HR Service Delivery overview

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of HR Service Delivery overview

    The ServiceNow® HR Service Delivery application enhances employee service experiences by automating HR interactions and consolidating all HR services within a single platform. It streamlines HR processes, increases efficiency, and improves satisfaction for employees and HR teams alike.

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    Key Features

    • Case and Knowledge Management: Standardizes documentation and handling of employee inquiries to improve HR service quality over time.
    • Employee Center with HR Service Delivery: Provides a unified portal for employees to access information, services, and support. This can also be deployed as a standalone application.
    • Lifecycle Events for Enterprise: Automates onboarding and other multi-department employee lifecycle events to boost satisfaction and operational efficiency.
    • Supporting Applications: Includes tools such as Document Templates, Employee Document Management (requires separate subscription), Employee Experience Pack for guided HR process configuration, and various integration and machine learning frameworks to enhance HR workflows.
    • HR Service Delivery Agent Workspace (Classic): Enables HR agents to interact and quickly resolve employee issues.
    • Analytics and Feedback Tools: HR Success Dashboard, Listening Posts for pulse surveys, Performance Analytics (subscription required), and other tools to measure and improve HR performance.
    • Virtual Agent and Mobile Applications: Virtual Agent enables automated chat support for employees. The Now Mobile app supports HR request management, task completion, notifications, and virtual agent chat on mobile devices.
    • Domain Separation: Allows logical separation of data and processes into domains, controlling user access and enhancing security.
    • Quick Start Tests: Pre-built tests help validate configuration changes, ensuring system integrity after upgrades or customizations.
    • Security and Data Privacy: Customers must ensure compliance with data protection laws. The application provides access to table definitions for reviewing sensitive or personally identifiable information fields. COE security policies and ACLs help restrict access to relevant data.

    What to Expect

    By implementing HR Service Delivery, ServiceNow customers can expect a centralized, efficient, and automated HR service experience that reduces manual effort, improves employee engagement, and offers scalable, secure solutions tailored to enterprise HR needs. The platform supports integration with third-party systems, advanced analytics, and mobile accessibility to meet diverse organizational requirements.

    The ServiceNow® HR Service Delivery application improves the employee service experience by automating HR interactions and providing a single platform for all HR services.

    HR Service Delivery applications

    Depending on the HR Service Delivery package you choose, deploy one or more of the following applications.

    Case and Knowledge Management
    Standardize the documentation, interaction, and fulfillment of employee inquiries and requests, improving HR efficiency and services over time.
    Employee Center with HR Service Delivery
    Provide a single, unified portal for employees to get all the information, services, and help that they need.
    Note:
    Employee Center is also available as a standalone application.
    Lifecyle events for enterprise
    Automate onboarding and other employee lifecycle events that span multiple departments, improving employee satisfaction and efficiency across HR and other departments.

    Supporting applications

    You can also deploy the following supporting applications.

    Mobile applications

    You can use the following mobile apps with HR Service Delivery.

    HR Service Delivery for mobile: You can let your employees view HR requests, request help, complete HR tasks, receive targeted mobile content and push notifications, chat with a virtual agent, and more using the Now Mobile app for HR Service Delivery.

    Domain separation and HR Service Delivery

    Domain separation separates data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can then control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data. For more information, see Domain Separation and HR Service Delivery.

    Quick start tests for HR Service Delivery

    Copy and customize quick start tests to validate that your instance works after you make any configuration changes, such as after applying an upgrade or developing an application. For more information, see Quick start tests for HR Service Delivery.

    Fields Containing Possibly Sensitive, Personal, or Personally Identifiable Information

    Customers are responsible for ensuring their use of HR Service Delivery application is compliant with applicable data protection laws and regulations. Customers using the HR Service Delivery application should assess fields that may contain sensitive, personal, or personally identifiable information, the extent of which is solely determined by customers. Once installed, customers are able to access table definitions within their instance to review fields used by HR Service Delivery application. This can be done by navigating to "System Definition > Tables" and filtering "Name" "starts with" "sn_hr_".

    COE security policies are a way to easily restrict access to different COEs via configuration. The underlying COE security policy implementations are ServiceNow ACLs.