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FernandoCastro
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

agent.pngAgent Productivity in Now Assist for CSM enhances how agents engage with cases, chats, calls, and knowledge by embedding generative AI directly into the agent's CSM configurable workspace. With summarization, intelligent response recommendations, sentiment analysis, multi-turn Q&A in Now Assist Panel and automated content generation, agents spend less time gathering information or drafting content and more time resolving issues.

These capabilities reduce manual effort and improve consistency and case quality in documentation and communication. Paired with agentic orchestration, agents can also receive suggested actions or execute background workflows in real time all within the case context.

 

Virtuous Content Loop

Agent productivity features contribute directly to a continuous improvement cycle for content quality and resolution accuracy. By capturing structured and high quality outputs like AI-generated summaries, recommended steps, and knowledge/resolution notes generation with guidance from generated suggested steps, the system feeds insights back into both the knowledge base and automation design, increasing the health of the transactional data.

This loop ensures that:

  • Resolution notes and summaries are indexed for future AI Search and suggested answers

  • Suggested steps and article gaps, now resolved, are flagged to content authors via feedback loops

  • Agent usage signals inform which knowledge and templates are most useful

  • Both customers and agents reduce the usage of tribal knowledge and start using better content
  • Usage data and resolution patterns help identify automation opportunities through Process mining, clustering and trends, enabling admins to define agentic workflows over time.

This dynamic reuse of agent-generated content reduces future handle time, improves deflection rates, and enhances both self-service and agent assist experiences over time.

 

Discover more by clicking on each of the skills:

  • Summarization

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  • Recommendations

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  • Content Generation

     

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Measured Success

How do we usually measure success in this set of purpose-driven skills?

Outcomes Explanation (with applicable use case) Success Metric

Reduced average handle time

Empower agents with auto-generated summaries and suggested responses to reduce time spent on manual documentation and content switching

Use case: Case and Chat Summarization

Avg. handle time per interaction (minutes)

Improved documentation consistency

Standardize output across agents using LLM-generated resolution notes, suggested steps, and wrap-up content

Use case: Resolution Notes, Suggested Steps

% of cases with AI-authored summaries or resolutions

Increased agent satisfaction

Eliminate repetitive tasks and reduce cognitive load by surfacing contextually relevant knowledge and actions

Use case: Sidebar, NAP Q&A, Recommendations

Agent satisfaction score (ASAT) 

Faster onboarding and ramp-up

Accelerate new agent effectiveness by embedding AI guidance and reducing reliance on tribal knowledge

Use case: Recommendations and Sidebar Assist

Avg. time to proficiency for new agents (weeks)

Improved customer satisfaction

Deliver accurate, personalized responses faster using generative email and chat replies

Use case: Email Reply, Chat Reply with Sentiment Awareness

CSAT / customer feedback per interaction

Reduced escalations and rework

Present relevant steps and recommendations early, reducing back-and-forth or case reopening

Use case: Suggested Steps, NAP Q&A, Sentiment Analysis

% of cases escalated / reopened

Increase CS agent retention

Transform the agent experience by automating mundane activities to increase job satisfaction and mitigate service agent attrition

Customer service agent turnover (%)

Reduce effort to resolve customer cases (transfer / ramp up time)

Reduce transfer portion of resolution time per case via auto-generated summarization of case history to date (applicable to live agent escalation & virtual to live agent transfers)Use case: Auto summarize case for transfer

Time spent on transfer per case (in hours) 

Reduce number of customer cases worked

Deliver actionable AI answers and conversational virtual agent interactions to customers, leading to fewer cases to the contact centerUse case: Promoted, narrative search results

Customer case volume (#)

Reduce effort to resolve customer cases (wrap-up time)

Reduce wrap up portion of resolution time per case via auto-generated resolution notesUse case: Auto draft resolution notes

Time spent on wrap up per case (in hours) 

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Last update:
‎08-08-2025 02:51 PM
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