Customer Service Automation · Enterprise Knowledge Search · IT Operations Automation
ServiceNow wanted to turn generative AI into a practical operating capability that could reduce support demand, speed agent work, and help developers complete software tasks more efficiently across internal digital technology and customer-facing service workflows.
Reported impact
ServiceNow reports measurable gains in cost savings, case and incident deflection, faster incident closure, and stronger developer productivity from internal generative AI use. The company says self-service reduced dependency on support agents, case summarization improved agent effectiveness, and text-to-code accelerated development work in its shared-services environment.
ServiceNow describes an internal generative AI deployment across self-service, service operations, and software development. The implementation embeds Now Assist capabilities into the company’s existing support and workflow surfaces rather than creating a separate standalone app. On the self-service side, users start in AI search, AI conversations, and the Report an issue flow, where Now Support and Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) help deflect incidents and avoid cases before they reach human agents. In assisted-service workflows, Now Assist for Customer Service Management (CSM) summarizes case context for transferred work, while Now Assist for ITSM generates resolution notes to shorten incident handling. In development, generative AI text-to-code is used inside the Surf shared-services environment to help developers create code and operational flows faster. The article does not name separate storage services, but it clearly ties the AI layer to existing case, incident, support-search, and development workflows on ServiceNow’s platform.
Employees and customers begin in self-service entry points such as Now Support search and the Report an issue form, where Now Assist uses existing support content, incidents, and case context to generate answers or deflect requests. If work reaches agents, case notes are summarized and resolution notes are generated inside CSM and ITSM workflows, while developers use text-to-code in the Surf environment.
"By generating resolution notes with Now Assist for ITSM, our DT team is seeing agents close incidents in half the time it used to take."
"Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) achieved a deflection rate of 54% on our Report an issue form."
"Our digital technology (DT) team has also benefited from applying these use cases internally through our program. We’re seeing real, tangible results from using our GenAI solution 120 days in."
"Through case and incident avoidance, the ServiceNow DT team is registering significant savings: an impressive annualized $5.5 million."
"Through search results on Now Support powered by Now Assist, we achieved a case avoidance rate of nearly 20%."
"With Now Assist for Customer Service Management (CSM) providing case summarization, 54 of summaries were helpful to agents."
"Within our ServiceNow development team for Surf, the environment in which we house most of our shared services, developers are showing a 52% acceptance rate for generated code (text-to-code)."
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