21.02 enhancements
Product name changes in BMC Helix Platform applications, Remedy platform, and Remedy ITSM
Consult the following tables for changes to the product and component names starting with version 21.02.
While the product names have changed in 21.02, some instances in the product documentation still refer to the previous product name.
BMC Helix Platform and applications
Version 20.08 and earlier | Version 21.02 and later |
|---|---|
BMC Helix Platform | |
BMC Helix Chatbot |
Remedy Platform and ITSM applications
Version 20.08 and earlier | Version 21.02 and later |
|---|---|
Remedy Action Request System (Remedy AR System) | |
Remedy IT Service Management Suite (Remedy ITSM) | |
Remedy with Smart IT | |
Remedy Smart Reporting | |
Remedy Single Sign-On |
BMC Helix Innovation Suite for Service Management applications
Starting with version 21.02, Service Management applications run on a single environment named, BMC Helix Innovation Suite. With the new
BMC Helix Innovation Suite, we bring together the capabilities of Action Request System and BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
As an Action Request System user, use the Action Request System components and clients. Leverage Service Management applications or build a custom application by using Developer Studio.
As a BMC Helix Innovation Studio user, use the Service Management applications or build a custom application by using BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
BMC Helix Innovation Suite provides the following benefits:
- A single-tenant common platform for Service Management applications.
- A shared database between AR System and BMC Helix Innovation Studio.
- A common Foundation data for applications that run on the BMC Helix Innovation Suite.
- The ability to interoperate between AR System and BMC Helix Innovation Studio. For example, you can call a process defined by using BMC Helix Innovation Studio in AR System. The process is called by triggering a filter written in Developer Studio.
Set up BMC Helix Business Workflows from Action Request System
As an administrator or case business analyst, configure the following items in Action Request System instead of BMC Helix Innovation Studio:
- Foundation data
- Functional roles
- Line of business domain tags
- Mailbox configurations
- Business time segment
Learn more about assigning functional roles in Assigning IS Personas to People data. Understand how to configure domain tags in Associating-Foundation-data-with-domain-tags.
Leverage Foundation data from BMC Helix Innovation Suite
BMC Helix Business Workflows leverages common Foundation data for all the applications deployed on BMC Helix Innovation Suite. An administrator can onboard Foundation data one at a time or load the data in bulk for all the service management applications. Learn more about Foundation data in Foundation data model.
By leveraging common Foundation data, an administrator no longer needs to perform the following actions:
- Foundation data sync from BMC Helix ITSM to BMC Helix Innovation Suite applications.
- Normalization of the data between applications.
The following entities from Foundation data are no longer used in BMC Helix Business Workflows:
- Department
- Business unit (renamed to Support organization)
- Localized text support for categories, status, label
- Associations for all entities except for Person
The following image shows the option to view and edit Person data in BMC Helix ITSM:
Configure line-of-business specific parameters
As a case business analyst, configure application-specific parameters for a line of business. You can change the values for the out-of-the-box parameters or add a new value for a specific line of business. Learn more about the line-of-business specific configurations in Defining-application-configurations-for-your-line-of-business.
Reporting in BMC Helix Business Workflows
BMC Helix Business Workflows uses the common Foundation data from BMC Helix Innovation Suite to generate reports from BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting. However, there are no changes to the way reports are generated.
View license usage report
As an administrator, view the following license usage reports:
- Line of Business - Counts: View the total number of lines of business and their status in your setup.
- Active users: View only the license usage reports for Active users and not for Named users.
Learn more about license usage reports in Viewing-the-license-usage-reports.
The following image shows an example of the Line of Business - Counts report:
BMC Helix Business Workflows reports in BMC Helix Dashboards
The following reports are also available from BMC Helix Dashboards:
- Case statistics
- Cases by Assigned group
- Cases by Priority
- Case details
Users with the Reporting functional role who can view reports in BMC Helix Business Workflows can view these reports in BMC Helix Dashboards. Administrators can also view the License usage by Requester - Summary report to monitor license consumption. Learn more in BMC Helix Business Workflows dashboards.
Usability improvements
The following table lists the usability improvements:
Improvement | Description | Version 20.08 and earlier | Version 21.02 and later |
|---|---|---|---|
Enhanced UI for the Settings page | New and improved UI for the Settings pages provides a consistent user experience and uniformity with the rest of the BMC Helix Business Workflows UI. | The following image shows the earlier UI for Settings:
| The following image shows the new and improved UI for Settings:
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Change assignment | Changing assignment for the records is now possible in fewer clicks, enhancing usability. As a case business analyst or case agent, change the assignment of cases, tasks, knowledge articles, and templates by selecting the Assigned Group and Assignee. | The following image shows the panel that opened for Change Assignment:
| The following image shows the two fields for changing the assignment:
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Deprecation of support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Starting with the 21.02 release, BMC will not support the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11 with BMC Helix Business Workflows. For a complete list of BMC products that will no longer support Internet Explorer 11, see the BMC Customer Support Communities page.
As technology continues to advance, it has become more challenging to resolve browser-specific issues related to Internet Explorer 11. We may attempt to fix some issues related to that version, but some features may not work as expected.
Because of security compromises and performance issues, we recommend that you do not use Internet Explorer 11. Instead, we encourage you to switch to other fully supported browsers.
BMC will still support Internet Explorer 11 on releases of BMC products prior to version 21.02 where Internet Explorer 11 was already supported.
If you have any questions, post them on the BMC Customer Support Communities page.