ServiceNow

Case Studies

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BJ’s
A leading operator of membership warehouse clubs in the Eastern United States

Business Problem Modules

• Departments and employee data is in different third
• Service Catalog
party tools making it difficult to manage resources and
• Service Portal
requests
• Incident Management
• Disparate sources in which catalog items were tracked
• Reports
• Limited visibility into day to day operations
• Knowledge Management
• Complex user interfaces created hindrance to usage
• Platform Features
of tools for request creation
• Dashboards, Workflows
• Email and phone calls became major channels for
• Integration with AD, PeopleSoft etc.
Service Desk

Solution Benefits
• Automated population of resource and departments
• Integrated with third party tools like AD, Peoplesoft
data and built organizational structure
etc. with ServiceNow
• Automated approval and request fulfillment process
• Streamlined Service Catalog and optimized
• Rationalized Catalog and streamlined Procurement
workflows
and Return process
• Rolled out Performance Analytics, Live Dashboards
• Real time status updates on requests and incidents
and Reports
• Optimal utilization of resources
• Implemented Service Portal with customized look
• Enhanced user experience
and feel and simplified request creation processes
• Reduction in Call Volume to Service Desk

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Compass
A world leader in Catering and Support Services

Business Problem Modules

• High request creation times due to complex user

interfaces in Service Portal
• IPCC, Service Catalog, Content Management
• Difficult to use Content Management System
System, Service Portal, Custom App
and processes
• Development and Integrations
• Glitches in existing functionalities
• Duplicate and redundant processes and catalogs

Solution Benefits
• Reduced number of incidents
• Revamped Content Management System • Reduced Service Request creation and resolution
• Redesigned Service Portal times
• Streamlined and updated Content Management
• Mobile App integration through REST
System
• Custom Application design and development
• OMNI channel service delivery
for new service requests for the end users • REST API is an Inbound web service supports
• Rationalized Service Catalogs and redesigned multiple methods
request pages • Uni-Directional Integration of end users to
ServiceNow

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Albertsons – Phase I
One of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States.

Business Problem Modules

• Corrupted Configuration Management Database

(CMDB) with duplicate records of Configuration
• Discovery
Items (CI)
• Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• Facing challenges while creating Incident,
• Service Mapping.
Problem or Change requests for a CI as multiple
• Incident Management
records for same CI are being displayed
• Problem Management.
• Unable to populate accurate Business Service
Maps due to redundancies in CI data

Solution Benefits

• Cleaned all the duplicate CI records for all CI • Single and accurate source of truth for CI data
classes using scripts • Simplified process for identification of affected
• Validated the final CI data through manual and CIs when a change request is raised on a CI
automated scripts • Streamlined process for Incident and Problem
• Built relationships among CIs to populate Management
Business Service Maps • Accurate CI tracking and reporting capabilities

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Albertsons – Phase II
One of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States.

Business Problem Modules

• Different departments (HR, Finance, IT etc.) are • Agile Development 2.0
following siloed implementation processes • Change Management
• Manual change process without CAB approvals and • Service Catalog
with NO visibility of impact and risk • Service Portal
• Redundancy in the request processes due to multiple • Reports
and duplicate request forms • Knowledge Management
• Large volumes of calls to help desk for reporting • Platform Features
incidents and lack of streamlined user access • Integration with Truesight, BCM, Verizon eBonding
• Lack of filters in KA increasing resolution time etc.

Solution Benefits
• Uniform implementation methodology across
• Upgraded Projects to Agile Development 2.0
projects being tracked on a single platform
• Built Normal, Expedited Change Processes
• Automated Change Management process
• Rationalized Catalog Items
• Simplified Catalog items and request process
• Configured new request processes for end users in
• Automated request processes for end users
Service Portal
• Easy access to Knowledge Articles
• Streamlined access to Knowledge Articles
• Stable and streamlined processes
• Integrated different third-party tools with
• Single source of truth for reporting and accessing
ServiceNow
any information

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Verizon
A leading American telecommunications company

Business Problem Modules

• Distributed project teams driving a large-scale

• Incident Management
implementation and roll out for different geographies
• Problem Management
• Centralized subject matter expertise did not deliver
• Change Management
expected results at the distributed project
• Service Catalog
implementation level
• Knowledge Management
• Silo implementation teams – with best practices and
• Reports
lessons learned not being shared with the larger
• Service Portal
whole, to be able to create reusable artifacts

