Exploring Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS)
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Summary of Exploring Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS)
The Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS) application leverages generative AI to help agents efficiently manage and resolve public service cases. It enables agents to quickly understand complex or long-running cases by summarizing case details and comment activity, and to generate resolution notes that can be shared with other agents. This functionality accelerates case handling and improves collaboration among agents dealing with similar issues.
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Key Features
- Case Summarization: Generates a concise summary of a public service case, highlighting the issue and actions taken. Agents can refresh and post these summaries directly to the case work notes. The summary draws on fields such as short description, description, work notes, additional comments, email, and SLA.
- Resolution Notes Generation: Helps agents create detailed resolution notes by generating text based on at least 200 words of case record content. Agents can select resolution codes and review notes before sharing resolutions with constituents or applicants. If insufficient case information is available, the system alerts the agent.
- Now Assist Panel in CSM Configurable Workspace: Provides a conversational interface within the Customer Service Management workspace, allowing agents to request case summaries and generate resolution notes seamlessly.
- Now Assist in AI Search: Uses the Now LLM Service to extract precise, actionable answers from knowledge articles across Service Portal, Virtual Agent, Employee Center, and global searches, enhancing the customer experience by delivering relevant and concise responses.
- Sensitive Data Handling: Incorporates masking of personally identifiable and sensitive information during AI processing. Placeholder text replaces sensitive data in prompts to protect privacy while ensuring agents see accurate values after AI responses are generated.
Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Accelerates agent understanding of complex cases by providing clear, AI-generated summaries.
- Speeds up case resolution with AI-assisted note generation, improving consistency and information sharing.
- Enhances agent productivity through integrated conversational interfaces and AI-powered search tools.
- Ensures compliance and data privacy by masking sensitive information during AI interactions.
With the Now Assist for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS) application, your agents can use generative AI to summarize the details and comment activity of each public service case to get the context of the case. They can also generate the case resolution notes to share with other agents.
- A case summary enables an agent to gather the case context on long-running or complex cases. Because these cases can contain a lot of information, including the conversations with the constituent or other agents, an agent can generate a summary to gain understanding faster.
- The case resolution notes can help an agent to wrap up cases faster and provide the context about the case resolution to the other agents who might encounter similar issues.
Skills
The Now Assist for PSDS application includes the generative AI skills that enable your agents to understand the case context so that they can propose resolutions to the constituent or approve an application faster.
- Case summarization
- Provides an agent with a summary of a public service case, including the issue and the actions taken. An agent can generate a summary of a case to understand the case context, refresh the summary so that it includes the
latest updates to the case, and post the summary to the case work notes.The case summarization skill generates a case summary and displays it above the activity stream. The summary includes the information that the agent enters in the following case record fields:
- Short description
- Description
- Work notes
- Additional comments
- Service level agreement (SLA)
Figure 1. Case record with case summary - Resolution notes generation
- Enables an agent to generate the resolution notes for a case, propose the resolution to the constituent or applicant, and add the information to the case record.
The resolution notes generation skill displays a pop-up window that an agent can use to select a resolution code and review the resolution notes text before proposing a resolution to a constituent or relaying a decision to an applicant.
Note:The resolution notes generation skill requires a minimum of 200 words in the case record to generate the resolution notes. If the resolution notes can't be generated, the system displays a message below the Resolution notes field.
Now Assist panel in CSM Configurable Workspace
An agent can use the Now Assist panel in CSM Configurable Workspace. This conversational interface enables an agent to request a case summary and generate the case resolution notes. For more information about the Now Assist panel, see Now Assist panel.
Now Assist in AI Search
The Now Assist in AI Search application uses Now LLM Service to extract actionable Q&A Genius Result answers from the knowledge articles that are found in Service Portal, Virtual Agent, Employee Center, and global searches. By using this application, an agent can improve the customer's experience by retrieving the relevant content from the knowledge base and generating concise answers. For more information, see Now Assist in AI Search.
Sensitive data handling
Personally identifiable information and other sensitive data can be masked so that it does not appear in generative AI prompts. Placeholder text is sent with the prompt instead, and that placeholder text is replaced with the original text after the response has been received. This two-way masking ensures that your users see the correct values, but the Now LLM Service is not exposed to any sensitive information. For more information, see Multi-turn catalog ordering.