--- 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich # Combined ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) 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) 8 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) Release Notes for Upgrades from Xanadu to Zurich This consolidated guide provides ServiceNow customers with essential information on upgrading ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) from the Xanadu release through to Zurich. It covers new features, changes, activation, and important upgrade considerations to help ensure a smooth transition and optimize the usage of related AI-driven workflows and capabilities. Show full answer Show less ## New Features * **Agentic Workflows for Workplace Efficiency:** * **Optimize Cleaning Activities:** Automates management of cleaning and maintenance schedules based on space utilization rates. * **Automate Map Updates:** Supports bulk updates to Indoor Mapping by autonomously retrieving CAD file sources and managing import tasks, reducing manual intervention. * **Manage Temporary Space Closures:** Enables emergency room blocking and automatically relocates reservations to alternate spaces. * **Help Manage Workplace Reservations:** Facilitates autonomous rescheduling and updating of event reservations including date, time, or duration changes. * **Case Summarization Skill (Zurich):** Summarizes workplace case context to inform and expedite decision-making and actions. ## Changes * **Now Assist Usage Measurement:** Transitioned from a 365-day look-back model to a 365-day burn-down model, resetting usage at the contract anniversary date to provide more accurate tracking. * **Default Activation of Now Assist Skills:** Newly installed products have designated skills enabled by default; upgrades enable previously unconfigured skills automatically. * **Access Control Enhancements:** Introduction of configurable ACLs in AI Agent Studio for controlling discovery and triggering of AI agents and workflows, allowing specification of user visibility and behavior. * **Rebranding to ServiceNow Otto:** The AI platform formerly known as Now Assist is now branded as ServiceNow Otto, reflecting enhanced conversational AI capabilities integrated into workflows with multimodal interaction support. ## Activation and Installation ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) is available exclusively via the ServiceNow Store. Customers must request installation through the store portal. The store also provides cumulative release notes and version history for all related apps. ## Additional Information * **No Updates or Changes:** There are no new removals, deprecations, browser requirements, localization changes, or accessibility updates between Xanadu and Zurich. * **Role and Configuration Requirements:** Some agentic workflows and AI agents require additional role configurations to enable proper functionality and security controls. ## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers * Leverage AI-driven agentic workflows to automate and optimize workplace service delivery tasks such as cleaning, space management, and event scheduling. * Benefit from improved AI usage tracking aligned with contract periods ensuring transparent consumption metrics. * Gain enhanced control and customization of AI capabilities through configurable ACLs to meet organizational security policies. * Utilize the ServiceNow Otto platform's conversational AI for more efficient, autonomous orchestration of cross-system workflows accessible across web, mobile, and messaging channels. Consolidated page of all release notes for ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) from Xanadu to Zurich. ## How to use this page To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) to Zurich Before you upgrade to Zurich, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD). {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__10} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | [Optimize cleaning activities agentic workflow](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=optimize-cleaning-activities-agent&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the Optimize cleaning activities agentic workflow to manage cleaning and maintenance schedules of a maintenance case based on the space utilization rate of the location where a maintenance case is created. [Automate map updates agentic workflow](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=automate-map-updates-agent-ai&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the Automate map updates AI agentic workflow to configure the map during bulk updates to Indoor Mapping. The Map Admin Agent autonomously retrieves the sources for the CAD file and resumes the import task. If the correct source isn't found, the agent moves the task to the Waiting user input state. [Manage temporary space closures agentic workflow](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=maintenance-meeting-room-agent-ai&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the Manage temporary space closures agentic workflow when an emergency maintenance request is created.{#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__16} | Agentic workflows | Description | |-|-| | Manage temporary space closures | AI agentic workflow blocks a room for emergency maintenance and moves any existing reservation from the blocked location to another. | [Table 1. Available agentic workflows] [Help manage workplace reservations agentic workflow](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=manage-workplace-reservations-agent-ai&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the Help manage workplace reservations agentic workflow for updating a planned event reservation's time, date, or duration.{#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__20} | Agentic workflows | Description | |-|-| | Help manage workplace reservations | AI agentic workflow autonomously reschedules events happening in the workplace and update an existing reservations date, time, or duration. | [Table 2. Available agentic workflows] | | Zurich | [Summarize a workplace case](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=summarize-workplace-case&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the case summarization skill to summarize the case context and take appropriate action. [Optimize cleaning activities agentic workflow](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=optimize-cleaning-activities-agent&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the optimize cleaning activities agentic workflow to manage cleaning and maintenance schedules of a maintenance case based on the space utilization rate of the location where a maintenance case is created. [Automate map updates agentic workflow](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=automate-map-updates-agent-ai&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Use the automate map updates agentic workflow to configure the map during bulk updates to Indoor Mapping. The map admin gent autonomously retrieves the sources for the CAD file and resumes the import task. If the correct source isn't found, the agent moves the task to the Waiting user input state. | [ ] ## Changes Between your current release family and Zurich, some changes were made to existing ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) features. