--- sourceDocument: brazil Combined Product Files sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/delta-australia-brazil Release : - brazil ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - brazil Combined Product Files ft:clusterId : - delta3ba bundleId : - delta3ba --- # Combined Business Continuity Management release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil # Combined Business Continuity Management release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Brazil Updated October 8, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 7 minutes to read Summarize ![AI sparkle icon](https://servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ai-sparkle-icon) Summarized using AI This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. ## Summary of Combined Business Continuity Management Release Notes for Upgrades from Australia to Brazil This consolidated document guides ServiceNow customers through the Business Continuity Management (BCM) release notes spanning upgrades from the Australia release family to Brazil. It highlights new features, changes, and important upgrade tasks to help you prepare for and successfully implement the Brazil release. Notably, there are no updates specifically in the Brazil release itself; the major updates originate from the Australia release family. Show full answer Show less ## New Features * **Task Template Groups and Task Templates:** Create reusable, organized task templates with configurable dependencies. These can be scoped broadly or narrowly and sequenced to maintain execution order. * **Integration with Plan Templates:** Associate task templates and groups at multiple plan levels (plan, loss scenario, recovery strategy). Creating a plan from a template auto-generates all linked tasks with progress tracking. * **Plan, Exercise, and Crisis Event Support:** Add task templates and groups directly from recovery or event task lists. Task dependencies are preserved, and progress is auto-tracked. * **Recovery Strategy Templates:** Use reusable templates to standardize recovery strategies, minimizing manual entry and ensuring consistency. * **Interactive Gantt Charts:** Visualize and manage recovery task sequences, durations, and dependencies within plans with role-controlled access. * **Excel Export/Import for Event Tasks:** Export recovery event tasks to Excel for offline editing and re-import with validation, progress tracking, and audit trails. * **Role-Based Performance Analytics Dashboards:** Access tailored dashboards from the BCM workspace showing overall status, impact analysis progress, planning records, and recovery activities, with permissions aligned to user roles. * **Assessment Template Version Control:** Track and audit which Smart Assessment Engine template version was used for assessments, aiding review and comparison over time. ## Changes * **Recovery Strategy Template Enhancements:** Reusable templates now apply consistently across loss scenarios and business continuity plans. * **Plan Template Synchronization:** Two synchronization options manage assets across plans, loss scenarios, and recovery strategies. * **Expanded Related Lists:** Plan templates, loss scenarios, and recovery strategies now include related lists for task template groups and task templates, improving organization. * **Recovery Task List Enhancements:** Additional columns and toolbar actions support filtering, grouping, bulk task insertion, and quick task creation with detailed context. * **Event Task List Toolbar:** Added actions to export and import tasks in Excel and switch between list and Gantt views for easier task management. * **ServiceNow AI Platform Tiers:** Introduction of AI licensing tiers (Foundation, Advanced, Prime) that influence access to AI features within ServiceNow, relevant for BCM users leveraging AI capabilities. ## Activation and Upgrade Guidance Business Continuity Management must be installed via the ServiceNow Store. Customers should review pre- and post-upgrade tasks before moving to the Brazil release. There are no additional browser, localization, accessibility, or other requirements or deprecations associated with the Brazil upgrade. ## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers * Streamline and standardize recovery planning through reusable task and strategy templates. * Improve visibility and control of recovery tasks with interactive Gantt charts and Excel-based bulk editing. * Enhance reporting and oversight with role-based dashboards tailored to key BCM functions. * Ensure auditability and consistency with template version control in assessments. * Leverage AI platform licensing tiers to expand or tailor AI-driven insights within BCM workflows. By adopting these features and changes introduced in the Australia release family, ServiceNow BCM customers can expect more efficient planning, execution, and monitoring of business continuity activities leading up to and beyond the Brazil release. Consolidated page of all release notes for Business Continuity Management from Australia to Brazil. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Business Continuity Management release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Australia to Brazil. Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release." ## Important information for upgrading Business Continuity Management to Brazil Before you upgrade to Brazil, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__2} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## New features Between your current release family and Brazil, new features were introduced for Business Continuity Management. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__8} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | [Task template groups and Task templates](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=create-reco-task-tem-groups&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Create reusable Task templates for recovery and event tasks, and organize them into groups with configurable dependencies. Scope groups to all element definitions or a specific type, and define task sequencing within a group to preserve execution order when applied. [Task templates and Task template groups integration in plan templates](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-a-bcp-template-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Associate Task template groups and Task templates at the plan, loss scenario, and recovery strategy levels within a plan template. Creating a plan from a template automatically generates all linked records at each level, with a progress tracker showing status throughout. [Task templates and Task template groups support in plans](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=create-reco-task-tem-groups&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Add Task template groups and individual Task templates directly from recovery task lists. [Task templates and Task template groups support in Exercises and Crisis events](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=add-an-event-task-to-exercise-event&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Add Task template groups and individual templates directly from event task lists. Select groups, assign an activated plan when required, and the system creates all tasks with dependencies intact. An auto-refresh banner tracks progress and refreshes the list once after all tasks are created. [Recovery strategy templates](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-recovery-strategy-template-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Create reusable recovery strategy templates with standard fields including name, description, estimated time limit, and maximum duration. Apply a template to auto-populate a recovery strategy, reducing manual entry and keeping strategies consistent across plans. [Gantt chart for recovery tasks in plans](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=view-gantt-chart-for-reco-tasks&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Visualize recovery task sequences, durations, and dependencies on an interactive Gantt timeline within the plan record. Toggle between list and Gantt views from the Recovery tasks tab. Add or edit tasks