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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

Service Level Management


When someone requests work, it needs to get done. The Service Level Management functionality specifies target times for how long a task should take and then uses Graphical Workflow to trigger notification reminders or perform automated actions. The results (success or failure) can also be reported or worked against.

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) engine in ServiceNow monitors effectiveness by comparing how long it takes to move between two conditions against a predefined goal. The main focus is on measuring time. For example, Gardiner Hotels may have a target of fixing all maintenance tasks within 2 hours, day or night.

This definition may be different to what you were expecting. In business terms, you may define a service level without a mention of times at all (such as reliability or uptime). These service levels may be recorded in ServiceNow using Service Portfolio Management or Service 360.

In addition, there are other ways to measure time, including metrics...