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Summary of Performance Analytics Release Notes - Australia Release
The ServiceNow® Performance Analytics application is designed to optimize in-platform processes by enabling organizations to set, track, and analyze progress toward goals. The Australia release introduces enhancements focused on the newer Data Snapshots indicator architecture, which requires RaptorDB Professional. This release enhances indicator creation, data granularity, visualization, and data collection capabilities.
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Key Features
- Create Data Snapshots Indicators: You can now create new data snapshots indicators and their sources directly, without being limited to converting existing indicators. These indicators support unlimited breakdowns, overcoming previous two-level breakdown limits, and are available as automated or formula indicators with consistent access control as classic indicators.
- Intraday Indicators: Track process changes at finer granularities than daily periods, such as by work shift or minute-level intervals. This allows monitoring of ongoing shifts and viewing scores accumulating throughout the day in near real-time.
- KPI Details Enhancements: KPI Details now supports native data snapshots indicators with features including:
- Alert subscriptions for targets and thresholds
- Flexible filtering by breakdown, calendar, and aggregation periods
- Hierarchical roll-ups for breakdowns
- Customizable score formatting options
- Ability to trend incomplete data collection periods to view live data trends
- Improved Data Collection: Data mining improvements enable score collection for tables of any size, automatic handling of data gaps, and informative warnings when disabling data mining. Indicators can be activated without active data collector jobs and without errors related to record volume.
Deprecated Features
- The Dashboard Visualization tab in KPI Composer is no longer supported, though existing visualizations remain accessible.
- The Analytics Hub has been replaced by KPI Details; attempts to access the Analytics Hub redirect to KPI Details.
Activation and Related Features
- Complimentary Performance Analytics for Incident Management is active by default but does not allow creation of indicators or breakdowns.
- Full Performance Analytics features require subscribing and activating the corresponding Premium plugin.
- Platform Analytics experience offers a unified interface for all Platform Analytics products, including Performance Analytics.
- Process Mining integrates with Platform Analytics to help analyze and optimize business processes, enhancing data source optimization for indicators.
The ServiceNow® Performance Analytics application is an in-platform process optimization solution. It enables organizations to set, track, and analyze progress toward goals. Performance Analytics was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.
Performance Analytics highlights for the Australia release
Note:
The highlights for this release all refer to the newer Data Snapshots indicator architecture, which requires RaptorDB Professional.
- Create new Data snapshots indicators with unlimited breakdowns. Previously you could convert only existing indicators. These indicators are supported in Data Visualizations and in KPI Details.
- Track intraday changes with indicators such as changes between shifts. You can track changes in shifts that are still in progress, with data retrieved down to the minute level.
- View scores as they accumulate throughout the day without having to wait for end-of-day processing.
- When exploring a Data snapshots indicator with KPI Details, customizable score formats, apply flexible breakdowns and aggregation periods, direct alert subscriptions for targets and thresholds, and apply hierarchical roll-ups for breakdowns.
See Performance Analytics (Indicator data sources) for more information.
New in the Australia release
- Create data snapshots indicators
- Create data snapshots indicators and their sources rather than being able to enable data snapshots only on existing indicators. Benefit from the simplicity of data snapshots indicators, including the escape from the two-level breakdown limit. You can create either automated or formula indicators. Access control for these indicator is the same as for classic Performance Analytics indicators.
- Create intraday indicators
- Track process changes at a more granular level than daily, such as by work shift. Data snapshots indicator sources support business calendars with intraday periods, which can be as short as per minute.
Changed in this release
- Explore native data snapshots indicators with KPI Details
- KPI Details supports data snapshots indicators that you create, not only those that are enabled from classic indicators. The following features have been created for or extended to native data snapshots indicators:
- Subscriptions for alerts on targets and thresholds, which can be set from the targets and thresholds panels
- Adjustable filtering by breakdown, calendar, or time series aggregation
- Hierarchical breakdowns, with scores rolled up to parent elements
- Customizable score formatting options, such as precision and abbreviation
- View data trends in data snapshots as data accumulates
- When you select a field by which to trend a data snapshots automated indicator, you have the option to show the trend for incomplete collection periods. This feature shows the trend as it develops for live data without having to wait for the end of the collection period. You can set this behavior either on the automated data snapshot indicator record or in a time series data visualization for a data snapshot indicator.
- Collect data snapshots scores with confidence
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Data mining for data snapshots scores has the following improvements:
- Collect scores for tables with any volume of records.
- The system accurately and automatically handles data gaps when data mining is turned off.
- You are warned of the implications before you manually disable data mining (score collection).
- Activate data snapshots in more cases and with better information
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- Activate indicators without active data collector jobs.
- Activate indicators regardless of underlying record volume. For example, the INSERT_VOLUME_EXCEEDED error no longer occurs.
- If the activation fails because of scripted breakdowns, the scripted breakdowns are listed in the failure message.
- Generic parsing errors have been rewritten into specific, categorized messages.
Deprecated features
- The Dashboard Visualization tab in KPI Composer is no longer supported. Existing data visualization tabs remain.
- The Analytics Hub has been replaced by KPI Details. Attempts to open the Analytics Hub are redirected to KPI Details.
Activation information
Complimentary Performance Analytics for Incident Management is active by default. You cannot create indicators or breakdowns with this complimentary application.
The full features of Performance Analytics are available with a subscription. Activate the Premium plugin that matches your subscription. For details, see Activating your Performance Analytics subscription.