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Automate These 4 Procurement Activities ASAP
Procurement can be a slow and tedious process if it’s not automated. But here’s the good news: There are some…
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Future of Federal Cybersecurity Readiness a Mix of Tech & Framework Consolidation
Effectively assessing and addressing federal cyber risks within your organization is a complicated but unquestionably vital aspect of doing business.…
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Report: Cyber Breach Readiness Still Woefully Low
How well does your company manage risk? According to the most recent risk report from the Ponemon Institute titled The Challenging…
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How to Manage Inventory in 2020
Most consumers don’t really understand how efficient inventory management works, even though they’re addicted to it. As people shop for…
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5 Benefits of AI and Automation for Fleet Management
A transformation is happening in fleet management. Almost all asset management processes that were once handled entirely by hand are…
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Automating Procurement On ServiceNow
My colleague Thomas Krier and I recently hosted a webinar, Automating Procurement on ServiceNow, to highlight the advanced features of…
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How To Eliminate Human Error In Contract Management
The uninitiated might view contract management purely as a function of the sales department. But they’d be wrong.
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4 Invoice Management Features that Cut Procurement Costs
Even if you have the most efficient procurement team in the world, you’re still probably wasting money on invoice management.…
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Avoid These 3 Mistakes in Asset Management Workflow
Every asset failure has a cause. Maybe it was defective from day 1. Maybe a component was stressed beyond its…
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How to Automatically Generate POAMs to Address New IAVMs
Here’s a critical cybersecurity question: How fast does your company react to urgent vulnerability alerts?
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How to Automatically Generate POAMs to Address New IAVMs
Here’s a critical cybersecurity question: How fast does your company react to urgent vulnerability alerts?
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How To Maintain Cyber Risk Compliance Without Spreadsheets
Did you know cybercrime costs the world more than all natural disasters combined, every year? It’s also larger than the…
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How To Maintain Cyber Risk Compliance Without Spreadsheets
Did you know cybercrime costs the world more than all natural disasters combined, every year? It’s also larger than the…
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4 Reasons Application Scope in ServiceNow Is Important
Since the Fuji release of ServiceNow in March 2015, the platform introduced the concept of Scoped Applications. This feature creates…
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Here’s How to Manage Your Physical Assets When Your Business is Growing
Your business is growing, and that’s a great thing. It means you’re among the 5% of fastest-growing companies or 50%…
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Here’s How to Manage Your Physical Assets When Your Business is Growing
Your business is growing, and that’s a great thing. It means you’re among the 5% of fastest-growing companies or 50%…
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6 Facts About ServiceNow You Didn't Know
The ServiceNow platform is easy to learn, and comprehensive to master. Developers must understand Business Rules, Script Includes, UI…
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Is Your Department Running Like a Digital Business
Right now, there could be a digital business sitting right within one of the departments in your company. In fact,…
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Is Your Department Running Like a Digital Business
Right now, there could be a digital business sitting right within one of the departments in your company. In fact,…
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Here’s How to Reveal the Biggest Risk in Your Department
How to Reveal the Biggest Risk in Your Department What’s the biggest risk in your department? Hint: It might not…
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Here’s How to Reveal the Biggest Risk in Your Department
What’s the biggest risk in your department? Hint: It might not even be a what, but a who. People, processes,…
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From Desks to Data Centers, Here’s How to Track Your Assets
Are all your little costs becoming a big problem? When you have poor asset tracking, it can make a huge…
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From Desks to Data Centers, Here’s How to Track Your Assets
Are all your little costs becoming a big problem? When you have poor asset tracking, it can make a huge…
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How Balanced is Your Cybersecurity Portfolio?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends that all companies spread their cybersecurity spending across 5 key functions:…
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5 Benefits of Automating Your Procurement Process
Is your procurement process fully automated? If not, you’re missing out on big benefits for your company. Let’s look at…
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5 Benefits of Automating Your Procurement Process
Is your procurement process fully automated? If not, you’re missing out on big benefits for your company. Let’s look at…
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A New Way to Manage Your Cybersecurity Workflow
Here’s something you might not realize about your company’s cybersecurity: More than half (52%) of data breaches occur due to…
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Reduce Your Annual Maintenance Costs by More Than 40% in 2019
The average U.S. employee wastes between 1 and 21.8 hours a week on administrative tasks like filling out repetitive paperwork,…
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Why Vendor Self-Service is the Future of Procurement
Digital procurement is becoming the dominant way to source raw materials and resources for U.S. businesses. Research shows that it…
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Ensure Cybersecurity Compliance by Remediating Risks 70% Faster
Is your compliance remediation process slow and unreliable? Many organizations find that their remediation process takes weeks or even months…
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Would You Know if You Had 5,000 Cyber Security Vulnerabilities?
