Configure ServiceNow AI Platform Core Features

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    Summary of Configure ServiceNow AI Platform Core Features

    The ServiceNow AI Platform offers extensive customization options to enhance application functionality, user experience, and data management. Users can tailor their instances to fit organizational needs by configuring various components like UI, user roles, data tables, and localization settings for global operations.

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    Key Features

    • User Administration: Manage users, groups, and roles for access control, ensuring that individuals and teams can operate within their designated permissions.
    • Data Management: Utilize external data sources and manage tables effectively, enabling bulk operations and integration with third-party systems.
    • Forms, Fields, and Lists: Create and customize forms for data collection, define field usage, and manage list displays for user accessibility.
    • Search Administration: Enhance information retrieval through AI search, Zing search engine, and customizable search experiences.
    • Notifications: Automate status updates via emails and real-time alerts through various communication channels.
    • Translation and Localization: Support users globally with dynamic translation and localized currency settings.
    • Time Configuration: Manage schedules and time zones effectively, utilizing business calendars for precise event tracking.
    • Currency Administration: Control financial data display with standard and foreign exchange currency configurations.
    • Service Level Management: Define and monitor service contracts and SLAs to ensure quality service delivery.
    • Integrations: Connect ServiceNow with external applications and data sources for streamlined operations and enhanced capabilities.
    • State Management: Monitor and define workflow states and transitions to refine business processes.

    Key Outcomes

    By configuring these core features, ServiceNow customers can expect improved operational efficiency, enhanced user experiences, and effective data management across their organization. These capabilities allow for greater customization, ensuring that the platform meets specific business needs and scales with growth.

    The ServiceNow AI Platform provides for a multitude of customization options to your applications. Customize your UI, handle user and data administration, and localize your instance for time zones, currencies, and more.

    User administration

    Create account access types and related roles to work within your instance. User records give you control over individual single account types and the records or actions that they can access. Group records expand control further, to assign access to teams or departments, as well as to subgroups or by skill associations. Customize instances even more with Roles, and assign access to various apps or modules. Troubleshoot and test it all with Tools that provide auditing, impersonation, and more.

    See User administration.

    ServiceNow AI Platform tables and data

    Manage and use your business information effectively on the ServiceNow AI Platform. Take advantage of Data Management to store, transfer, import, and archive data. Work with multiple records at once using Table Administration, and connect with third-party or external instances to handle data with Financial Services Remote Tables.

    See ServiceNow AI Platform tables and data.

    ServiceNow AI Platform forms, fields, and lists

    Take control of every aspect of data collection and usage in your instance. Forms on the ServiceNow AI Platform are fully customizable, with options for personalization, templates, attachments, UI, and more. Create and modify Fields, used in forms and displayed in lists or tables. Define user access to all your data with Lists, including custom controls and functions.

    See ServiceNow AI Platform forms, fields, and lists.

    Search administration

    Help your users find information with ease using ServiceNow search administration products. AI Search and the Zing search engine provide intelligent search results and proper indexing. Focus your data requests with Table searches, and go wider with Global searches, all with configurable search systems across the ServiceNow AI Platform. Improve search assistance with search suggestions, Contextual Search based on intent, and search data analysis.

    See Search administration.

    Time configuration

    Keep your business on-time with the ServiceNow AI Platform. Handle schedule and event info collection with Date/Time fields, and manage personnel, users, and data across Time Zones. Business and fiscal calendars and event system schedulers are all available and tailored to best help you and your users. Time displays, counts, and time-based data analysis all help you manage your work and track historical info.

    See Time configuration.

    Currency administration

    Monitor currency values with ServiceNow currency administration systems. Configure Standard Currency fields for financial and non-financial records and applications, or use expanded Foreign Exchange (FX) Currency fields for added configuration options.

    See Currency administration.

    Service Level Management

    Ensure your services to your customers are properly managed and documented. The full series of ServiceNow modules for Service Level Management lets you define service contracts and service level agreements (SLA) as needed. Repair, monitor, and validate SLA records for time and duration accuracy, get analyses and reports on service, and separate record domains for information display and control.

    See Service Level Management.

    ServiceNow AI Platform translation and localization

    Communicate effectively with users and customers around the world. The Localization Framework provides info to users in a variety of languages and currencies across a multitude of apps—all within the same instance. Dynamic Translation helps accommodate users even more fully, by actively translating text in forms and other applications.

    See ServiceNow AI Platform translation and localization.

    ServiceNow AI Platform integrations

    Bring ServiceNow and external applications together with integrations on the ServiceNow AI Platform. Make onboarding and service configuration easy by adding to your instance. Integrate other instances, third-party apps, and data sources, and make helpful features such as Single Sign-on available throughout your enterprise.

    See ServiceNow AI Platform integrations.

    Notifications

    Use Notifications to automate status updates by email, system, or user (through individual providers). Set up Email administration and your instance email client to work with notifications, and proper sending and receiving of email. System notifications enable real-time updates through push notifications, SMS, chat messages, and more.

    See Notifications.

    State Management

    Monitor workflow in your instance with State Management. Define state models and transitions to determine your business's service processes, as well as UI actions possible based on state.

    See State Management.