Platform Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow
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Summary of Platform Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow
The Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow leverages analysis of customer feedback, performance metrics, and historical trends to optimize service delivery and enhance customer satisfaction. This workflow generates actionable recommendations for service improvement, which can be reviewed, followed up on through conversation, or downloaded as documentation.
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ServiceNow customers activate this workflow through the Now Assist applications, enabling agents and tools to trigger and interact with the workflow. Customization is possible by duplicating and modifying the workflow instructions to fit specific organizational needs.
Prerequisites and Setup
- Installation: Now Assist for Platform must be installed; this can be done by installing any Now Assist app such as Now Assist for ITSM.
- Data Requirements: Assessment records linked to task tables are necessary to analyze survey data effectively.
- Roles and Security: The required role for access is
snuxcgenai.platformaiimproveservices. Proper role masking and security controls must be configured to allow the workflow to access necessary data tables like Assessment and Incident.
Configuration
Settings for the workflow, including the maximum records analyzed, analysis time frame, and post-analysis actions, can be adjusted in the Now Assist Skill Config Var Set within the Platform AI Agents and Skills scope. Default configurations focus on analyzing up to 500 records over a 3-month period, with options to download the analysis or request additional information.
Filters are configurable for survey data and task tables, allowing the workflow to target specific fields such as assignment groups or service names, enhancing the precision of analysis for entities like Incident or Case records.
Access and Usage
- Access the workflow via AI Agent Studio under "Create and manage" by selecting "Identify ways to improve service."
- Review included AI agents and their tools within the guided setup steps.
- Use the AI Activity panel in the core UI or workspaces to monitor progress, provide input, and view results.
- Enable UI actions for user access by configuring channels in AI Agent Studio and ensuring the relevant system property is enabled.
Testing and Invocation
Manual testing is available in AI Agent Studio for users with the sn.aiaadmin role, allowing simulation of workflow execution using sample utterances (e.g., “Identify ways to improve services for the Hardware category”). Automated evaluations can analyze multiple execution logs for broader assessment.
When invoking the workflow, users should specify filters like metric names or categories to refine the analysis and improve relevance.
AI Agents Involved
The workflow primarily utilizes the Survey Analysis AI agent, which collects and analyzes survey data within specified time frames to generate improvement suggestions. Activation of this AI agent requires enabling the status toggle within its setup and the appropriate platform role.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Automates identification of service improvement opportunities based on real customer feedback and performance data.
- Improves service agent workflows by providing data-driven recommendations and options for follow-up actions.
- Supports customization and integration with existing Now Assist applications, allowing seamless adoption within current service processes.
- Facilitates ongoing service quality enhancement through accessible, actionable insights and AI-powered analysis.
Use the Platform Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow to analyze feedback, performance metrics, and historical trends that identify areas for service improvement.
Identify ways to improve service overview
The Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow optimizes service delivery and customer satisfaction by analyzing feedback, metrics, and trends to provide actionable process improvement recommendations. After the analysis is generated, you can continue the conversation to ask follow-up questions or download the analysis as a PDF or Word document.
The Now Assist applications provide the agents, tools, and triggers for the Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow. You can activate the agentic workflow template by making triggers active and setting the display settings to include the Now Assist panel. To change this agentic workflow's instructions, duplicate it, adjust the settings to suit your specific needs, and activate the duplicated version instead.
Prerequisites and setup
To access this workflow, you must have Now Assist for Platform installed on your instance. You can get this by installing any other Now Assist application, such as Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM).
Because this agentic workflow relies on survey data, you must have Assessment records associated with task tables to analyze.
Role masking
Required role: sn_uxc_gen_ai.platform_ai_improve_services.
Agentic workflows and their AI agents use role masking to determine which users can access them. Ones installed with Now Assist applications have specific roles that come included with the application. If you select Users with specific roles for user access, you must configure the security controls to include these roles. For the instructions to change the security controls, see Define security controls for an agentic workflow.
