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Dashboards: Add a Header Logo/Button

Hello, Would you like to add one of the following to your dashboards? Branding/LogoNavigation Buttons And you want to do so in the dashboard's header, without taking up any space in your dashboard's canvas? What? Who do you think you are?! That's not...

Changes to Domain Separation documentation for Performance Analytics

A while ago I was examining our documentation for domain separation in Performance Analytics, and found something I thought was confusing. We used the term "Domain configuration" for two different things: In a generic sense, configuring Performance A...

PA Daily Jobs: Script for Skipping Weekends & Holidays

Hello, Here is a script that can be added to Daily PA Data Collector Jobs (not historic jobs). This script will make the daily job only collect scores for days that are within the schedule specified in the script. This allows us to not only skip week...

Creating report with a new dynamic filter in ServiceNow

I got the question from a fellow ServiceNow admin who had some issues with a specific report he was trying to create. The requirements was to create a reports that showed you how many reassignment counts did the tickets have that was created through ...

How a CIO dashboard helps you run IT like a business

Read how the CIO Dashboard helps run IT like a business to deliver value quickly, improve productivity, and create great user experiences. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/33Yyuu8

Creating Advanced Reports and Dashboard ||| Dashboard Configuration

Advanced Dashboard Configuration Demo 1 - Advanced Dashboard Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdE0PT-2wg Demo 2 - Integrating Dashboard under Application https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_vsJriEzbM --Dashboard Configuration using dashboard...

Making Reporting and Day-To-Day Operations Easier by Adding SLA Fields To Tasks [Update Set]

Since a task can have multiple SLA records, these are stored in a separate table called task_sla, which contains a reference field to the task table. This means that if you want to work with SLAs, you have two options. Either use the task_sla table, ...

Tuning Predictive Intelligence models: Precision, Recall and the Confusion Matrix

Working with customers on implementing classifications with Predictive Intelligence, a couple of questions that comes back often are “What is recall?" and "how do I use it?”. Although there are many definitions and examples available online, I though...

Service Portal - Single Score report

The out of the box report widget redirects the end user to fulfiller/native view. Created a simple custom widget by leveraging report widget but it redirects the end user to portal page. Features: Configure report presentation such as color, header c...

How to make use of the Clustering Framework

Since the New York release, ServiceNow’s Predictive Intelligence product provides Clustering capabilities. But what do you do with it? In this article, I will share a couple of example use cases for leveraging the clustering framework. Dan Grady wr...

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Data Hygiene Dashboard

Recently I have been working on data clean-up for the ServiceNow platform. I found it really useful so thought of sharing it here: Problem Statement: Data within CMDB gets stale due to lack of maintenance process that ends up as loss of trust, issues...

Exploring Analytically: Why to use Medians over Averages

First part of a new series called "Exploring Analytically." Got ideas for other topics? Let us know! One frequent challenge I hear from stakeholders is that their data is too noisy. For example, Mean Time to Resolve or Mean Time To Repair can sometim...

Include Service Portal Pages in ServiceNow Dashboard

Intro A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives. This information is consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. A dashboard typically ...

BLOG: ServiceNow’s User-Centric Analytics Program explained here!

ServiceNow, defines analytics as using data to make better, faster decisions. Vijay Kotu, VP of Analytics, shares the user-centric analytics program based on five major elements. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/2TYbR40 #NowonNow

Metric on Knowledge Workflow State - How to read the Docs - Metrics 1

Hi Guys, Today, I'm going to guide you through one of the small but not least feature 'Metrics'. In the next two articles we will go through creating report out of the Metric data. Let's see first what is Metric is with the following examples : 1) A ...

Getting Started, self-paced learning, training classes, and additional help

Are you just getting started with Performance Analytics? In addition to the instructor-led Performance Analytics Fundamentals and Performance Analytics Advanced classes, there is a new self-paced class available for free, Performance Analytics Essent...

Best Practices for Reporting and Performance Analytics Upgrades (Lener)

Before you upgradeReview the Performance Analytics, Reporting, and Dashboard release notes for the version you are upgrading toKingstonJakartaIstanbul On Upgraded Sub-ProdTest any custom visualization or custom interactive filtersRun all active jobs ...

Creating Advanced Reports and Dashboard (Demo)

ServiceNow Advanced Reports and Dashboard Creation Live Demo (Click each video link to review) ServiceNow - Creating Dashboard and Report from Widget How to create ServiceNow dashboard and report from wi...

Spotlight on Spotlight

Dear community, In the recently hosted Performance Analytics office hours, we presented an overview of the Spotlight product and demoed the enhancements that are part of the upcoming New York release. Spotlight is a very powerful and easy to use feat...