ServiceNow Cookbook

Acquire key capabilities for the ServiceNow platform

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Ashish Rudra Srivastava and Dustin Turner

Paid access

|Jul 2025

E-Book €30.99Institutions €130.95

Description

Over 50 practical and immediately applicable recipes to help you manage services in your enterprise environment efficiently

Key Features

Solve problems and challenges encountered while implementing or using ServiceNow in your organization
Helps you build core administration, management, and maintenance skills to automate and orchestrate your IT environment
Comes with recipes to improve the way you design and create automated workflows

Book Description

ServiceNow is the ideal platform for you to create enterprise-level applications, giving borh requesters and fulfillers better visibility and access to a process. With this title we’ll guide you through the world of ServiceNow, letting you take on the best the platform offers you with the least amount of hassle.
Starting with the core configuration and management tasks, this book will help you build data-driven apps and it will also explore development best practices. You will learn to set up email notifications for users and work with the database view for reporting. Next, the book will guide you through creating various tasks from the workflow and show you how to make the most of the workflow utilities available in ServiceNow. Finally, the book will drive you through the auditing and diagnosing aspects of ServiceNow.
By the end of this book, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform.

What you will learn

Grasp the basics, such as entering and navigation, required to implement ServiceNow
Perform core configuration and management tasks
Use the ServiceNow plugins to manage development
Build and publish custom applications for service management
Design data-driven apps to connect with outside worlds by getting into Client and server scripting
Configure alerts and notifications and understand e-mail troubleshooting and watermarking
Build and configure reports to set up your dashboard as per the requirement
Create and configure workflow activities

Who this book is for

This book targets IT professionals and administrators who have some experience of working with ServiceNow already and are looking to solve regular or unique problems that surface when using ServiceNow.
It’s advisable to have a basic level of administration experience with ServiceNow. Familiarity with JavaScript is assumed.