ServiceNow® ITSM Platform
Stabilize IT Delivery
ServiceNow ITSM helps businesses streamline IT processes and reduce IT costs due to rich functionality, such as incident, request, problem, change, service level, knowledge, and configuration management.
ServiceNow ITSM in Brief
ServiceNow ITSM is designed to streamline IT service workflows and increase IT productivity. The platform is used by diverse mid-sized and large organizations, and it’s best-suited for governmental organizations and businesses in highly regulated industries like finance and pharma.
ServiceNow is an 8-time leader in Gartner’s ITSM Magic Quadrant. Among famous brands using ServiceNow ITSM are Airbus, CERN, Henkel, Al Jazeera, Deloitte.
Since 2010, ScienceSoft has been providing ServiceNow ITSM advisory services to help businesses overcome disruptions in IT processes and optimize IT support costs.
Popular ServiceNow ITSM Use Cases
In-house IT services
- Incident management.
- Configuration management.
- Request management.
- Change and release management.
- Knowledge management.
- Employee Service Center.
Focus on ITAM
- Asset management.
- Configuration management.
- Incident management.
- Request management.
- Integration with other software (e.g., ServiceNow ITOM).
Partially outsourced IT
- Configuration management.
- Integration with software used by a vendor (e.g., ITSM, ITAM, ticketing systems).
For technology service providers
- Incident management.
- Problem management.
- Request management.
- Configuration management.
- Knowledge management.
- Employee Service Center
- Integration with ServiceNow CSM.
- Integration with third-party software (e.g., ticketing, identity and access management software).
For IT service providers
- Incident management.
- Configuration management.
- Employee Service Center.
- Service level management
ServiceNow ITSM Key Functionality
Incident management
Omni-channel incident registering
Employees can submit incidents via a self-service portal, chatbot, email, and phone.
Visual task boards
Intuitive Kanban‑style boards to enable an IT team manage incident tasks and team assignments, create task checklists, and set task priorities.
Native mobile app
A mobile app allows an IT team to triage, address, and resolve incidents on the go.
Ticket prioritization
Automated calculation of a ticket’s priority based on incident impact and urgency.
AI-based recommendations
ML-driven recommendations to IT agents on how to resolve incidents based on similar cases.
Reports and dashboards
Configurable role‑based reports and dashboards displaying incident statuses (e.g., unassigned, overdue), priority (high, medium low), resolution time, and other metrics.
Problem management
Remediation plans
Guidelines for IT service agents on how to fix repeated incidents.
Real-time dashboards
Built-in dashboards to enable problem identification and further remediation of abnormal patterns and trends.
Knowledge transfer
IT service agents can share known errors and workarounds for accelerated resolution of similar problems.
Change and release management
Change approval policy management
Automated approval of standard and low-risk changes.
Change impact visualization
A map showing the potential impact of a proposed change on IT, services, and configuration items.
DevOps integration
Change acceleration due to the integration of a DevOps pipeline with ServiceNow change management.
To learn more about this functionality, please check our dedicated page on ServiceNow change and release management.
Request management
Unified service center
A single place for employees and customers to request services from IT, HR, and other departments and get service-related information.
Graphical designer of request workflows
Drag-and-drop building of workflows to automate request processes.
Portal with an embedded chatbot
The service portal with a built-in ServiceNow chatbot allows customers and employees to get answers and solve issues 24/7 due to keyword search and natural language understanding.
Native mobile app
Request-related collaboration on the go for an IT team, request tracking for customers and employees, including automated notifications (e.g., change in a request status).
Asset management
Asset provisioning
Automation of asset requesting, fulfillment, and ordering processes.
Inventory management
Stockroom inventory management for hardware and consumables (computer keyboards, mice etc.).
Contract management
Contract lifecycle automation, including approval and renewal for various contracts (e.g., leases, warranties, maintenance, and service) related to hardware and virtual assets.
Multiple barcode scanning
Quick scanning of multiple barcodes or groups of codes with a smartphone for fast entry of the asset information into ServiceNow ITSM.
Knowledge management
Knowledge gap analysis
ML-powered identification of knowledge gaps (e.g., in incident resolution) and task assignment to service agents to create ServiceNow ITSM knowledge articles to fill these gaps and boost self-service among customers and employees.
In-context creation and knowledge harvesting
Creation of knowledge articles from current cases, incidents, and conversations in engaged communities.
AI-driven search
Powerful search across knowledge articles with personalized search results for agents, employees and customers.
Analytics and reporting
Reports and dashboards to monitor the use and aging of and feedback about corporate knowledge.
Translation management
Automated assigning of translation tasks, identification of missing translations for knowledge articles, and more.
Configuration management
Configuration management database (CMDB)
The CMDB accumulates and structures data about all IT components and provides visualization and reporting on configuration items (CIs), audit trail, and more.
Data health tools
Aggregation and processing of key CMDB metrics (e.g., completeness of required and recommended fields of CIs, correctness of CIs based on pre-defined data integrity rules) to provide actionable insights on how to improve the CMDB’s performance and health.
