Customer Service Problem Management release notes

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 4 minutes to read
  • The ServiceNow® Customer Service Problem Management application helps customer to identify and resolve service problems. Customer Service Problem Management was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.

    Customer Service Problem Management highlights for the Australia release

    Australia Patch 5
    • Starting with Zurich Patch 12, ServiceNow Otto® is the new AI experience brand. This change is reflected in the name of ServiceNow products, including ServiceNow Otto for Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT). Your product entitlements remain unchanged. Check your entitlements to determine your access to specific features.
    • Use the Service Problem Case record page to view Customer 360 data.
    • Perform and record dispute analysis in the Customer Dispute Management (CDM) case.
    Australia Patch 1
    • Processes task requests that require payment status, contextual information from similar cases and Knowledge Base articles.
    • Runs the test groups that are mapped to a task and creates repair tasks for the failed test runs.
    Australia Early Availability
    • Use CDM feature to acknowledge and register customer disputes or complaints, conduct investigations, and deliver timely resolutions.
    • Automatically generate clear resolution notes to help you efficiently document and close customer disputes in CDM cases.
    • Gain insights into customer sentiment and easily identify the most relevant case records to support faster and informed dispute resolution.
    • Get a comprehensive summary of all linked case records to quickly understand and act on customer disputes.
    • Generate deadlock letters to support consumers moving to legal procedures when complaint resolutions are not accepted.

    See Customer Service Problem Management for more information.

    Important:
    Customer Service Problem Management is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

    New in the Australia release

    Australia Patch 5
    Access account context and diagnostics in one workspace without navigating away from the case View using Service Problem Case record view. You can also view the Customer 360 data with broader account context.
    Record the analysis of a dispute using the hierarchy of product, category, subcategory, and reason in the dispute analysis record. You can record the these details in the Resolution and dispute analysis stage of the CDM playbook. This gives you much clearer visibility into why disputes happen and where to focus process improvements.
    Australia Patch 1
    Preliminary troubleshooter agentic workflow
    Processes task requests that require payment status, contextual information from similar cases and Knowledge Base articles.
    Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) AI agent collection service test and repair agentic workflow
    Runs the test groups that are mapped to a task and creates repair tasks for the failed test runs. This workflow also updates the consolidated summary in work notes and runs autonomously in the background without any user interaction.
    Australia Early Availability
    Alternative dispute resolution management
    Use the CDM case type to capture complete case details and manage investigations and resolutions while enforcing Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance. You can also maintain audit and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) history and generate deadlock letters for customer or partner communication.
    Generate resolution notes for ADR case
    Generates resolution notes for a customer dispute in the CDM case record.
    Analyze the sentiment of a service problem case using Now Assist for TMT
    Analyze customer sentiment on the case records that are linked with the customer dispute. This skill enables you to select the relevant linked records for CDM case record.
    Summarize the linked records using Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT)
    Generates a comprehensive summary the case records that are linked to the customer dispute in the CDM case record.
    Generate a deadlock letter using Now Assist for TMT
    Generates a deadlock letter details for a customer dispute in the CDM case record. You can generate the deadlock letter when the customer rejects the complaint resolution and opt for legal procedures.

    Changed in this release

    Australia Patch 4
    Now LLM service deprecation
    The Now LLM Service is no longer the default model provider for new or inactive AI assets. A third-party LLM is now selected by default, while existing configurations using the Now LLM Service continue unchanged. The Now LLM Service is still available for manual selection.

    UI changes

    Australia Patch 5
    New icons on the Service Problem case record for toggling between the playbook and record page views. Customer 360 tab is added to the Service Problem Case record page.
    Australia Patch 3
    Diagnose and resolve a service problem case
    A refresh button is added to the Repair stage in the Service Problem Case.

    Activation information

    Install Customer Service Problem Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store 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.

    Plugin information

    New plugins

    The following plugin is new in Australia:

    Customer Dispute Management (com.sn_telco_adr_mgmt): The CDM captures the case details of the issue or problem faced by the customer and manages investigations and expected resolution. It tracks all actions required to identify the root cause of the dispute and resolve it.

    Additional requirements

    You must install Case Playbook for Complaints (sn_complaint) plugin to use the CDM case type.