ServiceNow® Platform Active Directory Integration for Single Sign-On

About Our Client

The Client is a UAE-based retail and leisure enterprise that employs 40,000+ people and has stores and hotels in 15 countries.

Challenge

The Client’s employees use multiple systems and platforms at work. It is highly inconvenient for them to have different credentials for each system and to log into each system separately. To help the Client’s employees work more efficiently, the Client needed to perform the integration of ServiceNow with Active Directory and ensure a single sign-on property for several related systems.

In addition, the Client struggled with applying ITSM processes (Incident Management in particular) to their configuration items in HP UCMDB. So, the Client also needed to integrate their ServiceNow with their HP UCMDB to use UCMDB configuration items in full-scale ServiceNow-based ITSM processes.

Solution

To achieve the desired results of both integrations, ScienceSoft performed the following activities: consulting, platform setup and production rollout.

First, ScienceSoft’s ServiceNow experts analyzed and clarified the Client’s requirements. Then, our team proposed several possible solutions. Working jointly with the Client’s team, they have selected the most suitable integration options.

To integrate ServiceNow with Active Directory, ScienceSoft’s specialists first configured the ServiceNow LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) module to exchange information with the Client's Active Directory server. Then, ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) – a part of AD – was configured to grant access to the Client’s user identity information. After that, our team configured the Client’s ServiceNow and established the connection with ADFS from ServiceNow’s side. This finally integrated the two systems making ServiceNow a part of a broader single sign-on (SSO) system.

For the purposes of integrating ServiceNow with HP UCMDB, the Client provided an Import Set configuration setup that needed to be used in the integration process. By adjusting it, ScienceSoft’s team ensured the required integration. The data exported from UCMDB was transformed and stored in intermediary staging tables until ServiceNow loaded it into its own database. This way, our team implemented the integration of ServiceNow with HP UCMDB.

Results

Our team successfully integrated Active Directory with ServiceNow. The Client’s ServiceNow platform became an element of a broader collection of related systems with a possibility of single sign-on. Concerning the integration of ServiceNow with HP UCMDB, now the Client is fully capable of managing UCMDB configuration items in ServiceNow. Thanks to ScienceSoft’s fulfillment of the Client’s integration needs, their employees are now able to perform their duties more efficiently.

Technologies and Tools

ServiceNow, Active Directory, HP UCMDB