--- sourceDocument: zurich Combined Product Files sourceDocumentLink: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/zurich/delta-xanadu-zurich Release : - zurich ft:locale : - en-US ft:publication_title : - zurich Combined Product Files ft:clusterId : - delta3zx bundleId : - delta3zx --- # Combined Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich # Combined Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich {#ariaid-title1} Release version: Zurich Updated October 8, 2026 ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 9 minutes to read Summarize ![AI sparkle icon](https://servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ai-sparkle-icon) Summarized using AI This content was generated using new OpenAI-powered functionality. Results are provided on an as is basis and are not guaranteed to be accurate or complete. ## Summary of Combined Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich This consolidated release notes document covers all updates to Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) from the Xanadu through Zurich releases. It is designed to assist ServiceNow customers in preparing for upgrades by summarizing new features, changes, deprecations, and activation details relevant to these versions. Show full answer Show less Notably, no updates or changes were introduced in Yokohama and Zurich releases, focusing major enhancements in the Xanadu release and some in Yokohama. ## Key Features * **Enterprise Modeling and Visualization (Xanadu)**: Enables creation of diagrams for application hierarchies, business capabilities, and processes using General, Enterprise Architecture, and ArchiMate shapes. Features include associating diagrams with architectural artifacts, business alignment through future state modeling, workflow approvals, sharing and access controls, and initiating modeling directly from Unified maps. * **Technology Portfolio Restructuring (Xanadu)**: Updated to include dedicated pages such as TRM catalog, Technical debt, TPM lifecycles, TPM risk, and audit capabilities. Enhancements also allow viewing and managing Information Objects, SDLC components, credentials, and provider companies related to digital integrations and interfaces. * **Portfolio Section Enhancements (Xanadu)**: The portfolio structure was expanded to comprehensively cover business architecture, application portfolio, information portfolio, architectural artifacts, technology reference model, and digital integrations/interfaces, providing improved organization and management. * **Setup Improvements (Xanadu)**: Configuration options for Enterprise Modeling and Visualization including shape libraries, modeling menu options, entities, and relationships. TPM logs are now accessible in the Setup section. * **CMDB API Integration (Xanadu)**: Ability to connect digital interfaces with CMDB APIs, identify related digital integrations, deployment environments, and group APIs for improved API lifecycle and usage visibility. * **Enterprise Architecture Workspace Widgets (Xanadu)**: Dashboard widgets on the TCO tab provide insights such as business applications by TCO score, cost types, planned disposition, and top costly business applications for specified fiscal periods. * **Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) Enhancements (Xanadu)**: Support extended to all CMDB configuration items, including Docker containers and serverless hardware. Admin users can configure any supported CMDB CIs for TPM. * **Technology Reference Model (TRM) Product Enhancements (Xanadu)**: Added an Operating System field for software TRM products to track deployment OS. Support for wildcards in TRM lifecycle versions simplifies standard specifications. * **Architectural Decision Record (ADR) Artifact Support (Xanadu)**: Enables creation and updating of ADR type artifacts to better align architectural decisions with business requirements. * **Yokohama Enhancements**: Introduced fiscal period filtering on Application Rationalization pages, technical debt scoring via TRM indicators, business process modeling with Enterprise Modeling and Visualization, association of business capabilities to applications, insights into overdue certification tasks, scoring generation for indicators and scoring profiles, and read-only Enterprise Architecture Workspace access for business stakeholders. ## Deprecations and Navigation Changes Starting with Xanadu, several modules from the former Application Portfolio Management are deprecated and removed from the All menu navigation for new activations but remain accessible within the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. Existing customers retain navigation links. Deprecated modules include: * Application Portfolio Management Home * Application Portfolio and Analysis * Architectural Artifacts and Business Application Lifecycles * Capability Ratings, Information Portfolio, Technology Portfolio Management * Technology Reference Model, Administration, Business Processes, Business Capabilities * Application Families, Categories, Scoring Profiles, Bubble Chart, Demand Actions, Portfolio Customers are encouraged to use the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to access these features and functionalities going forward. ## Activation and Subscription Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) requires a separate subscription and is activated via the `com.snc.apm` plugin. It is available through the ServiceNow Store. No changes to activation procedures were introduced between Yokohama and Zurich. ## Upgrade Preparation and Other Notes * No additional pre- or post-upgrade tasks specific to Enterprise Architecture were introduced in Yokohama or Zurich. * No new browser, accessibility, localization, or highlight considerations were introduced from Xanadu through Zurich. * This release consolidates prior release notes to streamline customer understanding and upgrade planning. ## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers * Leverage enhanced modeling and visualization tools to better align IT architecture with business goals through interactive diagrams and workflows. * Gain improved insights into technology portfolios and application rationalization supported by updated dashboards and scoring mechanisms. * Manage digital integrations more effectively by linking digital interfaces with CMDB APIs and tracking deployment environments. * Access deprecated Application Portfolio modules within the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to ensure continuity while adopting the new consolidated framework. * Prepare for upgrades with clear guidance on activation, subscription, Consolidated page of all release notes for Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) from Xanadu to Zurich. