Combined Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich
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Summary of Combined Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) Release Notes for Upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich
This document consolidates all release notes for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) from the Xanadu release through to Zurich. It provides ServiceNow customers with a comprehensive summary of new features, changes, and important upgrade information to help prepare for an upgrade to Zurich.
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The release notes cover multiple patches and highlight enhancements in AI-driven assistance, engagement health monitoring, issue summarization, and automated workflows tailored specifically for Telecommunications, Media, and Technology industries.
Key Features
- AI Agent Collection for Issue Resolution: Autonomous troubleshooting, diagnosis, and resolution of customer issues using specialized AI agents for telecom service problems, billing inquiries, network incidents, and voice quality issues.
- Engagement Health Monitoring: Track engagement health scores, generate trend charts, detect risk signals, and recommend success plays to proactively manage customer relationships.
- Service Problem Case Summarization and Resolution Notes: Use generative AI to create concise summaries of service cases and generate resolution notes to save agent time and improve response quality.
- Now Assist Panel and Admin Console: Provide agents access to Now Assist skills within Customer Service Management (CSM) and Field Service Management (FSM) workspaces, with configurable role-based access and conditional availability of AI skills.
- Knowledge Article Generation: Automatically consolidate insights from multiple similar cases into knowledge articles to enhance self-service and agent support.
- Agentic AI Workflows: Support consumer registration with guided, error-checked steps, and automate tasks like meeting scheduling and renewal planning within customer success workflows.
- Customization and Configuration: Ability to customize summary cards, generate Knowledge Graph schemas, and configure access control lists (ACLs) for AI agents and workflows to fit organizational needs.
- Dynamic Prompt Configuration and Enhanced Summarization: Tailor AI-generated case summaries with context-driven prompts and augment test summarization with metric descriptions and notes.
- Integration with RADCOM: Automate voice quality issue tracking by creating service tickets and generating resolution plans integrated with RADCOM systems.
- Usage Measurement Changes: Transition from a 365-day look-back to a 365-day burn-down model for Now Assist usage tracking, with automatic enabling of some skills for new and upgrading customers.
Important Upgrade and Activation Information
- Upgrade Preparation: Customers should review and complete any pre- and post-upgrade tasks outlined for Zurich to ensure smooth transition.
- Plugin Activation: Now Assist features require activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin in each release.
- Licensing: The application requires a Proactive Service Experience Workflows Pro Plus or Enterprise Plus license.
- Role and Access Configuration: Additional role configurations are necessary for agentic workflows and AI agents, especially after Yokohama Patch 11 and in Zurich.
Changes and Deprecations
- Changes: Adjustments in usage measurement logic and default skill activation behaviors were introduced starting in Yokohama Patch 5 and continued through Zurich.
- No Features Removed or Deprecated: Between Xanadu and Zurich, no Now Assist for TMT features were removed or deprecated.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Enable faster and more accurate case resolution through AI-powered diagnostics and summarization, reducing agent workload.
- Proactively monitor and mitigate customer engagement risks with health scores and risk signal analysis.
- Enhance customer success management with data-driven insights, automated renewal workflows, and intelligent meeting scheduling.
- Improve knowledge management by efficiently generating articles from case data to support both agents and customers.
- Customize AI assistance to align with organizational roles, workflows, and security requirements.
- Seamlessly integrate with third-party systems such as RADCOM for specialized issue handling.
Consolidated page of all release notes for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) from Xanadu to Zurich.
How to use this page
To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Zurich.
Important information for upgrading Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) to Zurich
Before you upgrade to Zurich, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.
| Release | Release notes |
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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 Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT).
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Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
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Zurich |
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Changes
Between your current release family and Zurich, some changes were made to existing Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) features.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
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Zurich |
Removed
Between your current release family and Zurich, some Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) features or functionality were removed.
| 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 Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) features or functionality were deprecated.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Activation information
Review information on how to activate Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT).
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
Now Assist features are available with activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin. For more information, see Install Now Assist plugins. |
Yokohama |
Now Assist features are available with activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin. For more information, see Install Now Assist plugins. |
Zurich |
Now Assist features are available with activation of the Now Assist for TMT plugin. For more information, see Install Now Assist plugins. |
Additional requirements
If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
The Now Assist for TMT application requires a Proactive Service Experience Workflows Pro Plus or Enterprise Plus license. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Zurich |
No updates for this release. |
Browser requirements
If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| 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 Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT), such as specific requirements or compliance levels.
| 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 Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| 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 Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
Xanadu Patch 9
Xanadu Patch 7: Proactively identify service problems, diagnose, test, and resolve customer issues autonomously using Now Assist for TMT AI agent collection.
See Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) for more information. |
Yokohama |
Yokohama Patch 11
Yokohama Patch 6
Yokohama Patch 3
Yokohama Patch 1
Yokohama Early Availability
See Now Assist for Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) for more information. |
Zurich |
Zurich Patch 5
Zurich Patch 4
See Now Assist for TMT for more information. |