Washington D.C. is now generally available
Interesting facts about Washington, District of Columbia:
- Washington D.C. was in fact NOT built on a swamp. Urban historians have debunked this myth by showing that, despite it being built on a riverside, the area George Washington chose was well-drained, and only 2% of the total landmass could even be considered a swamp. Chicago and New Orleans on the other hand were actually built on swampland.
- When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they didn’t want a single state to have the disproportionate power that they believed the capital would have. So they resolved that the seat of government would be a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. The district is not a state and therefore has no federal voting representation in Congress. The district elects a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives, and there is no district representation in the United States Senate. And district citizens only received the right to vote for president in 1961.
- The district was named after George Washington and Columbia, which is a feminine form of Columbus and was a poetic name for the United States commonly used in the late 1700’s.
- The airspace around Washington, D.C. is more restricted than in any other part of the country, with rules put in place after the 9/11 attacks to establish a "national defense airspace" over the area. All drone flying is banned within 15 miles of Regan National Airport.
- It is illegal to swear, sing, whistle, dance, or skate in the district’s public restrooms
Some highlights from the Washington release:
- Now Assist (our Gen AI functionality) is now easier to access via Virtual Agent, through integration with Microsoft Teams and LLM-based workflow topics in VA Designer.
- New Now Assist for IT Operations Management. Empower your technical teams with better, faster understanding of machine-generated data, leading to faster resolution with technical context, probable root causes and suggested remediation.
- A new IT Operations Discovery Admin Workspace to help configure and manage the discovery of devices, systems and services.
- A new Workflow Studio workspace so you can work with playbooks, flows, subflows, actions, data streams, and decision tables from a single consolidated interface.
- EMR Help (integration with Epic EMR) is now part of Healthcare & Life Sciences Service Management, allowing clinicians to easily open incidents & cases from within Epic.
- Seamless integration of On-Call Scheduling with the Service Operations Workspace.
- A new Platform Analytics experience provides a unified interface for visualizing data from multiple sources. Includes seamless integration with Flow Designer to create condition-based triggers to kick off actions.
