anna_scheib
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Welcome to the ServiceNow Knowledge19 Pre-Conference - Performance Analytics Fundamentals!

This is a dedicated Community Article for class communication, collaboration, and fun!!

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Flintstone Fan
Kilo Contributor

Ronnie Gonzalez - Freedom Financial Network

tajarichardson
Mega Expert

Taja Richardson-Nuckolls / Surgical Care Affiliates.

Certified administrator and pseudo-developer. 

Been working with PA for nearly 2 years, but decided to take the class to do the certification.  

James Sealock
Kilo Contributor

James Sealock - Markel Corporation

Sr Systems Analyst in charge of ServiceNow rollout that was just completed 3 weeks ago

stvcornett
Mega Explorer

Steve Cornett - Capital One (Service Management Product Team, Strategy).  12 years analytics background but relatively new to PA (go London!)

joanadriance
Mega Explorer

Joan Adriance - Capital District Physicians' Health Plan, Albany NY

Nicole35
Tera Explorer

Nicole Nester - McGuireWoods

Lead of IT Operations Center & ServiceNow reporting admin/developer

I've been the self-taught report/PA admin for several years and I am taking this course to get certified.

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Welcome,

I'm Serkan Yilmaz (Secondary Instructor) and I'm here to help you with answering your questions!

Cheers!

jawwadhaq
Tera Contributor

Question: If trends are built on daily basis does it means we have to daily data collectors jobs ?

Flintstone Fan
Kilo Contributor

I am an HR Analyst for Freedom and I am new to ServiceNow

 

Flintstone Fan
Kilo Contributor

Implement HRSD out of curiosity?

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Recommended Session related to PA (slide)

Nathan Benedict
Mega Explorer

Nathan Benedicto - University of California, Davis. 2 hours of PA experience.

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

PA Big Picture with the components

Nathan Benedict
Mega Explorer

Will the "Data Collection flow" slides be shared?

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Yes, we will share it with you!

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Data Collection flow slides can be downloaded now!

stvcornett
Mega Explorer

Does the Diagnostic Results Tab on Jobs allow a different view for log interrogation or relation?

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

The Related Link "Run Diagnostics" is on different levels of PA available to do some checks.

If you run Diagnostics on Data Collection Job level, ServiceNow will check for example if there are any related Automated indicator for that specific Data Collection Job. If not, you get a warning on the "Diagnostics Results" tab about this.

So this is to help you and have a stable PA environment!

Community Alums
Not applicable

Hi Serkan,

Where can I find the data collection slide?

Nick Macchia1
Kilo Explorer

Nick Macchia    BlueCross BlueShield of WNY (Buffalo NY)     

 

New to ServiceNow, platform migration from MicroFocus (HP) Service Anywhere.   Planned go live is July.    

   

 

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

It is an attachment on my previous post "Data Collection flow slides can be downloaded now!"

If it's not visible for you please ask one of the TA's of come to me.

 

Wesley Stanley
Kilo Explorer

Error Message while working on 3.2.B; "An error occurred with status code 405"

Wesley Stanley
Kilo Explorer

The issue has resolved and the indicator detail is now visible.

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

That's great and thank you for informing me about it!

I was testing it on my device and it was working fine too. I used your instance for this testing, so it was maybe a temp issue.

 

Wesley Stanley
Kilo Explorer

I continued to get the same error as I tried to display the chart options (thresholds and comments).

Brandon17
Kilo Explorer

Can any visual/dashboard built using PA be shared on the CSM (customer portal) and be seen by NON-Licensed Users (someone without ITIL role)?

Example - My customers use the CSM Portal and do not have the ITIL role. I want to build an Incident "backlog trend" visual/dashboard and share it on the Portal. Is this possible? Will they see it?

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

You can show PA widgets using Service Portal.

 

Role requirements for viewing widgets

For most widgets, if a viewer can view the dashboard containing the widget, they can view the widget. However, the following widgets require users to have the pa_viewer role:
  • List widgets
  • Text widgets
  • The Breakdowns section of Workbench widgets

In addition, the ability to view the individual indicators in a List widget depends on the ACLs of those indicators.

Finally, breakdown access controls apply when viewing breakdowns in widgets.

 

Please see docs for details:

Performance Analytics widgets on Service Portal

Brandon17
Kilo Explorer

Thanks for the info. can those same dashboards be shared internally (not on the Service Portal) without the use of the pa_viewer role? 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Responsive dashboard functionality is not related to PA so you don't need PA roles to use it. 

