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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

Beginning the web service journey


ServiceNow was born in the cloud. Every instance has native capability to share all its information in a variety of formats, without any configuration, directly over the Web.

People are often most comfortable browsing the Web when they see words, pictures, and some nice formatting. So ServiceNow uses forms, lists, and various widgets to make sense of the data in the instance.

But pictures don't mean much to a computer, nor do reams of text. So ServiceNow can output the same information you see in a form or a list in many other formats. It is your data-you can decide what to do with it.

Pulling data out of ServiceNow

ServiceNow can output in many different formats, all transferred via the Web. We'll explore each one of these, and more, in this chapter:

  • Among file-based data, we will discuss CSV, XML, PDF, and Excel documents
  • Among Web-based data, we will cover RSS, JSON, REST, and SOAP

Downloading file-based data

Chapter 6, Events, Notifications, and Reporting, explained...