using a right-select quick-insert panel, pre-filled with task type and sequencing context.Filters, sorting, and selections remain consistent when switching between list and Gantt views. The quick-add panel is also available on loss scenario and recovery strategy records. Access is role-controlled: Planners manage tasks in their own plans; Program Managers have full access across all plans. [Export and import event tasks in Microsoft Excel](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=using-export-import-feature-event-tasks&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Export recovery event tasks to Microsoft Excel from the Event tasks related list. The workbook includes a Data sheet, a read-only Event details tab, and an Instructions sheet. Non-editable columns are locked. Import the updated file when the event is in the Open or Work in progress state. Track import progress in real time, with a full audit trail available on the Recovery event form. [Role-based Performance Analytics dashboards](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=pa-dashboard-summary&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Access role-based Performance Analytics dashboards directly from the BCM workspace. Four dashboards are available, each tailored to a functional area: Home (overall BCM status), BIA (impact analysis progress), BCP (planning records), and Event (recovery exercises and activities). Each dashboard is permission-controlled and views are displayed relevant to the roles. [Assessment template version control](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=using-smart-asmt-template&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Track the template version used at the time of assessment creation on Smart Assessment Engine (SAE) templates. Assessors and reviewers can clearly see which template version was in effect, making it easier to audit and compare assessments over time. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Brazil, some changes were made to existing Business Continuity Management features. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__14} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | [Recovery strategy templates](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-recovery-strategy-template-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The Recovery strategy template form is used to create reusable templates that can be applied to recovery strategies across loss scenarios and business continuity plans. [Task template integration in plan templates](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=configure-a-bcp-template-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Plan templates support two synchronization options: Plan scope asset synchronization and Loss scenario asset synchronization with recovery strategy assets. [Related lists for Plan templates](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=plan-template-form&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The Plan templates record has the following related lists: * Task template groups * Task templates [Related lists for Loss scenarios](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=add-loss-scenario-recovery-task-bcp-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The Loss scenarios record has the following related lists: * Task template groups * Task templates * Recovery strategies * Plan templates [Related lists for Recovery strategies](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=create-new-recovery-strategy-for-loss-scenario-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The Recovery strategies record has the following related lists: * Task template groups * Task templates * Loss scenarios * Plan templates [Recovery tasks](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=create-quick-recovery-task&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The recovery task list includes four additional columns: Plan loss scenario, Plan recovery strategy, Tag, and Task group. Use these columns to filter, group, and report on recovery tasks by scenario, strategy, or template group.The recovery task list toolbar includes Insert (with Select task template groups), Save as group (with Add to group and Save tasks sub-options), and Add groups for bulk insertion of task template groups.The Create a quick recovery task panel includes Phase, Plan recovery strategy, All assets from plan, and a Planned duration field accepting hours, minutes, and seconds. The All assets from plan field can be narrowed to a subset of assets when a task applies to only part of the plan.A Gantt view is available on the Recovery tasks tab of a plan record. [Event task list toolbar](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=export-import-event-tasks-using-excel&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The event task list toolbar adds Export to Excel and Import from Excel actions for managing tasks in bulk and switching between list and Gantt views. [Loss scenario Recovery tasks tab](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=add-loss-scenario-recovery-task-bcp-uib-ws&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : Each loss scenario record includes a Recovery tasks tab that lists only the recovery tasks scoped to that scenario. [ServiceNow product tiers](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=ai-native-sku-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) : The ServiceNow AI Platform now brings you a new AI experience with three licensing tiers available: * Foundation: AI basics to deliver insights * Advanced: AI to boost productivity across relevant use cases * Prime: Act autonomously with all AI assets, and create your own Depending on your license, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Brazil, some Business Continuity Management features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__20} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Deprecations Between your current release family and Brazil, some Business Continuity Management features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__26} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Activation information Review information on how to activate Business Continuity Management. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__32} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | Activation information : Install Business Continuity Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) 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](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Business Continuity Management is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__38} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Browser requirements If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__44} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Accessibility information Review details on accessibility information for Business Continuity Management, such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__50} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Localization information If there are specific localization considerations for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__56} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | No updates for this release. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Highlight information If there are specific highlight considerations for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-businesscontinuitymanagement-summary__entry__62} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Australia | * Build reusable Task templates and groups with dependencies across plans, loss scenarios, and exercises. * Auto-generate full plan hierarchies --- scenarios, strategies, and tasks --- from plan templates. * Export event tasks to Microsoft Excel, edit offline, and reimport updated records with validation and progress tracking. * Monitor performance through role-based dashboards with key performance indicators and usage insights. See [Business Continuity Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=business-continuity-mangmt-overview&family=australia&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Brazil | No updates for this release. | [ ]