9 out of 10 organizations aren’t as protected from cybercrime as they think they are. Most companies just assume their…
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Take the Risk Management Framework from Months to Days
It can take weeks - or even months - to properly initiate and follow NIST Special Publication 800-37 aka the…
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Never Overspend Again: The Cost Benefits of Spend Management
Small costs add up to big spending for any organization. When purchasing remains on-budget and accounted for it is business…
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Your Forecast is Always Sunny with Digital Procurement
Accurate sourcing and procurement forecasting are vital for the productivity and financial stability of an organization. Forecasting isn’t just about…
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Digital Procurement to Automate, Organize and Optimize
Does your organization operate an optimized Procurement process? If not - then often it’s stressful, slow or even chaotic -…
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How Procurement Analytics Makes You a Better Negotiator
Going into a new contract negotiation armed with powerful data and analytics will create the best possible outcomes for your…
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Digital Procurement to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Deliver Value
Would your users feel happier and be more satisfied if you offered digital procurement? Stave ProcurementPath, available for the ServiceNow platform, offers…
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Here’s Why Offboarding Vendors is as Important as Onboarding Them
When a vendor contract is coming to a close, it’s a vulnerable time for your company. You’re trying to ensure…
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Digital Procurement: Overcoming Poor Supplier Communication
Manual Communications are Slow and Limit Transparency
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Easily Manage Employee Skills, Training & Certifications
Your organization recently procured a new boiler. After the boiler ships to the warehouse, the facilities manager is tasked with…
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Managing Certifications and Training for Asset Maintenance and Facilities Operations Safety
Your organization recently procured a new boiler. After the boiler ships to the warehouse, the facilities manager is tasked with…
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Control Your Assets Before Your Assets Control You
Managing the full asset lifecycle is challenging, especially when it’s being managed via email and over multiple spreadsheets. The constant…
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Automating the Vendor Evaluation and Selection Process in ServiceNow
Evaluating and selecting vendors can be a tedious, time-consuming process that takes hours away from your workweek. Wouldn’t it be…
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Procurement vs. Purchasing: What’s the Difference?
Have you ever wanted to buy something only to be told by purchasing to talk to the procurement department? Have…
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Best Practices in Vendor Onboarding
Onboarding a vendor in most organizations requires many manual steps, especially if you want to ensure the vendor you are…
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How to Use Your ServiceNow Platform Like Your Smartphone
If you have a smart phone, such as an Android or an iPhone, then you know it comes equipped with…
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Stave’s Martin Palacios To Present at Knowledge18!
Martin Palacios is Stave’s Director of Product Development. In addition to being an all-around good guy with a wicked sense…
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Stave Showcases at Knowledge18!
Stave will exhibit its business apps suite at Knowledge18 (booth #2214) on May 7-10, 2018 at the Venetian Hotel in…
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How to Move From a Non-Scope to Scope Environment
Application Scope is a way to protect everyone’s space within the ServiceNow environment. Unless a user is authorized to operate…
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Digitize, Digitalization and Digital Transformation: What's the Difference?
Technology terms are interchanged like USB devices. The average user tends to think of a USB as USB-A when in…
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Stave and ServiceNow Co-Sponsor AFCEA Cyberspace Symposium 2018
Stave and ServiceNow are co-sponsoring the AFCEA Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium on March 5-8, 2018 at the Broadmoor Hotel in…
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Resolve to Reduce Your Email
The new year is well-under way. How are your resolutions going?
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Stave Makes Silver with ServiceNow
Everyone on the Stave team is super excited on this week's annoucement that we've been promoted to a ServiceNow Silver-Tier…
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Overview Video for Stave ProcurementPath
Stave ProcurementPath is a modern solution for transparency in your enterprise around all purchasing and procurement activities.
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Overview Video About Stave AssetPath
Stave AssetPath is a modern cloud-based CMMS to handle work order management, materials management, facilities management, and other CMMS functions…
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4 Reasons to Deploy a 311 System
3-1-1 systems allow citizens to interact with their local governments, find information, and make requests. The term comes in the…
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Greg Clock Joins Stave
I'd like to take this time to welcome Mr. Greg Clock to Stave where he will serve in the capacity…
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Express Portal Overview Demo
The first graphical user portal for ServiceNow Express, Stave Express Portal provides customers of ServiceNow Express Edition an immediate graphical…
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Don't Make the Mistake of Skipping ServiceNow's Knowledge 17
ServiceNow's annual user conference, Knowledge, is coming up very quickly. If you don't have plans to attend yet, you better…
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Webinar: How Federal Organizations Are Getting the Most from their ServiceNow Investment
This joint webinar with Cask LLC and Stave showcases real examples of how U.S. Government Federal customers are getting the most…
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6 Great Customer Support Responses
We've talked before about using ServiceNow as a complete Customer Service Management platform. You can't forget, however, that any…
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Get in on the Fake News Game
It seems like everyone is talking about "fake news" anymore. I seriously don't think you can turn on the actual…
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When Is CRM Not CRM?