Solution Benefits
• Partnered with one of the distributed project teams
• Streamlined delivery of the distributed local project,
in their effort to develop and launch new service
in better alignment with the larger program
offerings as catalog items
• Reduced delivery time through increased
• Complemented the local team's technical skills with
collaboration between the project teams, sharing
our Practice's Subject matter expertise
best practices and use of reusable code artifacts
• Created knowledge repositories of lessons learned
• Increased competency of the project team
and best practices and shared them
• Successfully launched new service offerings as
• Implemented the team development application to
catalog items
increase efficiency of the distributed delivery model

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Activision
A Leading Gamming Company

Business Problem Modules

• CMDB
• Manual change process with NO visibility of impact
• Service Catalog
and risk
• Asset Management
• Compliance with Corporate risk
• Change Management
• Management and policy requirements.
• Okta Integration
• Lack of automation in key business process.
• Change Management
• Challenges on CMDB and asset management.
• Integration with AD, PeopleSoft etc.

Solution Benefits
• Automated Change Process enabled by ServiceNow
• Leverage Global Delivery – Cut costs, enable quick
rollout • Automated Change Management solution for three
• Joint project team with Customer Process SMEs and types of Changes, Routine, Standard and Emergency
our Engineering Talent. • Rolled out in 2 months.
• ITIL Best Practices around Change • Created and populated the CMDB
• By using discovery and Import Set implemented • Integrated the Instance with Okta for Single Sign-on
CMDB and created schedule jobs to send an email • Data mapping between IBM BigFix and ServiceNow
notification on monthly and yearly basis to the asset
owners and their respective asset managers

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Measured Progress
Education Testing and Certification Platform Company

Business Problem Modules

• Change Management
• Complex and Time Consuming IT Service Management
• Incident Management.
with the existing tool
• Configuration Management.
• Enablement of MP’s new Service Offering around
• Service catalog
Customer Support
• Agile Development
• Single interface to serve both client and employees
• Reports
• Integration with other applications
• Dashboards, Integrations
• Notifications, Knowledge Management.

Solution Benefits
• Multiple outgoing emails in a single SNOW instance
• Internal and external departments in single form with
• Delivered full stack IPCC on Service-now tool dynamic features.
• Design and implementation of new service catalog • SNOW to SNOW and OKTA Integration.
• Leverage Global Delivery – Cut costs, enable quick • Integrated with internal systems for just in time end
rollout customer and user information
• ITIL Best Practices around IPCC • Leverage Global Delivery – Cut costs, enable quick
rollout
• ITIL best Practices around IPCC

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Jefferies
An American Global Investment Bank and Institutional Securities Firm

Business Problem Modules

• Move Change Management and CMDB from Remedy

• CMDB
• Lack of configuration database and CI mapping
• Change Management
• Vast network devices and applications made it
• Test Management Plugin
impossible to keep track of data source and
• LDAP Integration
configuration items.
• Splunk Integration
• Inefficient Change management Processes

Solution Benefits

• Designed efficient CMDB • Flexible Administration and service delivery

• Defined relationships among the CI’s • Easily understandable environment of CI’s and
• Automated the change management process with their relationships.
workflows and automated event triggers • Generation and distribution of accurate and exact
• Leverage Global Delivery – Cut costs, enable quick CI Information
rollout • Simplified Change management process
• ITIL Best Practices around IPCC • Quick time to market

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HBG
A Publishing Company

Business Problem Modules

• Change Management
• High request creation times due to complex user
• Incident Management
interfaces in Service Portal
• Service Catalog
• Difficult to use Content Management System and
• Reports
processes
• Notifications, Workflow, Integrations
• Glitches in existing functionalities
• Duplicate and redundant processes and catalogs

Solution Benefits
• On-Going value management through Global • Optimized ServiceNow License usage
Delivery model • Smooth & hassle free upgradation
• Implementation of ServiceNow user license • Automated audit controls and reports
management • Measurable and transparent data
• Suggested and implemented Data Archiving • Maintain data for auditing
• Well defined process for SNOW Instance • Implemented JIRA Integration and Customized
Management Support Operation Model

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Amazon Web Services
A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms

Business Problem Modules

• AWS customers wants to manage and monitor their Custom Applications:

public cloud workloads in a self-service fashion. • Incident Management
• Facing challenges with their Application Management • Service Request
and Application Migration • Cloud Management
• Enterprise customers are having to manage and • Notifications
monitor their public cloud workloads through Service • Change request
now

Solution Benefits

• Created an AWS Managed Services Integration App

which will allows them to still continue using their • Leverage benefits of cloud lifecycle management as
Snow driven ITSM/ITOM practices managed by AWS Managed services offerings.
• The AMS ServiceNow App will automates the process • Enable create/update/close AMS RFCs via
of dispatching work from ServiceNow to Amazon ServiceNow
Managed Service where work will be fulfilled

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