Available Platform Analytics Solutions

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  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of Available Platform Analytics Solutions

    Platform Analytics Solutions in ServiceNow provide prebuilt dashboards and Performance Analytics components designed to maximize the value of various ServiceNow products. These solutions are included at no additional cost but require the appropriate underlying application licenses. They help customers monitor, analyze, and improve performance across different business areas.

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    General Performance Analytics Solutions

    With any paid Performance Analytics entitlement, customers can activate foundational solutions such as Configuration Management (CMDB), Guided Tours dashboard, Knowledge Management, and Service Desk Chat.

    Performance Analytics for Specific Domains

    • Application Portfolio Management (APM): Includes solutions for change, problem, and financial management related to APM, with specialized dashboards for financial planning and project portfolio management.
    • Customer Service: Offers advanced work assignment, change management, communities, customer service management (standard and advanced), field service management, incident management, major incident management, problem management, self-service analytics, and agent chat. Notably, the Virtual Agent content pack is deprecated and replaced by the Conversational Analytics Dashboard.
    • Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): Requires activating the GRC Performance Analytics Premium Integration plugin, then solutions for audit, policy, compliance, and risk management can be enabled.
    • Human Resource Management: Solutions support content analytics, employee document management, lifecycle events, and scoped HR apps. The unscoped HR solution is deprecated and requires contacting support.
    • Business, Financial, and Service Strategy: Covers Agile 2.0, Essential SaFE, various financial management solutions, financial services operations, and project portfolio suite with financials, which replaced the older Project Portfolio Suite starting with the New York release.
    • IT Operations Management (ITOM): Includes discovery, event management, operational intelligence, and service mapping solutions.
    • Project Portfolio Management: The Project Portfolio Suite with Financials replaces the older suite and includes dashboards for time card management.
    • Security Incident and Vulnerability Response: Solutions for security incident response and vulnerability response are available via the ServiceNow Store.
    • Service Management: Solutions include change, incident, incident SLA, ITSM dashboards, ITSM predictive intelligence (requires ITSM Pro SKU), major incident, and problem management.
    • Software Asset Management: Available for customers with Service Management entitlement and Software Asset Management Professional license.

    Adding Self-Service Analytics Widgets

    Customers with Self-Service Analytics activated can add related widgets to Performance Analytics dashboards or Service Portals by activating the Self-Service Analytics PA plugin and associated data collection jobs. Customer Service Management customers benefit from a specialized Self-Service Analytics solution with additional indicators and dashboards tailored to customer service.

    ITSM Dashboard Solutions

    The ITSM Dashboards plugin activates multiple solutions and dashboards focusing on change management, problem management, incident SLA, major incident management, and fixed costs, providing a comprehensive view of IT service management performance.

    The following Platform Analytics Solutions are available for their corresponding ServiceNow Performance Analytics entitlements. The solutions are at no extra charge, but the underlying applications require appropriate licensing.

    Platform Analytics Solutions provide dashboards and underlying Performance Analytics components. These dashboards leverage Performance Analytics to create greater value for the product each Platform Analytics Solution supports.

    General Performance Analytics Solutions

    Activate the following Performance Analytics Solutions with any paid-for Performance Analytics entitlement.

    Performance Analytics Solutions for APM

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for APM entitlement.
    • Application Portfolio Management and Change Management (com.snc.pa.apm.change_request)
    • Application Portfolio Management and Problem Management (com.snc.pa.apm.problem)
    • Financial Management (com.snc.pa.fm)
    • Financial Management for Customer Service (com.snc.pa.fm.csm)
    • Financial Management for Field Service Management (com.snc.pa.fm.fsm)
    • Financial Management for Financial Planning (com.snc.pa.financial_planning)
    • Project Portfolio Suite with Financials (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) Starting in New York, this solution replaces the Project Portfolio Suite (com.snc.pa.ppm) Solution. It includes dashboards for Time Card Management.

    Performance Analytics for Customer Service Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for Customer Service entitlement.

    Performance Analytics for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Solutions

    When you have the Performance Analytics for GRC entitlement, first activate the GRC: Performance Analytics Premium Integration plugin. Then activate the following Solutions:

    Performance Analytics for Human Resource Management Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for Human Resource Management entitlement:

    Performance Analytics for Business Management, Financial Management, and Service Strategy Solutions

    Activate the following solutions if you have an entitlement to Performance Analytics for Business Management, Performance Analytics for Financial Management, or Performance Analytics for Service Strategy:

    Performance Analytics for ITOM Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for IT Operations Suite or Performance Analytics for IT Operations Management entitlements:

    Performance Analytics for Project Portfolio Management Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for Project Portfolio Management entitlement, Project Portfolio Suite with Financials (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo). Starting in New York, this solution replaces the Project Portfolio Suite (com.snc.pa.ppm) Solution. It includes dashboards for Time Card Management.

    Performance Analytics for Security Incident and Vulnerability Response Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for Security Incident Response entitlement:

    Performance Analytics for Service Management Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for Service Management entitlement:

    Performance Analytics for Software Asset Management Solutions

    Activate the following Solutions when you have the Performance Analytics for Service Management entitlement, Software Asset Management Professional (com.snc.pa.samp).

    Adding Self-Service Analytics widgets to a dashboard or Service Portal

    If you have Self-Service Analytics activated on an instance, you can add Self-Service analytics widgets to your Performance Analytics dashboards or a Service Portal. To obtain a ready-made set of indicators and breakdowns, activate the Self-Service Analytics PA (com.snc.pa.self_service_analytics) plugin. Find the Self-Service indicators through the Performance Analytics Admin Console, then create widgets and add them to your dashboard or portal. Also activate the [SSA] Self-Service Analytics data collection job.
    Note:
    Customer Service Management customers can install the Platform Analytics Solution for Self-Service Analytics for Customer Service. This Solution contains additional Customer Service-specific indicators and breakdowns as well as widgets and a dashboard. For more information, see Self-Service Analytics for Customer Service.

    ITSM Dashboard solutions

    The ITSM Dashboards plugin (com.snc.pa.itsm_dashboards) activates the following solutions, along with a set of additional dashboards: