Combined Business Continuity Management release notes for upgrades from Australia to Brazil

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Consolidated page of all release notes for Business Continuity Management from Australia to Brazil.

How to use this page

To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Business Continuity Management release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Australia to Brazil.

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 Business Continuity Management to Brazil

Before you upgrade to Brazil, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## New features

Between your current release family and Brazil, new features were introduced for Business Continuity Management.

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Release notes

Australia

Create reusable Task templates for recovery and event tasks, and organize them into groups with configurable dependencies. Scope groups to all element definitions or a specific type, and define task sequencing within a group to preserve execution order when applied.

Associate Task template groups and Task templates at the plan, loss scenario, and recovery strategy levels within a plan template. Creating a plan from a template automatically generates all linked records at each level, with a progress tracker showing status throughout.

Add Task template groups and individual Task templates directly from recovery task lists.

Add Task template groups and individual templates directly from event task lists. Select groups, assign an activated plan when required, and the system creates all tasks with dependencies intact. An auto-refresh banner tracks progress and refreshes the list once after all tasks are created.

Create reusable recovery strategy templates with standard fields including name, description, estimated time limit, and maximum duration. Apply a template to auto-populate a recovery strategy, reducing manual entry and keeping strategies consistent across plans.

Visualize recovery task sequences, durations, and dependencies on an interactive Gantt timeline within the plan record. Toggle between list and Gantt views from the Recovery tasks tab. Add or edit tasks using a right-select quick-insert panel, pre-filled with task type and sequencing context.Filters, sorting, and selections remain consistent when switching between list and Gantt views. The quick-add panel is also available on loss scenario and recovery strategy records. Access is role-controlled: Planners manage tasks in their own plans; Program Managers have full access across all plans.

Export recovery event tasks to Microsoft Excel from the Event tasks related list. The workbook includes a Data sheet, a read-only Event details tab, and an Instructions sheet. Non-editable columns are locked. Import the updated file when the event is in the Open or Work in progress state. Track import progress in real time, with a full audit trail available on the Recovery event form.

Access role-based Performance Analytics dashboards directly from the BCM workspace. Four dashboards are available, each tailored to a functional area: Home (overall BCM status), BIA (impact analysis progress), BCP (planning records), and Event (recovery exercises and activities). Each dashboard is permission-controlled and views are displayed relevant to the roles.

Track the template version used at the time of assessment creation on Smart Assessment Engine (SAE) templates. Assessors and reviewers can clearly see which template version was in effect, making it easier to audit and compare assessments over time.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Changes

Between your current release family and Brazil, some changes were made to existing Business Continuity Management features.

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Release notes

Australia

The Recovery strategy template form is used to create reusable templates that can be applied to recovery strategies across loss scenarios and business continuity plans.

Plan templates support two synchronization options: Plan scope asset synchronization and Loss scenario asset synchronization with recovery strategy assets.

The Plan templates record has the following related lists:

-   Task template groups
-   Task templates

The Loss scenarios record has the following related lists:

-   Task template groups
-   Task templates
-   Recovery strategies
-   Plan templates

The Recovery strategies record has the following related lists:

-   Task template groups
-   Task templates
-   Loss scenarios
-   Plan templates

The recovery task list includes four additional columns: Plan loss scenario, Plan recovery strategy, Tag, and Task group. Use these columns to filter, group, and report on recovery tasks by scenario, strategy, or template group.The recovery task list toolbar includes Insert (with Select task template groups), Save as group (with Add to group and Save tasks sub-options), and Add groups for bulk insertion of task template groups.The Create a quick recovery task panel includes Phase, Plan recovery strategy, All assets from plan, and a Planned duration field accepting hours, minutes, and seconds. The All assets from plan field can be narrowed to a subset of assets when a task applies to only part of the plan.A Gantt view is available on the Recovery tasks tab of a plan record.

The event task list toolbar adds Export to Excel and Import from Excel actions for managing tasks in bulk and switching between list and Gantt views.

Each loss scenario record includes a Recovery tasks tab that lists only the recovery tasks scoped to that scenario.

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Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Removed

Between your current release family and Brazil, some Business Continuity Management features or functionality were removed.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Deprecations

Between your current release family and Brazil, some Business Continuity Management features or functionality were deprecated.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Activation information

Review information on how to activate Business Continuity Management.

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Release notes

Australia

  • Activation information

Install Business Continuity Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store 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.

Important: Business Continuity Management is available in the ServiceNow Store. For details, see the "Activation information" section of these release notes.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Additional requirements

If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Browser requirements

If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Accessibility information

Review details on accessibility information for Business Continuity Management, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Localization information

If there are specific localization considerations for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Australia

No updates for this release.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

## Highlight information

If there are specific highlight considerations for Business Continuity Management we have noted them here.

Release

Release notes

Australia

  • Build reusable Task templates and groups with dependencies across plans, loss scenarios, and exercises.
  • Auto-generate full plan hierarchies — scenarios, strategies, and tasks — from plan templates.
  • Export event tasks to Microsoft Excel, edit offline, and reimport updated records with validation and progress tracking.
  • Monitor performance through role-based dashboards with key performance indicators and usage insights.

See Business Continuity Management for more information.

Brazil

No updates for this release.

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