Technology Portfolio Management release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated June 11, 2026
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    Summary of Technology Portfolio Management release notes

    The Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) application on the ServiceNow Store provides enterprise customers with capabilities to manage technology lifecycles, risks, and technical debt across business applications, software, and hardware models. The release notes detail continuous enhancements, bug fixes, and new features from May 2023 through June 2026, aimed at improving performance, data accuracy, and lifecycle risk evaluation.

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    Key Enhancements and Features

    • Lifecycle and Risk Management: Introduction of technology lifecycle risk scoring and lifecycle exceptions to evaluate and mitigate risks associated with software and hardware lifecycles.
    • Technical Debt Tracking: Scheduled jobs added to populate and update technical debt data within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Workspace, improving debt visibility and management.
    • Data Accuracy and Cleanup: Automated cleanup of TPM discovered technologies with empty discovery models and fixes to prevent duplicates or missing records enhance data integrity.
    • Expanded Software Tracking: Support for tracking installed software beyond traditional computers, including containers and serverless hardware, with wildcard version support for flexible version matching.
    • Improved Performance: Scheduled jobs optimized to handle large data volumes efficiently by reducing batch sizes and resuming jobs after restarts, ensuring consistent data processing.
    • User Experience Improvements: Added TPM lifecycle record identifiers, owner details for TRM categories, and new workspace views for TPM tables to enhance usability and record management.
    • Access Control and Security: Added support for queryrange access control lists (ACLs) to refine data access permissions.
    • Dependency Updates: Removed the dependency on the Software Asset Management (SAM) plugin to simplify deployment and integration.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Gain comprehensive insights into technology lifecycle risks and technical debt, enabling proactive management of technology portfolios.
    • Maintain accurate and clean data on discovered technologies, reducing manual cleanup efforts and improving audit readiness.
    • Track software installations on diverse configuration items, including emerging environments like containers and serverless platforms.
    • Leverage improved scheduled job performance and reliability to manage large-scale data environments effectively.
    • Customize risk and debt evaluations with enhanced configuration options, such as excluding unwanted software products and setting owner details.
    • Ensure appropriate data access controls through enhanced ACL support, aligning with organizational security policies.

    Version history for the Technology Portfolio Management on the ServiceNow Store.

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    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 1.10.0 - June 2026
    • New: Added support for query_range access control lists (ACLs).
    • Fixed: TPM Discovered Technologies with empty discovery model are automatically cleaned up.
    Version 1.9.1 - March 2026
    Fixed: Fixed a bug where duplicates or no records were being created for a large number of TPM discovered technology records.
    Version 1.9.0 - December 2025
    • New:
      • Added a TPM lifecycle record identifier in the TPM Lifecycles tab of the Technology Portfolio page.
      • Added a new field to provide owner details of TRM categories in the Create new TRM category form.
    • Fixed: Fixed the issue of TPM discovered technologies records not getting removed from the TPM Discovered Technologies table, when the associated software installation record is removed.
    Version 1.7.3 - August 2025
    Fixed: Bug which resulted in creation of duplicate entries in the TPM Lifecycle Exception table.
    Version 1.7.2 - May 2025
    • Fixed:
      • The indicator direction for Technology Lifecycle Risk indicator is set to Minimize On a node restart, the Populate TPM discovered technologies and lifecycles schedule job is resumed
    • The following issues are fixed:
      • For the Populate Technology Lifecycle Risk scheduled job:
        • Fixed the issue of the scheduled job getting stuck when a hardware model in TPM discovered technology was empty.
        • Reduced the batch size to 50k For the Populate TRM Technical
      • Debt for EA Workspace scheduled job:
        • Fixed the issues of missing technical debts when there are different lifecycles for the same software products and business applications.
        • Reduced the batch size to 50k
      • For the Populate TPM Discovered Technologies and lifecycles scheduled job:
        • Fixed the issue of performance lifecycles when multiple hardware models or software products have the same display value.
        • Reduced the batch size to half.
    Version 1.7.1 - February 2025
    • Changed:
      • Improved the performance of TPM, TRM scheduled jobs to handle large volumes of data
      • Added Server field in the Technical Debt form
    • Fixed: Added a new workspace view for all TPM tables to fix an issue with a preview of records
    Version 1.6.0 - November 2024
    • New:
      • New system property to support tracking of installed software on any configuration item apart from computers, example docker containers, serverless hardwares
      • Support wild card in version (TRM)
    Version 1.5.0 - August 2024
    Fixed: The 'Update TPM data' action for a Business Application record is fixed to not delete valid software entries in the TPM discovered technology table.
    Version 1.4.0 - May 2024
    New: Option to exclude unwanted software products.
    Version 1.3.1 - March 2024
    Removed: SAM plugin dependency.
    Version 1.3.0 - November 2023
    New: A scheduled job (Populate TRM technical debts in the EA Workspace) is created to update the Technical Debt [sn_apm_trm_standards_technical_debt] table with the latest technical debt data in the EA Workspace.
    Version 1.2.0 - August 2023
    New:
    • Added a scheduled job to calculate technology risk scores for Business Applications, Application Services, Software Products, and Hardware Models on the basis of Software or Hardware Lifecycles.
    • Added Technology Risk in Default Scoring Profile.
    Version 1.0.2 - May 2023

    Manage technology lifecycle risks and technology lifecycle exceptions. Evaluate all your business applications and application services by accessing the discovered technologies and audit information.