Now Mobile app demo

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Now Mobile app demo

    The Now Mobile app demo allows ServiceNow customers to explore how the Now Mobile app supports mobile work across different roles: employees, new hires, and Chief Information Officers (CIOs). By accessing the demo within the app, users can see curated demonstrations tailored to their role, showcasing key mobile capabilities that enable work from anywhere using a mobile device.

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    Employee Experience

    The employee demo focuses on simplifying everyday tasks and access to company resources:

    • Campaigns: Targeted information is presented based on location or job role, including rich media like videos for company communications.
    • Frequently Used Items: Configurable shortcuts let employees quickly access commonly used features such as scheduling visits to tech lounges.
    • My Items: Employees can track active tasks, requests, assets, and team member contacts. Inline actions allow quick responses to approvals and easy tracking of requests, including universal requests transferable between departments.
    • Services: Employees can browse or search popular service requests across the enterprise.
    • Health: Tools for workplace health and safety, such as health verification and vaccination reporting.
    • Virtual Agent Chat: Quick access to an automated conversational agent for common issues like password resets.

    Chief Information Officer (CIO) Experience

    The CIO demo provides a comprehensive mobile dashboard to monitor IT performance and business value:

    • Targets: Quick insight into IT metrics tied to CIO objectives, such as IT spend, employee satisfaction, and project delivery.
    • Investments and Business Enablement: Visibility into IT investments, capability gaps, and business consumption details like subscriptions and contracts.
    • Risk and Resiliency: Alerts on service degradation, security vulnerabilities, and compliance issues.
    • Execution Goals and Projects: Monitoring standards compliance, cloud migration, and project status with executive summaries.
    • Upcoming Releases and Digital Transformation: Tracking new products, features, and digital initiatives.
    • Saved Items: Bookmark important cards or metrics for quick access and drill down into detailed ServiceNow records.

    New Hire Experience

    The new hire demo supports onboarding with targeted communications and resources:

    • Welcome Section: Displays location- and role-based information, including in-app videos.
    • Get Ready: Lists common onboarding tasks sourced from lifecycle activities in the Enterprise Onboarding and Transitions application.
    • New Hire Contacts: Easy access to connect with colleagues using mobile device capabilities.
    • Get Informed: Pushes relevant orientation and company information through mobile campaigns.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    The Now Mobile app demo serves as a valuable tool for customers to:

    • Understand how to configure and tailor mobile experiences for different user personas within their organization.
    • Explore key mobile features such as task management, service requests, health and safety compliance, and communication tools.
    • See how CIOs can leverage mobile dashboards for real-time IT performance monitoring and risk management.
    • Support new hire onboarding with targeted mobile content and task tracking.

    Accessing the demo within the Now Mobile app enables customers to quickly evaluate and adopt mobile capabilities that enhance productivity and engagement across the enterprise workforce.

    Access the demo in your Now Mobile app to learn how the app can help you work from anywhere using your mobile device.

    The Now Mobile demo includes curated demonstrations to show how employees, new hires, and Chief Information Officers (CIO) can get work done on their mobile device.

    Access the demo

    In the Now Mobile app, tap Try with a demo account. Then select the role that matches the demo you'd like to see:
    • Employee - quickly submit incidents and requests, manage tasks, and access company resources
    • Chief Information Officer - quickly measure the performance of IT as a business unit, be informed of key updates, and monitor progress of major initiatives
    • New Hire - get access to resources and information necessary to start a new job successfully
    Table 1. Demo screens with different personas
    Demo screen Persona selection screen

    Now Mobile demo screens

    Selection of Now mobile personas.

    Demo highlights

    The Now Mobile demo displays a launcher screen divided into UI sections. Tap an item in any section to open the item. For details on how launcher screens, other types of screens, and actions work together in the mobile environment, see Mobile hierarchy.

    Employee

    Campaigns
    The carousel display shows how you can easily present targeted information to employees based on location, job role, and other key criteria. Rich media, including in-app video playback, can cover a variety of important company communications.
    Frequently Used Items
    The display includes an example of shortcuts to items employee users are likely to access frequently, such as scheduling a visit to the tech lounge. These can be configured by the organization to keep them readily available for employees. For more information about the tech lounge example, see Walk-up Experience. For more information on office entry codes, see Verify your health status and compliance.
    My Items

    The My items section provides links to active tasks, requests, assets, and team members.