I've noticed a trend recently in which organizations are talking about updating or implementing a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM)…
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The First End User Portal for ServiceNow Express is Live
We're pleased to announce the immediate release of Stave's Express Portal application. We're proud to be one of the first 6…
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4 GRC-IT Techniques I Learned at SKO
I've just returned from ServiceNow's annual Sales Kick-Off event, or "SKO". This annual conference serves as both internal sales training to…
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3-1-1: Tracking City Services (from Potholes to Ghosts)
We often talk about the "Shared Services Model" as a framework which provides employees of a company a centralized location to…
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Express Forum Talk: How to Have It All in IT
In this ServiceNow-hosted event from November 2016, Stave discusses the upcoming ServiceNow Store for Express Editions and what it means…
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5 Partnerships that Show the Importance of Relationship Management
When most people hear relationship management they think about customer relationship management (CRM). Worldwide CRM software totaled $26.3 billion in 2015,…
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Stave Data Tools is Live in the ServiceNow Store
Our latest app, Stave Data Tools, is now available in the ServiceNow Store for all enterprise customers. Data Tools is…
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How Effective Are Your ServiceNow Dashboards?
At Stave, one of the things I think is great is when I get to see a portal site one…
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Video Introduction to the Shared Services Model
This video introduction to the Shared Services Model of service fulfillment and delivery used by modern enterprise businesses, shows the concepts…
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Who Loves Doing Army Equipment Layouts?
When I was serving in the U.S. Army, we had these events called "equipment layouts." This entailed everyone taking all his…
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Database Security Concepts
This simple video provides an overview of database security techniques, including data masking, data generation, and data scrambling.
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311 Solutions as Single Systems of Engagement
Cities across the country from New York, to Philadelphia, to Washington, DC, to Chicago, to San Diego are seeing success…
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Using QR Code Generator
In this video, see how you can easily generate and maintain dynamic QR Codes for any ServiceNow record. Application to…
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Generate QR Codes Within ServiceNow
Quick Response Codes, or "QR Codes" for short, are grid-like two-dimensional barcode graphics that are popular ways to quickly share small…
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Intro to the Shared Services Model
This video introduction to the Shared Services Model of service fulfillment and delivery used by modern enterprise businesses, shows the concepts…
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Using ArcGIS Online with ServiceNow
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - like Ersi's ArcGIS Online -- can completely revolutionize the way organizations view and consume their…
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8 Shocking Ways These Celebrities Would Use ServiceNow
IT professionals aren’t the only ones who get to experience the glitz and glam of the ServiceNow lifestyle —…
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Stave Maps for ServiceNow Demonstration
Stave Maps allows you to visualize your enterprise data stored in ServiceNow on Esri ArcGIS Online and Google Maps. See…
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More Powerful and Easier Maps in ServiceNow
ServiceNow has always allowed customers to vizualize their enterprise and display location records on top of a Google Map. We've always…
Featured
Maps Information Sheet
Stave Maps is a flexible and configurable integration to display any location-based record in ServiceNow® on maps from Esri® ArcGIS…
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Infographic: 6 Facts About ServiceNow
Now in infographic form. Think you know all of ServiceNow's corporate secrets? Check out these six bits of corporate trivia and…
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Is Your ServiceNow ESS Portal Mobile-Friendly?