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Zurich. Tip: If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release." ## Important information for upgrading Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) to Zurich Before you upgrade to Zurich, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__2} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | 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 Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management). {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__10} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | [Explore Enterprise Modeling and Visualization](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-modeling&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization functionality in Enterprise Architecture Workspace to create diagrams for your applications hierarchy. You can associate the diagrams with architectural artifacts and plan the future state modeling of your IT with alignment to the business. Creating modeling diagrams can you help your stakeholders to understand the complexities of the organization. Perform the following tasks using the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization: : * Create and update modeling diagrams using the General, Enterprise Architecture, and ArchiMate shapes. * Create diagrams from the Business Application view using the Create diagram menu option. * Create diagrams for Business hierarchy map and Business capability maps from the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization page. * Apply colors to business capability shapes in the capability hierarchy map. * Add related records to a shape. Add CI relationship or Reference type relationship. * Synchronize shapes, relationships, and entire diagrams to the repository. * Select an architectural category while creating a diagram. * Share your diagrams with the other users or groups and define their access levels for the diagram. * Leverage a workflow to get approval for the diagrams, and to enable committing the diagram to the database. * Configure access for Enterprise Modeling and Visualization menu items for roles, users, and groups. * Initiate modeling in the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization directly from any Unified map. [Technology Portfolio](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-technology-portfolio-view&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : The Technology Portfolio section has been restructured and new features have been added. The section now contains the following pages: * TRM catalog * Technical debt * TPM lifecycles * TPM risk * Technology portfolio audit [Digital integration and interface enhancements](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-create-digital-interface&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : * View Information Objects and SDLC Components associated with a digital integration or digital interface. * View Credentials assigned to a digital interface, digital integration, and business application. * Set the Provider company instead of Provider business application, for a Provider digital interface in a digital integration. [Portfolio section enhancements](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=portfolio-list-view&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : The Portfolio section has been restructured and new modules and features have been added. The following is the new structure: * Business Architecture * Business Units * Departments * Goals * Value Streams * Value Stream Stages * Business Capabilities * Business Processes * Demands * Application Portfolio * Business Applications * Application Services * Digital Integrations * Digital Interfaces * Information Portfolio * Data Domains * Information Objects * Architectural Artifacts * Architectural Artifact Versions * Diagrams * My Entities * My Business Capabilities * My Business Processes * My Business Applications * My Application Services * My Information objects * My Architectural Artifacts * My Technology Reference Model Products * My Digital Integrations * My Digital Interfaces [Setup section enhancements](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-setup&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : The configuration for Enterprise Modeling and Visualization is the following: * Shape Libraries * Modeling menu options * Entities * Relationships : The TPM logs details are now available in the Setup section. [Connect a digital interface with the CMDB API in the EA Workspace](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-relate-dig-interface-api&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : Create a relationship between a digital interface and a CMDB API from the digital interface related list. Find out which digital integration uses which API. Find the environments where they're deployed and group the deployed APIs. [Work with Enterprise Architecture Workspace](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-workspace-dashboard&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : The following widgets are available on the TCO tab of the Enterprise Architecture Workspace dashboard. * Business applications by TCO score * Business application TCO by cost type and planned disposition for FY:Q (Current quarter) * Top 10 business applications with the highest cost for FY:Q (Current quarter) [Associate Information Objects](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-associate-info-obj-ba&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : Relate a business application to an information object using the CI relationship \[cmdb_rel_ci\] table of type Uses::Used by. Use this suggested relationship to get the logical data of the information object, which can be used to leverage the business application. [Technology portfolio management (TPM) enhancements](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-tpm&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : Added support for all CMDB configuration items in Technology Portfolio Management (TPM). By default, TPM support docker containers and serverless hardware tables. An admin user can configure any of the supported CMDB CIs for TPM. [TRM product enhancements](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-create-trm-prod-lifecycle&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : * For a software TRM product, the Operating system field is added. Using this field, the operating system on which the software TRM product can be deployed, is tracked. * Added support for creating wildcard for TRM lifecycle versions, to make it easier to specify a TRM standard without the need to specify the minor version. [Support for Architectural Decision Record (ADR) type artifact](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=eaw-create-edit-adr&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) : Create or update an artifact with type architectural decision record (ADR) to align it with your business requirements. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Zurich, some changes were made to existing Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) features. