I have had this bit of information for sometime and I have to thank a
customer and friends of mine I was working with about a year ago: Roy
Walton and Tim Warren. They are the brains behind this blog....
Why lead? Why innovate? Why catalyze while others react? Here's what I
learned last week in Dallas…I had the pleasure of presenting our roadmap
to 150 new friends at our loud, proud, Texas-sized Dalla...
The London NowForum is fast approaching — it's a great opportunity to:
Hear thought-provoking keynotes by IT leaders.Participate in interactive
customer sessions.Expand your ServiceNow knowledge and n...
6+ years ago when I was an admin first being introduced to ServiceNow, I
remember being blown away by how simple it was to personalize forms, add
fields, and design custom form views. Custom views are...
There is less than a month to go until the ServiceNow European roadshow
visits Paris, Mainz, and London for the NowForum events from 8-10
October 2013.More details are being released about the forums ...
I have often a problem analyzing unfamiliar implementation that I don't
know, where a function call or a log trace is placed. Because there may
be a "couple" of scripts in ServiceNow you can spend hou...
Have you ever wondered about all the different locations in ServiceNow
where code can be present?Bet it just keeps you up at night doesn't
it?Well, I was wanting a comprehensive list of coding locatio...
Ah "incidents." That IT service management (ITSM) word we in IT use to
describe customer issues that, rather awkwardly, means absolutely
nothing to them — unlike IT "failure," "issue," and "problem" (...
Maybe an alternative title would be "Evening ServiceNow Musings With
Steve" or some such?Anyway, I was reviewing our ServiceNow development
process for the umpteenth time, and decided I would share wh...
Many our our customers upgrading to SCOM 2012 may have encountered some
issues using the ServiceNow 2007 R2 plugin. I have been told by SCOM
experts and consultants that we should stop using the conne...
Who said IT service management (ITSM) tools aren't interesting (or
flexible)? One of the highlights of ServiceNow's Knowledge 13 global
customer event in Las Vegas last May was the inaugural ServiceNo...
Most internal IT organizations are focused on protecting and growing the
business. The people who work in IT — and IT service management (ITSM)
professionals in particular — are often passionate, inte...
I have two exciting pieces of news to share with you.Firstly I
celebrated my 2nd anniversary with the ServiceNow this week.From my
first blog post in September 2011 to today — I've had an amazing
expe...
There's no doubt that we in the IT service management (ITSM) community
have long-benefitted from ITSM best practice frameworks, standards, and
methodologies such as ITIL, ISO 20000, COBIT, USMBOK (Uni...
ServiceNow boasts a wide range of capabilities in their out-of-box SOAP
and REST web services. There are times, however, where you need
something that is totally custom, and not found out of the box. ...
My colleague Jason Petty created a very useful update set, that allows
users to configure an export of table data in any format you define. It
uses a mid server to create and FTP this file to a FTP
so...
Our Performance Analytics (formerly Mirror42) elearning has been on the
Learning Center site for a couple of weeks now, and getting some great
interest as well as generating some interesting questions...
In case you missed some or all of the #50TweetsOfCalgary series, here's
the list of my favorite highlights in the Calgary release.What's your
favorite feature?And yes, I'm already gathering the #Dubli...
I saw a conversation in the Google+ ServiceNow community this week about
a tweak that Carrie Padian wanted to make to her incident management
process.The conversation led to the topic of using system ...
I have been meaning to post this for a while now. Most of us are aware
and use the dot walk method for dereferencing GlideRecord. It goes
something like this:myFunction();function myFunction() { var g...