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ServiceNow Adoption
DPE: Shinu C John Start Date: 01-Mar-2020 Status: In-Progress
Overview
Overview ICD Vs ServiceNow
Area IBM Control Desk ServiceNow
Current scenario:
DevSecOps uses IBM Control Desk (ICD) as its standard ticketing tool for providing Incident, Problem and Change
management
managed services support. ITSM capabilities for internal clients are handled by On-premise
ICD instance and ICD SaaS instance is used to handle ITSM capabilities for commercial Self-Service Fulfillment
clients.
IT Knowledge Management
Business Need:
As a organizational initiative, IBM and ServiceNow partnership to help clients and bring
SLA Management
together the strength to provide a standardized approach for managing IT operations across
multiple cloud environments.
Process and Workflow Design
Scope:
Multi language translation
Migration of DevSecOps ITSM functionalities for existing and new clients from ICD to
ServiceNow.
Service catalog management
Benefits
Benefits Dashboard & Reporting • Shipped with Cognos • Comes with predefined OOB reports (200+)
• Market leader and preferred ITSM tool for most of the commercial clients and also for and BIRT reporting tool • Customized on-demand, role based dashboards
key partners like IMI. • Customized on demand, • Data-driven decisions from real-time dashboards using
role based dashboards Performance analytics plugin
• Offers Platform as a Service, guaranteed highly available solution (99.9%) with standard
procedure/workflows and self service experience. Shift roaster • Available as part of On call schedule management (Rota
X
management) plugin
• Reduction in considerable efforts and infrastructure cost that goes to manage two ICD
instances (On-premise and SaaS) to serve internal and commercial clients CMDB Full fledge CMDB is not • Single system of record to provide better service
enabled visibility and control of your environment details
• Cost reduction through replacement (totally/partially) of some of the home grown
offerings over a period of time, by using out of the box features and ready to use plugins Authentication & authorization LDAP based authentication • LDAP
(available at additional cost) is enabled at present • SSO
• Availability of advanced paid features like cognitive helpdesk, DevOps Insights, AI Ease of integrations • Limited out of box • Apps are available on SNow store to achieve Out of box
assisted predictions, Portal framework that can be procured on need basis for unified integrations integrations on additional cost
experience • Following OOB methods • Following OOB methods to achieve custom integration
available to achieve Web Services (SOAP, REST, WSDL)
• Detailed & intuitive incident dashboards through Performance Analytics available as custom integrations - JDBC
enabled feature, which can help to anticipate trends and prioritize issues. Web Services (SOAP, Import Maps
REST, WSDL) Management, Instrumentation and Discovery
• Single system of records with multi-tenent environment (Domain Separated). JDBC (MID) Server
ICD to ServiceNow Migration
Plan Mar ’20 - Oct ’20
Apr ’20 & May ‘20 July ’20 Sept ’20
Base setup and configuration Migration of Medium Scale accounts Migration of Medium Scale accounts
to support IPC functions across (From ICD SaaS) (From ICD SaaS)
commercial accounts SUNC_RMA CIBC
Development CANADA_POST Etihad
Testing PUROLATOR MSIL
CAMSAPPS
Discussions and finalize Integrations – JANSSEN
approach of different ServiceNow and Netcool
integrations (Tools + Home ServiceNow and PagerDuty Integrations –
grown offerings) Enable Integrations for NIKE ServiceNow and client’s ServiceNow
ServiceNow and Slack ServiceNow and Virtual Dispatcher