Now Assist for Collaborative Work Management (CWM) release notes
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Summary of Now Assist for Collaborative Work Management (CWM) Release Notes - Zurich
Now Assist for Collaborative Work Management (CWM) is a new application introduced in the Zurich release that leverages generative AI to enhance task efficiency within the Collaborative Work Management environment. It integrates AI-driven skills directly into CWM to accelerate productivity, improve content creation, and streamline work management processes.
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Key Features
- Acceptance Criteria Generation: Automatically generate clear and consistent acceptance criteria for user stories using story context and organizational templates, ensuring alignment with your team’s standards.
- Content Generation and Improvement: Use open-text prompts within Docs to generate, summarize, elaborate, and shorten content, helping improve documentation and productivity directly in the CWM interface.
- Multiple AI Model Providers: Now Assist supports Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude on AWS as AI model providers in addition to existing options like Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI, offering flexibility in AI capabilities.
- Conversational Interface: The Now Assist panel in CWM enables users to generate tasks from Docs and add them to CWM Boards via a conversational AI interface.
- Now Assist Admin Console: Provides centralized access for setup, configuration, and monitoring of Now Assist applications and features.
Important Changes in Zurich Patches
- Patch 4: Some Now Assist skills are enabled by default for new customers and previously unconfigured skills for existing customers, improving out-of-the-box AI assistance.
- Patch 5: Usage measurement for Now Assist transitioned to a 365-day burn-down model resetting at the contract anniversary date, providing more accurate tracking of AI consumption.
Activation Information
Now Assist for CWM is available for installation via the ServiceNow Store. Customers must request the application through the store to enable these AI capabilities within their Collaborative Work Management environment.
Related Applications
Now Assist for CWM complements the Collaborative Work Management application, a centralized platform for planning, managing, and collaborating on team work. It also aligns with the broader Now Assist suite designed to enhance organizational productivity through generative AI.
The ServiceNow® Now Assist for Collaborative Work Management (CWM) application uses generative AI skills to improve the time to value for tasks you perform in CWM. Now Assist for CWM is a new application in the Zurich release.
Now Assist for CWM highlights for the Zurich release
- Review changes to Now Assist usage measurement.
- In Zurich Patch 4, some Now Assist are now turned on by default.
- Use Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude on AWS as AI model providers for Now Assist skills and AI agents in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI.
- Help increase the efficiency of your teams using the generative AI capabilities of Now Assist for CWM.
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New in the Zurich release
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Generate clear, consistent acceptance criteria for user stories with the acceptance criteria generation skill. By using story details as context and predefined templates, the skill helps you generate acceptance criteria in a format that aligns with your organizational requirements.
- Generate and improve content using open-text prompts
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Help improve your content and productivity with the ability to enter custom prompts directly in the Docs, alongside the Summarize, Elaborate, and Shorten options.
Generate content with Now Assist for CWM directly in your Docs. In addition, summarize existing sections, elaborate where needed, and refine drafts.
- New third-party AI model provider options available for all Now Assist applications
- Google Gemini and AWS Claude are available for Now Assist skills and AI agents in addition to Now LLM Service and Azure OpenAI.
Changed in this release
- Zurich Patch 5
- Changes to Now Assist usage measurement
- Starting with Zurich 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.
- Zurich Patch 4
- Some Now Assist skills are turned on by default
- 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 Zurich Patch 4): 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.
Activation information
Install Now Assist for CWM by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store 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.