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Mastering ServiceNow

You're reading from   Mastering ServiceNow Unleash the full potential of ServiceNow from foundations to advanced functions, with this hands-on expert guide fully revised for the Helsinki version

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465955
Length 656 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Martin Wood Martin Wood
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Preface 1. ServiceNow Foundations 2. Developing Custom Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Server-Side Control 4. Client-Side Interaction 5. Getting Things Done with Tasks 6. Events, Notifications, and Reporting 7. Exchanging Data – Import Sets, Web Services, and other Integrations 8. Securing Applications and Data 9. Diagnosing ServiceNow – Knowing What Is Going On 10. Packaging with Applications, Update Sets, and Upgrades 11. Making ServiceNow Beautiful with Service Portal and Custom Interfaces

Configuration and customization

ServiceNow provides a great deal of functionality. However, the platform is also designed to be adaptable to specific requirements that are not available out of the box. The platform and any ServiceNow apps can be configured or customized to make them work as desired.

But there is always a tension when building new functionality: can I make it it secure? Will it be fast? Can I maintain it easily? Will platform upgrades be straightforward? As discussed in the previous section, ServiceNow has designed scoped applications to help as much as possible, and if you build in an application, the risk of your app doing something 'bad' is low.

But what happens when you build in the global scope? Unlike some other software, it is difficult to define the difference between configuration and customization. It is generally accepted that the former is less at risk of you regretting it later, and the latter is something you should only do if you have to.

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