In the data access settings, add the necessary roles to enable reading of the Assessment table and other required tables. For example, add the itil role to the agentic workflow's list of approved roles so it can access Incident records.
Additional configuration
You can change agentic workflow settings by changing values for the Now Assist Skill Config Var Set. To access the variable set and make changes, do the following while in the Platform AI Agents and Skills scope:
- Go to the Now Assist Skill Config [sn_nowassist_skill_config] table.
- Open the record named Identify ways to improve service.
- In the Now Assist Skill Config Var Set related list, select Survey analysis input config.
- Edit the variable values.
- Save or update the record.
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Config field |
Description |
Default value |
|---|---|---|
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Maximum number of records |
Maximum number of records included in analysis |
500 |
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Analysis Time Frame |
Time range, in months, for the survey analyzer to examine records to identify trends. Users can specify smaller ranges when running the agentic workflow, but this value defines the maximum limit. |
3 |
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Post Analysis Actions |
List of possible follow-up actions a user can take before the agentic workflow completes. |
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Config field |
Description |
Default value |
|---|---|---|
|
Table name |
Table that the filter applies to |
Assessment Instance [asmt_assessment_instance] |
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Fields |
Fields that the user can add when invoking the agentic workflow |
Metric type.Name |
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Config field |
Description |
Default value |
|---|---|---|
|
Table name |
Table that the filter applies to |
Task [task] |
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Fields |
Fields that the user can add when invoking the agentic workflow |
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Accessing the Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow
- Navigate to .
- Select Identify ways to improve service.
The first step of the guided setup includes a complete list of included AI agents. Selecting an AI agent name opens it in a new browser tab, where you can see the full description, role, list of steps, and tools. Tools are displayed in the second step of the AI agent guided setup, Add tools and information.
In-product agentic AI and UI actions
You can access agentic workflows in the Core UI and in workspaces in the AI Activity panel. From there, you can track their progress, provide or review input, and see the results of the work performed. For more information, see In-product agentic AI for more details about the AI Activity panel.
To enable users to access agentic workflows with UI actions, open the agentic workflow in AI Agent Studio and navigate to the Select channels and access step. You can select a UI action as a possible way to access the workflow
If you don't see your UI actions after configuring it in AI Agent Studio, verify that the property com.glide.agentic_processes_view.enabled is set to true. See Enable the in-product experience for agentic workflows.
Testing the Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow
You can manually test an agentic workflow execution or access on the Testing page of AI Agent Studio if you have the sn.aia_admin role and all other roles configured in the security controls. Start a manual test, select a test type and the workflow name, and use utterances in the Task field like the following samples. See Test an agentic workflow execution.
To evaluate the agentic workflow over many different execution logs, run an automated evaluation.
Sample utterance
After the workflow is activated in AI Agent Studio, enter similar phrases to the following in the Now Assist panel to trigger the workflow. You can also run this workflow on the Testing page of AI Agent Studio with the same utterance in the Task field if you have the sn.aia_admin role.
When invoking the agentic workflow, if you want to use additional filters, such as metric name or category, use the name of the field in the utterance. For example, "Identify ways to improve services for the Hardware category" is more likely to analyze the correct records than "Identify ways to improve Hardware."
- Make suggestions for continuous service improvement based on surveys within the last 3 months
- Summarize surveys to improve Hardware services based on survey results within the last 2 years
- Give ideas for improving case resolution based on Post-Case metric type survey results over the last month
AI agents used in the Identify ways to improve service agentic workflow
| AI agent name | AI agent description | Role required |
|---|---|---|
| Survey Analysis AI agent | Acquires survey data within the specified time range and analyzes it for ways to improve services | sn_uxc_gen_ai.platform_ai_improve_services |
Other Platform agentic workflows
For more information on other agentic workflows associated with the Platform workflow, see Platform agentic workflows.