Work inside most organizations is messier than it should be. HR runs on one system, finance on another, and procurement has its own playbook. When employees need help or teams try to collaborate, they often face slow, manual, and disconnected processes that waste time and create frustration.
That’s exactly what the ServiceNow Core Business Suite, launched at Knowledge 2025, is built to fix. It brings essential business functions like HR, finance, procurement, legal, and facilities into one unified, AI-powered platform. With everything in one place, teams can work more efficiently, and employees can get the support they need—without the usual back-and-forth.
Let’s take a closer look at what the Core Business Suite offers—from its powerful features to the business goals it supports, and the real-world benefits it delivers.
What is ServiceNow Core Business Suite?
The ServiceNow Core Business Suite is an integrated solution designed to streamline core business functions by uniting them on the ServiceNow AI Platform. It brings together case management, process automation, AI agent assistance, and real-time insights into a unified environment.
It’s purpose-built for HR, finance, procurement, legal, and facilities teams — helping them automate tasks, improve collaboration, and accelerate resolution with less complexity. Whether you’re resolving an HR case, managing a finance inquiry, or fulfilling a workplace request, everything starts and finishes in one place.
ServiceNow is now going beyond the enterprise space, stepping into the world of mid-sized and commercial businesses. Tailored for organizations with up to 5,000 employees, the Core Business Suite is fast to deploy, easy to scale, and flexible enough to support teams at every stage of growth.
One Suite. Every workflow. ServiceNow Core Business Suite
Business Objectives ServiceNow Core Business Transformation Fulfills
- Global Business Services (GBS): Enhance efficiency across the enterprise in months—not years. Break down silos and seamlessly unite GBS operations with the ServiceNow AI Platform. Optimize experience, efficiency, and visibility across the enterprise to realize value faster.
- Hire-to-Retire: Guide employees across every moment in their journey. Deliver modern, AI-powered employee experiences to simplify self-service, build a highly skilled workforce, and free up high-value teams with AI agents.
- Source-to-Pay: Deploy easy-to-follow procurement processes. Make indirect procurement easier with a single engagement layer across systems. Use AI to eliminate manual work, improve experiences, and accelerate business outcomes.
- Facilities & Corporate Real Estate: Unite people and spaces with AI-powered workplaces. Create efficient, frictionless offices that employees want to work from. Transform facilities operations from reactive to proactive.
- Legal Operations: Increase legal efficiency and productivity. Replace manual emails and spreadsheets with a legal front door for employees to get answers, make requests, and receive support. Empower legal teams with visibility and control over their work.
Key Features of ServiceNow Core Business Suite
1. Case Management and Process Support
Handle cases seamlessly across departments such as HR, finance, procurement, and legal. With full context and integrated tools, employees receive faster support, while experts resolve issues efficiently with real-time access to relevant data and history.
2. Task Orchestration
Streamline and automate repetitive business processes using AI-powered workflows. From routing requests to coordinating multi-step operations, the platform ensures that tasks flow smoothly across teams—minimizing delays, reducing errors, and freeing up valuable time.
3. Unified Workspaces
Provide tailored, role-specific workspaces for agents and employees, enabling them to manage tasks from a centralized dashboard. This simplifies task handling, boosts responsiveness, and enhances visibility into the status of requests and overall workload.
4. Success Real-Time Dashboard
Give team leads and managers real-time access to performance metrics like resolution speed, volume trends, and backlog analysis. This transparency supports data-driven decisions and helps continuously refine and improve business operations over time.
Essential Business Functions of Core Business Suite
1. Employee Center Pro
Create a personalized, easy-to-navigate destination where employees can request help, access tasks, search content, and engage with tailored communications. This boosts satisfaction by making support and resources easily accessible from one central location. A single, streamlined portal where employees can access services, knowledge, and tasks from multiple departments—offering consistency and ease across their entire workplace experience.
2. Universal Request
Eliminate the confusion of multiple systems by offering a single, unified request interface. Smart routing ensures each request reaches the right team, enabling employees to get help faster without worrying about where to submit their issues.