 

Role requirements for viewing widgets

For most widgets, if a viewer can view the dashboard containing the widget, they can view the widget. However, the following widgets require users to have the pa_viewer role:
  • List widgets
  • Text widgets
  • The Breakdowns section of Workbench widgets

In addition, the ability to view the individual indicators in a List widget depends on the ACLs of those indicators.

Finally, breakdown access controls apply when viewing breakdowns in widgets.

 

Performance Analytics widgets

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Additional information for Module 5 - Automated Breakdowns:

PA is not supporting multi-language for choice elements on Breakdowns. This means that you need to make a decision which language you want to set up in PA.

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

www.kahoot.it is the URL for the game!

 

hihosilva
Mega Explorer

Peter Silva - WL Gore & Associates, Inc

hihosilva
Mega Explorer

Hi Sven, Would you be able to share the Kahoot!  I would love to quiz others.

hihosilva
Mega Explorer

Is is possible to use the Kahoot quiz back at the office?

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Hi hihosilva,

The shown Kahoot quiz is specially built for our PAF training and is not available afterward. 

Hope you enjoyed it!

Nathan Benedict
Mega Explorer

Is there a list of operators that can be used in the "formula" portion of Formula Indicators?

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Formula indicators are very powerful:

You can use all kind of indicators (automated/ manual/ formula) in a formula indicator including formula indicators.

So what you can do is something like:

({automated indicator}Number of SLA achieved Incident /{automated indicator}Number of total Incident * 100) = {formula indicator}% of SLA achieved Incident

({automated indicator}Number of SLA achieved Problem /{automated indicator}Number of total Problem * 100) = {formula indicator}% of SLA achieved Problem

({automated indicator}Number of SLA achieved Change /{automated indicator}Number of total Change * 100) = {formula indicator}% of SLA achieved Change

({formula indicator}% of SLA achieved Incident + {formula indicator}% of SLA achieved Problem + {formula indicator}% of SLA achieved Change ) / 3 = {formula indicator} Index of IPC processes

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Valid operator symbols, such as +, -, /, %, >, < can be used in formula indicators. You can also add more indicators to the formula. For example, to calculate the average age of open incidents based on summed age of open incidents and number of open incidents, use the following formula: [[Summed age of open incidents]] / [[Open incidents]] / 24

 

See for details:

Create a formula indicator

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Example of a complex formula indicator:

find_real_file.png

Nathan Benedict
Mega Explorer

Are there conditional operators that can be used on the Formulas? (https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_blog&sys_id=d84ea2addbd0dbc01dcaf3231f961963)

I found these are operators, but what to they do (aside from +, - and /) ? +, -, /, %, >, <.

Are <, > greater-than/less-than operators? Or is that for breakdowns?

What does % do?

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Formula indicators are supporting JavaScript, so you can definitely apply conditional operators (if/then).

The following operators <,> are indeed greater than/ less than operators and can be perfectly used in IF/THEN checks.

 

Example of conditional operator: if(number of total incident != null) {number of total incident } else { 0 }

Explanation: If "number of total incident" IS NOT null, display the value of this indicator ELSE display 0

 

Mathematical operators as +,-,/,* can be used in formula indicators and will act like in Excel/ Numbers.

 

 

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

External Indicators are using JDBC connection to query the data from a 3rd party system and pull only the scores into ServiceNow.

 

See for details:

Using Performance Analytics with external data

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Sven is creating a "responsive dashboard" now and it is possible to put more on this dashboard than only PA widgets.

If you don't share a responsive dashboard it will be a personal dashboard, but there is an easy way to make it visible for other persons/ roles or groups.

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

All time high/ All time low threshold is checking all scores of the selected indicator and puts a dotted-line for it. So you don't need to check all scores one-by-one to find the lowest or highest scores for your indicator!

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

The following article is describing the different Performance Analytics Widgets:

Performance Analytics widgets

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

The Performance Analytics Analytics Hub is available in the ServiceNow mobile application:

Performance Analytics for mobile devices

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

This is the mobile view of the "Venetian coffee Sales" indicator created by Sven.

find_real_file.png

stvcornett
Mega Explorer

Thx!  we just upgraded to London - is PA on mobile exclusive to Madrid or was it there in London as well?

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

TIP: https://docs.servicenow.com is a very good Library to find a lot of information about ServiceNow and the Applications (e.g Performance Analytics, Reporting, Metric definition, database view etc.) of it.

 

Serkan Yilmaz
Tera Expert

Yes, it was also available on Kingston!

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