Combined Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) release notes for upgrades from Yokohama to Zurich
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Summary of Combined Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) Release Notes for Upgrades from Yokohama to Zurich
This consolidated release note summarizes all key updates, new features, changes, and important upgrade information for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) between the Yokohama and Zurich ServiceNow releases. It is designed to help customers prepare for and understand enhancements impacting AI-driven assistance, case management, and customer success workflows within the TMT industry solutions.
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New Features
- Voice Quality Issue Handling: Automated collection of voice quality details, opening service tickets with RADCOM, and resolution plan generation (introduced in Yokohama Patch 11 and continued in Zurich Patch 4).
- Risk Signals and Issues Summarization: Generation of summaries including risk signals, associated solutions, and risk occurrences to aid in proactive problem management.
- Billing Issue Remediation: AI agents assist in managing billing inquiries, analyzing invoices, and recommending optimized plans based on customer usage (Yokohama Patch 6 and Zurich Patch 1).
- Network Incident Analysis: Identification and resolution planning for historic network incidents with AI-driven field value identification, time estimation, and task creation.
- Customer Success Management Enhancements: Automated assessment of account health, value realization, adoption trends, and timely insights to guide renewal and expansion strategies.
- Meeting and Touchpoint Management: Creation and management of meetings within customer success workflows, including scheduling preferences and agenda setting.
- Engagement and Success Summarization: AI-generated summaries for success initiatives, internal and customer plays, plus enhanced Zoom meeting summaries with sentiment tracking.
- Data Trend Analysis: Collection and analysis of engagement metric data with pattern recognition and trend chart generation.
- Service Summary and Knowledge Graph Schema Generation: Creation of service summaries for product inventories and customizable Knowledge Graph schemas.
- Agentic AI Capabilities: Support for consumer registration with error handling, along with configurable access control for AI agents and workflows to tailor visibility and usage permissions.
- AI Agent Collection for Autonomous Issue Resolution: Use of AI agents to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve telecom service issues autonomously.
- Enhanced Case Summarization and Knowledge Article Generation: Dynamic, context-driven case summaries and aggregation of case insights to create knowledge articles for improved agent efficiency and knowledge base quality.
- Transform Mapping Assist: Automated generation of transform mappings between provider and consumer tables to streamline data exchanges in Service Exchange.
Key Changes
- Usage Measurement Update: Transition from a 365-day look-back to a 365-day burn-down model for Now Assist usage measurement, resetting at the contract anniversary date (effective from Yokohama Patch 5 and Zurich Patch 5).
- Default Skill Activation: Designated Now Assist skills are automatically enabled for new customers and for previously unconfigured skills during upgrades, while skills previously turned off remain inactive.
- Role and Access Configuration: Additional role configurations are required for agentic workflows and AI agents to control discovery and activation within AI Agent Studio, supporting dynamic or AI user behaviors and user access scope.
Activation and Requirements
Now Assist for TMT features require activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin for both Yokohama and Zurich releases. There are no additional browser, accessibility, localization, or other technical requirements introduced or altered between these releases.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Enhanced automation and AI capabilities reduce manual effort in troubleshooting, billing inquiries, and customer success management.
- Improved case and engagement summarization accelerates agent productivity and decision-making.
- Data-driven insights and trend analysis support proactive customer success and risk mitigation.
- Configurable AI agent access and skill activation enable tailored deployment aligned with organizational policies.
- Integration with external systems like RADCOM and Service Exchange enhances operational workflows and service quality monitoring.
Consolidated page of all release notes for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) from Yokohama to Zurich.
How to use this page
To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Yokohama to Zurich.
Important information for upgrading Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) to Zurich
Before you upgrade to Zurich, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.
| Release | Release notes |
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Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
New features
Between your current release family and Zurich, new features were introduced for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT).
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Changes
Between your current release family and Zurich, some changes were made to existing Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) features.
| Release | Release notes |
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Yokohama |
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Zurich |
Removed
Between your current release family and Zurich, some Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) features or functionality were removed.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Deprecations
Between your current release family and Zurich, some Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) features or functionality were deprecated.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Activation information
Review information on how to activate Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT).
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
Now Assist features are available with activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin. For more information, see Install Now Assist plugins. |
Zurich |
Now Assist features are available with activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin. For more information, see Install Now Assist plugins. |
Additional requirements
If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Browser requirements
If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Accessibility information
Review details on accessibility information for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT), such as specific requirements or compliance levels.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Localization information
If there are specific localization considerations for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Highlight information
If there are specific highlight considerations for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Yokohama |
Yokohama Patch 11
Yokohama Patch 6
Yokohama Patch 3
Yokohama Patch 1
Yokohama Early Availability
See Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) for more information. |
Zurich |
Zurich Patch 5
Zurich Patch 4
See Now Assist for TMT for more information. |