Service Graph Connectors
Quick and easy loading of large volumes of third-party data into the CMDB via Service Graph Connectors.
Visualization and reporting for Configuration Items
Mapping, querying, and understanding complex relationships of CIs in tables with a clear graphical view.
IT service performance analytics
KPIs and dashboards
Tracking diverse metrics (e.g., the number of new and closed vulnerable items, Mean Time to Remediate) to get insights on how to improve IT service performance.
KPI signals
Automatic alerts about deviations from the projected values for monitored configuration items.
Predictive intelligence and data classification
Major incident detection
Proactive detection of major incidents due to ML-based flagging of similarity across incidents.
Smart classification and routing
ML-based classification of tasks, incidents, and cases and routing them to relevant agents.
Predicting of time to resolution
Accurate predicting of time to resolution due to regression analysis.
IT service evaluation surveys
Intuitive survey designer
Creating surveys on customer satisfaction with services provided by an IT team using customizable templates and publishing them to specific users or user groups.
Survey analytics
Generating intuitive charts based on survey results (e.g., evaluation of the quality of IT services).
Survey administration
Agents or managers can create, schedule, and send surveys from a single interface, create conditional questions, allow users to change their responses, and more.
Public surveys
Creating surveys for users outside the ServiceNow system, saving anonymous survey responses, and showing them on scorecards.
Service level management
SLA workflow designer
A drag-and-drop designer to create configurable workflows that determine what activities occur according to an SLA, for example, notifying an assignee about a task to prevent an SLA breach.
Service level timeline
Detailed visualization of all SLAs associated with a related task, stages and timings of SLA tasks.
Notifications
Automatic notifications for service providers and consumers, for example, about an SLA breach.
SLA reporting and analytics
Configurable role‑based dashboards to track service delivery and drive service improvement.
Employee Service Center
Virtual agent
Accessible via collaboration tools (e.g., Slack, Teams), a virtual agent creates a case, stores the chat history within this case, and helps employees get immediate answers to questions.
Targeted campaigns and content automation
Providing employees with timely, relevant, targeted content on various campaigns (e.g., signing up for health benefits) based on their location, role, and job type. Evaluating the effectiveness of campaigns and tracking results (e.g., employee engagement with a campaign).
Search
Quick and easy Google-like search of information about various services (e.g., HR, IT, workplace services) across the enterprise and retrieval of the results from the knowledge base, services, and forums.
Integrated case management
Integrated case management helps employees with opening and monitoring cases and supporting case-related activities via e‑signatures, forms, and checklists.
Employee forums
Forums enable employee collaboration on job tasks and work-related content.
Workforce optimization
Team scheduling
Managing the IT service team’s shifts, breaks, and time-offs.
Performance reporting
Reports on team and individual performance based on diverse metrics (e.g., problems resolved, average handle time, first call resolution).
Omni-channel monitoring
Service team managers can monitor agents’ conversations and analyze voice recordings across all channels.
Skills management
Managers can recommend coaching and training for their teams based on skill gaps identified by ServiceNow predictive analytics.
Assignment queue management
Tracking assignment queues and wait times.
Benefits of ServiceNow ITSM
ServiceNow ITSM Packages
ServiceNow ITSM Integrations
To avoid ITSM data silos and streamline IT service workflows, ScienceSoft recommends integrating ServiceNow ITSM with the following corporate systems.
- ServiceNow ITSM + HR software: to accelerate providing employees with relevant physical (e.g., a desk, a computer) and non-physical (e.g., an email account, logins) assets in case of onboarding, promotion, or transfer. ServiceNow ITSM tasks are created automatically based on the data stored in HR software (e.g., an employee’s name, role, team, department).
- ServiceNow ITSM + CRM: to automate the creation and resolution of customer cases in ITSM and increase visibility into customer incidents, problems, and requests for CRM users, which helps eliminate bottlenecks in customer service and reduce customer response times. Also, customer priorities, value, and other details available in CRM are visible in customer accounts in ServiceNow ITSM.
- ServiceNow ITSM + ticketing software: to streamline issue resolution and improve collaboration of IT and development teams due to synchronization of incident data. When an IT team creates an incident ticket in ServiceNow ITSM, a new issue is automatically created within a ticketing system. The issue’s status, details, and related comments from both teams are automatically updated in both systems.
ServiceNow ITSM Customization Capabilities
ServiceNow ITSM customizations cover code-based adjusting of access controls, tables and form fields, email notifications, IT service workflows, integrations (e.g., ServiceNow ITSM integration with a third-party ITSM system). Also, ServiceNow ITSM enables the development of various custom applications. For example, our team built an ITSM mobile app that combined SolarWinds and ServiceNow.
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With 16 years in ITSM and 14 years in providing ServiceNow consulting services, ScienceSoft helps organizations leverage ServiceNow ITSM solutions that offer full visibility into IT processes and infrastructure, enable timely resolution of user requests and incidents, and help optimize IT costs. |
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