ITSM Success Dashboard indicators components

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    Summary of ITSM Success Dashboard indicators components

    The ITSM Success Dashboard provides ServiceNow customers with a comprehensive visual tool to analyze IT service management performance and self-service success. It leverages Now Assist and AI capabilities to enhance incident resolution, reduce incident creation, and improve user experience through proactive engagement and virtual agent interactions. The dashboard offers a centralized Admin Console for managing related applications and configurations.

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    Key Features

    • Now Assist Integration: Summarizes chat conversations and incident details, generates resolution notes, and accelerates incident closure using AI and virtual agent interactions.
    • Self-solved KPIs: Includes metrics like Self-solved using QnA and Proactive Engagement for Digital Experience (DEX), helping users resolve issues without creating incidents or engaging live agents.
    • Admin Console: Provides a role-specific interface for admins to monitor application updates, installation status, configurations, and common questions related to ITSM Success Dashboard and related tools.
    • Performance and Service Quality Indicators: Tracks KPIs such as Self-solved percentage, Call deflection percentage, Requests completed, Customer satisfaction score, Mean time to resolve, SLA breaches, and First assignment resolution.
    • Cost Savings Visualization: Displays estimated cost reductions achieved through Knowledge articles, Predictive Intelligence, Virtual Agent conversations, and catalog submissions.
    • Scorecards and Trend Analysis: Aggregates daily KPI values over monthly, quarterly, or yearly periods, allowing comparison with previous periods and visualization of trends.
    • Drill-down Capabilities: Enables detailed exploration of KPIs through primary and contributing indicators, record-level breakdowns (with proper permissions), and cost-saving details.
    • Contextual Side Panels: Offers formula definitions, insights, and cost-saving details for selected metrics, enhancing understanding and decision-making.
    • Process Insights and Analyst Workbench: Identifies process bottlenecks and provides actionable next steps through insights displayed in the dashboard and accessible via the Analyst Workbench.
    • Operational Success Dashboard: Provides a consolidated view of key IT processes performance across Incident, Major Incident, Change, Request, Service Catalog, Interaction, Problem, and On-Call Scheduling applications to focus on business-impacting areas.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    • Accelerate incident resolution and reduce workload on live agents through AI-powered assistance and proactive engagement.
    • Monitor key ITSM performance metrics and service quality indicators in one place for data-driven management.
    • Visualize cost savings and justify ITSM investments by quantifying savings from self-service and automation.
    • Customize dashboard indicators to fit specific organizational needs and gain deep visibility into performance trends and issues.
    • Use process insights to pinpoint inefficiencies and drive continuous service improvement.
    • Leverage the Admin Console to efficiently manage application updates and configuration tasks related to ITSM Success Dashboard components.

    Analyze the performance and self-solve data visually and drive business outcomes with the help of the dashboard components.

    Now Assist for ITSM Success Dashboard

    With the Now Assist for Success Dashboard, you can summarize the chat conversations and incident details, generate the incident resolution notes to share with other agents, and wrap up incidents faster.

    The Self-solved using QnA KPI in the ITSM Success Dashboard uses Now Assist and AI search QnA as contributing indicators. You can interact with a Virtual Agent, read the Knowledge base article, get a summarized/succinct response by Now LLM in Virtual Agent or on the portal. This interaction, subsequently does not create an incident, access any knowledge base article, or interact with a live agent in the next 24 hours.

    To update the live agent script include see, Update the live agent script include.

    Proactive Engagement for DEX

    The Self-solved using Proactive Engagement for DEX KPI listed under the self-solved percentage, helps the users resolve their digital experience issues. It proactively suggests the resolutions and resolves the issue.

    Getting started with the Admin Console

    With the Admin Console, you can access the ITSM Success Dashboard, Operational Success, and Benchmarks dashboard. The Admin Console displays all the admin-related work at a glance and tasks that need attention, including installation of the related application and configuration settings.

    As an admin, you see the role-specific variant of the landing page. Admin landing pages include the following items:

    • Related applications that have a latest update available.
    • Related applications that aren't activated or installed.
    • Configurations for all the installed applications.
    • Common questions and more information related to the applications.

    Performance overview in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    Measure the key performance indicators (KPIs) like Self-solved percentage, Call deflection percentage, Requests completed, and Successful predictions on the Performance overview tab. For more information, see ITSM Success Dashboard KPI definitions and formulas.