Last quarter, for the first time ever, mobile web traffic finally surpassed desktop web traffic according to Google. That makes it official;…
White Paper
Compliance in the Cloud for HR Data
The landscape regarding protecting sensitive data – such as the data managed by Human Resources organizations – is changing. The…
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6 Facts About ServiceNow You Didn't Know
The ServiceNow platform is easy to learn, and comprehensive to master. Developers must understand Business Rules, Script Includes, UI Macros,…
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ServiceNow Portals Defined
We often hear about how ServiceNow enables enterprises to offer self-service web-based portal sites for their end-users and customers to initiate and view…
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Comparing How Clinton and Trump Will Use ServiceNow
Our "ballot" infographic highlights how each of the U.S. presidential candidates -- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump -- might implement…
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How a 3rd-Party Candidate Could Win the Presidency Using ServiceNow
We recently hypothesized about how either Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton might use ServiceNow when one…
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Application Scope Break Down
Application Scope: Determines which of an app’s resources are available to other parts of the system so that it does…
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Integrating ServiceNow with GitHub
ServiceNow recently introduced the ability to sync the platform apps you're developing to GitHub, the popular hosted source code repository platform.…
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Stave Maps Breakdown
Esri: World leader in enterprise-grade map and geolocation data. Stave Maps gives users the ability for the 1st time to see…
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How Hillary Clinton Would Use ServiceNow
The U.S. is currently in the middle of a presidential election and the American people will shortly elect either primary…
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Why Donald Trump Needs ServiceNow
The U.S. is currently in the middle of a presidential election and the American people will shortly elect either primary…
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4 Steps to Try ServiceNow Apps for Free
You can try any Stave App for FREE on the ServiceNow Store today!
Presentation
Do You Have a 911 to Avoid Business Emergencies?
Following the Shared Services model, enterprises can consolidate their service providers and offerings, and dramatically increase user adoption and satisfaction.
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Esri Maps in ServiceNow
Combine best-of-breed ITSM and GIS by integrating Esri ArcGIS Online Maps into ServiceNow. For the first time, see ServiceNow data on…
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In-n-Out & Your Enterprise
Can’t your employees have the same simple, user-based experience at work that they have at In-n-Out?
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More About Shadow Clouds...
Shadow Clouds Lower Efficiency & Effectiveness Within Enterprises...What You Can Do to Eliminate Shadow Clouds.
Info Sheet
Data Tools Information Sheet
Stave Data Tools suite provides a comprehensive set of utilities to help organizations protect, secure, and maintain compliance of their…
Info Sheet
QR Code Generator Information Sheet
Stave QR Code Generator allows the creation of single or batch QR codes. The QR codes generated dynamically point any…
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Why You Don’t Want Your Enterprise To Be Like Pokemon Go
It seems like Pokemon Go has taken over the world as we know it. People are running around, chasing things…
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Which ServiceNow Engine is Better for Your Needs?
Use this flowchart to figure out which ServiceNow engine (CMS, or ServicePortal) is better for you.
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Shadow Clouds—The More You Know
43% of enterprise respondents believe shadow IT practices are major threats to their respective organizations.
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Protect Your Enterprise with Data Tools
Data masking, data scrambling and data generation are 3 vital techniques to keep sensitive enterprise data safe and compliant.
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Crank It Up to 11 with These ServiceNow Resources
As the user-base has grown, many more corners of the Internet have appeared where anyone can find great information about…
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Responsive Design in ServiceNow Portals
“Responsive Design” is the term used throughout the web community to describe how a page can both scale and change…
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Getting Ready for Clexit: What’s Your Enterprise's Cloud Exit Strategy?
Riding on the coattails of the recent Brexit, we’ve been thinking about what to do to prepare for the time…
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Bringing it Home: How Choosing Your ServiceNow Engine is like Buying a House
ServiceNow recently announced the deployment of a new content delivery engine, called ServicePortal, to replace the current CMS engine that’s…
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10 Great Free Resources for ServiceNow Professionals
From Day 1, ServiceNow has really been at the forefront of making it easy for users to access information and…
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Calling All Student Coders (and Wannabes Too)
Next week marks the beginning of SPARK’s San Diego Programming League for kids ages 8 and older sponsored by Stave.…
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How to Try Our Apps for Free
Did you know that you can try out applications in the ServiceNow Store for free in a stand-alone sandbox instance? …
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Calendar Subscriptions from Your ServiceNow Data
Most mature organizations wind up with copious amounts of data stored in their ServiceNow instance. While the data in ServiceNow…
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Where's the 9-1-1 for Our Enterprise?
Everyone knows about the 9-1-1 phone system used by local governments to provide emergency services to their citizens. This is…
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Explore Esri Maps in ServiceNow
Esri is the world-leader in Enterprise-grade map and geolocation data. A full 61% of all companies that pay for a…
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Why Application Scope in ServiceNow Is Important
Since the Fuji release of ServiceNow, the platform introduced the concept of Scoped Applications. This feature creates a private namespace…
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Who Should Attend Knowledge 16?
In just under one week, ServiceNow's annual Knowledge user conference is kicking off at the Mandalay Bay in Lost Wages Las Vegas, NV.…
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What We Really Learned from Playing Mega Man
I hope some of you gamers out there still remember playing Mega Man on your Nintendo Entertainment Systems in the…
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GENESIS OF THE ENTERPRISE CLOUD
In the beginning there was no cloud, only the darkness of the data center. And it was the Sales processes…