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__18} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Zurich, some Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__26} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Deprecations Between your current release family and Zurich, some Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__34} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | Starting with the Xanadu release, some modules are deprecated from Enterprise Architecture (formerly known as Application Portfolio Management). The navigation links to the deprecated modules are removed from the All menu. If you're an existing customer, you can continue to use these navigation links. However, if you're a new activation customer, navigation to these modules using the navigation links from the All menu won't be available. All the deprecated modules are available within the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. You're encouraged to use the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to leverage those features and functionalities. The deprecated modules are: * Application Portfolio Management Home * Application Portfolio * Application Portfolio Analysis * Architectural Artifacts * Business Application Lifecycles - Service Requests * Application Ratings * Capability Ratings * Information Portfolio * Technology Portfolio Management * Technology Reference Model * Administration * Business Processes * Business Capabilities * Application Families * Application Category Groups * Application Categories * Application Indicators * Scoring Profiles * Bubble Chart * Demand Actions * Portfolio | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Activation information Review information on how to activate Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management). {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__42} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) is available with activation of the Enterprise Architecture (com.snc.apm), which requires a separate subscription. For details, see [Enterprise Architecture](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=application-portfolio-management-landing-page&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US). | | Yokohama | Activation information : Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) is available with activation of the Enterprise Architecture (com.snc.apm), which requires a separate subscription. For details, see [Enterprise Architecture](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=application-portfolio-management-landing-page&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US). Important: Enterprise Architecture is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__50} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Browser requirements If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__58} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Accessibility information Review details on accessibility information for Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management), such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__66} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Localization information If there are specific localization considerations for Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__74} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | No updates for this release. | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ] ## Highlight information If there are specific highlight considerations for Enterprise Architecture (formerly Application Portfolio Management) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-enterprisearchitectureformerlyapplicationportfoliomanagement-summary__entry__82} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | * The  ServiceNow® Application Portfolio Management product is expanding to ServiceNow® Enterprise Architecture. * Some Application Portfolio Management modules are deprecated and no longer searchable from the All menu. However, all the deprecated modules are available within the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. You must use the Enterprise Architecture Workspace to leverage those features and functionalities. Note: Existing customers can continue to use these navigation links. However, for new activation customers, the navigation will not be available from the All menu. * Create diagrams for your business applications hierarchy map, business capability map, and associate them with architectural artifacts and plan the future state modeling of your IT, with alignment to the business, using the Enterprise Modeling and Visualization functionality in Enterprise Architecture Workspace. * Support for industry standard ArchiMate® shapes to create modeling diagrams. ArchiMate is a registered trademark of The Open Group. * Support for Architectural Decision Record (ADR) type artifact to help you align artifacts with your business requirements. * Create a one-to-many relationship between a digital interface and CMDB APIs. Find out which digital integrations and interfaces use which APIs. Identify the environments where they're deployed. Group the deployed APIs and relate them to the digital interface, which describes the design aspects of the related APIs. See [Enterprise Architecture](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=application-portfolio-management-landing-page&family=xanadu&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Yokohama | Yokohama Patch 6 * Select a fiscal period on the Application Rationalization pages using the new fiscal period filter option. The fiscal period filter enables you to view application rationalization data for the selected fiscal period. * Evaluate the technical debt score for business applications using the Technology Reference Model (TRM) technical debt indicator. This helps you to identify high-risk business applications and enables you to prioritize modernization and rationalization. * Generate business process modeling diagrams and model the future state of the business processes using Enterprise Modeling and Visualization. * Associate business capabilities to a business application from the business application related list. * View the past due certification tasks for your business applications from the Application Portfolio tab of the Insights section. * Generate scores for indicators and scoring profiles in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. * Read-only access to the  Enterprise Architecture Workspace is added to the business stakeholder role (sn_apm.apm_read). Yokohama General Availability * Generate business process modeling diagrams and model the future state of the business processes using Enterprise Modeling and Visualization. * Associate business capabilities to a business application from the business application related list. * View the past due certification tasks for your business applications from the Application Portfolio tab of the Insights section. * Generate scores for indicators and scoring profiles in the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. * Read-only access to the  Enterprise Architecture Workspace is added to the business stakeholder role (sn_apm.apm_read). | | Zurich | No updates for this release. | [ ]