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How to Prepare for a ServiceNow Upgrade
Perspectium · How to Prepare for a ServiceNow Upgrade A ServiceNow upgrade can feel overwhelming—especially with customizations, integrations, and tight timelines in the mix. But with the right planning and tools, it doesn’t have to be stressful. In this guide, you’ll learn how to confidently plan, test, and execute a ServiceNow upgrade—while minimizing risk and disruption. We’ll also show you how backup and data replication tools can simplify the process and safeguard your data every…
Why ServiceNow Might Be Slowing Down for You
What can slow down ServiceNow? In a word, reporting. But let’s step back. ServiceNow is a powerhouse of the enterprise software world. They consistently lead among IT service management vendors, while also expanding to help their customers with other services, including HR, CSM, and financial operations. Among its many features, ServiceNow is configurable. The platform…
How Business Intelligence Benefits from Extracted ServiceNow Data
We have heard from hundreds of enterprises who are eager to extract ServiceNow data. But what do they hope to get out of it? When you make real-time data available, decision-makers at your business do their jobs better. To enable this access, smaller or newer ServiceNow customers often try to direct stakeholders to the ServiceNow…
No More Data Loss with Your Integrations
I decided to vote by mail this month. So after requesting an absentee ballot, the website for my state’s election commission showed that they mailed out the ballot on October 9. And then I waited. And waited – sometimes wondering whether public fears of an overloaded mail system this year might be true. Did the…
Video: Backup and Restore for ServiceNow Data
Backup and restore are separate processes, each part of larger business practices: risk management and operational resilience. If the unforeseeable happens, and operations are impacted, production quantities of data need to be uploaded in the shortest possible time – because your business can’t get back online without it.
Build or Buy – 8 Reasons Enterprises Leave Homegrown Integrations
Businesses with strong IT departments often look to a DIY approach for their integrations. Writing your own integrations – or having a consultant do so – can seem like a less expensive way to connect systems. But is it? The custom-built approach can work for smaller, low-volume integrations. But there are a number of reasons…
How Enterprises Solve Technical and Data Debt
The great thing about ServiceNow is that it’s a powerful and easy-to-use application platform. The not-so-great thing about ServiceNow is that it’s a powerful and easy to use application platform. And as with any such platform that is easy to develop on, citizen developers build onto it. The more time passes, the more they add…
Achieving a 360-Degree View by Merging Data from ServiceNow and Other Apps
You can get a wealth of information about users, customers, and your company operations through ServiceNow. But just 22% of ServiceNow customers get all the information they need through ServiceNow alone. To get a full view, BI teams and others in the company look to data from sources beyond ServiceNow – call-center, project management, ERP,…
Video: Don’t Break the Bank – Avoiding Data Debt in ServiceNow
The more your business uses ServiceNow, the more your ServiceNow data volumes grow. Eventually, reports take too long to run. Your tables are growing unseen and uncontrolled, creating a vexing heap of data debt. Perspectium Record Estimator gives you visibility and control over the growth of your ServiceNow instance. You can even create alerts that…
Perspectium Newsletter – The Message Bus (August 2020)
In This Newsletter . . . We asked ServiceNow customers how they move data and process between other technologies, repositories and third-party service providers. The survey revealed that while the majority of respondents regularly need to exchange information with other tools, many of them still rely on manual processes to manage (and perform) that data…
Extracting Data from ServiceNow for Business Intelligence
For full visibility into the business, companies replicate ServiceNow data to a data lake, enabling business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning. At your business, requests for access to that data can come from any number of sources, including company leadership. When you make real-time data available, decision-makers at your business do their jobs better. Why…
5 Reasons to Consider Real-Time Delivery Over Batch
Businesses have moved data as bulk transfers for several decades. Transferring heavy loads, these batch jobs often call on significant network resources. To avoid impact on performance during the workday, IT teams and architects schedule the data transfers at night. But batch transfers certainly have their limitations. From CIOs to CSRs, personnel want visibility and…
