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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By : Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By: Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We’ll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you’ll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: 1. Learning ServiceNow 2. ServiceNow Cookbook 3. Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
36
Bibliography

Using the change management application


Disraeli, a British prime minister, said that:

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

So, let's see how Service-Now uses the ITIL framework in its application. Every organization goes through a transition phase to achieve new goals to improve their services, user experiences, stability, or increase their product line for internal or external customers. In the ITIL framework, change management is a process used for managing the planned deployment of alterations to all configuration items in the configuration management database that are a part of production and test UAT environments along with any other environment that a business wants to have under change management. To manage the change management process, Service-Now provides the change management application.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, all you need is an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and a role.

How to do it...

 

  1. Open any browser standard browser.
  2. Type the Service...