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...
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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...
Let's just assume the Index of PaaS Activity (IPA) was triptophaned in
November when it slumbered downward 8.0% to 104.3. Stock prices were up
a scant 1.1% but all other categories in the index includ...
In the last five years there has been much talk about IT, or business
function, service desk consolidation. However, as with most things we
talk about in IT, one size doesn't fit all. For many organiz...
The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us here in the United States. As I look
back on this year, I am thankful for all of the great employees,
partners, and customers that I get to work with on a daily bas...
This morning I watched an on-demand webinar from Gartner analyst Jarod
Greene called What Foursquare, Facebook and Final Fantasy Can Teach I&O
Organizations. One slide and concept, in particular, reso...
Reporting is central to Service Management. ServiceNow captures very
rich data, but how can you leverage the reporting in ServiceNow to get
more value from the ServiceNow platform?In the first Custome...
One of the upcoming features of the Dublin Release at ServiceNow is an
updated JSON Web Service processor. While it is still not an official
REST API for the platform, it is a huge improvement on the ...
I have been involved with a number of integrations with customers with
IBM Netcool/OMNIBUS with the Socket Writer Gateway as the Inbound
communication method recently and wanted to share what we had t...
The enterprise IT organization is awash with operational silos that
touch IT service management (ITSM) — and in many ways one could argue
that some could and should be part of corporate ITSM activitie...
I talked about performing a sanity check on Inbound Email Actions in my
last blog entry - Inbound Email Actions Sanity Check.The Inbound Email
Action would fire an event if there were more than 20 lin...
I've been pretty busy lately with my switch over to Crossfuze Solutions
and my blogging time has suffered a lot so I thought it was time to post
a couple articles.A client of ours has an integration u...