
Experience a hands-on, practical introduction to ServiceNow for service desk operations, highlighting modular instances, tips from practice, and how to get a free developer instance.
Learn the ServiceNow basics for service desk operations, from the interface and left navigator to dashboards, favorites, history, and user settings, with practical tips for search and reporting.
Master incident list navigation in ServiceNow and harness powerful filtering to speed ticket resolution, with live activity streams, bulk updates, and customizable list views.
Explain how to build and apply filters in ServiceNow lists, using fields, operators, and conditions (including dates and dynamic me), to filter records, not lists, and save favorites.
Explore how to use the incident form in ServiceNow, manage favorites, log interactions, and link knowledge articles to incidents, improving efficiency and visibility for service desk operations.
Explore the incident form's two parts: informational fields and work notes, how to track changes, add notes, and resolve incidents using the employee center, knowledge base, and templates.
Explore how incident SLAs work in ServiceNow, including task SLAs and SLA definitions, with priority-based response and resolution targets and business hour schedules.
Explains how request flow works in ServiceNow, detailing the service catalog, requested items, approvals, and automation through workflows, with a shopping-cart style catalog and multi-level tasks.
Explore how to create and customize reports in ServiceNow, share dashboards, and use filters, charts, and drill-downs to monitor incident trends and SLA performance.
Explore creating time series reports in ServiceNow that compare two data sets on a line chart, such as opened versus resolved incidents monthly, and name the data sets.
Explore incident metrics and sla in ServiceNow, learn to build reports, monitor close to breach incidents, and schedule emails to optimize service desk performance.
Create and customize dashboards in ServiceNow by adding report widgets, configuring interactive filters for groups and categories, and sharing dashboards to monitor incidents in real time.
Whether you are working with ServiceNow on a daily basis or you want to start your career with Service Desk and want to expand your skillset - this course is for you. If you are Service Desk Agent, Incident Manager or Operational/Team Manager, you will still find something for yourself. Starting from basics that are not always obvious and finishing on operational reporting with dashboard tips and examples that were "battle-tested" in one of the biggest Service Desk outsourcing companies in the world.
During the course you will not only get to know the required fundamentals to start working with ServiceNow but also useful tips and tricks that were tested in real-life examples.
Take a look at more detailed schedule of what is awaiting you:
1. ServiceNow Basics:
a) Overview of what ServiceNow is - how it works, different instances and how to get your own instance.
b) Walk-through interface, navigator, how to put "commands" into navigator, system settings, user profiles, view option.
2. ServiceNow Lists:
a) Interface of a list
b) Tricks on a letter
c) Filtering
d) Service Now Tables and relationships
3. Incident Module Overview
a) Templates
b) Activity useful tips
4. Service Level Agreement (SLA) Overview
a) How the SLA is build
b) What to remember when creating/reporting an SLA
5. Service Request Module Overview
a) Request hierarchy
b) Shopping cart
6. Introduction to Reporting:
a) How to create a report, walk-through the interface
b) Simple charts
c) Advanced charts and conditioning
d) Assign to me dynamic
e) Sending automatic emails
f) Incident metrics and task SLA
9. Dashboards:
a) How to put reports on a Dashboard
b) Gadgets, interactive filters etc.
c) Workaround for interactive filters.