Mike Scully
ServiceNow Employee

Author note -

Compiling everything our products can do is a labor of love — and what a fitting moment to be doing it, as the Release alphabet circles back to its second "A." The volume of news has grown so much that this guide now includes over 900 links: release notes, features and capabilities, blogs, videos, webinars, podcasts, and beyond — all organized for our Platform Owner, Product Owner, and Process Owner personas. You'll find everything arranged alphabetically by product…
While AI helped me discover some hidden content, this guide is a fully human-in-the-loop curated guide. 

With a guide this size, something will have slipped through — a missed feature, a broken link, a wrong turn. If you spot one, tell me. Help me make this better - email me michael.scully [at] servicenow.com 

 

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Experience agentic AI with the Australia release
 

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The platform just leveled up. Our newest release gives you the flexibility and control to secure, manage and optimize data and workflows to confidently bring AI across the enterprise.

The Australia release brings automated decision
‑making and continuously maintained knowledge directly into the flow of work. Backlogs clear faster, approvals move with confidence, and people and AI act with full context. Built‑in governance and enterprise‑wide visibility empower you to scale AI safely and responsibly, all while your teams stay in control.

 

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Stop Feeding the AI chaos. Start Controlling it.

The more autonomous AI becomes, the more it needs a platform that makes autonomy safe at scale.

 

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--- News & Announcements ---

The superpowers that turn AI chaos into results

 

 

  • Australia Release with the Developer Advocates
    See the Developer Passport Australia Release Preview under "Events" after the Release details


--- Learn about AI Platform Australia Release ---

 

STEP 01 - Discover
Get up to speed on everything new. Learn what's changed, what's been added, and what it means for your instance.

What's coming in the Australia releaseWhat's coming in the Australia release

 

Australia release delivers the superpowers that turn uncertainty into confidence,
confidence into action and AI into outcomes! 

 

 

Australia Release HighlightAustralia Release Highlight

ServiceNow Australia Release Feature SplashServiceNow Australia Release Feature Splash

ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention

Sense any data.  Decide with context.  Act across workflows.  Secure at Scale

 

Four Superpowers That Turn AI Chaos into Results

See what actually matters. Make decisions at machine speed. Turn insight into action. Scale with control.

Watch the Australia Launch Event Replay with Heath Ramsey

 

 

View By Product
(Alphabetical except Industry Solutions under "Industries")

AI-powered on-screen content interpretation and summarization for users
Voice Output Capability (text-to-speech functionality)
Voice Input multilingual support expansion
Text Adjust extension expanding to French Canadian, Spanish, German, and Japanese
Interactive user guidance for adopting OOTB accessibility preferences
Neurodiversity support with UI adaptation preferences within the platform
Enhanced accessibility in Vibe coding and Build Agent experiences

Be sure to check out new Platform Analytics improvements including screen reader notifications.
The Enterprise Architecture module also received EA improvements 
BLOG -- Less screen. More signal: How AI is changing what accessibility looks like in the enterprise 
BLOG -- Scaling Accessibility Across Your Organization: A playbook 
BLOG -- Scaling Accessibility Across Your Organization: A playbook 
Podcast: Empathy in Action - Building Accessibility at ServiceNow 
ServiceNow Accessibility Statement 
Accessible experiences for everyone - View Now Assist 
Get TextAdjust - Neurodiversity Plug-in  
Accessibility - A11y Community 

 

 

  • Accounts Payable Operations 
    Leverage accounts payable document classification skill to classify email attachments based on the AI recommended score
    Validate supplier provided tax against a system-calculated tax by integrating enterprise grade tax engine
    See
    Accounts Payable Operations for more information

 

  • Adoption Services 
    In product guidance and help features with a proactive AI assistant that generates engaging voice-based guidance dynamically
    See
    Adoption services for more information

