Performance can suffer when your ACLs use a script to query the database over and over to get the same result. Andrew and Chuck show you a way to make the system "remember" repeat queries and cache th...
According to Wikipedia, the Consumerization of IT will, somewhat amazingly, be 10 years old this June; and of course everything we read on the internet is true. Again quoting Wikipedia: "Consumerizati...
The ServiceNow Dublin release was announced to the world on November 12, 2013 — the second release of 2013 following Calgary earlier this year. And, in case you're wondering, ServiceNow releases are n...
I was recently presenting for a prospect when I displayed our talking points about what we call our 'critical success factors' (CSF) namely: People, Process, Technology, Strategy and Governance in no ...
"We want a CMDB" is a statement I hear frequently as a consultant for ServiceNow. Usually it is followed by "Where do we start?" There are almost as many answers to that question as there are organiza...
ServiceNow's help icon allows you to connect current list, form, or record using context-sensitive help. ServiceNow offers predefined contexts but your administrator can customize it to connect differ...
As 2014 starts, and we continue to see the annual influx of enterprise IT prediction lists, it's worth looking back on last year to remind ourselves of some of the important "events" of 2013. There is...
First, terribly sorry for my silence. It's been a rocky 2 months November and December...I finally got some time to work on Jello V 0.2 and I'm releasing it(finally) today.If you have missed Jello ann...
For the 30-plus years I was an IT industry analyst and pundit before joining ServiceNow almost two years ago now, there were two eternal verities. One was that every good pundit is sometimes wrong, bu...
Anytime anyone wants to talk about security, certificates, and certificate authorities most people zone out as if they were on a dinner date and everyone started to talk about religion or politics (an...
In NowForum: ServiceNow CreateNow Hackathon Comes to Europe I've written about the power of the ServiceNow Service Automation Platform and App Creator application for custom app creation. This seasona...
If you're like many of the customers I've worked with, you may have dealt with the frustration of having excess or redundant approval requests come to you from ServiceNow. This happens very often simp...
NOTE: There is a newer version available here: https://community.servicenow.com/community/blogs/blog/2017/04/27/how-to-cheat-even-better-on-your-certificationShhh! Don't tell anyone that I'm about to ...
My team had a great discussion today with one of our customers regarding IT Service Modeling. I think it is important to understand some of the key considerations that drive should drive practical phi...
On Saturday, December 7th, about 100 Future Programmers gathered at ServiceNow's San Diego offices for 2 hours of hands-on Programming Education as a part of Computer Science Education Week promoted b...
'Tis the season to be thankful, grateful and hopeful. And professionally, I am most thankful, grateful and hopeful for our amazing customers.Any software company can tout its own advantages, actual or...
Wouldn't it be nice to have a way to ask a requester for "More Information" or "Justification" without really approving or rejecting it? It would be so easy to just add an option to the workflow activ...
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." — Émile ZolaRemember the very first time you were plunked down in front of a desk with a PC on top of it? Remember all o...
Christmas and the New Year are often times to reflect upon the previous twelve months and to look forward to the next. So it seemed timely to look back to Knowledge13, ServiceNow's annual global custo...
In Part 1 I looked at some of the challenges of, and good practices to consider with, multi-language and multi-geography (IT) service desk operations. In this second blog I cover some of the technolog...
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