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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 - ScienceSoft
ServiceNow ITSM - ScienceSoft

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 9-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.

ServiceNow Ticketing Demo

ServiceNow Ticketing Demo

Explore how an IT service agent can effectively register, triage, address, and resolve incidents with the help of the ServiceNow ITSM platform.

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.

See the Benefits of Your Future ServiceNow ITSM Solution!

Request your free ServiceNow ITSM demo and see how the platform can meet your specific IT service management needs.

Opportunities You Get with ServiceNow ITSM

  • Let your employees quickly report issues

  • Leverage a built-in reporting tool for easy creation of custom reports

  • Get full visibility into incident management with dashboards

  • Let your IT team easily track issue duration and resolution

  • Let your IT agents resolve issues quickly due to getting full context, analytics, and AI-powered recommendations from a single view

  • Leverage customizable templates for key enterprise IT, HR, and customer service scenarios

  • Use Survey Designer to quickly create surveys and assessments

  • Increase your service team’s productivity by leveraging ML-powered classification of tasks, incidents, and cases

  • Easily track your IT and non-IT assets’ status and worth throughout their actual lifecycles

  • View the progress of SLAs and the updates of related tasks

Benefits of ServiceNow ITSM

  • -80%

    IT service delivery costs due to request automation

  • -66%

    IT staff effort per incident due to intelligent issue categorization and routing

  • +20%

    IT staff overall productivity due to employee self-service, virtual agents, and other capabilities

ServiceNow ITSM Packages

ITSM

ITSM Professional

ITSM Enterprise

Need Help Choosing a Suitable Plan?

As a Registered ServiceNow partner, we will be glad to advise you on a best-fitting plan in line with your ITSM needs.

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 integrations - ScienceSoft

  • 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.

About ScienceSoft

About ScienceSoft

With 18 years in ITSM and 16 years in 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.