Help Center

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEBINAR -- From answers to action - How Micron built an AI front door for the enterprise - June 2 8:00AM PT - 8:45AM PT
Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2025
BLOG -- Agentic Architecture Maps - A Practitioners Guide to Sense, Decide, Act, Govern
Solution Brief -- ServiceNow AI Agents
VIDEO -- Say hello to real AI Agents | ServiceNow AI Agents launch event
BLOG -- Unlock productivity: AI agent solutions
ARTICLE -- Leadership at warp speed: How to drive success in the era of agentic AI
AI Governance
Podcast: What is Agentic AI and Why Should I Care? Breakpoint: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | TuneIn | RSS
Podcast: Beyond the Hype: Generative AI in the enterprise
Podcast: Exec Circle Maximizing the Minutes on AI: AI Hype to Transformation
Podcast: AI Transformation & The Future of Work
 

 

  • AI Control Tower

Product: AI Control TowerProduct: AI Control Tower

  • AI Control Tower release notes
    • Customize the AI security score calc to reflect your security requirements
    • Use new security metrics to monitor your LLM and AI agent output for security policy violations, PII and potential threats
    • Gain visibility into MCP server access by ServiceNow AI agents and registered third party MCP clients
    • Configure and create automation rules to set AI assets as managed assets
    • Manage end to end life cycle of your agentic AI systems
    • Define intended use and purpose of an AI system so you can determine its benefits and risks
    • AI assets including AI models, AI systems, prompts, datasets and MCP servers can be categorized as managed/unmanaged
    • AI connections are introduced in AI Control Tower using Service Graph Connectors (SGC)
    • AI model providers supported contains providers such as Now LLM Service, AWS Claude, Now LLM LTS model etc.
    • AI model providers configured by your organization contains providers such as Perplexity, IBM Watson, etc.
    • AI Gateway offers Global MCP clients which once created can be used across all MCP servers
    • A Gateway offers MCP Catalog to choose while adding MCP servers into AICT
      AI Control Tower
    • AI Strategy
    • Unified AI asset inventory
    • Enterprise AI Value + Core Experiences
    • AI Governance (AI Security, Access, and Privacy, Risk Scoring & Aggregation)

Explore AI Control Tower
BLOG -
Q1 2026 Release Highlights for Risk and Resilience

Podcast - AI Control Tower & SN University

BLOG -- Australia Release Highlights for Risk and Resilience

BLOG -- Risk Features Demos in the Australia Release

IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your AI Control Tower

 

 

See also "MoveWorks"
AI Platform Events
VIDEO -- Let's Get Started with AI Search 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your AI Search 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Extend Your AI Search 

 

 

*** Welcome to the Developer Passport: Australia Release Preview ***
Webinar -- App Engine Academy (Monthly Webinars) (App Engine Events)
Webinar -- Office Hours: App Engine (Monthly Q&A) (App Engine Events)
VIDEO -- ServiceNow Studio & Build Agent in Australia
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your App Engine 

 

 

BLOG -- Getting Started with Application Manager
VIDEO -- Application Manager: Getting Started

 

  • Application Portfolio Management (APM) 
    See: "Enterprise Architecture"

 

 

 

  • Asset Management 
    Improve productivity with AI agents to fulfill software and hardware asset requests
    See "Enterprise Asset Management"
    See "Software Asset Management"
    See "Hardware Asset Management"
    See "Cloud Cost Management"
    IT Asset Management release notes 
    Asset Management Events

 

 

 

 

  • Business Continuity Management 
    See "Governance Risk Compliance"  

 

 

DOCS - Cloud Cost Management

Video - Install and Activate CCM + Infra Stack Plugin 

 

 

BLOG -- CWM Australia Updates - March 2026 Store Release 
BLOG -- Start Here: Agile 2.0 Deprecation and Collaborative Work Management 

 

 

Video -- Elevate Your Data Strategy with latest CMDB and CSDM Innovations 
ICYMI -- The beauty of clean design: The Y release brings new architecture to the good old CMDB 

CSDM and the CMDB Data Foundations Dashboards 
CMDB Integrations Dashboard in the Next Experience 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Introduction to CMDB: Ingestion 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your CMDB 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your CSDM: Crawl 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your CSDM: Foundation 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your CSDM for Service Operations 

 

 

 

BLOG -- Getting started with Core Business Suite 

 

