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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

Summary


ServiceNow provides many different integration options. In this chapter, the majority of the mechanisms to get data in and out of the platform were discussed.

CSV and XML are universal file formats. Almost any system that can import or export data can use CSV and XML to store data, and ServiceNow is no different. It's easy to export data from the list, or from a URL.

Import Sets are a very powerful way of pulling data into your instance. They again support a variety of data formats and provide transform maps to translate the incoming information into the appropriate schema.

LDAP is probably the most common integration. It pulls in users and groups, most often from Active Directory. This is typically the source of user information - and the next chapter shows that it can also be used for authentication.

The REST Table API provides easy access to read, create, modify, and delete any record in ServiceNow. However, using web service import sets gives much more flexibility and control.

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