Exploring Smart Assessment Engine
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Summary of Exploring Smart Assessment Engine
The ServiceNow® Smart Assessment Engine (SAE) automates and optimizes assessment processes within Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) workflows, including compliance management, vendor risk, privacy, audit, business continuity, and operational risk management. SAE addresses common challenges of manual assessment processes, such as inefficiency, time consumption, and error-prone data collection, by providing an intuitive, configurable, and access-controlled platform. This engine simplifies data gathering, risk analysis, and compliance management through standardized evaluation and workflow automation, enabling organizations to reduce costs, enhance accountability, and improve decision-making.
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Key Features
- Assessment Template Management: Users can create, customize, and manage assessment templates using a drag-and-drop template designer. Templates support various assessment types like Control Attestation and Risk Identification, with configurable question types, justifications, conditional visibility, instructions, and references.
- Assessment Execution and Response: Assessors can respond to assessments directly within the workspace, with automatic saving to prevent data loss. They can reassign or cancel assessments as needed.
- Bulk Management: Multiple assigned assessments can be combined into a single view for streamlined management, including bulk submission and reassignment.
- Legacy Migration: Existing metric types can be migrated into SAE assessment templates, allowing reuse of previously designed assessments.
- Scoring: Assessment responses can be scored at various levels (assessment, section, subsection) to generate meaningful metrics.
- Post-Assessment Automation: Responses can trigger automated tasks and actions, enhancing workflow efficiency.
Roles and Access Control
SAE provides predefined roles aligned with standard user personas to ensure proper access and control:
- Assessment Actor: Responds to and manages assigned assessments, including reassignment.
- Assessment Reader: Views and comments on assessments within assigned categories and templates, with role-based access controls.
- Assessment Admin: Full control over template categories, assessment templates, and assessments, including creation, modification, reassignment, and legacy metric migration.
- Template Reader: Reads specific assessment templates mapped to template categories.
- Template Manager: Creates and manages assessment templates within assigned categories.
- Template Developer: Users with developer privileges can create and manage scripts for response automation within assessment questions.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Streamlines assessment processes by reducing manual efforts and operational costs.
- Improves consistency and accuracy in data collection and risk evaluation.
- Enhances compliance management through standardized templates and automated workflows.
- Facilitates collaboration and accountability with role-based access and bulk management features.
- Enables better decision-making with scoring and post-assessment automation capabilities.
The ServiceNow®Smart Assessment Engine (SAE) helps you reduce the manual burden and costs of your assessment processes through automation.
Smart Assessment Engine
In Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) workflows such as compliance management, vendor risk management, privacy management, audit management, business continuity, and operational risk management, organizations face challenges in gathering input from employees and making informed decisions. Manual processes can be inefficient, time-consuming, and prone to errors, leading to increased operational costs and compliance risks.
SAE is designed to automate and optimize assessment processes, reducing manual efforts and costs. It provides an intuitive, configurable, and access-controlled assessment experience, enabling organizations to design and execute assessments seamlessly while ensuring compliance and efficiency. SAE is a versatile and business-friendly assessment engine that simplifies data collection, risk analysis, and compliance management. It supports a drag-and-drop template designer for effortless assessment creation and includes predefined roles to align with standard user personas. SAE ensures end-to-end workflow automation, post-assessment actions, and seamless collaboration.
By implementing SAE, organizations can streamline assessments, enhance accountability, and ensure regulatory compliance while optimizing overall efficiency. It enables organizations to track risks, maintain compliance, and improve decision-making through standardized evaluation processes.
Smart Assessment Engine benefits
The following table shows the benefits of the Smart Assessment Engine application.
| Benefit | Feature | Users |
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| See an overview of all your assessment template-related information. You can review the published and unpublished assessment templates and access the template designer. | Accessing templates in the Assessment Workspace | Template reader [sn_smart_asmt.template_reader], Template manager [sn_smart_asmt.template_manager], or Assessment admin [sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin] |
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Use the template designer for the following tasks:
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Template manager [sn_smart_asmt.template_manager] or Assessment admin [sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin] | |
| Trigger assessments by using the Workflow Studio or scripts in Workflow Studio. | Triggering assessments | Flow designer [flow_designer] |
| Respond to the assessments and collect the responses from within your workspace. As an assessor, your work is automatically saved, which eliminates the need for manual saving and helps to prevent data loss. You can also reassign the in-progress assessments to another user or cancel the assessments that are no longer needed. | Assessment actor [sn_smart_asmt.actor] | |
| Combine multiple assigned assessments into a single, streamlined view. You can manage, submit, or reassign these combined assessments at one time. Use Bulk Submit or Bulk Reassign assessments to handle all the assessments in one action. | Submit combined assessments | Assessment actor [sn_smart_asmt.actor] |
| Migrate the metric types to the SAE assessment templates to use the assessment designs that you already created. | Migrate a legacy metric type to an assessment template | Assessment admin [sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin] |
| Set up scoring for your assessment responses to calculate meaningful scores at the assessment, section, or subsection level. | Scoring assessments | sn_smart_asmt.template_manager and sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin |
| Automate actions based on assessment responses. These actions use the responses from an assessment to automate tasks | Post-assessment automations | sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin or sn_smart_asmt.template_manager and sn_smart_imp_auto.automation_creator |
Roles of SAE users
- Assessment actor
- A user with the assessment actor [sn_smart_asmt.actor] role can respond to the assessments that are assigned to them. They can also reassign these assessments.
- Assessment reader
- A user with the assessment reader [sn_smart_asmt.assessment_reader] role can read the assessments within the categories that they’re assigned to. Additionally, they can read and comment on the assessments they created, and
view and comment on the assessments that are generated from those templates.Note:The Assessment reader role field in the template determines the minimum user role that is required to view and comment on assessments. Only users with the specified role and the Assessment reader [sn_smart_asmt.assessment_reader] role can access the assessments that are generated from this template.
- Assessment Admin
- A user with the assessment admin [sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin] role can create, view, update, and delete both template categories and assessment templates. Additionally, the user with this role can view all the assessments, modify their states, reassign the assessments, and migrate the existing metric types to new assessment templates.
- Template reader
- A user with the template reader [sn_smart_asmt.template_reader] role can read specific assessment templates that are based on the categories mapped to the templates. Note:Each template must be mapped to one or more template category. A template reader must have this role to view the templates that are mapped with that category. A template reader must be able to access a template category to view the template.
- Template Manager
- A user with the template manager [sn_smart_asmt.template_manager] role can read, write, or create specific assessment templates that are based on the categories that are mapped to these templates. Their access to the template categories during the creation process is governed by the same rules that apply to the template readers.
- Template Developer
- A user with the template admin or template manager role and template [sn_smart_asmt.developer] role can read, write, and create the script for response automation in assessment questions.
For more information, see Roles installed in Smart Assessment Engine.