 

Customer Service Management release notes 
Customer Service Management (CSM) Events 
VIDEO -- What's New in Australia Q1' 26 release for CSM
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your AI Agents for CSM 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your CSM Configurable Workspace 

 

BLOG - Engagements in Customer Success Management 

 

 

  • Data & Analytics 
    • See Workflow Data Fabric
    • See Platform Analytics
    • See RaptorDB Pro
    • See Privacy

COMMUNITY -- Data & Analytics Community 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Database Management 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Data Privacy 

 

 

BLOG -- Developer Sandboxes (Road to K26 Series) 
BLOG -- Developer Sandboxes FAQ and Getting Started Guide 

 

 

 

 

Video - Browser Extension for Employee Center (Employee Center Academy)

BLOG -- IDC MarketScape names ServiceNow a leader in employee experiences 
BLOG -- Now Assist for Employee Center: An Introductory Guide 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Employee Center 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Extend Your Employee Center to Pro 

Employee Center Events 
  - Employee Communications Monthly Q&A
  - Deploying Employee Center Monthly Q&A
  - Employee Center Academy (Monthly Webinars)

Best Employee Portals Contest

 

 

  • Employee Service Management
    Employee Service Management 
    See also "HR Service Delivery"
    See also "EmployeeWorks"
    See also "Health and Safety"
    See also "Workplace Service Delivery"
    See also "Emergency Response Management"
    See also "Legal and Contract Operations"

 

  • Employee Slate

Product: Employee SlateProduct: Employee Slate

BLOG -- Introducing Employee Slate
Employee Slate Overview
Employee Slate Home

 

  • EmployeeWorks 
    Moveworks and ServiceNow have come together to deliver ServiceNow EmployeeWorks -- the AI front door to get work done.
    EmployeeWorks includes Moveworks + Employee Slate Advanced (the next-gen employee experience layer)
    See also "Employee Slate"

WEBINAR -- From answers to action - How Micron built an AI front door for the enterprise - June 2 8:00AM PT - 8:45AM PT
Introducing ServiceNow EmployeeWorks 
BLOG -- ServiceNow EmployeeWorks: The AI Front Door That Turns Employee Intent into Action
BLOG -- Introducing Autonomous Workforce and ServiceNow EmployeeWorks. AI That Actually Works 
BLOG -- Bringing Moveworks AI to Employee Center 
VIDEO -- Moveworks in Employee Center
VIDEO -- How does ServiceNow use ServiceNow to empower employees?

 

 

  • Encryption
    See: "AI - ServiceNow AI Platform" > "Security & Privacy"

 

 

BLOG -- Prepare for the AI technology landscape with Enterprise Architecture 
Video -- Enterprise Architecture Workspace | Overview 
SPM Events

Working with the Enterprise Architecture Workspace dashboard 

 

 

BLOG -- What's New in Australia Release for Enterprise Asset Management

 

 

  • ESG Management
    See 'Operational Sustainability Management' - the Environmental Social and Governance Application has a new name.

 

  • Event Management 
    See ITOM

 

  • External Content Connectors 
    See 'Workflow Data Fabric'

 

 

  • Financial Services Operations  (Link
    See Industry Solutions > Financial

 

 

  • Government Transformation Suite 
    See Industry Solutions > Government

 

 

 

  • Health & Safety 
    Provide a centralized service center that ensures smooth communication, streamlined documentation, and compliance readiness. Contractors gain easy access to tools, permits, and certifications, while site managers can effortlessly track qualifications, stay informed about expirations, and approve workflows—all in one place, accessible anytime, anywhere.
    • Contractor service center
    • Conversational incident reporting  *Powered by Now Assist

BLOG -- What's New in the March 2026 Release
COMMUNITY -- Health and Safety (Forum, articles, blog and events)

 

 

  • Healthcare and Life Sciences  
    See: "Industry Solutions" > "Healthcare and Life Sciences"

 

