Kickstart Your Zurich Release Guide - Complete Guide with 350+ Links (Mike Scully)

Mike Scully
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Kickstart Your ServiceNow Zurich ReleaseKickstart Your ServiceNow Zurich Release

Experience agentic AI with the Zurich release

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.

Missed the last release? Boost productivity with AI Agent Studio AI agents, get the most from your data and take action with Workflow Data Fabric, automate workflows across the enterprise with Service Observability and create accessible experiences for everyone with Now Assist and TextAdjust

 

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White Paper: ServiceNow commitment to responsible AI and how we deliver responsible GenAI solutions

AI Innovation Reel

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The platform just leveled up. Experience agentic AI.



 

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

BLOG -- Build Agents Have Entered the Chat

  • AI Agent Fabric
  • Model provider flexibility / choice
  • Workflow
    • Agentic playbooks
    • Reusable triggers
    • Flow history
  • Process Mining
    • Task Mining

Video - Task Mining (Process Mining Academy)

  • Improved usability for business users

BLOG -- What's new for Process Mining in the Zurich release

Podcast -- Making Workflows Better with Process Mining

  • Security and privacy
    • ServiceNow Vault Console
    • Data Privacy Enhancements
    • Field Encryption enhancements
    • Machine Identity Console

AI Platform security release notes
 

Introducing AI Agent Studio
Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2025
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

Webinar - Managing AI Agents with AI Control Tower - Oct 17 11:00AM US/Central (AI Platform Events)
Video - What's New in Zurich: AI Control Tower
Podcast -
AI Control Tower & SN University

  • AI Strategy
  • Unified AI asset inventory
  • Enterprise AI Value + Core Experiences
  • AI Governance (AI Security, Access, and Privacy, Risk Scoring & Aggregation)
  • AI Search (Link)
    Webinar - Getting started with AI Search & External Content Connectors - Sep 15 11:00AM US/Central (AI Platform Events)
  • App Engine
    See also" "AI - ServiceNow AI Platform" > "Build Agent"
    • Developer sandbox
    • ServiceNow Studio enhancements  *Powered by Now Assist

Webinar -- App Engine Academy (Monthly Webinars) (App Engine Events)
Webinar -- Office Hours: App Engine (Monthly Q&A) (App Engine Events)
BLOG -- Zurich Release brings App Dev to the beach (Developer Sandbox Management)!
BLOG -- Zurich Features for Developers
BLOG -- Zurich Release: New Products, Smarter Building

  • Cloud Cost Management
    • Enhanced support for MCA customers
    • Robust Azure billing data export

Video - Install and Activate CCM + Infra Stack Plugin

My Work in CWM

  • Configuration Management Database (CMDB) & Data Foundations (Link)
    See also: "ITOM"
    • Retooled configuration management user experience
    • Data certification dashboard

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

  • Conversational Interfaces (Link)
    Agent Chat
    Sidebar

Customer Service Management release notes
Customer Service Management (CSM) Events

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

  • My Requests page enhancements
  • Now Assist Self Service
  • Now Assist powered Task summaries

Employee Center Events
  - Employee Communications Monthly Q&A
  - Deploying Employee Center Monthly Q&A
  - Employee Center Academy (Monthly Webinars)
Meet the winners of our 2024 Best Employee Portal Contest (BEPC)

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

  • Enterprise Architecture (formerly APM) (Link)
    The Business Process Modeling helps Enterprise Architects to to visualized and document all their business processes and map them to their IT estate (Business pplications and other CMDB elements), which is cruical for them to be compliant, and maintain required regulated data. (Comment:  Also added to NowAssist tab)

Webinar - What's new in the Zurich release for SPM, EA and CWM - Sep 29 11:00AM US/Central (SPM Events)

Working with the Enterprise Architecture Workspace dashboard
Enterprise Architecture (fka APM) Delta Decks for Yokohama + May&Feb 2025 Release
Portfolio list view
ICYMI - Support for Architectural Decision Record (ADR) type artifact

  • 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

  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
    Healthcare and Life Sciences release notes
    • AI agents to manage hardware asset requests
    • Asset putaway
    • Employee asset receiving
    • Stockroom receiving
    • Asset attestation remediation

  • HR Service Delivery
    Webinar -  Zurich Overview (HRSD Academy)
    BLOG -- Zurich Release Deep Dive - HRSD
    • Company news and events AI agent  *Powered by Now Assist
    • Interview setup for recruiters
    • Streamline employee-to-alumni transitions
    • Browser extension for Employee Center

BLOG --  Agentic AI Capabilities for HR
BLOG --  May 2025 Store Release HRSD and Now Assist for HRSD
BLOG --  Now You Know: Employee Workflows Newsletter (Sept 2025)
BLOG -- The Case Assignment Continuum: A Framework and Maturity Model for HR Case Assignment in ServiceNow
Video - Employee Relations (HRSD Academy)

