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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

Chapter 31. Exchanging Data – Import Sets, Web Services, and other Integrations

So far, our journey through ServiceNow has focused on configuring the platform and creating a new application with scripts, data structures, and workflow functionality. But a ServiceNow instance that doesn't exchange data, requires manual interaction every time an employee joins or leaves, or needs task information copy-pasted into another system is a ServiceNow instance not being used to its full capability.

This chapter explores how ServiceNow can make it easy to exchange data with almost any other system. There are quite a few ways to make this happen:

  • Let other systems pull information using Direct Web Services with no configuration in ServiceNow
  • Import and export flat files such as CSV, XML, or Excel spreadsheets manually or automatically
  • Shape, control, and manage the flow of data with Import Sets and Transform Maps
  • Get user and group data from Active Directory or other LDAP servers
  • Utilize the MID Server to...