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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

Upgrading ServiceNow


ServiceNow has a quite unique upgrade capability due to its cloud-based, single-tenant architecture. Releases happen more frequently in ServiceNow than boxed software, with new functionality being released twice a year. However, unlike multi-tenancy architectures, the customer is more in control of when and how often each upgrade occurs.

The release roadmap and methodology that ServiceNow follows is constantly being refined, but as of 2016, the following strategy applies:

Category

Example name

Contains

Frequency

Feature release

Calgary, Dublin, Eureka, Fuji, Geneva, Helsinki, Istanbul, Jakarta

New functionality and many fixes

Twice a year

Patch release

Patch 1

Includes all previous patches and hotfixes as a bundle. It should not contain new functionality.

As needed

Hotfixes

Hotfix 1

Fixes for a specific bug or issue

As needed

Note

The product documentation contains release notes for each version. The Helsinki release notes are at https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/helsinki-release-notes...