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

  • Industry Solutions
    • Task plan templates
    • ServiceNow Disputes Management, built with Visa
    • Card Data enhancements
    • Disput analyst workspace enhancements
    • Mastercard integration enhancements
    • Grants Management
      Merit review
      Funding Proposal and Award Decision
    • Manufacturing Commercial Operations for Manufacturing
      Recalls: Campaign Management
      Recalls: Claims Management
      Warranty Claims Management
      Sales Promotions: Campaigns Management
      Sales Promotions: Claims Management
      Dealer Portal
    • Success renewal  *Powered by Now Assist
    • Success booking  *Powered by Now Assist
    • Product adoption data for customer success
    • Foundational data sync for Service Bridge
    • Diagnostic framework support
    • Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI)
      Floor map visualization with metric overlay
      Converged Service Operations Workspace
      CMDB classes for data center power management
    • Telecom Service Management (TSM)
      Diagnose and repair issues framework  *Powered by Now Assist
      Resolve billing issues
      Analyze and resolve network incidents  *Powered by Now Assist
      Service summary using Knowledge Graph  *Powered by Now Assist
      TM Forum API updates
    • Telecom Service Operations Management (TSOM)
      Telecom discovery builder framework
      Nokia Altiplano Service Graph Connector enhancement
      Nokia NSP Service Graph Connector
      Discrepancy audit enhancement
    • Sales and Order Management for Telecom (SOMT)
      TM Forum API updates
       

Understand alert impact fast to optimize support efforts minimize critical app downtown

  • Impact analysis   *Powered by Now Assist
  • Kubernetes visibility agent
  • Deep pattern discovery via AWS
  • Simplified Health Log Analytics (HLA)
  • Cloud Account Management (CAM) compliance dashboard and asset explorer
  • Key integrations for Service Observability  *Powered by Now Assist

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

Webinar -- What's New in the Zurich release for ITOM Visibility & Cloud Accelerate - Sep 29 10:00AM US/Central (Upgrade Events)
IT Operations Management release notes

  • ITSM
    Self-service in AI agent & voice
    Webinar -- Unlocking the Power of ServiceNow Zurich Release - What's New in IT Service Management (ITSM) - Sep 15 10:00AM US/Central (ITSM Events)

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

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

  • Operational Technology Management
    Retrieve needed CI information by seamlessly searching using the GenAI text-based query format, enabling rapid access to required data.
    Webinar - What's New in the Zurich release for Operational Technology Management - Sep 16 12:00PM US/Central
    • Operational technology shift summarization  *Powered by Now Assist
    • Agentic search for operational technology  *Powered by Now Assist
    • Operational technology device import  *Powered by Now Assist
    • Operational Technology Visibility
    • Operational Technology Service Management
      • Operational technology incident summarization  *Powered by Now Assist

BLOG -- What's new in the ZZZ release for Operational Technology

Operational Technology release notes

  • Risk Products

BLOG -- A quick overview of the Zurich release for Risk
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Events
See: 'AI Control Tower'
See Integrated Risk Management'
See Business Continuity Management'
See Privacy Management'

See Third party Risk Management'

Governance, Risk and Compliance release notes

Sales and Order Management release notes
Now Assist for SOM Zurich Release notes

What's New in Zurich Release for Software Asset Management

Forrester names ServiceNow a leader in Software Asset Management
BLOG -- Software Asset Management: On Demand

BLOG -- Turbocharge your Ai Delivery with SPM

BLOG -- SPM July 2025 Store release - Zurich
SPM Zurich release notes

Video - Whats New in Zurich Smart Assessment Engine (SAE)

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

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 and Automation

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Webinar -- What's new in the Zurich Release for Customer Success  - Sep 30 10:00AM US/Central (Impact Events)
Webinar -- Impact Academy (Monthly Webinars) Last Wednesdays of the month (Impact Events)
BLOG -- ServiceNow Impact What's New in the Zurich Release (Impact blog)

 

  • Impact: Premium support
    • Preventative Care Preventive Care available with activation. Contact your Impact Customer Support Manager for additional information.
  • Impact: Add-ons
    • Configuration Assist

 

Migrate from Impact Digital Experience to the Impact Store App
Impact Store App - inspired by customer feedback this is a new way for customers to access Impact directly within your production instance. With this release, Impact integrates seamlessly with existing ServiceNow applications, delivering a smoother and more connected experience.

Blog -- Proactive Code Check
Configuring Proactive Code Check
Impact Proactive Code Check Best Practices

 

New in the Zurich release

 

 

UI changes

 

Changed in this release

 

Removed in this release

  • Jumpstart Your Document Intelligence accelerator has been removed.

 

Talk with your Impact Squad about the Jumpstart Your Upgrade Accelerator

 

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----- Simplify Your Upgrade -----

 

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  • Webinar -- Unlocking the Power of ServiceNow Zurich Release  (Upgrade Events)

 
 

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Path to successful upgrades

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 Zurich Release Upgrade Kit (website assets)

 

Upgrade Tools

 

 

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  • Implement and adopt ServiceNow solutions faster
    Utilize our Expert Services team for these two new service offers:
    • Solution Architecture Advisory Service
    • Core Business Suite Implementation

 

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https://www.servicenow.com/docs/csh?topicname=jumpstart-your-upgrade.html&version=latest

 

 

 

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Mark your calendars for the next Knowledge Event in 2026

 

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