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My library Knowledge Sources To Go is very popular, but it was intended mainly as a thematically grouped guide to standard sources and was provided by me as a PDF file. For certain topics, however, there is so much content that I can no longer include it in that document, as it cannot continue to grow forever.
For this reason, I have decided to handle such topics in individual community articles like this one instead.
What is the App Engine?
Digital transformation has changed everything. Growth and success require agile automation delivered through software. Powered by the Now Platform, App Engine fuels rapid delivery of Creator Workflows with great experiences for everyone. With more people building with less complexity, App Engine lets you create apps fast with low-code, and safely scale cross-enterprise experiences that users love.
With App Engine Studio, anyone can quickly build high-quality, low-code apps. The studio includes best practice app and workflow templates - so app creators build better and faster - and lets you create your own reusable templates instead of having to start from scratch.
App Engine lets you automate any business process, from the simple to the complex, as a digital workflow across departments, systems, and people. Its natural language workflow makes it easy for both pro-code developers and low-code business analysts to create workflows, leveraging prebuilt components and building their own reusable components with Flow Designer. Flowchart-style visual diagramming makes it easy to digest and track complex workflows, and intuitive playbooks built using a no-code Process Automation Designer allow business process owners to easily compose and manage the most complex processes.
Scale and safeguard low-code app development across the enterprise with App Engine Management Center, the only turnkey governance capability available that empowers business and IT to collaborate, manage, and govern low-code app development end-to-end. With App Engine Management Center, platform administrators can control app intake, collaboration requests and app pipeline while enabling those closest to the business problem to feel confident their apps are compliant with company standards and protocols.
Entry point to the official product information pages
Build Cross-Enterprise, Low-Code Apps Fast with No Sprawl
Solution Brief
Create Apps and Workflows 3 Times Faster with ServiceNow App Engine
White Paper
Digitize, automate, and govern any workflow with ServiceNow App Engine
Data Sheet
Recommended Implementation Sequence
Specific guidance for Citizen Development and App Engine outlining which products to implement through the Foundational, Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly phases to ensure customer success.
This book guides you through building your own apps quickly, regardless of skill or experience level, including:
- The types of apps you can build
- Best practices from low-code experts
- A proven development plan you can follow
Trainings & Courses
Adventures in app development patterns 🧪
Let's talk about building apps on the Now Platform using design patterns that make your apps more maintainable and testable. If you're new to the Now Platform, it can be a bit overwhelming. But don't worry, we'll take it step by step and break it down for you using design patterns and show you how to accelerate delivery of an MVP business solution.
A journey of 1000 records begins with your first app 🧪
Once upon a time, there was a brave hero who wished to start their developer journey. If you are this aforementioned hero, then good news - the path to that title begins here! In this first lab of the Builder Track series, you begin down this twisting road and encounter your first foe: the dreaded manual processes that plague enterprises across the world. You will learn how to import and store data, build forms and lists for easy access, and all of the basics that make up a custom application. See how fast and easy it is to unlock productivity in your organization with an app!
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Podcasts & Videos
2021-03-29 by ServiceNow Community
App Engine Introduction
In this three-part video series, we'll take a look at how App Engine's unique platform approach to low code development can help you build cross-enterprise apps fast, deliver experiences your end users love, and scale apps without sprawl.
- Build And Automate
In this first session, we'll focus on building apps fast by empowering more creators, reducing development effort, and improving business alignment, collaboration, and re-use. - Deliver experiences users love with App Engine
In this second session, the focus is all about the end user experience as we look at creating unified, first-class experiences for everyone, providing intelligent, self-service capabilities, and enabling knowledge worker productivity. - Scale without sprawl with App EngineIn this, our third session, our focus is scaling apps without sprawl by providing a seamless end-to-end experience, managing app development with straight-forward governance, and supporting the scale out of apps on a platform that scales to millions of users.
2022-09-22 by ServiceNow
Build And Automate: App Engine
The San Diego release brings an array of exciting new features to the App Engine portfolio, making it easier than ever for creators of every skill level to develop high quality apps quickly. In this session we’ll look at the intuitive new diagramming capability in Flow Designer, discuss the business-critical potential of Decision Builder, and dive into the exciting ability to add ad hoc activities to playbooks. These offerings complement the incredible array of solutions already offered with App Engine, enabling you to accelerate innovation with low-code app dev.
2023-10-06 by ServiceNow Community
What's new for Creator Workflows in Vancouver
In this academy you'll learn about what’s new for Creator Workflows in the Vancouver release. Outbound Product Managers Joe Wilmoth and Kiernan McMorrow take us through the new and improved capabilities in App Engine and Automation Engine.
2023-11-14 by @Chuck Tomasi
Breakpoint: The Future of App Engine with Jithin Bhasker
App Engine is one of ServiceNow's flagship products for low-code and pro-code developers. In this episode, we talk to a VP who can give us a hint of what's coming.
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