket management and other service management tasks. Improve agent experience with higher case deflections enabled by customised, machine learning-driven recommendations and solutions for employees. For more information, see .