The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded me and many others of the importance of customer service. Today, customer service management is a 24/7 business. ServiceNow’s Now Support portal already allows our customers and partners to manage their instances, upgrades, and users from one central location.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ServiceNow and our partners have been busy meeting the needs of customers across the world. In recent weeks, several of our global partners have rolled out new applications, web portals and other services to help customers manage emergency response efforts. In these difficult times, their ingenuity, agility and speed have been nothing short of inspiring.

Business leaders are always looking for ways to leverage technology so that employees can do their best work and meet evolving customer demands. While we settle into the new normal of remote work, mobile technology is taking on a new role in the enterprise, as employees adapt to an increased blending of their professional and personal lives. At ServiceNow, we recently conducted new research to understand how employees are taking advantage of mobile services offered by their organizations.

Everyone knows the existential question: If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Leading-edge customer service management today has produced a corollary: If a network problem is fixed before the customer even suspects there’s an issue, did it even happen?

Now more than ever, businesses are challenged to transform themselves into digital organizations to better serve employees, customers, and partners, more proactively, and in a more personalized way. Modern IT support is business-critical, and the demands on IT are growing exponentially, particularly amid the “new normal” of remote work. At the same time, business leaders are racing to envision and implement what their future work environments will look like.

ServiceNow partner INRY has released a Small Business Loan Management app based on ServiceNow® Customer Service Management (CSM) technology. This digital workflow solution delivers transparent, compliant and efficient lending experiences. The goal is to reduce bank overhead and small business distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.