Have you ever felt frustrated about making a lot of errors, doing repetitive tasks, or finding difficulty in collaborating with your teammates while working on projects to help your organization improve its efficiency? This is precisely where workflow management steps up, as a guiding force for teamwork and efficiency. Think of it like the director of a play, coordinating tasks and processes to create a seamless performance for successful outcomes.

Banning apps is sometimes necessary to protect your organization from malicious or misused applications. In particular, leaky apps can be a significant threat, and identifying and banning them is an essential app security measure. Some organizations choose a more flexible approach by allowing employees to use unsanctioned apps and monitor their usage for suspicious activity. Yet others don’t monitor employee app use at all, which is the riskiest approach imaginable.

Discussing the pitfalls of ITIL, and why it’s worth nevertheless.

The business challenges organizations face today are enormous: increased efficiency, lower costs, supply chain resilience, revenue growth, talent retention, and digital fragmentation. A modern enterprise needs an adaptable operating model to support its business goals. This requires a range of data, analytical, and AI capabilities to reach the desired business outcomes—from simple to cutting edge.

I’m excited to announce that ServiceNow has acquired the ToolBox OH&S technology assets of Enable Professional Services, a ServiceNow Elite Partner and Fujitsu company based in Australia. ToolBox OH&S technology—native to the Now Platform—will help accelerate and scale existing health and safety solutions that enhance safety management practices and streamline incident prevention and response processes for both direct and indirect employees.

Generative AI has shaken up the business and tech world, but the best tech relies on world-class talent to address the fundamental problems that haven’t been solved yet. At ServiceNow, we know the most constructive and value-creating strategies for generative AI are grounded in embedding human experience and expertise into the core capabilities.

When it comes to employee success, the power of onboarding workflows cannot be understated. If you've landed here, there's a good chance you're grappling with the challenge of assimilating new hires seamlessly into your organization. Sound familiar? ‍ ‍ Fortunately, this article delves deep into answering those concerns, and more. ‍ I've worked with industry leaders to refine and perfect the art of onboarding.

Paperwork. It’s time consuming. But across supply chain operations, documentation is necessary. And ensuring it is completed fully, accurately and timely is essential to protecting your workers, your business and your reputation.

A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) like ServiceNow CMDB serves as a centralized repository for comprehensive information about the various components of an information system. These components, known as Configuration Items (CIs), encompass hardware (such as servers and switches), software applications, network paths, and even individuals or documentation.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has revolutionized the healthcare industry, connecting medical devices to the internet and allowing for greater patient care. However, with this new technology comes new security threats. Hospitals must be aware of these risks and understand how to find, fix and secure connected medical devices to protect their patients from cyberattacks.

As the emerging technologies team within ServiceNow digital transformation (DT), we’re always searching for new technology that can solve complex problems. When we saw how generative AI capabilities could deliver rich experiences and unlock the potential of our technology, people, and processes across the organization, we immediately pivoted to embrace it.

There’s no doubt that generative AI and the productivity it promises have captured the world’s imagination. We’ve talked about applying AI to just about everything—from those soul-crushing tasks we never want to do again to dreams within our grasp for the first time. Goldman Sachs estimates that generative AI could add nearly $7 trillion to global gross domestic product (GDP) in the next decade.

There’s never been a more exciting time for digital transformation. While ServiceNow has long realized the power of AI on the Now Platform®, the newest generative AI (GenAI) technologies are creating incredible possibilities for automation and productivity in the enterprise. To help our customers capitalize on these opportunities, I’m thrilled to announce the Now Platform Vancouver release, available today.

In today's fast-paced and technologically-driven world, organizations of all sizes are recognizing the importance of effective asset management. From equipment and tools to laptops and vehicles, keeping track of valuable assets is crucial for maintaining operational efficiency, reducing losses, and ensuring accountability. This is where Asset Check-In and Check-Out Systems come into play.

In the realm of business decisions, a key metric stands as the ultimate barometer of success: Return on Investment (ROI). As organizations strive to maximize their resources, understanding and mastering ROI analysis becomes a strategic imperative. Welcome to a comprehensive guide that will demystify the world of ROI analysis, equipping you with the tools and insights needed to navigate this critical aspect of decision-making.