3. Case Management & Procurement case management
Centralize and standardize request handling across key functions—HR, finance, procurement, legal, and facilities. Built-in automation and shared visibility reduce handoff times and ensure a consistent experience for both employees and agents. Manage procurement inquiries and tasks across the full request lifecycle. Automate approvals, track statuses, and connect with suppliers—all while improving compliance and reducing cycle time.
4. Agent Workspace
Equip service agents with a unified workspace that surfaces relevant to context, case details, and task history. This enables them to work more effectively, manage priorities, and resolve requests quickly with full confidence and clarity.
5. Supplier Collaboration Portal
Improve supplier engagement through a self-service portal that provides access to inquiries, knowledge articles, and case updates. Suppliers can manage their information directly, resulting in faster resolutions and higher data quality.
6. Now Assist
Utilize the power of generative AI to boost employee productivity. Now Assist enhances decision-making, accelerates case handling, and supports intelligent recommendations across workflows on the ServiceNow AI Platform.
7. HR Service Delivery (HRSD)
Deliver tailored employee support through AI-guided workflows. From onboarding to benefits, HRSD ensures fast, accurate resolutions while allowing HR teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
8. Workplace Service Delivery
Support hybrid and on-site workforces with digital services like space reservations, facility requests, and equipment provisioning. Enhance employee experiences while optimizing space utilization and facility operations.
9. Health and Safety
Automate occupational health management and make safety processes accessible to all. Quickly report incidents, track compliance, and ensure that safety workflows are transparent and efficient.
10. Legal Service Delivery
Modernize legal operations by replacing emails and spreadsheets with a structured, trackable workflow. Employees can make legal requests easily while legal teams gain visibility and control over incoming work.
Benefits of ServiceNow Core Business Suite
1. Seamless Employee Support Access
Employees no longer need to search across systems for help. Whether it’s IT, HR, procurement, or workplace support, everything is accessible from a single interface—ensuring faster, smoother experiences and increased satisfaction.
2. Empowered Business Experts
Business teams can act quickly with access to complete case histories, relevant documents, and contextual insights. This eliminates guesswork and improves the speed and accuracy of resolutions across every department.
3. Performance Visibility for Leaders
Leaders can monitor service levels and performance in real-time, identifying trends and bottlenecks to refine processes. This empowers them to implement improvements and ensure consistent delivery across operations.
4. Accelerated Deployment with AI
Core Business Suite is designed for rapid implementation. With the help of ServiceNow AI agents, teams can identify automation opportunities and connect systems quickly—reducing deployment time from months to weeks.
Modernizing Finance Operations with Finance Case Management
As part of the Core Business Suite launch, ServiceNow unveiled Finance Case Management — a purpose-built solution designed to help finance teams handle their daily operational requests more efficiently. Unlike traditional finance tools that focus primarily on transaction recording, this solution targets the unstructured, high-volume work that often causes delays and confusion.
Tasks like setting up a new cost center, tracking a vendor invoice, or addressing payroll inquiries can now be managed through a single, intuitive interface. Employees and finance teams no longer have to navigate a maze of disconnected tools — instead, they can initiate, act on, and monitor requests in one place, guided by AI-powered workflows that streamline every step.
Finance Case Management reinforces ServiceNow’s broader vision: to simplify and unify business operations across HR, finance, procurement, legal, and workplace services. By automating routine tasks, connecting cross-functional workflows, and reducing manual overhead, Core Business Suite empowers teams to work faster, collaborate smarter, and deliver better service experiences across the board.
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Wrapping Up
The ServiceNow Core Business Suite marks a major leap in how organizations simplify, automate, and scale their core business functions. By connecting people, systems, and workflows on a single AI-powered platform, it empowers teams to work smarter, deliver faster, to focus on what truly drives impact.
Whether you’re a growing mid-sized company or an established enterprise, Core Business Suite offers the tools to break down silos, streamline operations, and unlock real productivity across HR, finance, procurement, legal, and beyond.
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