EBOOK --  Discover the Business Value of HR Service Deliver for your Organization 
BLOG --  Agentic AI Capabilities for HR 
BLOG -- Agentic AI for Employee Journey Management 
BLOG -- Employee Journey Management Quick Start Guide 
BLOG -- The Case Assignment Continuum: A Framework and Maturity Model for HR Case Assignment in ServiceNow 
BLOG -- March 2026 Store Release Deep Dive Blog HRSD 
Video - Employee Relations (HRSD Academy) 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Employee Journey Management 

 

 

  • Impact Customer Success Solution 
    See Impact in its own section after the alphabetical listing

 

  • Industry Solutions 

<INSERT LINK TO BLOG POST>

 

 

 

 

BLOG -- Make data-driven decisions based on business impact with Service Observability

BLOG -- Monitor your critical business services proactively to detect user-impacting outages 24/7 
BLOG -- Building a Service Operations Organization: A Strategic Guide for IT Leaders

IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Event Management 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your ITOM Discovery

 

IT Service Management release notes
Video -- Learn about Now Assist for ITSM - our Generative AI Offering
Video -- ServiceNow GenAI Inside Track Now Assist for IT
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your AI Agents for ITSM

 

BLOG -- Introducing Knowledge Center with Advanced Editing, powered by Now Assist
IMPACT ACCELERATOR --
Jumpstart Your Knowledge Management

 

 

  • Manufacturing Commercial Operations
    See Industry Solutions > Manufacturing

 

IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Now Mobile for Employees 

 

 

 

  • Now Assist and Agentic AI (Link

See Now Assist powered features and enhancements in many products throughout the ServiceNow lineup.
Support users who speak different languages with multi-language, dynamic translation.

Make finding tables and lists easier and more efficient by using the navigation platform skill in the Now Assist panel.

Write with Now Assist to provide chat and email suggestions for agents based on the content of a conversation.

Enable developers to create their own custom skills by using the Now Assist Skill Kit.

Generate a knowledge base article from a selection of similar cases or incidents in order to help address related concerns in a single article with Now Assist in Knowledge Management.
Video -- Now Assist Overview 

IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your ServiceNow AI Journey 
EVENT -- Join us for AI Summits in 2026 

 

 

 

  • Operational Sustainability Management
    (fka Environmental Social Governance) 

The Operational Sustainability Management application (formerly known as Environmental, Social, and Governance Management) manages sustainability-related data, metrics, and reporting requirements. All existing functionality, features, and user roles remain unchanged. Operational Sustainability Management was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

There are a number of renamed or changed plugins. View the Operational Sustainability Management release notes 

 

 

Operational Technology release notes 

 

 

  • ServiceNow Otto 

Product: ServiceNow Otto (TM)Product: ServiceNow Otto (TM)

A new way for users to experience ServiceNow AI
ServiceNow Otto = Now Assist + MoveWorks + AI Experience on a new AI-native architecture.
ServiceNow Otto is the conversational AI experience layer on the ServiceNow AI Platform.

Below ServiceNow Otto sits the full stack: the Sense layer, the Decide layer, the Act layer, and the Secure layer
Read the Press Release
Explore ServiceNow Otto

 

 

 

See also 'AI > Process Mining'
VIDEO -- What's new in Australia for Platform Analytics 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Platform Analytics 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Jumpstart Your Migration of Platform Analytics 
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- TuneUp Your Platform Analytics 

 

 

 

 

  • Platform Security 
    See: 'AI - ServiceNow AI Platform' > 'Security & Privacy'

 

  • Process Mining
    See: 'AI - ServiceNow AI Platform' > 'Process Mining'

 

 

 

  • Retail Operations
    See: "Industry Solutions" > "Retail & Hospitality"

 

  • Risk Products 

BLOG -- Australia Release Highlights for Risk and Resilience
BLOG --
Risk Features Demos in the Australia Release
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Events
See 'AI Control Tower' 

See 'Advanced Risk' 
'Business Continuity Management'
See Governance Risk Compliance

'Integrated Risk Management'
See Governance Risk Compliance

See 'Privacy Management'

See 'Third party Risk Management'

Governance, Risk and Compliance release notes

 

 

Sales and Order Management release notes 

 

 