    Success Dashboard showing the Performance overview tab.

    Service quality in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    Measure the key performance indicators (KPIs) like Customer satisfaction score, Mean time to resolve, % Breached SLA, and % First assignment resolution on the Service quality tab. For more information, see ITSM Success Dashboard KPI definitions and formulas.

    Success Dashboard showing the Service quality tab.

    Cost savings in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    View the overall estimated cost saved by using the ITSM Success Dashboard capabilities for Knowledge articles, Predictive Intelligence, Virtual Agent conversations, and Catalog submissions.

    Cost savings displayed on the Performance overview tab.

    Scorecards in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    View the aggregation of the daily values for KPIs in the selected period in the scorecards with the following information.

    Figure 1. Scorecard widget
    Scorecards for Self solved percentage.
    • Current period score: View the aggregated score for the current time period. Select one of the following options:
      • Monthly: View the data aggregated monthly. For counts, this data is the monthly sum of the daily values. For percentages, this data is the monthly average of the daily percentages.
      • Quarterly: View the data aggregated quarterly. For counts, this data is the quarterly sum of the daily values. For percentages, this data is the quarterly average of the daily percentages.
      • Yearly: View the data aggregated yearly. For counts, this data is the yearly sum of the daily values. For percentages, this data is the yearly average of the daily percentages.
    • Comparison with previous period: View the percentage change compared to the previous period aggregation. Data is displayed in a month-over-month, quarter-over-quarter, and year-over-year comparison based on the availability of the data.

    Info icons in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    Use the info icons to view the short description of the indicator and understand how the indicator value is calculated.

    Figure 2. Info icon
    Details of info icon

    Trends in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    View the trend of the aggregated scores for the selected metric scorecard.

    Figure 3. Call deflection trend
    Call deflection percentage trend example.
    Figure 4. Structured tickets completed trend
    structured tickets completed trend.

    View details in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    See the constituent drill-down views and their contextual descriptions for KPIs. The detailed information can be viewed by selecting View details.
    • View the primary indicators.
      Figure 5. Top-level primary indicators
      Information on view details breakdown.
      You can replace or add new indicators to suit your implementation in addition to the base system indicators. See Configure Success Dashboard indicators KPIs for more details.
    • View the contributing indicators.
      Figure 6. Second-level contributing indicators
      Second-level contributing indicators.
      You can view a graph of the contributing indicators scores over time along with the KPI value.
    • View the record-level breakdown.
      Figure 7. Record-level breakdown indicators
      Record-level information on view details breakdown.
    This level of drill down helps you view the record-level details of the indicator when you have the sn_sd.success_dashboard_details_read user permissions. See KPI details for more information.

    View cost saving details in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    Enable Cost savings and view the drill-down views and their contextual descriptions for KPIs. The detailed information can be viewed by selecting View Details.

    • View the primary indicators:First-level cost savings indicators.
    • Second-level contributing indicators Contributing indicators impacting cost savings.

    Contextual side panel in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    View the contextual formula and definitions, insights, and cost savings in the More information, Insights, and Cost Savings side panel respectively for the selected metric or KPI.

    More Information side panel.

    Side panel with more information.

    Insights side panel

    View the insights of the KPIs.

    Insights side panel displaying the Self solved percentage.

    Cost Savings side panel

    View the amount saved for the KPI.

    Cost Savings panel displaying the KPI details.

    View process insights on the ITSM Success Dashboard

    View the process insights on the ITSM Success Dashboard to analyze the process bottlenecks and take steps from the analyst workbench to improve the metrics.

    On the Service Quality tab, select Insights on the contextual side panel, then select View in Analyst Workbench.

    Only the top two insights that are the least efficient are displayed in the contextual side panel. The process insights are executed in the incident table only in the base system.

    Operational Success dashboard in the ITSM Success Dashboard indicators

    The Operational Success dashboard provides a consolidated view of the end-to-end performance of the IT processes that are implemented in your organization.

    The dashboard showcases a snapshot of the performances for the Incident, Major Incident, Change, Request, Service Catalog, Interaction, Problem, and On-Call Scheduling applications. These indicators help teams and the leadership focus on areas that have an impact on business outcomes.

    Operational Success dashboard showing the Service Catalog tab.