Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)

Release version: Yokohama

Updated January 30, 2025

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Summary of Plugins installed with PPM Standard (Project Portfolio Management)

Activating the PPM Standard plugin in ServiceNow automatically installs multiple related plugins essential for comprehensive project portfolio management. These plugins collectively support project planning, financial oversight, resource allocation, demand management, and innovation processes within your organization.

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PPM Standard Plugins

The core PPM Standard plugin activates several foundational plugins:

Project Portfolio Suite: Provides integrated applications for managing project portfolios and IT software development.
Financial Planning: Enables financial analysts to compile spending data, build cost models, and generate allocation reports.
Rate Model: Supports date-effective hourly rates based on project, demand, or time card criteria.
Ideation with PPM: Facilitates idea collection, collaboration, and conversion of selected ideas into demands, stories, projects, or epics.

Project Portfolio Suite Plugins

Enhances portfolio management with:

Demand Management: Tools to capture, screen, assess, and prioritize demands.
Project Management: Capabilities for planning, organizing, and managing projects and resources to improve delivery efficiency.
Resource Management: Enables resource requesters and managers to plan and manage resources for both planned and operational work.

Demand Management Plugins

Supports demand evaluation and visualization:

Process Flow Formatter: Graphically displays process stages on forms for clarity.
Assessment: Provides evaluation, scoring, and ranking of records with graphical performance views.
Timeline Visualization: Offers high-level graphical representation of organizational activities like incidents, problems, changes, and projects.

Project Management Plugins

Enhances project execution with:

Checklist: Task checklists to ensure completeness.
Cost Management: Tracks configuration item costs using rate cards linked to CIs, contracts, and projects.
Skills Management: Allows administrators to assign competencies (skills) to users or groups.
Time Card Management: Creates linear timelines for activities bounded by start and end dates.
Process Flow Formatter and Timeline Visualization: Visual tools for displaying process stages and activity timelines.

Resource Management Plugins

Includes key tools for resource cost tracking and process visualization:

Cost Management: Defines and tracks costs associated with configuration items, utilizing rate cards.
Process Flow Formatter: Displays linear process stages at the top of records for improved clarity.

Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

By enabling the PPM Standard plugin, customers gain a comprehensive, integrated set of tools that streamline project portfolio management tasks. These plugins support better financial planning, demand prioritization, resource management, and project execution. The visualization and assessment tools help improve decision-making and reporting, fostering efficient project delivery and innovation management across the enterprise.

Multiple plugins are installed with activation of PPM Standard plugin, if they are not already active.

PPM Standard plugins

PPM Standard adds the following plugins.


Plugin Name	Description
Project Portfolio Suite [com.snc.project_portfolio_suite]	Activates an integrated set of applications for project portfolio management and IT software development.
Financial Planning [com.snc.financial_planning]	Enables financial analysts to assemble spending data, build cost models, and generate reports to show how funds are being allocated.
Rate Model [com.snc.rate_model]	Delivers date-effective hourly rates for a specific set of criteria coming from the project, demand, or time card being processed.
Ideation with PPM [com.snc.ppm_innovation_management]	Enables your organization to collect new ideas, collaborate on ideas, and identify great ideas for implementation. Convert selected ideas to demands, stories, projects, and epics.

Project Portfolio Suite plugins

Project Portfolio Suite adds the following plugins.


Plugin Name	Description
Demand Management [com.snc.demand_management]	Enables capturing the demands and provide tools to screen, assess and prioritize them.
Project Management [com.snc.project_management_v3]	Enables planning, organizing and managing projects and resources in order to setup, execute, and complete a project faster and easier.
Resource Management [com.snc.resource_management]	Enables resource requesters and resource managers to plan, organize, and manage resources for both planned and operational work.

Demand management plugins

Demand management adds the following plugins.


Plugin Name	Description
Process Flow Formatter [com.snc.process_flow_formatter]	Summarize multiple pieces of information about a process and display the stages graphically at the top of a form.
Assessment [com.snc.assessment_core]	Evaluate, score, and rank records from tables in the system. Evaluate results using unique graphical views designed to highlight key performance information.
Timeline Visualization [com.snc.timeline_visualization]	Provide a high-level graphical representation of your strategic and operational activities for your organization such as incidents, problems, changes, and projects.

Project management plugins

Project management adds the following plugins.


Plugin Name	Description
Checklist [com.glide.ui.checklist]	Checklists for tasks.
Cost Management [com.snc.cost_management]	Enables the definition and tracking of configuration item costs. Uses rate cards with CIs, contracts, and projects.
Process Flow Formatter [com.snc.process_flow_formatter]	Displays the different stages in a linear process flow across the top of a record.
Skills Management [com.snc.skills_management]	Enables an administrator to assign configured competencies, called skills, to groups or individual users.
Timeline Visualization [com.snc.timeline_visualization]	Enables graphical representation of activities over time.
Time card management [com.snc.time_card]	Enables the creation of linear timelines for any activity that is bounded by two dates, such as the actual start and end dates on a project task.

Resource management plugins

Project management adds the following plugins.


Plugin Name	Description
Cost Management [com.snc.cost_management]	Enables the definition and tracking of configuration item costs. Uses rate cards with CIs, contracts, and projects.
Process Flow Formatter [com.snc.process_flow_formatter]	Displays the different stages in a linear process flow across the top of a record.