    • Tasks

      Items assigned to a user for completion, such as approvals or policy acknowledgement, will appear in the tasks for the employee. Inline action can be taken to respond to approval requests.

    • Requests

      Once the employee has submitted a request for an item or service the open ticket or case will be available here to track. Universal requests, indicated with a UR at the beginning of the case number, can be easily transferred between departments as needed. For more information on services and requests, see Request experience in Now Mobile.

    • Assets

      Items assigned to a user are itemized for easy reference, making it simple to report an issue or review all checked out assets. For more information, see Hardware Asset Management.

    • Team

      Reaching colleagues is just a tap away. In addition to contact information, profiles show examples of how deeplinks can directly launch other apps, such as a Microsoft Teams chat or a LinkedIn profile. For information on configuring native mobile functions like those used to make calls and send emails, see Mobile functions.

    Services
    Employees can request items or help from departments across the enterprise. Popular services make the most commonly requested needs easy to find. Other items are easy to browse by topic or can be reached via the search.
    Saved
    Use saved views to gain quick access to frequently used screens and views. Saved views enable you to save any screen or web page within your mobile app. Learn more about Mobile saved views.
    Health
    Employees have everything they need for workplace health and safety. Users can verify health, make reservations, or report vaccinations. For more information, see Safe Workplace for mobile.
    Virtual Agent Chat
    Use the chat button to connect to a virtual agent. Virtual agent is an automated conversational interface you can use to address common issues, such as password resets, or email account setup. The Now Mobile uses a quick action to access chat. For more information on Virtual Agent, see Virtual Agent. The chat button on the demo launch page is a quick action. For details on how to add a virtual agent to your mobile apps, see Enable Live Agent in the Now Mobile app.

    Chief Information Officer (CIO)

    Value

    CIOs need to always have a pulse on the value being delivered by IT to the business. Implementing this core value is delivered within the following sections:

    • Targets

      Quickly glance at how IT is performing against its set targets. This ultimately ties to the CIOs objectives and key results (OKRs). Possible targets could be:

      • IT spend to plan YTD
      • Employee satisfaction
      • Number of projects delivered YTD
    • Investments

      What strategies and business units are investing in IT.

    • Business Enablement

      Review and identify any current Capability gaps and take action to address them.

    • Business Consumption

      See the details of subscription or license costs, the vendor, type of agreement, and most importantly when a contract is ending.

    Risk and Resiliency
    • Service Degradation

      Service availability and performance issues that the CIO needs to be aware of.

    • Security and Compliance

      Security vulnerabilities that are possible risks to the business and compliance issues that need to be addressed to avoid audits.

    Execution
    • Goals

      Standards compliance goals as well as applications retired or cloud migration business goals.

    • Projects in Red

      Understand what the project is slated for along with access to current and past status reports. These reports can include executive summaries on the status to decide whether or not to engage with the project.

    • Upcoming Releases

      Single view to track all new products, features, and enhancements being delivered across the organization.

    • Digital Transformation

      Measure and track execution of the digital transformation efforts within IT, in support of all business units.

    • Saved Items

      Any of the cards or graphs or metrics have drill-down capability, allowing the CIO to navigate down to specific records in ServiceNow. In addition, any section of the CIO mobile has a Save item feature that can serve as bookmarks, so the CIO has a place to go directly to what is top of mind rather than having to navigate to a particular area of the mobile.

      Saved items are all available with a single tap and swipe under Savedat the bottom of the CIO mobile app.

    New Hire

    Welcome Section
    Easily present targeted information to employees based on location, job role, and other key criteria. Rich media, including in-app video playback, can cover a variety of important company communications.
    Get Ready
    A list of common tasks from across the organization that new employees may complete as part of their onboarding experience. These tasks are lifecycle activities, which are part of the Enterprise Onboarding and Transitions application. For more information on lifecycle activities, see Configure a lifecycle event activity.
    New Hire Contacts

    Use the contacts in this section to view and connect with colleagues using your mobile device's built in capabilities.

    For information on configuring functions like those used to make calls and send emails, see Mobile functions.

    Get Informed
    Use targeted mobile campaigns to push relevant information to employees at the right moment. Tapping into this section opens a screen with helpful info about New Hire orientation.

    Learn more about the Now Mobile app

    Use the following link to learn more about on how to use and configure the Now Mobile app: Configuring the Mobile Platform.