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__26} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | [Changes to Now Assist usage measurement](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=monitoring-now-assist-usage&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Starting with Yokohama Patch 5, Now Assist usage measurement is transitioning from a 365-day look-back model to a 365-day burn-down model, with usage resetting at the contract anniversary date. For more information, refer to [KB KB2704710: Now Assist Usage - Overview \& New Measurement Logic](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB2704710). [Some Now Assist skills are turned on by default](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-skills-on-by-default&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : The new default behavior works as follows: * New customers: When you install a Now Assist product, designated skills are turned on automatically. * Existing customers who are upgrading (starting with Yokohama Patch 11): Any previously unconfigured skill is turned on automatically (the skill was never configured and turned on, then turned off again). Previously configured skills that were turned on, then off, remain inactive. [Configure ACLs for AI agents and agentic workflows](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=aia-security-implementation&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) : Configure the access control lists for who can discover and trigger AI agents and agentic workflows in their guided setups in AI Agent Studio. You can determine whether an AI agent or agentic workflow behaves as a dynamic user or as an AI user. You can also specify if an AI agent or agentic workflow can be available to all authenticated users or publicly available. | | Zurich | [Now Assist \> ServiceNow Otto announcement](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-ai-implementation-landing&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : ServiceNow Otto introduced AI on the platform. As that experience has evolved, there's a new name for the experience. ServiceNow Otto® is the conversational AI platform integrated into ServiceNow workflows. It provides agentic capabilities, supports multimodal interactions across web, mobile, and messaging channels, and enables autonomous orchestration for cross-system workflows. [Changes to Now Assist usage measurement](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=monitoring-now-assist-usage&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) : Starting with Australia Early Access, AI usage measurement is transitioning from a 365-day look-back model to a 365-day burn-down model, with usage resetting at the contract anniversary date. For more information, refer to [KB KB2704710: AI Usage - Overview \& New Measurement Logic](https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB2704710). | [ ] ## Removed Between your current release family and Zurich, some ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) features or functionality were removed. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__34} | 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) features or functionality were deprecated. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__42} | 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD). {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__50} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | Activation information : Install ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) by requesting it from ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) website 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](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US). Important: ServiceNow Otto for WSD is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | | Zurich | Activation information : Install ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) by requesting it from ServiceNow Store. Visit the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home) website 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](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sn-store-release-notes&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US). Important: ServiceNow Otto for WSD is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes. | [ ] ## Additional requirements If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__58} | 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__66} | 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD), such as specific requirements or compliance levels. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__74} | 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__82} | 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 ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD) we have noted them here. {#dfrn3-servicenowottoforworkplaceservicedeliverywsd-summary__entry__90} | Release | Release notes | |-|-| | Xanadu | No updates for this release. | | Yokohama | [Yokohama Patch 11](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=yokohama-patch-11&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) * Review changes to Now Assist usage measurement. * Some Now Assist skills, agents, and agentic workflows are on by default. * Additional role configuration is required for agentic workflows and AI agents included with Now Assist applications. Yokohama Patch 6 * Help map admins configure the map during bulk updates to Indoor Mapping using the Automate map updates AI agentic workflow. * Optimize a maintenance case based on the space utilization rate of the location where a maintenance case is created using the Optimize cleaning activities AI agentic workflow. Yokohama Patch 3 * Manage temporary space closures AI agentic workflow for emergency meeting room maintenance. This team of AI agents block a space for maintenance and move any existing reservations from the blocked room to a new location. * Help manage workplace reservations for updating existing event planning reservations. This team of AI agents retrieve the reservation from workplace case details, analyze the reservation, and update the workplace case notes. See [Now Assist for WSD](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-wsd-landing&family=yokohama&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | | Zurich | 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 Workplace Service Delivery (WSD). Your product entitlements remain unchanged. Check your entitlements to determine your access to specific features. [Zurich Patch 7](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=zurich-patch-7&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US): Summarize workplace cases by using ServiceNow Otto for WSD. [Zurich Patch 5](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=zurich-patch-5&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US): Review changes to Now Assist usage measurement. [Zurich Patch 1](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=zurich-patch-1&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) * Help map admins configure the map during bulk updates to Indoor Mapping using the automate map updates agentic workflow. * Optimize a maintenance case based on the space utilization rate of the location where a maintenance case is created using the optimize cleaning activities agentic workflow. See [ServiceNow Otto for Workplace Service Delivery (WSD)](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=now-assist-wsd-landing&family=zurich&ft:locale=en-US) for more information. | [ ]