Public Sector Digital Services release notes
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Summary of Public Sector Digital Services release notes - Yokohama Release
The ServiceNow® Public Sector Digital Services application helps government agencies efficiently deliver critical services such as public records, licenses, permits, and social services to citizens, businesses, and other agencies. The Yokohama release introduces enhancements that improve grant management, multi-agency collaboration, AI-driven chat summarization, and analytics capabilities tailored specifically for the public sector.
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Key Features
- Grants Management: Streamline grant application intake and screening with guided intake processes and a user-friendly Grants Portal. Grant program managers benefit from a step-by-step setup and management experience, including publishing and administration of grant programs.
- Service Bridge for Public Sector Digital Services: Connect multiple ServiceNow instances to enable seamless support and service experiences across agencies. This includes unified case collaboration, streamlined approval workflows for funding, real-time crisis coordination, and secure, compliance-driven data sharing between agencies.
- Service Exchange: Securely communicate and share citizen and agent data between agencies to improve inter-agency collaboration.
- Chat Summarization with ServiceNow Otto: Utilize generative AI-powered chat summarization to condense customer-agent interactions into concise summaries. This feature auto-populates case records with key discussion points, aiding agents in proposing case resolutions more efficiently.
- Constituent Service Dashboard Migration: The dashboard has been upgraded to the Next Experience Platform Analytics, enabling visualization of historical and real-time data in role-based dashboards to support informed decision-making by stakeholders.
Important Upgrade Information
After upgrading to Yokohama, some public sector menu labels in the Customer Service Management (CSM) Configurable Workspace revert to default CSM names. Agencies should manually update the labels for Customer, Accounts, and Service Organizations categories to reflect public sector terminology through the Guided Setup.
Activation and Installation
Public Sector Digital Services applications are available through the ServiceNow Store. Customers must request installation from the store and follow configuration guidance to activate the applications effectively.
Related ServiceNow Applications
- Customer Service Management (CSM): Enables collaboration and problem resolution for customer service organizations.
- CSM Configurable Workspace: Provides agents with tools to research information and efficiently manage constituent cases.
- Now Assist: Enhances productivity through generative AI-driven conversational and proactive assistance.
The ServiceNow® Public Sector Digital Services application enables government agencies to provide citizens, businesses, and other agencies with important services such as public records, licenses, permits, and social services. Public Sector Digital Services was enhanced and updated in the Yokohama release.
Public Sector Digital Services highlights for the Yokohama release
- Review requests for grants, and create new grant programs using Grants Management.
- Connect multiple ServiceNow instances to provide seamless support and service experiences across the Public Sector using for Service Bridge for Public Sector Digital Services.
- Utilize the Chat summarization skill, powered by Now LLM Service, to auto-generate chat summaries for customer-agent interactions in the ServiceNow Otto for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS) application.
See Public Sector Digital Services for more information.
Important information for upgrading Public Sector Digital Services to Yokohama
After the upgrade, certain public sector menus and menu items in the CSM Configurable Workspace revert to their original CSM label names. You can relabel these items for public sector use by updating the labels for the Customer, Accounts, and Service Organizations UX list category records. For more details on relabeling, navigate to , and select .
New in the Yokohama release
- Grants Management
- Simplify and streamline Grant application intake and screening with Grants Management: Intake and Screening, a part of Grants Management. Improve self-service with a Grants Portal that streamlines finding, applying for, and tracking grants, with added features such as guided intake, and a save, resume, and export functionality. Set up and manage grant programs easily with guided steps using Grants Management: Program Set Up, which guides grant program managers through the process of creating, publishing, and managing grant programs.
- Communicate and share citizen and agent data securely between agencies using Service Exchange for Public Sector Digital Services
- Connect multiple ServiceNow instances to provide seamless support and service experiences across the Public Sector using Service Bridge for Public Sector Digital Services. Service Bridge enables unified case collaboration across agencies, streamlined approval workflows for funding distribution, and real-time crisis coordination with dynamic task management. Agencies can share citizen & agency data securely through compliance-driven access.
- Post-chat summarization in ServiceNow Otto for Public Sector Digital Services (PSDS)
- Condense chat records into short summaries using the chat summarization skill in the ServiceNow Otto for PSDS application. Agents can use the chat summarization skill to generate chat records for a case, auto-populate the chat summary into the Interaction section of the case record, and obtain a summary of the main points discussed during the chat, helping them propose a case resolution. The ServiceNow Otto for PSDS application brings generative AI chat summarization to Public Sector Digital Services.
Changed in this release
- Constituent Service Dashboard Migration to Platform Analytics
- The Constituent Service Dashboard has been migrated to Next Experience Platform Analytics. Next Experience is a ServiceNow AI Platform® feature that is active by default when the user loads or upgrades to the Yokohama release. The dashboard migration to Next Experience enables you to visualize historical and real-time process statistics in role-based dashboards, which enable individual stakeholders to make informed decisions. The new dashboard can be accessed by navigating to .
Activation information
Install Public Sector Digital Services applications by requesting them from the ServiceNow Store. For details on installing the applications, see Configuring Public Sector Digital Services. Visit the ServiceNow Store website to view all the available apps and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.