We couldn’t be more proud to share that G2, the world’s leading software review platform, has awarded Alloy Navigator the Highest User Adoption badge in its newest Fall 2023 Reports!

If you’re an IT / EUC professional looking to accelerate sustainable IT practices, it’s imperative to put employees at the center of your strategy. Driving sustainable practices and carbon reduction is a collective and long-term effort that requires behavioral change and impacts individual digital workspaces, so engaging employees is key.

Implement the enterprise service management approach to revolutionize how your organization delivers services beyond IT.

The life of an L1 engineer … receiving all the tickets, providing all the IT services, and interacting with all the stakeholders. Tickets, like requests for access to an application or system, account unlocks, onboarding and offboarding employees, and more are here to stay.

In my conversations with the ServiceNow partner community, there’s one thing I’m consistently asked: How do we work with you to adapt to the rapid speed of innovation and change? My answer is simple: To truly innovate, you have to understand the trends behind the innovation. ServiceNow recently collaborated with Harbor Research to scan the global marketplace.

IT service providers have historically thought in terms of “technology first,” but that’s changing. More and more of the top technology service providers in Asia-Pacific (APAC) are adopting a customer-centric and industry-oriented approach to how they devise, deliver, and diversify their solutions. That shift in thinking might seem unremarkable. After all, isn’t everyone talking about customer centricity these days?

Soaring inflation, rising interest rates, supply chain disruption, spikes in chip costs, war, and other market crises have collectively crippled the global economy. As a result, businesses across industries and sizes have started tightening their belt, looking for any way to optimize their spending. With businesses running on a digital layer, optimizing spending on technology holds prominence. CIOs and CTOs now feel more accountable for every penny that goes into IT.

With advances in technology, inventory management has evolved considerably, from traditional manual methods to more automated and intelligent systems. In this article, we’ll take a look at barcode trends, exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and new technologies are revolutionizing the way companies manage their inventory.

Generative AI (GenAI) is on track to be the most powerful technology of our time. As such, it’s created quite a buzz. “Generative AI has awakened people's imagination for AI,” explains ServiceNow Chief Information Officer Chris Bedi. “AI has been around for a long time. People use machine learning models, but they couldn't feel and touch it like generative AI.

Organizations are responding to the changing cybersecurity landscape. And zero trust is at the heart of this change, with 68% of respondents saying they’re planning or actively working towards adopting a zero trust access model. In collaboration with Cybersecurity Insiders, Ivanti surveyed 421 US-based IT and cybersecurity professionals to identify the latest enterprise adoption trends, challenges, gaps and solution preferences related to zero trust security.

This article will explain what IT asset lifecycle is, how it can help you save your hardware and software spending, and share the industry best practices of IT asset lifecycle management.

Data collection has become an increasingly essential tool for businesses, allowing them to gather insights about their customers and employees. But it also raises the question of ethics: what data should be collected, how should it be used and who should have access to it? In this article, we'll explore the ethical implications of collecting employee experience data through telemetry.

Android 14, Google’s latest release, brings a host of improvements for users, with enhancements to accessibility, localization, battery life improvements and more. But for IT admins, there are also several Android 14 enterprise features to plan for that enhance user privacy and control.

When customers need field service, the stakes are high, whether they’re getting started with a new product or service or something crucial to their business needs repair. These make-or-break moments influence customers’ long-term perception of your brand. Yet they're often complicated by internal system disconnects that require significant manual intervention.

In the realm of modern IT, where the infrastructure complexity grows by the day and downtime equates to high-stakes losses, a transformative solution is not just desirable – it’s the need of the hour. Enter Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) — a powerful combo of AI and IT operations that is reshaping the landscape of IT management. And these are not just empty claims.

What if banks had an intelligent assistant that not only detects anomalies in real-time but also predicts potential issues before they even occur. Well, AIOps has made that reality today. AIOps in banking is a perfect example of technology blending with financial services to redefine operational excellence and customer experiences. From bolstering security measures to reducing banking costs, AIOps offers several game changing benefits that address challenges faced by the BFSI sector for a long time.

The information gap is broadening. According to Ivanti’s 2023 Press Reset cybersecurity report, over 50% of surveyed security professionals said their organizations hadn’t experienced a phishing incident in the last 24-months – despite virtually every organization getting phished in 2022!