  • Service Exchange (fka Service Bridge) (Link 
    Enable providers to adopt new features and provide uninterrupted service to their consumers who have not upgraded

 

  • ServiceNow Studio 
    See: 'AI Agent Studio'

 

 

BLOG -- What's New in Australia release for Software Asset Management  
Forrester names ServiceNow a leader in Software Asset Management 
BLOG -- Software Asset Management: On Demand

 

 

 

BLOG -- SPM Delta Deck for Australia Release 
BLOG -- Why the Australia release changes how work actually gets done in SPM 
BLOG -- Turbocharge your Ai Delivery with SPM 

 

 

  • Technology Providers
    See: 'Industry Solutions'

 

 

Veza Administration  |  Veza APIs  |  Veza Integrations 
VIDEO -- Why Veza Why Now? 

 

 

 

  • Workflow Data Fabric 

Workflow Data Fabric Hub gives teams real-time, centralized access to unified business and technology data by providing data fabric tables that connect directly to external sources—no copying required.
Get the Product Brief

Explore Workflow Data Fabric - connect to all of your data, wherever it resides, on one unified platform.
Solution Brief -- Connect, understand and act on any data to fuel human and AI powered workflows
Accelerating and automating your repetitive tasks by using Workflow Data Fabric
Workflow Data Fabric
External Content Connectors
STORE -- External Content Connectors Application Suite
VIDEO -- Workflow Data Fabric - External Content Connectors
IMPACT ACCELERATOR -- Extend Your External Content Connectors

 

 

 

 

 --- Impact: Value Acceleration - Put AI to work, faster ---

Go inside ServiceNow ImpactGo inside ServiceNow Impact

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--- Simplify Your Upgrade ---


STEP 02 -- Prepare
Upgrading your instance involves planning, testing and validation. Everything you need to prepare for a smooth, confident upgrade.
 

Simplify Your UpgradeSimplify Your Upgrade

 

 

--- Australia Upgrade ---

Upgrading to Australia ReleaseUpgrading to Australia Release

 

Path to successful upgrades

Upgrading PathUpgrading Path

Upgrading your instance involves planning, testing and validation. The release notes guide you through completing all of the phases and tasks for a successful upgrade

 

KB2178823Understanding Supported ServiceNow Releases and Patch Lifecycle (sign in required) 

  • Starting with the Zurich → Australia cycle, major releases move to April (Spring) and October (Autumn). Families released before Zurich receive one extra month of patching so timelines align.

 

Prepare your upgrade

 

Upgrade to Australia

Upgrading Best PracticeUpgrading Best Practice

 

 

 

Australia Upgrade Release KitAustralia Upgrade Release Kit

Australia Release Upgrade Kit (website assets)

  • (website asset pdf
    • A summary of exciting innovations and enhancements
    • Playlists of demos and key product links
    • Everything you need to know when upgrading.

 

Upgrade Tools

 

 

 

--- Australia Plugins ---

 

 

 

--- Australia Fixes---

 

 

 

--- Australia Deprecation---

 

 

--- Australia Additional Resources---

Upgrade ResourcesUpgrade Resources

 

Upgrade Resources for Impact CustomersUpgrade Resources for Impact Customers

For more information, reach out to your ServiceNow Impact Squad, Customer Success Manager or your Account Executive to learn how to request this accelerator

 

 

--- Events ---

Developer Passport EventDeveloper Passport Event

Learn more about Developer Passport Australia Release Preview 

ServiceNow Developer YouTube channel  
  The Agenda: Developer Passport 
  VIDEO - Kickoff: Developer Passport Week 

  • Playbooks - help automate a larger process, a multitude of tasks 
  • Flows - micro view making work flow and build agent flows 
  • Experiences Part 1 - Workspaces, UI Builder, Navigation, Role & Task focus, Accessibility, Theming, Usage, UI interactions 
  • Experiences Part 2
  • ReleaseOps - Runbook Tasks and structured repeatable way to move code 
  • Studio & Build Agent - Browser based IDE to build and customize ServiceNow Apps & our AI Build Agent

 

 

 

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